Technical Advisor Job at Management Science for Health (MSH)

Management Science for Health (MSH) saves lives and improves health, especially among the world's poorest and most vulnerable people, by closing the gap between know 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.

Technical Advisor (2 Positions)

Location: Abuja

The Technical Advisor will provide focused, high-quality institutional capacity building assistance for clients of the PLAN Health program in addition to leading project technical slaff to strengthen organizations' systems towarus greater snst&nability and achievement of their missions ti is expected that techincalc assistance will focus both on building stronger orgimizations and on developing individuals to lead them to achieving results.

Responsibilities:
The Technical Advisor will accomplish these through
- consultations with managers ofclient organization
- leading and supervising a multi-functional team implcmenting technical assistance
- plan and execute strategies for technical assistance
- monitor quality, progress and results
- identify needs for and supetvlse short term technical assistance.

The Technical Advisor also serves as a rcsomee for ideutifying best practices lessons leamed, and innovative approaches to institutional capacity building, and for disserninating this information both internally and externalIy.The Technical Advisor will exercise impeccable professional ethics, and will be aware of and adhere to MSH's procurement integrity standards all activities.

Supervision;.
Supervised by: Associate Director
Supervises: 2 - 3 Technical Officers

Key Qualifications:
- Graduate degree preferably in social sciences, business or health.
- Minimum of five years experience in capacity building in Nigeria
- Experience in supervising other professionals
- Experience in project management
- Experience working in or with public sector organizations. particularly intbe healtb field
- Knowledge of PEPFAR-funded program and experience in managing relationships with USA1D mission preferred.
- Ability to work as a membe'f of a team. and to eontribnte to developing a new projloct in a dynamic environment
- Significant seniro level work experience in institutional capucity building across the area of finance, human resources, governance and planning. organizational development, and pmgram management.
- Proven programmatic, tecbnical, and managerial ability and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with
professional colleagues in a broad range of indigenous governmental organizations and NGOs.
- Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication sikll.
- Strong facilitation skills
- Ability to produce results in diverse cultural. social, and language contexts.
- Demonstrated computer skills in MS Office Snite applications including Word, Excel. and PowerPoint.
- Willingness to travel withillNigeria regularly and potentially ontside Nigeria, as required.

Application Deadline
May 28, 2010

How To Apply
Interested candidate should forward a comprehensive resume with cover letter as one MS WORD document to Imsnigeria@msh.org

Suitable candidates living with HIV/AIDS will have an added advantage. Women are encouraged to apply.