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UNICEF contributes to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria with a mandate to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.
UNICEF’s Nigeria country programme:
Aims to accelerate the realization of the rights of all c...
Summary of key functions/accountabilities:
Programme development and planning
- Provide technical support for situation analysis and establish goals and strategies on the MNCAH and HIV programme
- Identify opportunities to scale-up programmes to improve Quality of Care, especially regarding Child Survival, and to implement and scale-up interventions aiming the reduction of malaria, Tb and HIV/AIDS morbidity and mortality among women and children
- Ensure alignment of the sectoral programme with the UNICEF Nigeria MNCAH and HIV Strategic Plans and objectives.
- Ensure cross sectoral alignment with internal and external partners.
Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
- Lead the management and oversight of the MNCAH and HIV programme grants and resources, including strategic leadership and negotiations with Government, partners and donors.
- Lead the Nigeria country office efforts to build a solid, sustainable portfolio in communicable diseases (malaria, TB, HIV), and in Quality of Care in the context of child survival.
- Provide technical and managerial leadership for the development, implementation and monitoring of MNCAH and HIV component of the Health and HIV section workplan.
- Supervise and guide consultants for MNCAH and HIV to perform their duties responsibly, effectively and efficiently
- Provide technical leadership to strengthening integration of MNCAH/EMTCT into primary health care
- Manage MNCAH and HIV grants and projects, including allocation of resources, timely implementation, reporting, and ensuring compliance with UNICEF and donor’s requirements.
- Contribute to the resource mobilization efforts of the MNCAH and HIV cluster
Advisory services and technical support
- Provide technical and strategic support in the development and implementation of national policies, strategic documents and action plans regarding community health, communicable diseases (malaria, Tb, HIV), Quality of Care, child survival, MNCAH, Oxygen, and adolescent health
- Provide technical support for policy and technical briefs on MNCAH and HIV .
Advocacy, networking and partnership building
- Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with government, development partners and Civil Society Organisations.
- Prepare communication and information materials on community health, communicable diseases (malaria, Tb, HIV), MNCAH and HIV for UNICEF Nigeria Country Office
- Participate and represent UNICEF in appropriate inter-agency discussions such as the Joint Team on HIV
Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
- Support generation of quality evidence to improve program implementation.
- Promote and contribute to the development and implementation of innovative solutions and best practices including digital, to achieve MNCAH and HIV results.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: public health, paediatric health, obs-gyn specialization, biology, family health, health research, global/international health, health policy and/or management, biostatistics, socio-medical, health education, epidemiology or another relevant technical field.
- A minimum of eight years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas is required: public health planning and management, maternal and neonatal health care, communicable diseases (HIV, TB or malaria) management, and/or health emergency/humanitarian preparedness.
- Experience working in a Global Health Initiative (Global Fund, GFF, GAVI) is considered as an asset.
- Proven experience in managing complex and demanding portfolios
- Executive education in management, innovation, and/or gender will be an asset
- Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
- Fluency in English and another UN language. Fluency in the national language of the duty station is an asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...
- Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (1)
- Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
- Works Collaboratively with others (1)
- Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
- Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
- Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
- Drives to achieve impactful results (1)
- Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)
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How can you make a difference?
- Under the supervision of the Education Manager, the Education Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for education programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting
Summary of key functions/accountabilities:
- Support to programme development and planning
- Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
- Technical and operational support to programme implementation
- Networking and partnership building
- Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have
- A university degree in one of the following fields is required: education, psychology, sociology or another relevant technical field.
- A minimum of two years of professional experience in programme planning, management, and/or research in education is required.
- Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
- Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
- Fluency in English is required.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF's core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS), and
Core Competencies
- Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
- Works Collaboratively with others (1)
- Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
- Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
- Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
- Drive to achieve impactful results (1)
- Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)
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