COVID-19 Advocacy and Accountability Officer (Lagos) at Options Consultancy Services Limited

Options Consultancy Services Limited was established in 1992 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marie Stopes International. We are a consultancy organisation providing technical and management expertise in the health and social sectors to governments and international development partners to transform the health of women and children.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: COVID-19 Advocacy and Accountability Officer

Reference: LAFIYA
Location: Lagos
Contract type: Full time, fixed term contract

Details

• Options Consultancy Services seeks a COVID-19 Advocacy and Accountability Officer in Lagos State to provide support and guidance on accountability issues relating to COVID-19 and health security more broadly in collaboration with the Advocacy and Accountability Coordinator and in partnership with the PERL focal person in the state.

Responsibilities
The summary purpose and objective of the role is to:

• Deliver guidance and innovative approaches towards COVID-19 community preparedness and response to strengthen health systems resilience.
• Engage directly with high-level political actors at federal and state levels to encourage increased public health spending as means to tackle Covid-19 and kick-start UHC reforms
• Provide strategic guidance to CSO coalitions at the state level and other CSOs for effective and efficient performance on accountability relating to COVID-19

Person Specification

Qualifications:

• An MSc or relevant qualification or related comparable experience in health economics, public health, community / primary health care, social sciences or in a relevant field.

Experience:

• At least 5 years of relevant experience of working on primary health care, epidemiology in Nigeria including advocacy and accountability interventions/framework.
• Experience and understanding of LGA and ward development systems, and building a resilient health system including workshop facilitation, data collection, analysis, and report writing
• Previous working experience with DFID and/or other international agencies.
• Experience of developing strong relationships with government officials within health and finance authorities at national, State and LGA level and with civil society organisations in Nigeria
• Experience of developing the capacity of counterparts/institutions including government officials, community structures and civil society organisations

Skills and attributes:

• Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills in English required, working knowledge of Hausa and other local languages preferred
• Technical specialism in Health Systems Strengthening, community preparedness and response or other related area
• Knowledge about the Nigerian health system at the local, state and federal level
• Ability to design training materials for a diverse range of audiences
• Proven ability to network and manage relationships with clients, consultants and technical resource persons
• Self-starter as well as good team-worker
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to technical delivery of programmes.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills that enables effective team building and problem solving.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to technical reporting and strategic development

Other Requirements:

• Commitment to Equal Opportunities
• First-hand experience of FCDO policies and programming.
• Right to live and work in Nigeria

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Technical background in health security, community health systems and accountability of health results
• Strong understanding of the Nigerian health system
• Good connections with state and non-state actors in the health sector in the state
• Experience of working with the media to communicate advocacy messages.
• Proven skills in capacity building and analysing data and packaging it for targeted advocacy

Salary
Commensurate with experience

Application Closing Date
16th October, 2020.