Marie Stopes International Vacancies in Abuja
Marie Stopes International ia a Social Business,
which uses modern management and marketing techniques to provide
reproductive health care and allied services. MSION's goal is to meet
the needs of underserved Nigerians and dramatically improve access and
use of a range of reproductive health
services. MSION is part of Marie
Stopes International’s Global Partnership which is in over 40 countries
worldwide.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: New Business Development Manager
Location: Abuja
Duration of contract: 18 months
Probationary period: 6 months
Responsibilities
New Business Development:
- Identifying and successfully capitalising on funding
opportunities with major funders of local and international sexual and
reproductive health programming.
- Research and analyse donor calls for funding applications
including tenders, expressions of interest and requests for proposals.
This includes identifying funding opportunities for MSION – either as a
prime or subcontractor.
- Develop and write successful, high quality funding proposals and budgets as agreed by the Programme Director and SMT
- Develop partnerships with external institutions working on reproductive health to meet and share best practices.
- In collaboration with Programme Director, Knowledge and
Documentation Manager, RME Manger alongside SMT, identify opportunities
to market to donors and potential partners through tailored marketing
materials and activities such as brown bags meetings to better position
MSION in existing and emerging markets.
- Oversee development & maintenance of institutional systems
for tracking and maintaining new business-related information (e.g.
contacts, opportunities, competitor’s information, etc.).
- Represent MSION at donor/government/consortium meetings and other meeting as agreed with Programme Director.
- Ensure that new business efforts are of the highest possible
quality, maximizing their potential to lead to successful awards, by
managing and improving systems that will support the development of
high-quality proposals (early identification of opportunities, adherence
to new business policies).
- Contribute to strategic planning and positioning in response to donor and international development trends.
Develop Proposals and Budgets:
- Project design and document production: Manage the development
and writing of successful funding proposals and budgets as agreed with
Programme Director and Country Directors. This will involve leading
and/or facilitating proposal development activities involving Programme
Director, Operation Director, Country Directors, and other in-country
staff, London-based programme support teams and technical advisors. This
may involve working with technical leads on strategy, developing,
reviewing and editing log frames, budgets and narrative text per donor
requirements.
- Coordinating efforts between MSONI and MSI: Manage the
development of proposals and budgets submitted in partnership with other
organisations where MSI is either the primary applicant or a
sub-contractor.
- Management of information: Manage the development and
maintenance of information required for proposal development including
updating capability statements, descriptions of MSION’s technical areas
of expertise, country program and/or project write-ups, development of
graphics and presentations.
Ensure positive and strong donor relations:
- Ensure the highest possible level of service to donors: Ensure
coordinated communication with donors and partner NGOs among MSION teams
in collaboration with the London technical teams, Country Directors and
their teams. This may involve managing relationships for a portfolio of
donors (may include occasional project report writing or reviewing,
ongoing communications and meetings). Ensure quality, consistency and
continuity in MSI’ONs approach with donors.
Strengthen Internal and New Business Development Capacity:
- Strengthen the capacity MSION teams: Expand the capacity of
MSION team members to participate in technical and cost proposals and
other business development efforts through mentoring and collaboration.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of MSION’s systems:
Help to develop better tools, systems, techniques and strategies for
identifying, tracking, and pursuing new business opportunities,
developing proposals and budgets, and managing institutional knowledge.
Qualifications
- Minimum of M.Sc. degree in the Social Sciences, Communication, Epidemiology, Evaluation, Development or in a field related
- Minimum of 7 years’ experience Project Management and implementation
- Experience in conceptualizing, writing, and editing funded proposal
- Demonstrated experience of funded bilateral and foundation proposal
- Experience in participating in all areas of programme
development including strategy development, forging partnerships,
project design, logframe development, proposal writing, budget
development, managing donor and other partner (e.g. NGOs) relationships
and project reporting. Experience in a directly relevant role preferred.
- Excellent interpersonal, conceptual, organizational, writing, and editing skills;
- Successful track record of securing high-value contracts from
bilateral and multilateral donors, trusts and foundations. Specific
experience securing funding from USAID and DFiD preferred.
- Ability to work under demanding deadlines;
- Ability to interact appropriately with other cultures.
Experience & Skills:
- Strong interpersonal and professional communication skills; articulate writer.
- Proven relationship building skills and ability to work
collaboratively and effectively with a wide variety of people and
organisations.
