Local Capacity Strengthening / Health Workforce Development Manager at 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: Local Capacity Strengthening / Health Workforce Development Manager

Job Requisition ID: R4835
Location: Abuja
Job Schedule: Full Time/Hybrid

Job Summary

• The Local Capacity Strengthening/Health Workforce Development Manager will provide technical depth, vision, guidance and expertise in human resources for health management and leadership, management and will focus on building the capacity of stakeholders through the provision of technical and management strengthening support.

Responsibilities

• Act at the project’s technical resource together with the technical director for capacity strengthening initiatives and health workforce management
• Work closely with the technical director to lead support to N/SPHCDA in development/review/updating of relevant documents, policies, training modules, etc, related to community health workers program and other related health programs.
• Lead the coordination of relevant capacity building activities including NTOTs for the community health workers program collaborating with NPHCDA, FMOH, and other relevant MDAs
• Support the LGS/workforce development specialists and officers to roll out community health training at the state level, ensuring adherence to national guidelines and recommendations.
• Maintain a database of all participants trained by the project across all areas (service delivery, M&E, entrepreneurship, etc.) and support states to use training databases for data-informed planning and decision making at federal and state levels.
• Together with the technical director, lead engagement with high-level stakeholders at the N/SPHCDA, F/SMOH, CHPRBN, ALGON/LGCs, and other relevant stakeholders including implementing partners and CSOs to strengthen collaboration and foster commitment for effective implementation of the project’s activities.
• Lead health workforce performance tracking and analysis collaborating with the MERL manager at the federal and state levels, using the information to improve systems for improving the capacity of health workforce at the national and state levels.
• Play a key role in project’s annual work plan and budget development, work plan implementation performance tracking and review, and development of adaptive strategies using insights from project’s data
• Lead project reporting together with other program unit heads, ensuring compliance with donor and MSH requirements.
• Coordinate with the Strategic partnership and advocacy (SPA) manager and MERL manager to document project learnings and develop technical briefs for internal and external communication with stakeholders
• Provide technical support to federal and state stakeholders to strengthen systems for health workforce performance tracking
• Represent MSH and provide technical input in relevant Steering Committee, TWG meetings at the federal and state levels such as Child Health-TWG, CHW-TWG and HRH-TWG
• Lead engagement with CHPRBN at national level to streamline processes of CHP licensing and relicensing, and continuous professional development plans for CHPs.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Communications, Social Sciences, Public Health, Journalism or relevant discipline
• At least 7+ years’ experience in strategic stakeholder engagements, communications, advocacy, and media events management, ideally in public health
• Strong project management skills
• At least 5 years’ experience working in donor funded projects implemented by local and international NGOs with a strong understanding of donor trends, languages, audiences, and requirements.
• Excellent English writing and communication skills
• Experience with public health communications and relevant technical areas
• Demonstrated experience developing communications strategies, communication plans, gender analysis, gender strategies, and materials related to relevant project technical areas.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Understanding of policy processes and political dynamics at various levels
• Savvy social media user
• Technical knowledge of Community health workers program and health workforce management systems with a minimum of 7 years working in these technical areas.
• Experience in a range of communications activities (writing strategies, briefing papers, press releases, concept notes, digital communications content, use of social media dissemination events etc.)
• Strong analytic, strategic thinking and planning skills

Application Closing Date
27th January, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online