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- Experience 5 years
- Location Abuja
Overview
- Jhpiego seeks a highly motivated Program Officer to support implementation of a catalytic maternal health initiative focused on accelerating statewide scale-up of evidence-based postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) prevention, detection, and treatment interventions across Kebbi State. The initiative will support the introduction and institutionalization of the WHO-recommended E-MOTIVE approach, including heat-stable carbetocin (HSC) for PPH prevention, calibrated obstetric drapes for objective blood loss measurement, and tranexamic acid (TXA) for timely PPH treatment, across 225 Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF)-supported primary healthcare facilities and selected general hospitals spanning all 21 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Kebbi State. The Program Officer will provide day-to-day programmatic and operational coordination at state and national levels, supporting planning, implementation, stakeholder engagement, performance monitoring, capacity strengthening, documentation, donor reporting, and continuous learning. The role will work closely with Kebbi State Ministry of Health, Kebbi State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, professional associations, implementing partners, and relevant donor stakeholders to ensure high-quality implementation and sustainability.
Responsibilities
- Support day-to-day coordination for implementation of maternal and newborn health activities related to statewide PPH scale-up.
- Support operational rollout of the E-MOTIVE care bundle across supported PHCs and secondary facilities in Kebbi State.
- Assist in translating approved implementation strategies into actionable field-level activities with clear timelines and deliverables.
- Facilitate implementation across national, state, LGA, facility, and partner structures to ensure alignment and execution.
- Support identification of implementation gaps and opportunities for program refinement.
Planning, Budgeting, and Operational Support
- Support preparation, implementation, and routine tracking of detailed work plans, activity schedules, procurement plans, and program budgets.
- Monitor implementation progress against milestones and identify operational bottlenecks requiring corrective action.
- Work with finance, procurement, logistics, and technical teams to ensure timely availability of inputs required for implementation.
Capacity Building and Technical Support
- Coordinate capacity-building activities including trainings, low-dose high-frequency mentoring, supportive supervision, peer learning exchanges, webinars, and technical learning sessions.
- Support implementation of provider mentoring and facility quality improvement activities focused on PPH prevention and management.
- Assist technical teams in developing and deploying practical implementation tools, job aids, SOPs, technical briefs, and learning resources.
Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership Management
- Liaise closely with Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Kebbi State Ministry of Health, Kebbi SPHCDA , BHCPF coordination platforms, professional associations (e.g., SOGON, NANNM, community health professional bodies), donors and development partners, implementing organizations
- Support stakeholder coordination meetings, technical working group engagements, advocacy discussions, and policy alignment processes.
- Maintain productive working relationships with government and partner stakeholders to facilitate implementation and sustainability.
Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Reporting and Knowledge management
Under The Guidance Of The Senior M&E Advisor
- Support routine monitoring of project indicators, implementation milestones, commodity uptake, provider performance, and facility readiness.
- Work with M&E teams to support data collection, data quality checks, dashboard tracking, analysis, and reporting.
- Assist in documenting implementation progress, lessons learned, bottlenecks, best practices, and adaptive management decisions.
- Draft periodic donor reports, internal progress updates, activity reports, implementation summaries, and relevant documentation.
- Support development of technical briefs, implementation summaries, case studies, success stories, learning products, presentation materials
- Coordinate knowledge-sharing activities to disseminate implementation lessons across stakeholders.
Other Duties
- Perform additional duties as assigned in support of project implementation.
Required Qualifications
- Degree in Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, Health Management, Social Sciences, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
- Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience supporting public health program implementation, preferably in maternal and newborn health, reproductive health, quality improvement, or health systems strengthening.
- Strong familiarity with Nigeria’s public health system architecture, including federal, state, LGA, and facility implementation structures.
- Demonstrated experience working with government institutions such as FMoH, state ministries of health, SPHCDAs, and related technical bodies.
- Proven experience coordinating donor-funded health programs with multiple stakeholders.
- Experience supporting implementation of facility-based interventions, health workforce capacity strengthening, mentorship programs, or service quality improvement initiatives.
- Strong understanding of monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and performance tracking for public health programs.
- Experience supporting donor reporting, technical documentation, and program learning.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in maternal and newborn health programming, particularly PPH prevention and management.
- Familiarity with WHO maternal health guidance, E-MOTIVE concepts, emergency obstetric care, or quality improvement approaches.
- Experience supporting statewide health program implementation.
- Experience working with BHCPF-supported service delivery systems.
- Prior experience with CHAI or similar donor-funded initiatives is an advantage.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Jhpiego – John Hopkins University on jobs-jhpiego.icims.com to apply
