Job Vacancy Abuja, Federal Capital Territory Position Program Manager at Jhpiego

Responsibilities:

Program Coordination, Implementation and Reporting

• Provide day-to-day leadership and coordination of the Quality Improvement project, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of all approved activities.
• Coordinate development and execution of detailed work plans, ensuring coherence across technical deliverables and best practice
• Translate approved workplans into detailed, actionable implementation schedules and oversee execution across national and state levels.
• Track implementation progress at National and state level, proactively identifying bottlenecks and facilitating timely resolution.
• Ensure effective coordination across technical, operations, finance, grants, and M&E teams to support integrated program delivery.
• Support the Project Director with strategic planning, adaptive management, and high-level decision-making.
• Ensure activities are implemented in line with Jhpiego and donor regulations, national strategies, and frameworks.
• Oversee tracking systems and dashboards for performance monitoring and early warning to flag delays or implementation risks.
• Apply Quality Improvement (QI) tools to monitor and enhance implementation quality across technical and community components.
• Prepare and coordinate submission of high-quality programmatic reports and deliverables to donors and stakeholders on time.
• Supervise and mentor program and field teams to strengthen leadership, communication, and implementation capacity.
• Conduct supportive supervision visits and ensure consistent technical and operational oversight at state level.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture focused on results, learning, and accountability.

Health Systems Strengthening, Sustainability & Scale-Up

• Lead integration of Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) approaches within QI programming, with a strong focus on sustainability and transition to government ownership.
• Support national and state governments to plan, finance, implement, and scale Quality Improvement using domestic resources and existing systems.
• Strengthen institutional capacity of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) to embed QI within policies, annual operational plans, budgets, supervision systems, and performance management frameworks.
• Strengthen institutional capacity of Government and private sector towards release of approved budgeted funding for QI
• Promote alignment and integration of QI interventions across disease programs and service delivery platforms.
• Maintain strong, routine engagement with government counterparts atnational, state, and LGA levels, including across disease programs.
• Lead and coordinate theQI leadership and management component, supporting government leaders to champion, govern, and scale QI initiatives, including development of L&M curriculum, training materials, deployment of QHO point of care methodology to identify and solve HSS building block related problems at National, State and LGA levels working with State team leads
• Facilitate coordination with key institutions includingNTBLCP, NPHCDA, NACA, FMoH, SMoHs, LGAs, and other relevant MDAs.
• Represent Jhpiego in relevant government, partner, and donor coordination platforms as delegated by the Project Director.
• Support advocacy and strategic communications that promote visibility, uptake, and sustainability of QI outcomes.

Technical Oversight, Learning & Capacity Building

• Provide oversight of QI technical priorities, ensuring fidelity toevidence-based QI methodologies and Jhpiego standards.
• Coordinate the development and implementation ofblended learning approaches (in-person, virtual, and on-the-job) to strengthen individual and institutional QI capacity within government systems.
• Support mentorship, coaching, and supportive supervision models to strengthen sustainable QI leadership and management capacity.
• Coordinate capacity-building initiatives for staff, implementing partners, and stakeholders
• Ensure integration ofclinical quality, data use, measurement, and continuous improvement across all interventions.

Knowledge Management, Monitoring & Adaptive Learning

• Lead project-levelknowledge management, learning, and documentation, including best practices, lessons learned, and innovations from QI implementation.
• Lead program documentation, success stories, learning briefs, and dissemination of results through national and donor platforms, including archiving.
• Promote routine use of data for decision-making, learning cycles, and adaptive program management.
• Coordinate program reviews, pause-and-reflect sessions, and learning forums with government and partners.
• Support dissemination of learning through reports, briefs, dashboards, presentations, and donor and government platforms.

Donor Compliance, Financial Oversight & Accountability

• Ensure full compliance with Global Fund, government, and Jhpiego policies, procedures, and contractual requirements.
• Coordinate preparation and submission of high-quality donor reports, workplans, budgets, and ad-hoc requests.
• Work closely with finance and grants teams to monitor expenditures, burn rates, forecasts, and alignment of resources with program priorities.
• Support management of sub-awards and partner grants, ensuring accountability, documentation, and audit readiness

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Public Health, Health Systems Management, Health Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience managing large, donor-funded health programs (preferably Global Fund).
• Demonstrated expertise in Quality Improvement, health systems strengthening, and sustainability/transition programming.
• Strong experience working with government counterparts at national and sub-national levels in Nigeria.
• Proven ability to manage complex programs, budgets, and multi-stakeholder partnerships.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including donor reporting and high-level government engagement.
• Excellent leadership, organizational, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong report writing, budgeting, and presentation skills; proficiency in Microsoft Office and project management tools.
• 8+ years experience in management, operational and technical expertise with a preference in Global health security and public health program implementation.
• Experience working with FMOH, NTBLCP, NACA, NPHCDA, NCDC, NMEP, NASCP -related agencies.
• Certification in project management (PMDPro, PRINCE2, etc.) desirable.
• Willingness to travel frequently within Nigeria to support state-level implementation.

• Familiarity with Nigeria’s health systems and reporting structure and demonstrated ability to collaborate with government level officials to strengthen program implementation
• Excellent writing and communications skills, including demonstrated technical writing skills for publication
• Ability to work effectively with diverse international teams and willingness to learn and empower others
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
• References will be required.
• Demonstrated ability in working and collaborating with a wide range of local and international partner organizations
• Demonstrated experience in maintaining donor relations
• Excellent skills in facilitation, team building and coordination

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