State Programme Manager at Malaria Consortium

Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organisations specialising in the comprehensive prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable and under privileged populations. We increasingly find our work on malaria can be effectively integrated with other similar public health interventions for greater impact and therefore expanded our remit to include child health and neglected tropical disease interventions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: State Programme Manager

Location: Zamfara

The Vacancy

• Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a State Programme Manager to join our team in Zamfara State, Nigeria.

Job Purpose

• To work with the country office team and SMC Senior Zonal Programme Manager (SZPM) to effectively manage project activities and resources, provide leadership and stewardship to the project team and maintain collaborative links with the project’s key stakeholders at national and sub-national level.

Scope of work

• The State Programme Manager (SPM) would support the programme activities at state level to ensure timely project delivery of the programme to achieve given targets and objectives.

Key accountabilities (percent of time spent on each area)
Project Management (70%):

• Work with the programme team and other relevant personnel in the country office to deliver successful SMC in the state,
• Line management – build and performance manage an effective and technically fit SMC project team in the state,
• Lead in all planning (annual workplans, macro plans, microplanning, selection of implementers at the local levels, training, database finalization, last mile distribution, SPAQ admin and reverse logistics),
• Engage stakeholders including government, communities and beneficiaries for successful SMC implementation,
• Lead Implementation (SPAQ admin) including QA and innovations, including digitization according to guidelines, within timelines and approved budgets,
• General management including security, HR including line management, risk management, work planning and budgeting, VFM, optimization of grant, etc.
• Risk Free operations including ensuring that all staff comply with MC values and start-to-finish (SFG) policies,
• Coordination with other levels of government and internally, all MC functions,
• Work directly with the SZPM and be responsible for coordinating overall project implementation in the states and see that activities are carried out on time and within budget,
• Be responsible for timely financial accountability for any disbursed funds for project activities in the state,
• Duty of care on all campaign personnel, and
• Act as state security focal point (SSFP) for the programme at the state level,
• Be responsible for state programme budget management and reporting,
• Be responsible for preparing and submission of project progress report, including narrative reports on a timely basis,
• Work with finance team and ZPM to prepare quarterly financial reports,
• Work with the relevant country personnel and the SZPM to prepare an exit strategy and to implement it, to see to the smooth end of the programme, and
• Manage risks to Malaria Consortium including financial, reputation and security in a challenging environment.

Technical contributions (20%):

• Support M&E activities, including reporting of SPAQ admin and end of cycle (EoC) survey using lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS),
• Support programme review including end of cycle (EoC) reviews, end of round (EoR) reviews and EoR coverage survey,
• Work with the project Senior M&E Officer, M&E Manager and Country MEAL Specialist to ensure that high quality project data is collected, analysed and disseminated to relevant stakeholders at all levels,
• Work with the project teams, SZPM, Programme Director and the Country Technical Coordinator to determine technical support needs to implement the project effectively and with high quality,
• Liaise with the Senior Country Technical Coordinator to obtain regional or global technical support, and
• Contribute to the development and production of dissemination documents to allow wider sharing of Malaria Consortium’s experiences, lessons and successes.

Representation & Knowledge Management (10%):

• Work with the Country Director, Senior Country Technical Coordinator, Programme Director and ZPM to participate in national level meetings and workshops to represent Malaria Consortium at programmatic and coordination events, especially at the state level,
• Work with the Country Director, Senior Country Technical Coordinator, Programme Director and SZPM to keep key national stakeholders abreast with the project,
• To exert influence and to advocate for Malaria Consortium’s key technical positions and promote best practice in SMC interventions,
• Be responsible for lesson identification and use at the state level, including adaptive management, and
• Harmonization with other partners.

Person specification
Qualifications and experience
Essential:      

• Postgraduate or Master`s Degree in Public Health, Health Policy, Epidemiology or another relevant specialty is a minimum requirement.
• Extensive experience of working at national or state level in developing countries.
• Excellent project planning, management and monitoring & evaluation skills.
• Experience managing project budgets.
• Proven leadership skills and team leading.
• Experience in advocacy and policy influencing.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Desirable: 

• Experience on SMC-supported project
• Advance knowledge of Microsoft office.

Work-based skills and competencies
Essential:      

• Proof of strong interpersonal and negotiating skills
• Experience in using participatory adult learning techniques and previous experience in mass frud distribution campaign activities.
• Excellent report writing and presentation skills are also needed.
• Understanding of public health issues in Nigeria.

Key working relationships:

• The State Programme Manager (SPM) would be working with the state team and stakeholders in their state, especially the State Ministry of Health and LGA Departments of Health/PHC, manage the rollout and implementation of the SMC activities in project states.
• S/he would report to the Zonal Programme Manager (ZPM).

Application Closing Date
4th March, 2026.