ThinkWell is a health systems development organization using tailored health financing approaches to help low- and middle-income countries achieve universal health coverage. We believe that effective health financing systems are essential to ensuring health services are well resourced, high quality, accessible, and do not cause financial impoverishment by those who use them. We also believe that health financing can serve as a crucial lever to improve overall health systems performance.
- Job Type: Full Time
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
- Experience: 8 years
- Location: Kano
- Job Field: Project Management
The Kano State Project Manager is a recognized leader in health financing, policy and governance. The State Program Manager will support program design and execution, managing a project team of staff, consultants, and sub-contracts, as needed as relates to implementing the BMGF project in Kano State. The State Program Manager comes with a wealth of experience and has a deep understanding of the Kano State health sector. S/he will work in close coordination with key stakeholders in the State, including the State government, the Ministry of Health/SHIA/SPHCDB, consortium partners, and other development partners. The State Program Manager is responsible for providing technical leadership, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring high-quality technical project execution in the Kano State BMGF Project.
The Kano State Project Manager reports to the Project Lead. This is a full-time position based in Kano, Nigeria. Nigerian nationals are encouraged to apply.
Technical Leadership
- Provide oversight of the Kano State project team.
- Provide direct technical assistance to ensure high-quality program results and execution.
- Contribute to project work planning, coordinate across external partners and lead their engagement in collaborative projects.
- Support the Project Lead in overseeing monitoring, evaluation, research and learning function, staff, and outputs at the state-level.
- Lead analyses on health expenditure, including out-of-pocket spending, financial forecasting, benefit incidence analysis, resource tracking and cost-effectiveness.
- Produce high-quality written reports and presentations, including technical documents, project status reports, policy briefs, and publications for conferences and journals.
- Support ministries of health and finance on development of state-level health financing strategies, budget planning, preparation and execution, and budget advocacy.
- Create graphics and visualizations of quantitative and qualitative data.
- Design a sustainable capacity building model to ensure the Ministry of Health counterparts are directly engaged and evolve their health financing competencies and applied knowledge.
Project Operations and Administration
- Work with the ThinkWell operations team to maintain operational excellence for the project, including ensuring appropriate policies, procedures, and systems.
- Ensure project compliance with BMGF operational policies and regulations and the terms of the award.
- Ensure that contract deliverables are met in accordance with contract requirements.
- Manage and monitor the local sub-contract organization and any other partners.
- Ensure technical staff and sub-contracts comply with BMGF financing systems, including financial tracking, recording of financial transactions, financial risk management, and fraud prevention.
Requirements
- BA/BS and 8+ years experience or graduate degree and 6+ years experience;
- In-depth experience working with Kano State officials, particularly in the Ministry of Health/Finance/Budget and Planning;
- Deep understanding and knowledge of Kano State PFM processes and key programmatic and budget cycles;
- Strong leadership and organizational capacity in working with other State stakeholders, partners and donors;
- Substantive, relevant work experience in data management, data analysis, health financing, and health policy in Nigeria, particularly in Kano State;
- In-depth understanding of current and emerging health financing policy and systems reforms in Nigeria, particularly in Kano State;
- Adept at communicating technical information to non-technical audiences;
- Demonstrated interest and ability in growing staff, mentoring and coaching junior professionals;
- A senior leader, able to rally staff around ThinkWell’s mission and priorities;
- A thoughtful systems thinker with grounded, pragmatic understanding of the complexities of our work;
- Recognized as a leader in the area of technical specialty; strong professional network in the field;
- Demonstrated ability to engage effectively with external strategic partners, donors, and stakeholders;
- Language fluency in English and Hausa;
- Outstanding cross-cultural communication skills, including the ability to relate respectfully with staff at all levels, ages, genders, nationalities and orientations as well as across work areas;
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 30%.
