Vacancies: Programme Operations Manager, Programming and Training Coordinator
The Population Council is an international, non-profit, non – government institution that seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and help achieve a human, equitable and sustainable balance between people and resources. The Council’s major program areas are HIV&AIDS, Reproductive Health and Poverty, gender, and Youth. The Council conducts biomedical, social science and public health research and helps build research capacities in developing countries. The Population council works in collaboration with a broad range of Nigerian institutions. Due to its imminent roll – out of an ambitious 5-years community – based adolescents girls’ empowerment program in Northern Nigeria, the Council is seeking qualified individuals to fill the following positions:
Position: Programme Operations Manager – 1 position
- The successful candidate will work closely with the team leader to ensure the smooth development, implementation, and monitoring of an ambitious program of research; capacity building for ministries, NGOs. and C’SOs; expansion of pilot projects; and dissemination of evidence and best practices to promote asset building and safe spaces for adolescent girls in six states across Northern Nigeria. S/he will manage the financial and operational components of the project by supervising and assisting staff, ensuring accurate and timely reporting to the donor and appropriate human and financial resource allocation to project initiatives. This will include financial and systems management, oversight of contracts and sub-awards, and personnel issues. The programme operations manager will also work closely with Population Council finance and administration staff at both the
- Nigeria Country Office level and with relevant headquarters staff to ensure cost effective management of programme resources and compliance with donor and Council policies. S/he will also work with each of the project partners to ensure their appropriate resource allocation to the various project initiatives. S/he will also contribute to the dissemination of information and documentation in collaboration with the program staff, partner organizations, and other Council staff.
Qualifications: The ideal candidate must have:
- Master’s degree in business management, public administration, or a related field, with a minimum of eight years of experience in managing and implementing finance, administration, and management support activities, preferably in an international development program context.
- Demonstrated ability and at least eight years of experience in financial and operational management of complex multi-partner, donor funded programs in developing countries.
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of programming within a health and social service context in Nigeria, with specific experience with programmes focused on women and girls, and northern Nigeria.
- Demonstrated leadership, management, and staff development skills in order to effectively manage and supervise a diverse range of finance and operations staff.
- Excellent English language writing and speaking ability.
- Must speak fluent Hausa and have experience living and working in northern Nigeria.
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to handle a heavy workload with competing priorities and work independently with minimal supervision as part of a team.
Position: Programming and Training Coordinator – 1 Position
The successful candidate will work closely with the technical staff and partners of a project to promote asset building and safe spaces for vulnerable adolescent girls in six states in Northern Nigeria by ensuring the delivery of capacity building and other inputs to improve and expand safe space programming in the focus states. S/he will use Population Council and other resources to bring effective approaches, curriculum, girls’ clubs and safe space management practices to the community safe spaces partners, government and institutional partners. The Coordinator will develop and implement an ambitious workplan of training of safe space practitioners to plan and adapt safe space approaches and resources to meet the needs of girls to build core assets – social networks, mentoring relations, mediation and negotiation skills, increased health and other social asset knowledge and access to services, and financial literacy skills. S/he must be able to leverage project partner, government and community resources to deliver on programme and training activities The Coordinator must also be able to design and coordinate training of government, project, CSO/NGO partners and support other collaborating projects working with adolescent girls in the project focus states. The Coordinator will undertake a number of key programme management activities key to effective project implementation, including support to partners on mapping community resources and building capacity of service providers to expand access, sensitivity and quality of services to adolescent girls referred through the project supported safe space clubs
Qualifications: The ideal candidate must have:
- Master’s degree in the social sciences, public health or other related fields with a minimum of five years of experience in managing, developing, and implementing social services or health programmes
- Demonstrated theoretical and practical knowledge of social development, gender, and adolescent programming, women’s empowerment and rights, and/or reproductive and sexual health as demonstrated in achievements and positions in previous posts.
- At least three years of experience working with safe space, girls clubs, peer education programmes, including design of girl-centered activities and counseling.
- Certificate training and significant experience as a master or lead trainer designing and facilitating workshops, preferably for social services, health, women/girls related programmes.
- Experience working with international donor funded projects a strong plus, including budgeting of workshops, events, training, travel, as well as narrative and financial reporting.
- Demonstrated understanding and willingness to work at community level in challenging environments to build awareness and support for girls centered services.
- Solid leadership, management, and staff development skills in order to effectively coordinate a range of activities and diverse groups of partners, beneficiaries and project team members.
- Must speak fluent Hausa and have experience living and working in northern Nigeria.
- Excellent English language, writing, public speaking, and presentation skills.
- Ability to handle a heavy workload with competing priorities and work independently with minimal supervision as part of a team
Mode of application: Qualified candidates should follow the instructions below:
1. Send an application letter (stating your current salary and salary expectations) and resume to: nigeria@popcouncil.org on or before Tuesday, June 25, 2013.
2. Clearly state the position title for which you are applying and your full names – starting with the surname first, then other names (e.g. Deputy Director (Research) – BEN, Shehu Ekong) – in the subject area of the email.
3. All attachments must be in PDF format.
Candidates who do not follow the above instructions will be automatically disqualified.
Population Council reserves the right to cancel the recruitment process at any time. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
No phone calls, please.
The Population Council is an equal opportunity employer