- Established ability to manage, co-ordinate and work with teams as well as to work independently and take initiative.
- Solid analytical skills and ability to filter and distil critical information.
- Proficiency with numbers, including budgeting, and close attention to detail.
- Practical organisational skills with the ability to manage a
fluctuating workload, re-prioritise when necessary and meet deadlines.
- Able to act decisively when unexpected events present opportunities for MSION.
- Advanced computer skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Able to learn quickly.
Attitude/Motivation:
- Pro-choice.
- Team player; energetic, enthusiastic and positive.
- Quality-focussed and results-oriented.
- Confident and professional.
- Responsive, resourceful and determined.
- Flexible and with the ability to respond to varying needs opportunities and operating environments.
Job Title: Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant
Locations: Abuja, Kano, Gombe, Enugu, Benin & Lagos
Duration of contract: 18 months
Probationary period: 6 months
Slot: 6
Responsibilities
Support the Implementation of MSION Management Information System:
- Support the collation of monthly service statistics for all service delivery points
- Conduct monthly validation of service data for all reporting
facilities in the database against the source document at the state
level
- Conduct quarterly RME technical supportive visits to facilities
to mentor facility record officers on use of routine data collection
tools and to verify data submitted to the state offices.
Participate in Research Activities:
- Assist in conducting research activities including the
preparation and implementation of annual evaluations and special studies
(e.g. baseline, impact evaluation, mid-term reviews). These may include
to:
- Assist with drafting data collection tools
- Data collection, collation, and entry
- Training and supervision of data collection process
- Monitoring pilot studies, surveys,
- Data collation, entry, basic analysis, reporting and dissemination
- Collate regional factsheet data
- Collate regional success stories
- Work with RME team to develop reports, collate, and disseminate
success stories and lessons learnt in Open-door, to internally and
externally when appropriate
- Plan on-going day-to-day research activity within the framework of agreed monthly deliverables.
Support monitoring and evaluation activities:
- Ensure RME Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and guidelines
are used at the state offices and facilities and inputs for updated when
necessary are submitted to the support office
- Track and report project specific indicators monthly and
reporting same to inform programmes, ensuring targets are met, flagging
and explaining indicators that are off track
- Prepare monthly regional factsheets for specific project indicators
- Identify bottlenecks in completing project activities and developing plans to minimize or eliminate such bottlenecks.
- In collaboration with RME team identify and document
achievements and accomplishments of project indicators against set
performance targets.
- Work with RME Team to prepare quarterly/annually reports on required key indicators.
Qualifications
- Minimum of B.Sc degree in the Social Sciences, Epidemiology, Evaluation, Development or in a field related
- Minimum 2 years’ experience conducting/participating in
research, monitoring and evaluation of reproductive health programmes in
Nigeria.
- Minimum of 2 years conducting data quality assessments.
Experience & Skills:
- Experience of conducting primary qualitative and quantitative research
- Experience with management of different sources of data and
multiple indicators with proven ability to interpret verbal, written and
numerical data
- Experience of data collation, entry, processing and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data sets
- Willingness and ability to undertake regular visits to facilities and support data reporting and documentation
- Must have excellent communication/interactive skills and must function well independently, as well as part of a team
- Experience with public and private health sectors in Nigeria
- Proficiency in MS Office particularly in DHIS2, SPSS/STATA/SAS,
Epdata, and Ms Excel (Essential), MS Projects and ATLAS Ti/Nvivo, ArcGIS
(desirable)
- Excellent technical report writing skills with evidence of publishing in revered journals (desirable)
- Excellent oral presentation skills including abstract presentations at conferences and to stakeholders (desirable)
- Excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to develop and
maintain effective working relationships across teams and
organisations.
- Experience working on USAID, DFID and Gates funded programmes is an added advantage
- Must be familiar with working in rural areas with focus on participatory processes.
- Good analytical skills
Attitude/Motivation:
- Proactive
- Coach/Mentor
- Team player
- Pro-Choice
- Ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast-paced professional environment.
Job Title: Operations Research Advisor
Location: Abuja
Duration of contract: 2 years
Probationary period: 6 months
Responsibilities
Lead MSION Operations Researches:
- Represent MSION technical expertise in professional circles through meetings, conferences and presentations
- Develop and maintain professional relationships with colleagues and donors in country, region or worldwide networks
- Guide the design, implementation and continual refinement of all
operational researches in MSION in consultation with the RME Manager
- Contribute to the development of knowledge management processes
to ensure that the M&E system, tools and methods provide statistical
and analytical validation of PRISM.
