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Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.

For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of more than 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved – and is committed to continuing to improve – economies, societies and most importantly, people’s lives.

Senior Policy and Advocacy Advisor – Nigeria Integrated Health Program

Project Overview and Role

  • Nigeria Integrated Health Program is an integrated health program with an expanded effort with the Government of Nigeria (GON) to identify and support rapid scale-up of proven interventions through improvement of service delivery and strengthening of health systems. It will focus its support for service delivery in six intervention areas: family planning, malaria, routine immunization, nutrition, maternal/newborn health, and treatment of childhood pneumonia/diarrhea. It has a strong emphasis on monitoring, evaluation and learning.
  • This program will work closely with state-level government officials to support established state-level Health and Development Plans, build capacity, and promote ownership of interventions, systems, and results. Specific interventions will need to be tailored to local contexts and will be fully developed at state and Local Government Area (LGA) levels. Through agreements with individual states, its potential breadth is the entire country with an emphasis on the north.

Responsibilities

  • Leads the federal advocacy efforts with key stakeholders and facilitates adoption of the idea of an integrated approach to RNMCH services and country ownership in ensuring the decrease of maternal and under-five mortality
  • Advocates and facilitates development of supporting policies and regulations as necessary and appropriate
  • Provides expertise on gender and social inclusion to support policy development, adjustment, adoption, and implementation
  • Coordinates advocacy efforts under the integrated approach with USG partnering projects to ensure value added of such efforts for quality of care, improvements to the national environment as well as questions of access, country ownership, and commitment both at the federal and state levels
  • Advocates with federal, state, LGA, and community-level health institutions to raise awareness about their role in improving RMNCH health outcomes
  • Promotes integrated approach to improving reproductive, maternal, and child health and to decreasing maternal and under-five mortality
  • Advocates with federal and state governments and private sector for increased and sustained financing for family planning, reproductive, maternal, and child health programming
  • Performs other related duties and responsibilities as assigned

Requirements

  • A Bachelor’s degree required and relevant experience in advocacy, policy analysis, gender, women’s empowerment, human rights is highly desirable
  • Proven coalition building, evidence-based advocacy (not advocacy)
  • Knowledge and understanding of the institutional, legal and policy frameworks at national and local level that impact on the status of women in Nigeria
  • An influential communicator, with excellent written and verbal skills in both English and Hausa (required)
  • Evidence of good analytical and problem solving skills
  • Ability to network effectively, with the ability to develop a wide range of relevant contacts
  • Comfortable working within a multi-disciplinary team with the integrated approach to RNMCH+N service delivery

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Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact— the intentional creation and measurement of enduring social and economic value. We work with corporations, governments, foundations, investors, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.

For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved—and is committed to continuing to improve—businesses, economies, societies and most importantly people’s lives.

Combined legacies have created positive change in a rapidly evolving world.

To be global leaders in the development and delivery of Positive Impact solutions may seem like a lofty vision, but it has been embedded in our DNA for more than half a century. We have worked, in collaboration with our clients, to empower global communities to achieve economic growth and social stability. This has been accomplished via extensive knowledge, project leadership expertise and the implementation of one of the world’s leading management tools, the Balanced Scorecard created by Drs. Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton.

The unique conglomeration of six cutting-edge organisations including GRM International, Futures Group, Palladium Group, Development & Training Services, HK Logistics and CARANA Corporation has developed into a portfolio of global solutions unlike any other.

Today, the newly rebranded Palladium delivers expert capabilities in more than a dozen areas, consults in an array of industries and has planted its flag in the vanguard of the Impact Economy, a vibrant new collaborative ecosystem of public and commercial stakeholders.

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0 USD Abuja CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Palladium Group

Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact - the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of more than 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved - and is committed to continuing to improve - economies, societies and most importantly, people's lives.

Senior Policy and Advocacy Advisor - Nigeria Integrated Health Program

Project Overview and Role

  • Nigeria Integrated Health Program is an integrated health program with an expanded effort with the Government of Nigeria (GON) to identify and support rapid scale-up of proven interventions through improvement of service delivery and strengthening of health systems. It will focus its support for service delivery in six intervention areas: family planning, malaria, routine immunization, nutrition, maternal/newborn health, and treatment of childhood pneumonia/diarrhea. It has a strong emphasis on monitoring, evaluation and learning.
  • This program will work closely with state-level government officials to support established state-level Health and Development Plans, build capacity, and promote ownership of interventions, systems, and results. Specific interventions will need to be tailored to local contexts and will be fully developed at state and Local Government Area (LGA) levels. Through agreements with individual states, its potential breadth is the entire country with an emphasis on the north.

Responsibilities

  • Leads the federal advocacy efforts with key stakeholders and facilitates adoption of the idea of an integrated approach to RNMCH services and country ownership in ensuring the decrease of maternal and under-five mortality
  • Advocates and facilitates development of supporting policies and regulations as necessary and appropriate
  • Provides expertise on gender and social inclusion to support policy development, adjustment, adoption, and implementation
  • Coordinates advocacy efforts under the integrated approach with USG partnering projects to ensure value added of such efforts for quality of care, improvements to the national environment as well as questions of access, country ownership, and commitment both at the federal and state levels
  • Advocates with federal, state, LGA, and community-level health institutions to raise awareness about their role in improving RMNCH health outcomes
  • Promotes integrated approach to improving reproductive, maternal, and child health and to decreasing maternal and under-five mortality
  • Advocates with federal and state governments and private sector for increased and sustained financing for family planning, reproductive, maternal, and child health programming
  • Performs other related duties and responsibilities as assigned

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's degree required and relevant experience in advocacy, policy analysis, gender, women’s empowerment, human rights is highly desirable
  • Proven coalition building, evidence-based advocacy (not advocacy)
  • Knowledge and understanding of the institutional, legal and policy frameworks at national and local level that impact on the status of women in Nigeria
  • An influential communicator, with excellent written and verbal skills in both English and Hausa (required)
  • Evidence of good analytical and problem solving skills
  • Ability to network effectively, with the ability to develop a wide range of relevant contacts
  • Comfortable working within a multi-disciplinary team with the integrated approach to RNMCH+N service delivery
2019-05-25

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