Clear Solutions, a non-profit working in Nigeria, focuses on reducing the tragically-high number of children dying from diarrhoea (>400,000 under-5-year-olds globally per year), working with the primary healthcare system to improve access to, and awareness of, highly cost-effective treatments. Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) and Zinc could prevent >90% of deaths if all diarrhoea cases were treated. Our collaboration with Community Health Workers provides parents of young children with free ORS & Zinc at their home, ready to use whenever a child suffers diarrhoea.
Clear Solutions is a small organisation with a BIG mission. We provide the trust, opportunity and support for you to have a huge social impact, and grow professionally as a key contributor to the organisation’s culture and future.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Partner, Programs & Quality Manager
Location: Kano
Job type: Full-time
About the Program Manager Role
How this role has a social impact:
- As the scale and complexity of Clear Solutions programs grows rapidly, within Kano state and beyond, the positive impact upon the lives of 100s-of-thousands of children will simply not be possible without a strong Partner Programs & Quality Manager.
- Evolving our programs to be robust, scalable and highly cost-effective, requires excellence in their design, implementation, and evaluation. The Partner Programs & Quality Manager provides leadership and insights, collaborating with trusted NGO and Healthcare System partners, to deliver upon this challenging goal.
Role Responsibilities
As a small and agile organisation, the role will vary over time, but typical responsibilities will include:
- Managing partnerships, aligning partner needs and constraints with delivery plans, ensuring highly effective collaboration and top quality implementation.
- Providing insights into the health system, infrastructure, and cultural factors to shape program design.
- Building and owning plans for complex programs, engaging the responsible people and stakeholders for each aspect. Identifying top risk factors for program delivery, and possible mitigations for these.
- Orchestrating M&E activities during key operational phases, observing and problem-solving during implementation, always with a view to serving communities more effectively.
- Representing Clear Solutions in partner, community, health system and government stakeholder discussions up to senior levels.
- Playing a major role in organisational decision making, building on program and domain insights, striving to maximise Clear Solutions impact and cost-effectiveness.
Other details:
- Location: Remote (home or co-working) with regular travel in and around Kano state, Nigeria.
About You
We care more about your motivation, potential, and what we can achieve together, than checking boxes in a list. Nonetheless, we seek candidates with the following attributes:
Required capabilities, experience or qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong English communication skills, written, verbal, and presentation across organisational levels.
- Excellent in bringing structure and clarity to complex situations with many considerations.
- Experience in a senior Program or Partnerships role, in healthcare or development programs in sub-Saharan Africa.
- People management experience in a healthcare or NGO context.
- Ability to lead through changing circumstances, adapting plans in response to new information, and driving clarity with team members.
- Computer skills sufficient to create and work with shared spreadsheets (including formulae and advanced formatting) and quickly create documents and presentations for internal and external communication.
- Based in Kano state, with working proficiency in Hausa (verbal required; written preferred).
Preferred experience or qualifications:
- Experience delivering complex programs through strategic partnerships.
- Experience in NGO program design or strategy.
- Experience engaging with State Government stakeholders.
Compensation
Competitive, based on experience and cost of living.
Application Closing Date
14th August, 2024.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
CLICK HERE TO APPLY
Application Process
- This role has a 6-month test period for you to get to know us and for us to get to know you better.
- We respect your time and have designed our application process to reflect this. The first step of the application process takes 15-20 minutes, and we only ask for more time from applicants we think would be an excellent fit.
Note
- If you previously applied for Program Manager, Kano – a position which we have adapted to the one above in response to partner feedback – you will automatically be considered for this role. No need to apply again.
- Clear Solutions is an equal opportunity employer.
- Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply without discrimination on grounds of ethnicity, race, marital status, gender, age, religion, disability status or political persuasion.
