Program Assistant at Jhpiego Nigeria

Jhpiego is an international non-profit health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University. For 40 years and in over 150 countries, Jhpiego has worked to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families. Jhpiego works with health experts, governments and community leaders to provide high-quality health care for their people. The Jhpiego led and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) is implementing the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) Nigeria project in collaboration with other partners; Pathfinder International, Praekelt Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, BabyCenter, and the global office of the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action at the United Nations Foundation.

MAMA seeks to improve the health outcomes and quality of life for mothers and infants in Nigeria through a nationally-scaled arid locally led mobile messaging programme that delivers vital health information to new and expectant mothers through their mobile phones. The project will be implemented in Cross River, Ebonyi and Kogi states with the possibility of future scale up to Bauchi and Sokoto states.

Jhpiego hereby invites applications from highly resourceful, experienced and dynamic professionals for the vacant position of:

Job Title: Program Assistant

Location: Abuja

Overview
The Program Assistant will report to the Senior Programme Manager and provide day-to-day support for project and office operations to ensure smooth running of all programmatic functions of a USAID and Johnson & Johnson-funded project that aims to improve the health outcomes and quality of life for pregnant women, newborns, and children and their families in Nigeria through a nationally scaled, locally led, and universally accessible demand generation service supported by age and stage-based mobile messaging that validates and complements the efforts of frontline health workers.

Responsibilities

• Work with F&A assistant to arrange logistics for project activities
• Provide administrative support to operation of project activities
• Draft correspondence to partners, NGOs arid other agencies as requested
• Maintain tiles and support the dissemination of project information among the project team
• Schedule and support visitors and meetings
• Assist with drafting, editing and proofreading of technical materials and appropriate reports of program activities and results for technical leads, supervisors as requested
• Work collaboratively with other project team members to ensure necessary project planning, resource availability and management activities function smoothly and efficiently

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Public Health or related field, or equivalent job experience.
• Experience in coordinating USG funded projects.
• Familiarly with international donor policies and administrative procedures.
• 2-3 years’ of experience in programmatic support of international health projects.
• Proven track record of working with a project team composed of technical experts, program, and finance staff.
• Fluency in verbal, written and interpersonal communication in language in Ebonyi or Kogi State
• Proficiency in writing and editing letters, reports, and documents.
• Strong decision making and results oriented approach.
• Ability to interact skillfully and diplomatically deal with numerous counterparts such as networks of senior level international health professionals, donors, universities and other partiers.
• Comfortable with a team approach to programming and the ability to manage several major activities simultaneously.
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform.

Application Closing Date
2nd February, 2016.

Method of Application
Interested candidates should submit an Application letter and a CV as one single word document to: [email protected]

Note:

• The title/subject of your email and application should be the position of what you have applied for.
• Only shortlisted candidates will receive an invitation for an interview.
• Please note that any successful candidate will be subject to a pm-employment background investigation.