Project Director at Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi)

Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi) is a non-profit organization that promotes socio-economic development by supporting global health and economic initiatives in Nigeria. It was established as an affiliate of the Family Health International (FHI360) to sustain FHI's achievements in strengthening indigenous organizational capacity in Nigeria.

AHNi currently has its headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria. To strengthen our operations in the country, we are seeking qualified candidates for the vacant position below:

Job Title: Project Director

Contract Type: Full term
Location: Abuja

Job Description

• The Project Director will ensure and improve upon the efficiency of the project’s implementation, internal operating procedures among other tasks as well as significant daily coordination among departments, state offices, and the AHNi HQ, providing day-to-day leadership, long-term planning, and oversight to NMEP operations and, other activities, coordinating across all departments and ensuring that project activities arc implemented in an efficient manner that is compliant with the finder and AHNi rules and regulations.

Minimum Recruitment Standards

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree with 10-15 years or Master's Degree in Public Health, Social or Behavioral Science with at least 10 in Public Health programs.
• At least 7 years' experience of leading and managing large teams and designing and managing program and operational budgets.
• At least 5 years' experience leading health intervention program planning and implementation. Familiarity with working with the public and NGO sectors required.

Application Closing Date
26th June, 2015.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their suitability statement (application) and resume (CV) as a single MS Word document to: [email protected]

Note: Only applications sent electronically (i.e. by e-mail) with the job title and location clearly indicated as the subject of the mail will be considered and only short listed candidates will be contacted.