Associate Director - Cluster Operations at the Excellence Community Education Welfare Scheme (ECEWS)

The Excellence Community Education Welfare Scheme (ECEWS) is a leading and reputable indigenous non-governmental organization that promotes access to qualitative healthcare, Education and economic strengthening opportunities for all Nigerians. With its headquarters in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State with a corporate office in Abuja, ECEWS has presence in 17 States across the South-South, South East, South West and North Central Nigeria with a strong client portfolio with the Global Fund to fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria, United States agency for international development (USAID), United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC), The United Nations office of Projects, World Bank & Federal Government of Nigeria. Since its founding in 2001, ECEWS has built a vast network of health and allied professional staff, partners and collaborators which has earned her a solid reputation among its funders and is well regarded by competitors and partners alike.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Associate Director - Cluster Operations

Location:  Akwa Ibom

Job Description

• Will participate in the development and monitoring of work plans and budgets, ensure appropriate levels of technical assistance in program operations; coordinate partner efforts in program implementation, and ensure appropriate program monitoring and accurate financial and programmatic reporting to the State Office.
• Responsible for the overall management and coordination of ECEWS activities at the Cluster office.
• Serve as the point of contact of ECEWS with government officials and coordinate and collaborate with all public sector and NGO partners at the state level and ensure that all ECEWS assets and other resources are effectively managed.
• Provide technical and managerial leadership in the provision of quality HIV prevention (including PrEP), treatment, care and reproductive/family planning services in different clusters.
• Take the lead in planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting on HIV prevention activities and establish linkages between communities and health services.
• Train and mentor project staff, health care providers and consortium partners to provide high-quality HIV, RH/FP services including screening and referral of identified clients with cervix cancer.
• Perform all other duties relating to the project as assigned by his/her supervisor.

Minimum Recruitment Standard

• MB.BS / MD / degree is required with MPH, or a post-graduate clinical or public health degree is required.
• 7 to 9 years’ experience working in the health or development field in Nigeria with at least 5 years progressive experience working in the PEPFAR HIV response.
• Proven experience in project development, planning and facilitating technical training; with extensive knowledge and skills for application of Differentiated Models of Care appropriate for situations and the ability to constitute and deploy competent surge teams to implement catchups.
• Ability to analyse and use site-level granular data to identify gaps, develop and deploy remedial action plans to improve service delivery.
• Familiarity with the Nigerian public sector health system and NGOs and CBOs is highly desirable.
• Clinical management and training experience and ability to understand the full range of issues around the clinical management of HIV/AIDS, including the provision of ART.
• Knowledge of Nigerian clinical settings, including government and non-government settings
• Proven ability in supervising staff.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Willingness to extend working hours to meet deadlines and at short notice.
• Ability to function effectively in multi-disciplinary teams to produce excellent results under pressure.
• Ability to use key computing applications e g MS Office Suite, etc and knowledge of different databases (DHIS or LAMIS) is a plus.

Application Closing Date
30th August, 2023.