Team Lead, Leadership, Management & Governance at the Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

The Management Sciences for Health (MSH), a global health nonprofit organization, uses proven approaches developed over 40 years to help leaders, health managers, and communities in developing nations build stronger health systems for greater health impact. We work to save lives by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Lead, Leadership, Management & Governance

Job Requisition ID: R4877
Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full time

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for all LMG-related activities and provide orientation to state teams on the implementation of the project.
• Manage the implementation of LMG technical activities at all relevant levels of the health system, ensuring that all activities are adequately implemented in a timely fashion and that they adequately address management, leadership, and governance needs at the different levels of the system, especially within the Local Government Health Authorities, States & Federal Ministries of Health to meet the expectations of partners and other stakeholders.
• Monitor LMG training and on-site capacity building activities, ensuring the development of local institutional and personal capacities needed to maintain and support the program.
• Facilitate the review of technical reports developed by other team members and/or consultants, ensuring the quality of delivered products and that reports/recommendations are appropriately disseminated among partners.
• Ensure the development of regular activity updates and their timely submission to the funder, and the development of quarterly and annual progress reports, financial reports and other reports, as required, to be submitted to MSH country office.
• Build and maintain strong working relations with key internal and external stakeholders, beneficiaries.
• Provide effective and timely responses to inquiries and concerns. Seek out new and strategic partnerships in the public and private sectors to advance program objectives and promote innovation.
• Travel regularly to the field to provide guidance and support to Project field staff (approximately 25%)
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Advanced Degree (Masters, PhD) in public health, international development, Statistics, public administration, or related field required.  
• A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience is preferred.
• Over 15 years of experience in health systems management, health care financing, and health policy, strategy, program design and monitoring, and evaluation, leadership, and governance and health systems strengthening strongly preferred, particularly in developing countries.
• Expertise in PHC performance monitoring, Results Based Financing approaches.
• Extensive local knowledge of the Nigerian health sector, program design and implementation including health systems management.
• Demonstrated managerial and organizational skills in a developing country setting with flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and deadlines.
• Demonstrated strategic agility, diplomacy, conflict management, team building, written and oral communication, and negotiation skills.
• Must have proven experience supervising and mentoring technical and managerial staff for similar health projects in developing countries.
• Experience organizing and working with teams to produce high-quality deliverables.
• Previous work with international NGOs and donor-funded projects in difficult settings.
• Good knowledge and experience of the health system of Nigeria.
• Professional written and oral proficiency in English is required.
• Excellent skills in MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills in English.

Application Closing Date
7th August, 2025.