- Provide input into the development of a web-based M&E
management system that supports M&E data entry, management, analysis
and reporting; facilitates M&E knowledge management and knowledge
sharing; and improves communications.
- Identify opportunities for and provide technical assistance in design and implementation of Operations Research studies.
Participate in Research Activities:
- Strengthen organizational capacity in application of state of
the art M&E methods and techniques, including program/project/study
design
- Closely collaborate with staff and/or facilitate the design of
programs, projects, and studies, including review and provision of
feedback on selected program/project/study designs, survey methodology
and findings; performance monitoring plans, evaluation methodology and
findings.
- Assist in the coordination, design and implementation of selected project mid-term and final evaluations
- Assist in writing, developing, and/or reviewing project
proposals, detailed implementation plans, and abstracts for submission
to conferences and publications.
Support monitoring and evaluation activities:
- Technical and experiential knowledge of the range of applied
research and monitoring and evaluation techniques, including the
relationship of information systems to program, field, and global
initiatives
- Ability to program in SPSS, Epi-info, STATA, Microsoft Access, and other research related applications
- Support on-going indicator monitoring.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Statistics, or related Social Science
- Strong technical skills, including ability to process and
analyse data using one or more statistical software packages, including
at least one of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Access
- In-depth understanding of evolving international health funding
priorities, technical state-of-the-art thinking and priorities, and
program development roles and opportunities
- Superior verbal, written and presentation skills (English); strong verbal, written, and presentation skills
- Excellent management and organizational skills
- Ability and willingness to travel locally and internationally as require by work.
Experience & Skills:
- 5-6 years of experience working with international or local
donor, aid, or development agencies in program Monitoring and Evaluation
- A proven positive track record working in M&E with NGOs,
government or research institutions, and/or bi-lateral/multi-lateral
organizations.
- A proven ability to develop, implement, analyse M&E data
using statistical analysis software, regression analysis and other
relevant forms of analysis.
- Computer expertise in MS Office, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SPSS, and other statistical analysis software.
- Fluent in in both written and spoken English
- Experience in public speaking and professional presentations
- Experience of conducting primary qualitative and quantitative research
- Experience with management of different sources of data and
multiple indicators with proven ability to interpret verbal, written and
numerical data
- Experience of data collation, entry, processing and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data sets
- Willingness and ability to undertake regular visits to facilities and support data reporting and documentation
- Must have excellent communication/interactive skills and must function well independently, as well as part of a team
- Experience with public and private health sectors in Nigeria
- Ability to Translate complex data systems and results to
understandable lessons learned and action priorities for programmatic
and other technical staff (Essential);
- Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform;
- Ability to interact professionally with established networks of senior-level international health professionals.
- Proficiency in MS Office particularly in DHIS2, SPSS/STATA/SAS,
Epdata, and Ms Excel (Essential), MS Projects and ATLAS Ti/Nvivo, ArcGIS
(Essential)
- Excellent technical report writing skills with evidence of publishing in revered journals (Essential)
- Excellent oral presentation skills including abstract presentations at conferences and to stakeholders (Essential)
- Excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to develop and
maintain effective working relationships across teams and
organisations.
- Experience working on USAID, DFID and Gates funded programmes is an added advantage.
- At least 4-5 years of applied evaluation or research; design and
implementation of information systems including but not limited to GPS,
GIS (Essential);
- Development, field-testing and implementation of computer-based information systems (Desirable);
- Timely data analysis, synthesis, and communication of results (desirable);
- Design and implementation of evaluation protocols (Essential);
- Development and field-testing of data collection instruments for M&E indicators;
- Data collection planning and implementation (routine or survey) (Essential);
Attitude/Motivation:
- Proactive
- Coach/Mentor
- Team player
- Pro-Choice
- Ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast-paced professional environment.
Job Title: Knowledge & Documentation Manager
Location: Abuja
Duration of contract: 2 years
Probationary period: 6 months
Responsibilities
Document all MSION Project Implementation Experience:
- Managing the delivery of our knowledge management strategy,
including the development and roll-out of a new intranet and
collaboration tools.
- Managing our content owner community to ensure that content across our knowledge tools is appropriate, effective and timely.
