Project Lead at Save the Children Nigeria

Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Save the Children is working in Nigeria because one in five children in Nigeria dies before their fifth birthday. About 40% of children miss out on school and have to work to survive while nearly 2 million children have lost one or both parents to an AIDS-related disease.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Lead

Location: Nigeria
Division: Global Programmes
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract / Internal Secondment
Contract Duration: 2 years (with potential extension)

Your Role

• As the Immunization Accelerator Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in the planning, execution, and monitoring of innovative projects aimed at overcoming barriers to child immunization.
• As part of a, working in synergy with teams across the Save the Children movement, you will collaborate with colleagues across the Save the Children movement as well as local organizations and institutions, to ensure that promising innovations receive the support they need to develop their evidence bases.

Your Key Accountabilities

• Lead the end to end support of immunization innovations, from selection via an open call, through piloting to evaluation. You will be able to help innovators work through the next steps they need to take in order to build their evidence bases and take their innovations to the next level.
• Regular in-person support and monitoring of selected innovation projects/partners, including site visits that will require frequent travel in both Nigeria and Ethiopia.
• Initiate and lead discussions with local enterprise, health and innovation stakeholders, including donors, investors, and communities, to ensure the incubator is well networked, has a healthy pipeline and can offer the best support for our innovators.
• You will collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including local partners, Save the Children and GSK to deliver the programme.
• Communicate regularly with the Accelerator Project Team and Accelerator Investment Committees, providing progress reports from the innovators.
• Ensure relevant quality assurance processes are completed so that programmes are running effectively and on time.
• Support award team to ensure that awards management and other relevant information systems are up-to-date, and that global and internal processes are followed.
• Support grant and contract management, from grant set-up to quality assurance during implementation, lead reporting on the Accelerator and work with other SCUK departments to support reporting of the Immunisation programme.
• Ensure awards in the portfolio are compliant with donor requirements and SC quality standards.
• Implement an agile evaluation and learning approach, regularly collecting and analysing relevant data to adapt.
• Facilitate review and reflection meetings to optimize the design of the incubator and support provided.
• And ensure evaluation of the incubator and innovations takes place in a robust and useful.

About You
To be successful, it is important that you have the following skills and experience:

• Proven experience in project management, specifically in the field of enterprise support or health innovation, health management or health research.
• Must have previous experience of working with a range of in-country organisations of different types and sizes, for example, Community Based Organisations, Non-Government Organisations, universities, private sector health initiatives.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to bring together cross-functional teams and collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience of the innovation process, preferably with experience in global health initiatives or social enterprise.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to complexity and uncertainty, with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project budgets and reporting.
• Previous experience working in a global and multicultural context is highly desirable.
• Fluent in English language essential.

Salary
N21,000,000 / Annum

Application Closing Date
21st April, 2024; 11:37