Career Opportunities at The Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3), Abuja, Nigeria


The Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) supports the US President’s Malaria Initiative’s (PMI) goal of significantly reducing deaths from malaria in high burden African countries. Social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) activities ensure Nigerians are aware of, understand, and play their part in the national goal of malaria elimination.
HC3 Nigeria is working with the National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP) and partnering organizations to ensure SBCC activities achieve scale and intensity throughout the country. With over 177 million people to reach, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. Interventions introduced have to achieve impact with a combination of wide reach and intense interpersonal communication activity.


Job Description:
Position: Admin/Finance Assistant
JHU CCP-HC3 Nigeria Malaria Project
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Supervisor: Admin/Finance Manager
Responsibilities:
The Admin/Finance Assistant will be responsible to assist the Admin/Finance manager with day to day tasks related to administration and finance.
Specifically, the Admin/Finance Assistant will:

  • Assist with payments
  • Assistant with budget tracking and financial reporting
  • Assist with procurement processes and procedures
  • Assist with coordinating transportation
  • Assist with logistics for international visitor
  • Assist with logistics for conferences, local travel, workshops and other activities
  • Possible driving assignments as needed
  • Other duties as identified by supervisor.
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Minimum of a(n) OND, Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business is highly preferred
  • Minimum two years’ experience with QuickBooks, Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint, Outlook, web browsers
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Fluency in English, written and spoken
  • Driver’s license with ten years clean driving record
How to Apply:
1. Send CV and cover letter ONLY by February 13, 2015 at 5 pm Nigeria time to: [email protected]
  •  Do NOT send any other documents or attachments. Please note, any applications submitted with certificates, transcripts etc. will be      immediately discarded.
  • Do NOT send links to online resumes or CVs. Any applications submitted with a link to an online resume or CV will be immediately discarded.
2. The subject line for your submission MUST read: “Application for HC3Admin/Finance Assistant” any emails without this exact subject line will be immediately discarded.
3. Only final candidates will be contacted for further engagement





Position: Senior Technical Advisor-Monitoring and Evaluation
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Responsibilities:
The Senior Technical Advisor-M&E will work closely with program staff in Nigeria and M&E staff at CCP headquarters to lead all monitoring, and evaluation activities and possibly research activities.
Specifically, Senior Technical Advisor-M&E will:
  • Coordinate the design, analysis and reporting of program activities (and possibly qualitative and quantitative studies), in collaboration with headquarters RM&E staff.
  • Prepare an implementation/operational plan for project data collection, analysis, and reporting.
  • Develop and maintain the project reporting system and database(s) and train staff and partners on reporting forms and procedures.
  • Develop work plans and budgets for project M&E activities, in collaboration with the CCP HQ research staff.
  • Ensure the timely monitoring and reporting of all programs and activities.
  • Ensure quality in all data collection, analysis and report writing for CCP HC3 M&E activities
  • Prepare documentation for and liaise with Internal Review Boards (at JHU and in country, if necessary) and monitor compliance with human subjects’ research guidelines for all assigned research projects, if required.
  • Present M&E findings during meetings, conferences and workshops, as appropriate.
  • Assist staff and partners in translating research findings into evidence-based programming.
  • Build capacity of staff and partners in communication monitoring and evaluation.
  • Collaboratively publish evaluation results and research findings in project documents, professional journals and CCP publications.
  •  Other duties as identified by supervisor.
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Minimum of a Master’s Degree in social science research; PhD or DPH in social science or public health field preferred.
  •  Minimum five years’ experience in programmatic research, monitoring and evaluation.
  • Excellent quantitative and qualitative research design and data analysis skills, including use of statistical packages such as STATA, Epi-info, SPSS and qualitative data management software such as NVivo and/or ATLAS.tl
  • Experience designing and maintaining an electronic management information system.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Fluency in English, written and spoken
How to Apply:
1. Send CV and cover letter ONLY by February 13, 2015 at 5 pm Nigeria time to: [email protected]
  • Do NOT send any other documents or attachments. Please note, any applications submitted with certificates, transcripts etc. will be immediately discarded.
  • Do NOT send links to online resumes or CVs. Any applications submitted with a link to an online resume or CV will be immediately discarded.
2. The subject line for your submission MUST read: “Application for HC3 NSTA-Monitoring and Evaluation” any emails without this exact subject line will be immediately discarded.
3. Only final candidates will be contacted for further engagement.





Position: Senior Technical Advisor-Media
JHU CCP-HC3 Nigeria Malaria Project
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Supervisor: Chief of Party
Responsibilities:
The Senior Technical Advisor-Media will work closely with program staff in Nigeria and staff at CCP headquarters to lead media and materials development and implementation activities for the USAID HC3 Nigeria Malaria Project funded by PMI.
Specifically, Senior Technical Advisor-Media will;
  • Coordinate and oversee the production of mass media, print and other project communication materials in tandem with staff and partners.
  • Coordinate and oversee media planning, broadcasting and materials distribution in tandem with staff and partners.
  • Develop with the Senior Technical Advisor-M&E a tracking system for media products and activities.
  • Develop micro work plans for state level adaptation of key media materials.
  • Present media and materials development and process during meetings, conferences and workshops, as appropriate.
  • Build media and materials capacity of staff and partners
  • Collaboratively document media development, distribution and success stories.
  • Other duties as identified by supervisor.
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Master’s degree in communication and or public health or related field preferred. Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in communication.
  • Minimum eight years’ experience in Media and Communications.
  • Experience with media distribution agencies.
  • Experience with local adaptation of Social and Behaviour Change Communication materials.
  • Ability to work well with a team.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Fluent in English, written and spoken.
How to Apply:
1. Send CV and cover letter ONLY by February 13, 2015 at 5pm Nigeria time to: [email protected]
  •  Do NOT send any other documents or attachments besides your cover letter and CV. Please note, any applications submitted with certificates, transcripts etc. will be immediately discarded.
  • Do NOT send links to online resumes or CVs. Any applications submitted with a link to an online resume or CV will be immediately discarded.
2. The subject line for your submission MUST read “Application for HC3 NSTA-Media”. Any emails without this exact subject line will be immediately discarded.
3. Only final candidates will be contacted for further engagement