Senior Finance and Contract Manager /
Director of Operations and Finance
Organization Overview:
The International Health Division is
committed to the improvement of health and healthcare delivery around the
world. Serving both the public and private sectors, our efforts include health
policy research and evaluation, health promotion and disease prevention, health
finance, and health systems management. Our impact is felt in policies that
ensure healthcare access for women, children, and individuals with special
needs, in strengthening health infrastructures, and HIV/AIDS solutions.
Minimum Qualifications:
BA/BS with 12 years of experience OR the
equivalent combination of education and experience.
Job Responsibilities:
The Partnership for Transforming Health
System 2 (PATHS 2), a DFID-funded program in Nigeria, aims to improve the
planning, financing and delivery of sustainable and replicable pro-poor health
services for common health problems, focusing on six states and the federal
government. The Senior Finance and
Contract Manager / Director of Operations and Finance, based in Abuja and reporting
directly to the National Program Manager (NPM), is responsible for the
management of project’s operations in adherence with the program contract with
DFID, subcontracts with partners,
procurement, financial management and reporting, and general administrative
support of the program.
Specific duties and responsibilities
include the following:
Overseas the project day-to-day
operations. This includes program
planning to ensure effective and efficient support to program implementation,
administrative support and budgeting and the supervision of the project’s
financial operations.Supervises program operations/finance functions and staff
Work very closely with DNPM (management) to
ensure appropriate allocation of resources and the efficient utilization of
these resources for the implementation of planned project activities. Oversees the assignment and utilization of
short term TA in coordination with DNPM (Technical)and ensures effective
utilization of local resources. Provides direct oversight on short-term
consultancies hired under different project activities.
Establishes and maintains a direct
communication channel with PATHS2 home office team.
Provides contractual guidance to consortium
partners and leads the development and review of work-orders as necessary.
Work with deputy director Operations to ensure the installation of effective and
efficient management systems to support program implementation
Works closely with both Deputy National
Program Managers (management and technical) with the development, review and
regular updates of project’s annual workplans, budgets, reports and contract
deliverables.
As member of senior management team,
participates in developing program vision and providing guidance on strategy
and programming.
Skills Prerequisites:
Masters Degree, CPA, ACCA, ACA, MBA Masters
in Finance Health Administration,
Business, Management, Public Administration or other relevant field highly
preferred.
12 years of relevant professional
experience in program management, contracts management, financial management,
and/or program operations.
Seven or more years of international
project management experience, of which three were desirably in Nigeria.
Demonstrated leadership skills.
Experience with DFID is a plus.
Experience in project implementation.
Excellent writing, computer, management and
organizational skills.
Successful track record as financial and
operations manager.
Associate / Operations Research Advisor
Job Responsibilities:
Partnerships for
Transforming Health Systems (PATHS2) is a six-year, DFID funded project that
aims at assisting the government of Nigeria, at the federal and selected states
levels, to improve utilization of its own resources to expand access to and
utilization of quality health care services. PATHS2 has a wide scope of systems
strengthening interventions that range from improving performance of the public
sector’s capacity to assume its stewardship role to the introduction of evidence-based,
scaleable and replicable service delivery and health financing models at
multiple levels of the health system. In order to allow for measuring the
effectiveness, scalability and replicability of these interventions, PATHS2
will develop and implement an operations research strategy that supports the
technical interventions being implemented. The OR strategy will povide for high
quality health systems research evidence both to support the design of
interventions (literature reviews, formative research) and larger scale studies
to assess the impact of the project’s health system strengthening inputs. This
necessitates the presence of a full time health systems research expert who can
guide the design and implementation of OR activities, monitor measurement and
data collection and ensure quality, accuracy and representation of results.
Specifically, the OR advisor will be in charge of:
Under the direct supervision of the M&E
team leader, coordinates the development, review and finalization of an OR
strategy based on the program’s planned interventions and the logical
framework. Works in close collaboration with the Deputy National Program
Manager (Technical), technical and state team leaders and identifies specific
OR interventions. Coordinates the development, costing and implementation of
annual OR plans. Monitors the implementation, and assures the quality of all
aspects related to the implementation of OR activities in the field. Identifies
local resources – agencies and potential consultants - who are capable of
implementing OR, or specific elements such as data collection, analysis and
statistical data processing. Initiate agreements, subcontracts and/or grants
with eligible agencies and personnel to carry out specific OR related tasks.
Liaises with the technical advisors at the home office and plans jointly for
future technical assistance needs, data reviews, report finalization,
dissemination to national (Nigerian) and international audiences, and
publishing research results in peer-reviewed journals .
Skills Prerequisites: Masters Degree or PhD
Degree in Public Health, Health Economics, Health Policy, Business
Administration, Management, Public Administration or other relevant field. 7-10
post Masters degree or 4-6 post PhD degree years of relevant professional
experience in health systems research, quantitative and qualitative research.
Seven or more years of international
experience, preferably in Sub-Saharan Africa. Past experience in Nigeria is
highly desirable. Experience of publishing in international journals
Demonstrated experience in data analysis and the use of statistical analysis
software. Demonstrated leadership skills. Excellent writing, computer,
management and organizational skills.
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