State Programme Manager at Malaria Consortium
Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organisations specialising in the comprehensive prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable and under privileged populations.
- We increasingly find our work on malaria can be effectively integrated with other similar public health interventions for greater impact and therefore expanded our remit to include child health and neglected tropical disease interventions.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: State Programme Manager
Location: Sokoto
Employment Type: Full-time
The Vacancy
Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a State Programme Manager to join our team in Sokoto, Nigeria.
The Project Manager will be responsible for the overall management, coordination and harmonisation of the Nigeria component of this multi-country multi-donor project.
- Lead project implementation activities ensuring consistency with the overall multi-country programme’s performance framework, and in line with Malaria Consortium’s core values.
- S/he will lead the project team in the states and liaise closely with the Zonal Programme Manager, keeping the West Africa Programmes Director in the loop.
- The Project Manager (PM) will provide management leadership to the State level staff on the project.
- S/he will be responsible for delivery and achievements of the project goal and objectives ensure that reports are completed in a timely manner and shared with relevant stakeholders and stored to enable effective decision-making.
S/he will lead the development and periodic review of relevant systems for the project in line with the organization policies.
- The PM will travel to field offices and represent the country office, nationally and internationally where relevant.
- The PM will be a member of the Country Management Team (CMT) and will report to the Zonal Programme Manager.
- The PM will supervise directly a team of staff with input into the performance objectives and reviews of these staff.
The PM will work with the Country Technical Coordinator, Country Finance Manager and other Project managers on similar projects in delivering the objectives of the project.
Work closely with the Country Technical Coordinator, Senior Technical Specialist and the Regional Epidemiologist to prepare and implement a country project monitoring and evaluation framework
- Work closely with the ZPM and the Project Director to regularly update and implement a risk management plan
- Be responsible for building functional partner relationships in country among the project’s stakeholders
- Be responsible for supervising country staff as assigned
- Work with the relevant country personnel and the ZPM to prepare and implement an exit strategy to see the smooth end of the project
Technical contributions:
Work with the country project teams and the Country Technical Coordinator to determine technical support needs that are needed to implement the project effectively and with high quality
- Liaise with the ZPM to ensure that appropriate and quality technical support is provided in response to the project’s needs
- Contribute to the development and production of dissemination documents to allow wider sharing of Malaria Consortium’s experiences, lessons and successes
Actively participate as a member of Malaria Consortium Nigeria’s Technical Team through regular attendance and active participation at Technical Team Meetings; with defined inputs to other Malaria Consortium Nigeria projects when necessary, and input into needs assessments and the development of project proposals, as requested
Qualifications and Experience
Essential:
- 7 – 10 years’ post-qualification in medicine or any other public health-related field
- 3 –5 years’ experience in project management, with a preference for health projects management
- Significant operational and supply chain management experience in a developing country
- Strong management skills, demonstrated ability to supervise the performance of others to meet high quality and timely project deliverables
- Ability to work in English (speaking and writing)
- Experience in project, budget and financial management
Desirable:
- Previous experience in coordination or management of mass drug administration or pharmaceutical supply chain management in northern Nigeria.
Work Based Skills and Competencies
Essential:
Demonstrated understanding of procurement procedures
Ability to communicate and negotiate with people from different back grounds and professions
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to make complex information understandable to diverse different audiences
- Flexible and able to adapt to a quickly changing environment by applying knowledge and experience to solve unforeseen and unexpected problems
- Strong representational skills
- Experience developing donor-funded projects, including strong writing skills.
Application Closing Date
11th November, 2025.
How to Apply
Interested applicant can apply via this link
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