Ongoing Recruitment at Society for Family Health (SFH)

Society for Family Health (SFH) is one of the leading non-governmental public health organisations in Nigeria, implementing programmes in Reproductive Health/Family Planning, HIV & AIDS prevention and treatment, malaria prevention and treatment, primary health care system strengthening and maternal, newborn and child health care. We work in partnership with the Federal and State Governments of Nigeria, the Global Fund, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Department for International Development (DFID), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MSD for Mothers and Children Investment Fund Foundation among other international donors.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Research and Learning Coordinator

Req ID: sfh-08012
Location: Ogun
Department: Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
Duration of Contract: Fixed Term Hire

About Adolescents 360 Amplify Project (A360-A)

• The project aims to build on the innovative approaches of the Adolescents 360 in designing programs to improve the sexual and reproductive health of adolescent girls aged 15 – 19, primarily through increasing voluntary use of modern contraceptives in three (3) African countries.
• The purpose of Adolescents 360 Amplify is to build on the successes of Adolescents 360 used to break down barriers to adolescent access and use of contraception while increasing the voluntary use of modern contraceptives among adolescent girls aged 15 -19 years in 10 Nigerian states.
• The project intends to use a replicable Human-Centered Design (HCD), Youth Engagement fused with Developmental Neuroscience and Anthropology that allows us to understand how the interplay of adolescent development (biological, cognitive, social, emotional, and sexual), culture and sexual norms affects Adolescents Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) behavior.

Job Profile

• This position will be responsible for leading adaptive implementation processes for A360 A Nigeria, spearheading periodic qualitative data collection, and ensuring systematic routine adaptive management reviews.
• They will work closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation Officer to ensure linked, routine analysis considering standard quantitative performance data and qualitative datasets. They will lead to adaptations assessment, documentation, and coordinate dissemination locally.

Job-role
The successful candidate will perform the following functions:

• Lead adaptations assessment, documentation, and coordinate dissemination locally.
• Monitor data and database to support the improved availability of data and the use of data for process monitoring and evaluation for programme planning, evaluation, policy, and advocacy at the national and state levels.
• Responsible for supporting field teams on data entry to ensure all fields are appropriately filled in the DHIS platform from the source document.
• Responsible for conducting data cleansing activities on incoming data in the DHIS platform.
• Responsible for providing technical support to all users for timely data entry and provide feedback.
• Identify data errors and support field teams to correct the error immediately.
• Responsible for solving discrepancies by contacting authorized users for information, comparing indicators, and data variables.
• Support M&E Specialist to maintain database and conduct routine maintenance as needed to ensure data integrity.
• Report any issue related to data and data quality to M&E Specialist to proffer solution.
• Coordinate Data Quality Assessment with Coordinator/ M&E Specialist to determine new approaches and resolutions for data quality issues.
• Maintain project team confidence and protect operations by keeping information confidential.
• Secure information by completing database backups.
• Maintain operations by following policies and procedures; reporting needed changes.
• Support data analysis for program decisions.
• Work as part of a team in order to achieve a common goal
• Provide progress reports on a monthly basis.

Qualifications / Experience

• Must possess a first degree in a relevant field (Public Health, Public Policy, Statistics, or other Social Sciences).
• Must possess a minimum three (3) years post-NYSC experience in a similar field
• Must possess sound technical knowledge and experience of field monitoring, evaluation design, empirical and statistical analysis, management information systems and/or information management design

Skills and Competency Required

• Proficiency in using Microsoft office software: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.
• Excellent analytical and report writing skills
• Ability to prioritize, plan and organize workflow to tight timeframes
• Ability to multitask and work with minimal supervision
• Attention to detail and ability to follow up on tasks to completion
• Excellent interpersonal, communication (oral and written), and presentation skills.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Society for Family Health (SFH) is one of the leading non-governmental public health organisations in Nigeria, implementing programmes in Reproductive Health/Family Planning, HIV & AIDS prevention and treatment, malaria prevention and treatment, primary health care system strengthening and maternal, newborn and child health care. We work in partnership with the Federal and State Governments of Nigeria, the Global Fund, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Department for International Development (DFID), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MSD for Mothers and Children Investment Fund Foundation among other international donors.

We arerecruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Health Economist

Ref Id: sfh-80044
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Job Type: Full-time
Depart: Health Financing
Duration of Contract:  Fixed Term Hire

About Adolescents 360 Amplify Project (A360-A)

• The project aims to build on the innovative approaches of the Adolescents 360 in designing programs to improve the sexual and reproductive health of adolescent girls aged 15 – 19, primarily through increasing voluntary use of modern contraceptives in three (3) African countries.
• The purpose of Adolescents 360 Amplify is to build on the successes of Adolescents 360 used to break down barriers to adolescent access and use of contraception while increasing the voluntary use of modern contraceptives among adolescent girls aged 15 -19 years in 10 Nigerian states.
• The project intends to use a replicable Human-Centered Design (HCD), Youth Engagement fused with Developmental Neuroscience and Anthropology that allows us to understand how the interplay of adolescent development (biological, cognitive, social, emotional, and sexual), culture and sexual norms affects Adolescents Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) behavior.

Job Profile

• This position will be responsible for reviewing the impact of A360 Nigeria’s interventions on state funding, helps the project understand national and state targets including the funding mechanism that is linked to them.
• This individual will also support in identifying creative funding solutions such as service-level agreements with PPMVs to provide services to adolescents.

Job-role
The successful candidate will perform the following functions:

• Reviews the impact of A360 Nigeria’s interventions on state funding,
• Lead in conducting economic analyses and providing evidence for the project initiative.
• Coordinate the studies for analysis of the impact of user charges and its implications on health care utilization in facilities for the project to inform advocacy
• Analyze the resource allocation pattern to the sector and suggest ways to enhance the value for money while also analyzing the adequacy of the resource allocation.
• Support in identifying creative funding solutions such as service-level agreements with PPMVs to provide services to adolescents.
• Supports the project to understand national and state targets including the funding mechanism that is linked to them.
• Support the States Ministry of Health to build a business case for ASRH programming including conducting cost-effectiveness and/or cost-benefit analysis, modeling impact of investments on mortality, morbidity and health status as well as benefits outside the health sector
• Contribute to scientific writing and production of reports.

Qualifications / Experience

• Must possess a first degree in the relevant field (Health Economics, Public Health, Public Policy, Statistics, or other Social Sciences)
• Must possess a minimum of 7 years post-NYSC experience in the health sector and in health economics.

Skills and Competency Required:

• Strong economic, statistical and econometric skills, including experience with detailed, high-level data analysis and sampling
• Sound communication and technical writing skills
• Good knowledge of the Nigerian and state health system and key health system actors.
• Good interpersonal relationship skills
• Ability to multitask and work with minimal supervision
• Cognate experience in providing technical assistance to government at national or sub-national levels is an advantage.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Senior Learning Advisor

Job Code: sfh-14336
Location: Abuja HQ
Job type: Full-time
Duration of Contract:  Fixed Term Hire

About Adolescents 360 Amplify Project (A360-A)

• The project aims to build on the innovative approaches of the Adolescents 360 in designing programs to improve the sexual and reproductive health of adolescent girls aged 15 – 19, primarily through increasing voluntary use of modern contraceptives in three (3) African countries.
• The purpose of Adolescents 360 Amplify is to build on the successes of Adolescents 360 used to break down barriers to adolescent access and use of contraception while increasing the voluntary use of modern contraceptives among adolescent girls aged 15 – 19 years in 10 Nigerian states.
• The project intends to use a replicable Human-Centered Design (HCD), Youth Engagement fused with Developmental Neuroscience and Anthropology that allows us to understand how the interplay of adolescent development (biological, cognitive, social, emotional, and sexual), culture and sexual norms affects Adolescents Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) behavior.

