Senior Program Officer at Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative

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:

Job Title: Senior Program Officer

Location: Abuja

Job Description
The Senior Program Officer-as a member of the Program Management Team, supports the Project Director Programs in providing oversight, coordination, monitoring and reporting of all SIDHAS activities in the assigned states, in addition to this, provide management support to the SIDHAS Project and IAs focusing on work plans, sub agreement management, periodic fund requests, review of MFRs/SFRs, and reporting, develop and oversee execution of systems for initiation, implementation, monitoring, amendment and close out of all SIDHAS IAs' sub agreements

Minimum Recruitment Standards:

• BS/BA in public health, business administration, health sciences, behavioral sciences or its recognized equivalent with 7 – 9 years of relevant experience with international development programs.
• Or MS/MA degree in public health, business administration, health sciences, behavioral sciences or its recognized equivalent with 5 – 7 years relevant experience with international development programs.
• Demonstrated success in multicultural environments is required
• Familiarity with Nigerian public sector health systems and NGOs and CBOs is highly desirable

Application Closing Date
11th September, 2014

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

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.