Job Opportunities in Ngeria at Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) saves lives and improves health by
helping public and private organizations throughout the world to
effectively manage people, medicines, money, and information. Working
from more than 30 country offices and our Arlington, Virginia and
Medford, Massachusetts US headquarters, our staff from 65 nations is
highly regarded for its technical
expertise, integrity, and commitment
to making a lasting difference in health. We live our mission to save
lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable
people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public
health.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Director of Monitoring and Evaluation
Job ID: 13-8410
Location: Nigeria
Group/Office: HP
Dept/Unit: GEN (General)
Project/Program: Proposal
Reports To: Chief of Party
Specific Responsibilities
- Provide in-country technical leadership and support for monitoring and evaluation and knowledge management.
These tasks include, among others:
- Ensure the integration of M&E activities into all project components.
- Collect, report and analyze information on project activities.
- Ensure timely and complete reporting from in-country executing partners in accordance with approved reporting formats.
- Monitor and evaluate progress towards annual work plans,
expected outputs, including selecting and monitoring progress in meeting
indicators.
- Assist the Chief of Party in the preparation of work
plans/selection of indicators and annual implementation plans with a
view towards the project’s M&E requirements.
- Coordinate the preparation of all quarterly progress reports,
annual project report, inception report, ad-hoc technical reports, and
success stories for USAID funding in line with the required formats.
- Collect data for annual M&E plan and use those data to improve project performance.
- Adapt and implement tools and techniques to improve the quality and use of data for decision making.
- Compile information on lessons learned and expertise within and outside the project.
- Provide capacity building activities on M+E to selected
stakeholders and sub-contractors participating in project activities
(government, CBOs, NGOs). Required capacity building includes reporting
and management use of periodically collected health information, Data
Quality Assurance, DHIS2 and LQAS.
- Develop a detailed annual work plan to build technical and managerial capacity of project:
- Based on the capacity building work plan mentioned above conduct
monthly seminars, hands-on training, mentoring and coaching for
project staff.
- Design and implement operations research.
Qualifications
- Masters degree in Management, M&E, Health Sciences or Public Health or equivalent experience.
- At least 7 years of relevant work experience in monitoring and
evaluation of donor-funded public health programs Some of this
experience must include health programs in Nigeria and the US
Government as the project's donor.
- Knowledge of and experience in training and capacity building on M+E.
- Experience establishing data quality assurance systems.
Demonstrated experience with software applications related to project
planning and monitoring.
- Successful experience leading M+E activities within a team comprising staff and consultant coming from diverse organizations.
- Recommended - Prior experience conducting operations research.
- Qualified candidates currently residing in Nigeria are encouraged to apply.
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Job Title: Director, Finance and Operations
Job ID: 13-8409
Location: Nigeria
Grade: Senior
Reports to: Chief of Party
Overall Responsibilities
- Management Sciences for Health (MSH) saves lives and improves
health by helping public and private organizations throughout the world
to effectively manage people, medicines, money, and information.
- Working from more than 30 country offices and our Arlington,
Virginia and Medford, Massachusetts US headquarters, our staff from 65
nations is highly regarded for its technical expertise, integrity, and
commitment to making a lasting difference in health.
- We live our mission to save lives and improve the health of the
world's poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between
knowledge and action in public health.
- MSH is seeking highly qualified candidates for an anticipated five-year USAID funded malaria program in Nigeria.
- This program will strengthen delivery of malaria case
management: delivery of quality services for management of malaria and
its complications, prevention of malaria in pregnancy, and integrated
community case management.
- Availability of the position is contingent upon issuance of a
USAID funding mechanism, and selection of final applicant is subject to
USAID approval. Preference will be given to candidates with relevant
experience in Nigeria.
Specific Responsibilities:
- The Director, Finance and Operations is a member of the
project's senior management team and oversees the overall financial and
project operational functions under the supervision of the Chief of
Party.
- S/he is responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of
technical efforts and field activities by providing accounting,
administrative, management and logistical support to facilitate the
implementation of project activities.
- The Director ensures that the project's financial management,
personnel, administrative and contractual operations systems are
conducted according to MSH regulations, standard operating procedures
and good business practices.
- S/he provides management support to the technical assistance team to facilitate the implementation of program activities.
- The Director coordinates with the Country Operations Management
Unit (COMU) unit to ensure that the project's operational needs
(including finance, accounting, HR, IT, and procurement functions) are
met, facilitating coordination and integration with other existing MSH
country projects, systems, and processes.
