NG BFMS – Budgeting and Financial Management Specialist 148 views0 applications

Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organisations specialising in the comprehensive prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable and under privileged populations. We increasingly find our work on malaria can be effectively integrated with other similar public health interventions for greater impact and therefore expanded our remit to include child health and neglected tropical disease interventions.

NG BFMS – Budgeting and Financial Management Specialist

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Department: Technical
Length of Contract: 5 years
Role Type: National
Grade: 9
Travel involved: Up to 40%
Child safeguarding level: TBC
Reporting to: Senior Health Systems Strengthening Specialist

Country and Project Background

• Malaria is highly endemic in Nigeria and it remains one of the leading causes of childhood and maternal morbidity and mortality in the country. Nigeria is deeply committed to making progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and it recognizes the fact that without firm efforts to control malaria, achievement of the targets related to child mortality, maternal mortality, and reducing the burden of communicable disease will not be possible. Malaria therefore constitutes a significant development challenge for Nigeria.
• Interventions for reducing malaria burden in the country are documented in the national malaria strategic plan with Government taking the lead in its implementation with the support of all the RBM partners.
• The DFID funded and Malaria Consortium led malaria programme, SUNMAP, provided technical assistance and other support to the Nigeria National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) covering the period 2008 to 2016. The anticipated follow on project, SUNMAP2 has been designed to strengthen the management and technical capacity of NMEP, State Malaria Elimination Programme (SMEP) and their stakeholders to drive the implementation of the National Malaria Strategic Plan, 2014 to 2020 and achieve its ambitious targets.
• This will include short term technical assistance and technical assistance embedded in NMEP in key areas of programme management, evidence generation and use, and capacity building across all project outputs and ultimately reducing Nigeria’s malaria burden and strengthening the Government of Nigeria’s health systems capacity to ensure long term programme and impact sustainability.

Job Purpose

• The Budgeting and Financial Management Specialist will provide technical direction on relevant aspects of budgeting and financial management through a health systems strengthening framework to improve the quality of service delivery in both the public and private health sectors using malaria as the entry point into the health system at Federal, State and LGA levels.
• He/she will contribute to the development of an approach for supporting the budgeting process at Federal, State and Local government including expenditure tracking on malaria which is embedded into the health systems strengthening strategy.
• He/she will support the SUNMAP2 team to implement the strategy at State and Local government level and will work closely with stakeholders at Federal government level to implement the strategy.
• He/she will support NMEP to review and revise its Financial Management System (FMS) by addressing critical weaknesses.
• The position holder will work closely with their line manager, the project team and Short Term Technical Assistance (STTA) to implement evidence-based approaches to achieve the projects outcomes.

Scope of Work:

• The position holder will contribute to the development, working with the project team and STTA, of SUNMAP2’s approach to health budgeting and financial management within the strategy on health systems strengthening using malaria as an entry point into the health system at Federal, State and LGA levels.
• He/She will be the focal point for the health budgeting and financial management issues to ensure coordination and harmonisation.
• He/She will work with expert inputs from STTA into approach development, oversight and implementation.
• He/she will provide and coordinate relevant technical assistance to the National and State Ministries of Health, including their Malaria Elimination Programmes.
• This will require them to identify gaps which can be addressed through technical assistance.
• He/She will support NMEP in its efforts in harmonisation, partner coordination and donor alignment.
• He/she will also look to engage with broader health issues such as the sustainable goals for development..
• He/She will represent the project on relevant technical working groups, such as the Health Care Financing working group, a platform in FMOH.

Key Working Relationships:

• The Budgeting and Financial Management Specialist will mobilise and coordinate with a broad range of stakeholders to embed the project within the Nigeria health system at Federal and State levels.
• They will work closely with the National Malaria Elimination Programme, State Malaria Elimination Programmes in the six SUNMAP2 supported states, public and private sector actors in the malaria control landscape and SUNMAP2’s STTA providers.
• He/She will work under the stewardship of the Senior Health Systems Strengthening Specialist to ensure that the approach to budgeting and financial management is within a coherent health systems strengthening strategy which uses malaria as an entry point into the health system.

Key Accountabilities
Strategic contributions (10%):

• Contribute to the development of project’s approach on health budgeting and financial management system strengthening in which malaria is an entry point into the health system. This should include financing for sustainable programme impact and alignment with the sustainable goals for development.
• Contribute to the development and improvements in the projects value-for-money approach, in particular related to the optimisation of cost-effectiveness.
• Contribute to the development of a framework for technical quality improvement for the project
• Provide technical support to the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), including support in the coordination of partners, harmonisation of tools and approaches, and donor alignment.