Capacity Strengthening Advisor at the Society for Family Health (SFH)

Society for Family Health (SFH) is one of the leading non-governmental public health organisations in Nigeria, implementing programmes in Reproductive Health/Family Planning, HIV & AIDS prevention and treatment, malaria prevention and treatment, primary health care system strengthening and maternal, newborn and child health care. We work in partnership with the Federal and State Governments of Nigeria, the Global Fund, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Department for International Development (DFID), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MSD for Mothers and Children Investment Fund Foundation among other international donors.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Capacity Strengthening Advisor

Ref Id: sfh-53226
Location: Kano

Job Role
The successful candidate will perform the following functions:

• Lead the adaptation of relevant partnership engagement and capacity strengthening for platforms, and provide specific technical training, mentoring, and coaching to the project team and partners.
• Conduct institutional and systems analysis to support CBO and CSO capacity strengthening and advocacy platforms.
• Training and development methods to engage local CSOs.
• Provide timely updates on project progress, achievements, and challenges and make decisive adjustments when needed.
• Monitor program implementation, impact, and milestone achievement, and document and disseminate project successes.

Qualifications/Experience

• A minimum of Master's degree in International Development, Public Administration, Public Policy, Finance Management, Economic Policy, or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in project management for donor funded programs.
• Demonstrated strength and experience providing technical assistance, writing technical reports, and policy briefs targeted to decision-makers
• Prior experience working with USAID-funded programs is required
• Knowledge in partnership approaches and capacity-strengthening methodologies.

Skills and Competency required:

• Demonstrated ability to adapt to a variety of institutional structures and cultures;
• Demonstrated capacity to work with multiple partners to assess varying degrees of organisational and technical capability.
• The successful candidate will be a person of integrity with excellent analytical, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Must have the ability to coach, mentor and develop capacity in staff.
• Should be proficient in Microsoft Office applications including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Application Closing Date
14th December, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online