- As a member of the project's senior management team, participate
in all meetings with USAID, host government, local partners, and other
organizations as needed as well as internal joint operations and shared
program discussions.
- Coordinate with the Country Operations Management Unit (COMU)
unit to ensure that the project's operational needs (including finance,
accounting, HR, IT, and procurement functions) are met. Ensure
coordination and integration with other existing MSH country projects,
systems, and processes.
- With the Chief of Party, lead the preparation and management of
country project budgets and pipeline expenditures. Manage monitoring,
analysis and reporting of actual and accrued expenditures against
project budgets for accurate project pipelines, estimates of upcoming
cash needs and overall efficient and effective financial management of
the project.
- Exercise independent discretion and judgment in continually
exploring opportunities for cost-cutting, cost-sharing and rational use
of the project's resources, and advise the Chief of Party accordingly.
- Manage cash flow, including funds transfers from MSH Home
Office, local currency exchange, and petty cash. Obtain authorization
for and pay local costs. Reconcile the project's bank accounts and field
advance accounts each month.
- Assure that all project financial transactions are recorded into
an approved MSH Field Expense Accounting System, and submit timely
reports each month.
- Verify documentation of all field financial transactions.
- Review all paid invoices, verifying agreement with supporting
documentation, including price quotes, purchase orders and shipping
receipts.
- Apply internal systems for obtaining purchase approvals and use
of assets ensuring the adequate application of internal controls.
- In conjunction with the Chief of Party, oversee project hiring
and HR-related functions for the project in coordination with the COMU.
- Maintain project's current standing with all mandated tax and
registrations, including submission of payments and required reports.
- Review all approved payments for the project's local vendors,
contractors and consultants for goods and services received, in
accordance with the laws and regulations of Nigeria, and MSH and USAID
regulations.
- Prepare country activity travel advances and process travel
claims (TEFs) and work with program staff to resolve accounting related
issues.
- Ensure that project staff receive logistics support in booking
staff and consultants travel and accommodations, and in processing
required authorizations.
Qualifications
- Master's level degree or equivalent of 10-12 years of experience
in financial management, with a minimum of 5 years direct international
work experience in developing countries with senior-level
responsibility for operations and finance managing awards of similar
size.
- Proven expertise in finance, accounting and auditing, including automated financial systems.
- Proven expertise in financial planning and budgeting.
- Demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork, and
planning skills, with proven ability to function effectively with donors
and multiple host-country counterparts (public and private sector).
- Computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
applications (Excel spreadsheets, word processing, and electronic mail),
and proficiency in Quickbooks.
- Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines.
- Successful experience in sharing knowledge, documenting experience, supporting creative initiatives, and sharing credit.
- Demonstrated strategic agility, diplomacy, conflict management, team building, and negotiation skills.
- Excellent written communication in English is required.
- Qualified candidates currently residing in Nigeria are encouraged to apply.
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Job Title: Director, Health Sector Strengthening (HSS)
Job ID: 13-8411
Location: Nigeria
Grade: K
Reports to: Chief of Party
Overall Responsibilities
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) saves lives and improves health by
helping public and private organizations throughout the world to
effectively manage people, medicines, money, and information. Working
from more than 30 country offices and our Arlington, Virginia and
Medford, Massachusetts US headquarters, our staff from 65 nations is
highly regarded for its technical expertise, integrity, and commitment
to making a lasting difference in health.
We live our mission to save lives and improve the health of the world’s
poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge
and action in public health. MSH is seeking highly qualified candidates
for an anticipated five-year USAID funded malaria program in Nigeria.
This program will strengthen delivery of malaria case management:
delivery of quality services for management of malaria and its
complications, prevention of malaria in pregnancy, and integrated
community case management.
Availability of the position is contingent upon issuance of a USAID
funding mechanism, and selection of final applicant is subject to USAID
approval. Preference will be given to candidates with relevant
experience in Nigeria. Specific Responsibilities
- Leads the design and implementation of the project’s health
sector strengthening interventions focused on the State Governments,
Local Government Areas, Ward Development Council and local NGOs and
Civil Society Organizations participating in the project.
- HSS topics will include: human resource management (pre-service
and in-service training, supportive supervision; selection, deployment
and motivation of providers and managers) supply chain management,
leadership and governance, program and financial planning and reporting,
inter-institutional coordination, health information systems and/or
fundraising.
- Coordinate the HSS expertise of MSH and of its sub-contractors,
which will include international, national and local organizations so
that the project’s HSS interventions are designed and implemented as a
single package which includes the best expertise of MSH and each of its
sub-contractors.