- Coaching and training to help embed new ways of working across
the organization, including curating and authoring online training
materials for the new tools.
- Taking the lead in encouraging team members to share knowledge
by ensuring they are aware of the knowledge management and collaboration
tools available to support their work.
- Managing platform analytics, including reporting to senior
stakeholders on the performance of the tools, and supporting content
owners to utilize their own metrics.
- Working closely with the Global Information Services team to
keep up to date with technology developments, and ensure we are using
tools which best support our knowledge management objectives.
Share Evidence from MSION Project Implementation:
- Schedules, coordinates, and supports program staff in the
writing, editing, promotion and dissemination of MSION technical
documents, including reports, case studies, training manuals;
- Collects, documents, and writes success stories (and takes associated photographs);
- Researches, compiles and writes quarterly newsletters for the projects.
- Provides -related content and stories for MSI Websites and Open Door,
- Provides stories for the national website.
- Develops and writes press releases on MSION projects, events, etc.
- Creatively identifies areas in which MSION's technical
communications can expand to address unmet need in the field, document
our programs, and reach new audiences;
- Travels occasionally to program areas to document projects,
lessons learned, success stories, and to develop field communication
plans;
- Stays abreast of publication guidelines and protocols from MSI, DFiD, USAID, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other donors.
Lead on Project Documentation Achieving in line with Donor Commitment:
- Collaborate with program manager to support program planning, implementation and monitoring
- Draft and/or prepare program reports, and correspondence as needed
- Illustrative activities include preparation, proofreading, formatting and editing of final programmatic and financial reports
- Write and compile program information and statistics for use by MSION.
- Draft correspondence to donors, NGOs and other agencies as requested
- Review to make input into operational SoPs for programmes operation.
- Prepare monthly regional factsheets for specific project indicators
- Work with RME Team to prepare quarterly/annually reports on required key indicators
- In collaboration with RME team identify and document
achievements and accomplishments of project indicators against set
performance targets
- Any other task allocated periodically by Team Lead.
Qualifications
- Minimum of M.Sc Degree in the Social Sciences, Communication, Epidemiology, Evaluation, Development or related field.
- Minimum of 5 years' experience conducting/participating in
research, monitoring and evaluation of reproductive health programmes in
Nigeria.
- Project Management and implementation experience.
- Experience in conceptualizing, writing, and editing technical
materials, preferably related to reproductive health, international
health, and/or HIV/AIDS;
- Demonstrated project management and organizational skills
- Three plus years' professional communications experience as a
writer/editor, preferably in reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and/or
international health;
- Ability to take initiative and work independently with a
proactive and creative approach while also taking direction from the
Programme Director;
- Excellent interpersonal, conceptual, organizational, writing, and editing skills;
- Ability to work under demanding deadlines;
- Ability to interact appropriately with other cultures
Experience & Skills:
- Working within a busy, multi-disciplinary corporate communications function. (desirable)
- Experience of working with Office 365, SharePoint Online and collaboration tools such as Yammer. (desirable)
- Experience of establishing and managing online work communities. (desirable)
- Providing coaching and training to senior leaders. (essential)
- Familiarity with Photoshop, desktop publishing, etc.
- Knowledge of the use of digital camera, downloading images, and e-mailing photos;
- Understanding of the issues surrounding delivery of Family Planning Services. (desirable)
- Developing exceptional written content for internal audiences. (essential)
- Assure Quality of external suppliers. (essential)
- Good analytical skills
- Proficiency in MS Office particularly in publisher/ or other publishing software (Essential),
- Excellent technical report writing skills with evidence of publishing in revered journals (desirable).
- Excellent oral presentation skills including abstract presentations at conferences and to stakeholders (desirable)
- Excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to develop and
maintain effective working relationships across teams and organisations
Attitude/Motivation
- Pro-choice, with genuine passion for the work of Marie Stopes International.
- Energetic and committed to delivering effective communications.
- Flexible and able to manage multiple priorities.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
- Able to build strong working relationships with a range of internal stakeholders, including senior leadership.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Pro-active and self- motivated.
Note
- Shortlisting will start as soon as we start receiving applications and deadline might be changed without prior notice.
- Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
- The subject of the email should be the POSITION TITLE/LOCATION
and the CV/Suitability statement should be saved in the applicant's
full name.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's and suitability statement as a single attachment to:
[email protected]
Application Deadline: 29th March, 2017.