Senior Technical Advisor - Family Planning at the Breakthrough Action-Nigeria

Breakthrough ACTION/Nigeria is a new five-year, USAID-funded project. The goal of Breakthrough ACTION/Nigeria is to increase the practice of 17 priority individual and household level behaviors and five provider targeted behaviors in the areas of malaria; maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition; family planning and reproductive health (RH); and tuberculosis, while increasing the capacity of national and sub-national entities to coordinate and oversee quality SBC programming. Implementation will vary by health area across eleven states.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Technical Advisor - Family Planning

Location: Abuja
Reports to: BA-Nigeria Deputy Project Director - Integrated SBC & FP

Summary

• The BA-Nigeria Senior Technical Advisor - Family Planning will provide technical and programmatic support for all Family Planning SBC activities - including advocacy, community engagement, mass media, M&E and other interventions.
• She/he will report directly to the BA-Nigeria Deputy Project Director - Integrated SBC & FP and work in close consultation the BA-Nigeria, State Teams, Technical Leads at HQ and the BA-Nigeria Project Director.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
In addition to the overall technical inputs to the project described above, specific duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned:

• Assist Deputy Project Director - Integrated SBC & FP with the development and implementation of the Family Planning SBC activities including Advocacy, Demand Generation and Service Provider IPC/C components of the BA-Nigeria project
• Assist with the establishment and maintenance of effective relationships at the State level with USAID and other implementing partners, State MOHs and other key stakeholders, with guidance from and in collaboration with the Deputy Project Director - Integrated SBC & FP and Project Director.
• Provide extensive technical and programmatic assistance to each state team for implementation of Family Planning activities.
• Assist with the development and writing of timely program reports on a quarterly and annual basis and disseminate program success stories, and other reporting duties as assigned.
• Assist with design and oversee implementation of the project monitoring and evaluation system.
• The position will be based at the BA-Nigeria Office in Abuja but travel to focal states is expected to be approximately 30% or more.
• Perform job duties/responsibilities in support of JHU-CCP’s Mission and Values, as appropriate.
• Other duties as may be assigned by supervisor or BA-Nigeria Project Director.

Requirements, Education and Experience

• Master's Degree in a relevant field (Public Health, Social Science, Humanities, other) required.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing a Family Planning or related Reproductive Health programs in Nigeria.
• Advocacy, SBC and/or Community Mobilization expertise highly valued.
• Excellent communication, and organizational skills; and ability to influence and facilitate advocacy agendas at Federal and State levels
• Must be fluent in English and, given the geographic focus of the project, fluency in Hausa and/or Igbo is highly desirable.
• Ability and willingness to travel extensively to project states across Nigeria.

Application Closing Date
13th April, 2018.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Cover Letters (including the below) and CV's as one PDF document to: [email protected] The subject line of your email should be - "BA-N Senior Technical Advisor - FP".

Please follow all the instructions Exactly. Any submissions that do not follow the instructions Exactly will be discarded without review:

• Your cover letter should include the following:
  • Address the education/experience requirement specified for the position with specific examples where necessary
• CV and cover letter PDF file name must be your first and last name in CAPS (e.g.: USMAN SEGUN).
• Include the specific date when you would be able to begin work.
• Do not include any additional certificates or documentation.

Note: Language skills will be tested during interviews for shortlisted candidates.