- Link with HSS counterparts in government and international
development agencies and NGOs to coordinate and leverage the project’s
HSS interventions.
- Contribute to strengthening MSH presence in Nigeria
Qualifications
- Master's degree in Public Health or related area.
- Minimum of 7 years of successful experience as senior-level HSS
expert in health projects of equivalent size and complexity, funded by
USAID or by other international donors.
- This HSS experience must include both government institutions
and civil society organizations and must include at least four of the
following HSS topics:
- Human resource management,
- Supply chain management,
- Leadership and governance,
- Program and financial planning and
- Reporting, inter-institutional coordination and health information systems and/or fundraising.
- Prior working experience in health programs in Nigeria.
- Successful experience leading HSS staff and consultants within a
consortium of international and local sub-contractors to achieve
measurable results within a technically complex and integrated health
program.
- Successful experience in engaging HSS representatives of the
host country government, civil society organizations, international
development organizations and NGOs to support project implementation
and/or to provide complementary resources to the project.
- Successful experience in sharing knowledge, documenting experience, supporting creative initiatives, and sharing credit.
- Demonstrated strategic agility, diplomacy, conflict management, team building, and negotiation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to make timely effective decisions
- Willingness to travel within project areas as needed.
- Excellent written communication in English is required.
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Job Title: Chief of Party- Malaria Proposal
Job ID: 13-8408
Location: Nigeria
Grade: Senior
Reports to: Project Director
Job Descriptions
MSH is seeking highly qualified candidates for an anticipated five-year USAID funded malaria program in Nigeria. This program will strengthen delivery of malaria case management: delivery of quality services for management of malaria and its complications, prevention of malaria in pregnancy, and integrated community case management.
Availability of the position is contingent upon issuance of a USAID funding mechanism, and selection of final applicant is subject to USAID approval. Preference will be given to candidates with relevant experience in Nigeria.
Overall Responsibilities
- Management Sciences for Health (MSH) saves lives and improves
health by helping public and private organizations throughout the world
to effectively manage people, medicines, money, and information.
- Working from more than 30 country offices and our Arlington,
Virginia and Medford, Massachusetts US headquarters, our staff from 65
nations is highly regarded for its technical expertise, integrity, and
commitment to making a lasting difference in health.
- We live by our mission to save lives and improve the health of
the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap
between knowledge and action in public health.
Will also perform:
- The Chief of Party leads and manages the project and is
accountable for project deliverables and results, with full
accountability and authority for the development, execution, and
monitoring of the project, including:
- Vision and technical strategy;
- Project management;
- Documentation and communication;
- Client(s) and stakeholder(s) relationships; and
- Coordination and synergy with other MSH projects and
collaboration with the MSH Country Representative and the Country
Operations Management Unit (COMU).
- In the role of Chief of Party, s/he ensures that the Program has
a strategic vision of success, and deploys all resources - financial,
technical, and human - in support of these strategies and plans. S/he is
aware of and adheres to MSH’s Procurement Integrity standards and
procedures in all project management responsibilities.
Specific Responsibilities
- The Chief of Party oversees implementation of program activities
and provides high quality technical and strategic leadership,
managerial oversight, and administration of the project.
- S/he serves as the primary project liaison from MSH to the donor
and is accountable for the achievement of results, ensuring quality of
services is maintained at the highest standard, and that all project
objectives and deliverables are met.
- S/he adapts and implements management systems with standard
operating procedures to administer all activities funded by the
agreement, ensuring sufficient financial staff for disbursing all local
costs under this project, monitoring and tracking expenditures, and
preparing financial reports of project expenditures for submission to
USAID.
- The Chief of Party collaborates with partners, donor, and
stakeholder representatives, building and maintaining productive
relationships.
- S/he supervises direct reports with a particular focus on achievement of their key tasks and project deliverables.
- S/he communicates, implements, and assures adherence to MSH and
project policies, guidelines and values; develops staff skills and
knowledge; and facilitates supervisee success and professional
development whenever possible.
- The Chief of Party serves as the primary liaison for
communication with USAID/Nigeria, US Government representatives,
partners, civil society organizations, appropriate officials from the
Government of Nigeria and representatives from other donor and
development agencies.
Qualifications
- A Masters' Degree in a relevant field (Management, Public
Health, International Development) from an accredited college or
university.
