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We are a global team of experts and innovators tackling some of the world’s most pressing health challenges. We work with leaders and change-makers around the globe to bring health strategies to life. We provide ideas, advice, and technical know-how that enable our partners to build a path to lasting change.
With 30 years experience in global health, we collaborate with our partners to explore existing evidence, combine expertise, scale up ideas and co-create solutions that accelerate change. This includes collaborating on policy design, managing initiatives, building powerful coalitions and galvanising social movements. Our impact is felt across whole communities, with a focus on women, girls and those who have been marginalised.
As part of MSI Reproductive Choices, all our profits go back into supporting MSI’s own mission of children by choice, not chance. We believe in a world where everyone can access the high-quality health services they need, without financial burden.
Options is preparing to bid for the anticipated Gavi-supported Nigeria Learning Hub for Immunization Equity. Contracting is dependent on Options’ successful award of the project contract. Aligned with the World Health Organisation’s Immunisation Agenda 2030, Gavi is embarking on an ambitious 5-year strategy (Gavi 5.0, 2021 – 2025) that aims to leave no one behind with immunisation. This strategy is built on an innovative equity agenda that will prioritise zero dose (ZD) children and missed communities who often face multiple deprivations. If successful, the strategy will see the number of ZD children worldwide reduced by 25% by 2025. Successfully reaching ZD children and under-immunized communities will require highly differentiated, targeted sub-national strategies and a strong learning agenda.
The purpose of the Gavi-supported Nigeria Learning Hub for Immunization Equity is to provide systematic and robust monitoring and learning on effective ZD interventions by working in conjunction with the government, local academic institutions, and civil society organizations to maximize data use and learning. The objectives of the country-level learning hub is to:
- Generate and synthesize learning on the barriers to children being reached to influence programme planning and tailored approaches to identify and reach ZD children and missed communities.
- Strengthen the evidence base of effective approaches to identify and reach ZD children and missed communities by understanding what works, should be scaled up, and what does not work and to do so in a timely, iterative manner.
- Improve metrics, measures, and methods to access and use data on a regular basis to improve reaching ZD children and missed communities.
Position
Options is preparing to bid for the anticipated Gavi-supported Nigeria Learning Hub for Immunization Equity and is currently seeking a Team Leader who will provide strategic, technical, and managerial oversight of the programme.
Based from Options’ Abuja office, the Team Leader is accountable for the overall development and delivery of the Nigeria Learning Hub for Immunization Equity strategies and activities.
The Team Leader will lead a ‘One Team’ approach, uniting work undertaken by Options and its sub-contractor organisation(s). The Team Leader will be responsible for engagement with the client (Gavi), ensuring an adaptive approach that is responsive to client engagement and feedback. They will also lead the hub’s engagement with senior stakeholders at the federal and state levels, ensuring the hub is credible and respected as a source of evidence on what works to reach ZD children in Nigeria.
Requirements
To succeed in this role, you will have:
- Significant and proven experience working in international development in a leadership role.
- Strong proven technical expertise in the field of immunization programming and research, working to improve access to immunization for ZD children / missed communities.
- Strong in-depth working knowledge of the health sector in Nigeria, particularly in the states with the highest numbers of ZD children.
- Experience developing and managing learning strategies, including identifying learning questions and priorities, implementing appropriate MERL methodologies, and promoting evidence use and knowledge translation.
- Outstanding stakeholder engagement skills for inspiring action based on evidence and influencing change, including with clients, government, partners, and consortia.
- Excellent record of people management and management of teams, including of teams based in multiple locations. Previous experience leading a team of highly skilled, multidisciplinary staff to leverage joint management support, and empowering team members to deliver high quality work.
- Experience of risk management including security in the Nigerian context.
- Proven experience in operational planning, budgeting and programme control.
- Experience of working with Gavi and Alliance partners.
For more information, please refer to the Terms of reference
Other information
- As an equal opportunity employer, Options Consultancy Services is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage or civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified candidates from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Options Consultancy Services.
- Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment.
- We seek people who are pro-choice, promote diversity and inclusion, are energetic and enthusiastic about Options’ vision.
How to apply
- To apply, please fill in the form here
- Closing date for applications is: 4 May 2022
- Please note that this role will be subject to full pre-employment background checks including criminal record check, identification check, employment references and right to work verification (where appropriate).
