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MDeputy Chief of Party/USAID/Nigeria/Healthcare Financing and Human Resources for Health/Forecast:
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Position: Deputy Chief of Party
Location:Abuja, Nigeria**
About the project
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is seeking a Deputy Chief of Party for a potential 5-year USAID Healthcare Financing and Human Resources for Health Forecast program in Abuja, Nigeria. The program will seek to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, and transparency of health spending while increasing the availability of trained and equipped healthcare workers to promote more affordable, accessible, and higher quality health services for all Nigerians.
About your role
This position is contingent upon award and funding.
How will YOUaccomplish this?
As the Technical Director you will be expected to provide technical leadership and support the efficient implementation ofproject strategies and activities.Specific areas of *accountability *could include:
Provide technical leadership and managerial oversight for the project and ensure the efficient implementation of project activities and the timely reporting of those activities to regional and country specific donors, and MSH headquarters.
Coordinate project liaison and collaboration with partners, donors, various USAID country missions, clients and stakeholders, including MSH headquarters. Maintain a USAID/Healthcare Financing and Human Resources for Health Forecast partnership that engenders trust and respect and build USAID’s confidence in MSH’s ability to get the job done.
Work in close collaboration with the project leadership team to ensure coordinated and effective operational support for the project and for MSH within the various countries and the region. Serve as a member of the Abuja, Nigeria Leadership Team.
With the F&A Director, adapt and implement management systems with standard operating procedures to administer all activities funded by the agreement.
Promote a team approach that emphasizes high level performance, creative approaches, the achievement of personal and project goals and a collegial approach that is focused on assisting one another to succeed for project staff in Nigeria, as well as the support team members in the Home Office.
Ensure effective coordination is established and maintained with the relevant MSH country Operational Support Team (OST).
When appropriate, act in place of the COP.
Advise the COP in alignment of human resources with project work plans and emerging SOW from the donors, MSH and partners including on external sourcing of human resources and consultants.
The DCOP will set direction and coordinate annual workplan development, implementation, and review. S/he will ensure alignment with regional frameworks and strategies, national and donor strategies in each country - including USAID strategies. The DCOP will identify opportunities for integrated planning and implementation creating synergies between various program areas. The DCOP shall guide and coach project staff in leveragingproject, non-project and community resources through the establishment and maintenance of partnerships and networks.
S/he will direct efforts to write concept notes and new programs to address emerging health and programming challenges identified by donors, host countries or through the work we do. Contribute to a knowledge management system where the donor vision and government values permeate through our clients to reach beneficiary communities, and the learning from grassroots and countries is documented and shared to influence new programming at national and regional levels.
This list is not exhaustive, and we would expect our Technical Directors to be both innovative and strategic in suggesting and implementing new methods to achieve the outcomes and impact desired by our client and needed by the people the project aims to serve.
What should you know about MSH?
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is a global nonprofit advisory firm that provides governments, health organizations, and the private sector with the strategies, tools, and management support to effectively and efficiently deliver high-functioning health systems. With work in more than 40 countries across 5 continents,we advance knowledge and technology globally to support people locally to achieve health for all. From health ministry to community, private sector to civil society, as trusted advisors, we make the foundational changes that support the whole health system.
Our history in Nigeria
For nearly two decades, MSH has partnered with Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), state ministries of health, local partners, and health service providers to control infectious diseases and improve child and maternal health. In addition to our years of support to fight tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and othe