- Experience in public health in developing and/or transitional
countries managing the operational and organizational aspects of similar
health projects including staff supervision and oversight of
operational procedures and policies; preference given to those with
experience in Nigeria.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and communicate a common vision
among diverse partners and the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams.
- A minimum of 10 years of project management experience (of which
at least half is in a senior management position) in large, multi-year
international health sector development programs that increase uptake of
evidence based interventions in malaria or MNCH.
- Demonstrated subject-matter expertise in malaria and two or more
of the following areas: health service delivery, service quality
improvement, malaria prevention, malaria treatment and diagnosis,
behavior change communications, capacity building, and monitoring and
evaluation.
- Track record of strong commitment to sharing knowledge,
documenting experiences, supporting creative initiatives, and sharing
credit.
- Outstanding interpersonal, communication, cross-cultural, collaboration and negotiation skills are essential.
- Ability to delegate effectively
- Demonstrated ability to make timely effective decisions
- Willingness to travel within project areas as needed.
- Excellent written communication in English is required.
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Job Title: Grants/Financial Analyst
Job ID: 13-8406
Location: Abuja
Grade: G
Dept/Unit: GEN (General)
Project/Program: PRO-ACT
Reports to: Project Director
Overall Responsibilities
Financial Reporting:
- The core job of the financial analyst is to conduct a general
financial analysis of the reports obtained from accounting and various
departments such as operations, transport, human resources, field
offices, or other sources and present and communicate findings.
- The financial analyst will be responsible for monitoring the
monthly spending of the projects against the budgets, and the
obligations and preparing all financial reports as required by USAID.
Additionally, the financial analyst will prepare ad hoc reports as
necessary.
- S/he will also collaborate with Data Systems Specialist to
assist program teams to prepare annual work plans and budgets using work
plan database budgeting tools and help teams to monitor their plans and
will also develop annual project budgets.
Grants Management:
- The core job of the Grants Analyst is to collaborate with the
Finance Manager/COMU Director in order to manage and coordinate MSH
Nigeria’s complex grants portfolio lending to a variety of
Non-governmental organizations, faith based organizations, and community
based organizations in order to strengthen health systems and improve
health service delivery throughout Nigeria.
- Work closely with the supervisor to establish and follow a
transparent grant process, and develop tools to implement the process,
assuring that sound practices are applied at every stage of the grant
process from guidelines to closeout.
- He/she must be available to travel up to 50% of the time.
Specific Responsibilities
Financial Reporting:
- Compile and analyze monthly management reports. Some reports
will be generated from various units, while you will be expected to
prepare financial reports such as accruals reports, expenditure reports
or quarterly finance page for project quarterly reports, for example.
- Monitor monthly expenditures against work plan, budget and obligation for all projects.
- Analyze reports: vehicle fuel reports, field office reports,
phone bills, generator fuel reports, advance reports, ad hoc HR reports,
making use of spreadsheets and different statistical software in order
to analyze the facts of the reports. Most information is tracked in
Access Database.
- Develop new and effective techniques and templates for financial monitoring.
- Keep up with the latest trends and techniques in the field of financial and management analysis.
- Coordinating with the management to help them understand the reports, interpretations and to use data in decision-making.
Grants Management:
- Assist Finance Manager in setting up and administering a grants management system for MSH Nigeria.
- Help to issue grants to NGOs, FBOs, and CBOs ensuring that all necessary guidelines and regulations are followed.
- Help Finance Manager establish a grants application and
evaluation tools of grants recipients to guarantee best use of project
funds.
- As directed by the Finance Manager, manage grants at all phases and ensure compliance with donor and MSH regulations.
- With the Finance Manager, monitor and support grant recipients’
financial and operations systems ensuring best practices are being
implemented.
- Provide accounting support to the Country Operations Management Unit as directed by the Finance Manager.
- Other tasks as requested by supervisor
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree in Business Administration, Finance and Accounting, or Statistics required.
- At least 3 years experience working on a USAID funded project in finance office.
- Superior analytical abilities, result oriented nature and team working capabilities
- Demonstrated high level of proficiency in Access, Excel and QuickBooks.
- Demonstrate good judgment and sound financial practices.
- Ability to create and monitor budgets. Understanding of the
basic tenets of Cash Control, Asset Management and Bank Reconciliation.
- Understands the principals of adequate documentation and of audit, and performance necessary to ensure audit compliance.
- Advanced written and verbal proficiency in English including business terminology.
- Attention to detail and ability to finish projects on time required.
- Self motivation, passion, desire to learn and contribute required.
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Application Deadline 19th July, 2015.