Senior Program Officer Job at Management Sciences for Health (MSH).

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) saves lives and improves Health, especially among the world's poorest and most vulnerable people, by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. We live our mission to save lives and improve the health of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER

Location: Taraba

The Senior Program Officer (SPO) will assist the Project's Chief of Party (COP) in providil1g overall coordination of interventions for the Project in the state. The senior Program officer manages all activities within lhe state and ensures coordination and collahoration with stale agencies and Commissioners as well as other implementing partners operating within the state. Sthc ensures integration of project activities into a single strategic approach at the States, local government, and commlmity levels. He or she assists the COP in providing oversight and technical direction to the state team and collaborates with the Technical Advisor for OVC and M&E to ensure the appropriateness and quality of interventions. He or She is responsible for coordinating all project activities in the states under his jurisdiction.S/he will be the driving force in grantee capacity building and grants management and will work closely with the technical advisors to address capacity gaps within the grantees. He/she will support the M&E specialist with ensuring data about all project activities are collected and suhmitted to the head office. Sfhe is responsible for ensuring that NGOs in the state are mobilized to provide quality services to OVC through adherence to national standards and Other approved tools of the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development Along with the COP, he or she serv(!S as a technical liaison between the Stale offices, and other donors and stakeholders operating in states within the zone

Qualifications
• Post graduate degree in public health, education, public administration or management, or a combination of equivalent relevant experience and education.
• Minimum of 6 years experience managing and engaged in health and education projects.
Rcproductive HealihfFamily Planning, or Maternal Child Health, or integrated health projects.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in at least oneof the following areas: Child Survival; Reproductive Health/Family Planning, Maternal Child Health. Child survivalflmmunization, Organizational Capacity Building, Quality Assurance, integrated health education, and Behaviour Change Communication.
• Demonstrated successful experience collaborating with community, local, and State-level artners. Understanding of US Government regulations and administrati.ve procedures.

Note: There are no relocation allowances available for these positions.

Method of Application
Interested persons may send comprehensive resume with a brief cover letter as ONE MS Word document to lmsnigeria@msh.org not later than May 26, 2010. If you wish to be considered for a post, please specify the position for wbich you are applying in the subject line. Note that if the underline instructions are not followed application will not be considered.
Suitable candidatesliving with HIV/AIDS will have an added advantage. Women are encouraged to apply.

Closing Date is 26th May, 2010