Centre for Integrated Health Programs (CIHP) Recruits Administrative Officer, HR Officer and HR Associate - Abuja

Centre for Integrated Health Programs (CIHP) is a leading indigenous non-governmental organization that promotes better healthcare for all Nigerians through the creation of strong and sustainable health systems. CIHP is consistent with global orientation towards the transfer of program management and implementation responsibilities of donor-supported programs to indigenous organizations. This is aimed at increasing local ownership, funding effectiveness and strengthening of local talent for the adequate provision of quality technical assistance for healthcare and development in Nigeria as part of the US President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR II )'s central sustainability theme. The broadened scope of objectives has created the need for increased staff capacity around new and enlarged areas of focus.

Working with CIHP is all about making a difference to people's lives by ensuring quality and sustainable health service provision. Provided, that you have the dedication, commitment, community spirit and client service skills to make a positive difference to the many thousands of people who will be relying on you, we can offer you a fair, diverse, dynamic and flexible learning environment across our six field offices or at the central office in Abuja, Nigeria.

We are recruiting for the positions of:

1.) Administrative Officer

Location: Abuja

Responsibilities

• Incumbent will provide administrative and logistics support to the program. Manage the office budget and reviews the expenditure and achieves financial objectives by anticipating requirements; submit information for budget preparation; schedule expenditures; monitor costs; analyze variances.
• Support other unit event and project as required. Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; benchmark professional standards and suggests improvement; review professional publications; establish personal networks
• Establish and implement administration and logistics procedures in line with organizational requirement
• Ensure proper use and maintenance of physical assets and office, including vehicles, equipment, furniture, and office building. Arrange for repairs as necessary
• Ensure security of office, staff, and physical assets. Support the process of ensuring adequate and up to date records for programs assets inline with USG rules and other donor regulations.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills & Ability

• Degree in Business Admin or Social Science or Humanities.
• At least 5 years post NYSC experience in administration/Logistics .Supervisory experience
• Excellent interpersonal with ability to work with minimal supervision
• Knowledge of CDC, USG/other donor rules, regulations, and procedures concerning subcontracts. Event management skills and corporate representation acumen.

2.) Human Resources Officer

Location: Abuja

Responsibilities

• Incumbent will coordinate human resources practices and objectives in order to provide an employee-oriented, high performance culture that emphasizes empowerment, quality, productivity and standards, goal attainment, and the recruitment and ongoing development of a superior workforce.
• Coordinate employee relations issues; provide advice regarding compensation and benefits
• Manage recruitment activities; update and monitor policies and procedures
• Manage various people-related projects (staff surveys, productivity improvements, etc.. Ensure compliance with employment laws and company policies and procedures. Prioritizes, coordinates and allocates work assignments to staff
• Provide training, makes recommendations for hiring, and resolves day-to-day staffing problems and issues. Provide support in the execution of organizational analyses, designs, develops, coordinates
• Facilitate organizational development activities such as strategic planning, team building, process consultation and management coaching
• Write reports and provides detailed statistical and data analysis and maintains departmental reports and records, collects statistical data for administrative and/or quality improvement purposes
• Participate in the preparation of budgets for the department and monitors and controls expenditures
• Establish and maintain confidential files and records.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills & Ability

• Degree in Social Sciences or Management related discipline
• At least 5 years post NYSC experience
• Knowledge of human resource principles, techniques and procedures as well as strategies to assess and resolve human resource issues
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of individuals
• Ability to provide technical guidance and leadership to professional personnel in area of expertise
• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and make reasoned judgments in a timely fashion.
• Committing to a course of action without undue delay or prevarication.

3.) HR Associate

Location: Abuja

Responsibilities

• Incumbent will be primarily responsible for providing day-to-day administrative ad project management support within the unit on various strategic organisation development and human performance improvement projects.
• Responsible for processing routine personnel-related transactions.
• Responsible for recruitment processes (CV screening, candidate testing, interview planning, facilitate reference checks, issuance of employment letters, support for on-boarding efforts and document production and filing)
• Supports payroll process, records leave and attendance, processing of benefit transactions, handling of personnel and medical records, and administering periodic medical examinations in addition to other HR services including training logistics and administration.
• Provides project administration support and handles time and fee schedules, project work plan monitoring, status report preparation, project documentation in addition to handling assigned project responsibilities.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills & Ability

• Degree in Social Sciences or Management
• At least 2 years experience of human resources and administration.
• Ability to manage multiple task and demands.
• Good attention to detail with ability to follow, apply, interpret, and explain instructions and/or guidelines
• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and make reasoned judgments in a timely fashion.
• Ability to ensure that the highest standards of quality and customer care are achieved.

General Requirements

• All positions require candidates that are proficient in the use of Microsoft Office suite, computer applications and Internet/Emails
• Effective written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Significant amount of travel may be involved for all positions.
• Commitment to and understanding of organizations vision, values and principles including rights-based/gender approaches would be expected.

Terms of Employment

• The organization offers highly competitive salary packages for all positions.
• Appointments for each of these positions will be subject to a probationary period.
• Local terms and conditions are applicable.

Application Closing Date
10th January, 2013

Method of Application
Interested/Qualified candidates should apply by email with CV and a suitability statement of not more than 200 words as a Microsoft Word attachment to:
hr@cihpng.org
The subject of the email should be the POSITION title and the applicant's full name e.g. Finance Associate -  Mary John.

Applications not sent in this format will NOT be processed. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.