Job Profile

• This position will be responsible for strategizing, implementing, and coordinating all A360 Nigeria learning activities.
• Their responsibilities will include supporting the design of tools and systems for knowledge management; leading information and lessons learned dissemination, and providing organizational development support to the core team.

Job Role
The successful candidate will perform the following functions:

• Design tools and processes for rapid, ongoing technical learning, suited to programme team work plans and deliverables.
• Conduct process documentation of country-based design work.
• Facilitate and document action point reviews regularly to ensure structured, team-wide pause, reflection, and learning.
• In collaboration with the learning, M&E, and marketing leads, develop and execute prototyping assessment protocols including rubrics for assessment and standards/templates for documentation of prototypes, ensuring alignment with agreed-upon thresholds of evidence and methodological rigor.
• Document prototyping including methods, prototype characteristics, and assessment results.
• Develop dynamic prototype ‘report cards’ tailored to the country context to ensure documents are ready for external audiences’ engagement and critical learning exchange.
• In line with the project technical documentation guidelines, support development of technical publications (grey literature) reflecting the project process and learning publications that go beyond surface promotional publications, to critically examine technical strategy and its implementation.

Qualifications / Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant Social Science or related field and 8 years of related work experience; OR Master’s degree in relevant social science or related field and 5 years of related work experience

Skills and Competency required:

• Expert knowledge in learning and project management practices in international development.
• Experience in donor-funded projects
• Proven ability to manage and support complex portfolios.
• Advanced knowledge and skill with MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
• Strong report writing skills and abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication (oral and written), and presentation skills.
• Ability to multitask and work with minimal supervision

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Design and Adaptation Lead

Job Code: sfh-05833
Location: Abuja HQ
Job type: Full-time
Duration of Contract: Fixed Term Hire

About Adolescents 360 Amplify Project (A360-A)

• The project aims to build on the innovative approaches of the Adolescents 360 in designing programs to improve the sexual and reproductive health of adolescent girls aged 15 – 19, primarily through increasing voluntary use of modern contraceptives in three (3) African countries.
• The purpose of Adolescents 360 Amplify is to build on the successes of Adolescents 360 used to break down barriers to adolescent access and use of contraception while increasing the voluntary use of modern contraceptives among adolescent girls aged 15 -19 years in 10 Nigerian states.
• The project intends to use a replicable Human-Centered Design (HCD), Youth Engagement fused with Developmental Neuroscience and Anthropology that allows us to understand how the interplay of adolescent development (biological, cognitive, social, emotional, and sexual), culture and sexual norms affects Adolescents Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) behavior.

Job Profile

• This position will be responsible for coordinating adaptation phase design, ensuring a balanced presence of A360 disciplinary lenses and design rigor.
• They will also partner with the M&E and Learning Advisor to ensure evidence generation in line with agreed-upon thresholds of evidence and benchmarks of success.

Job Role
The successful candidate will perform the following functions:

• Review the A360 program strategy and identify areas of adaptations
• Coordinate adaptation phase design, ensuring a balanced presence of A360 disciplinary lenses and design rigor.
• Support the state teams in the design and adaptations of the components of the program strategy to ensure vertical integration
• Partner with the M&E and Learning Advisor to ensure evidence generation in line with agreed-upon thresholds of evidence and benchmarks of success.
• Execute structured capture of insights, insight synthesis, and resulting design decisions leading to the development of prototypes within the project, using tools co-developed by the technical learning team.

Qualifications / Experience

• Must possess a Masters’ degree in a relevant field such as Business Administration, Public Administration, International Development, Political Science, Communications, International Relations, Social Sciences.
• Must possess a minimum of 7 years post-NYSC experience in Design Adaptations

Skills and Competency required:

• Ability to solve design challenges quickly and creatively, with a high attention to detail.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience using Human-Centered Design (HCD) to address various programmatic challenges
• Advanced knowledge and skill with MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
• Creative thinking and Problem-solving Skills
• Excellent interpersonal, communication (oral and written), and presentation skills.
• Ability to multitask and work with minimal supervision

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online