Health & Nutrition Program Manager at Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI)
Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization.
- Our teams are committed to supporting civilians’ victims of marginalization and exclusion, or hit by natural disasters, wars and economic collapses, by answering their fundamental needs.
- Our aim is to provide emergency relief to uprooted people to help them recover their dignity and regain self-sufficiency.
- PUI has been operating in Nigeria since 2016, initially establishing its presence in Borno State with a field office in Maiduguri.
- Over the years, PUI has expanded its humanitarian response to deep-field locations, including Monguno and Pulka, and more recently to Katsina State in Northwest Nigeria.
General Objectives
The Health and Nutrition Program Manager, under the direct supervision of the Field Coordinator and technical guidance of the Health Coordinator, is responsible for leading the planning, implementation, and monitoring of all health and nutrition programming in PUI field Base.
- The role provides strategic, technical, and operational leadership to ensure the delivery of high-quality, integrated healthcare services across assigned bases.
- Health and Nutrition Program Manager collaborates closely with MEAL Manager to oversee health and Nutrition interventions at the base, serving as the key technical link between field-level health teams, base leadership, and the health coordination structure.
- With the support of Deputy Health, the program managers will ensure continuous capacity-building for frontline staff.
- He/She will be the focal person for collation of reports from field locations, reviewing them, and forwarding them to the coordination health team.
- He/She will routinely visit the field location for supportive supervision and proffer solutions to identified gaps and challenges.
Responsibilities & Tasks
Project Planning, Implementation & MEAL:
Ensure that the project action plan is prepared at the start of the project and reviewed periodically based on the feedback from the monitoring of the project. This also includes identification of support requirements from other sectors within the organization.
- Develop the program monitoring tool with the Field Coordinator and the MEAL Department.
- Launch the implementation of the activities in a timeframe coherent with the donor’s requirements
- Ensure the coherence and the homogeneity of the activities under his/her responsibility (indicators and results follow-up) and develop proper assessment mechanisms.
- Lead regular field reviews, ensuring best practices standards are met;
- Inform His/her line manager of any relevant issues related to the project implementation.
- Ensure follow-up and analysis of epidemiological data, in collaboration with the Medical Coordinator.
- Participate in needs analysis of programs in relation to medical equipment, medications, and medical consumables.
- In collaboration with the MEAL department at the coordination level, makes sure that MEAL activities are properly implemented for the activities under his/her responsibility.
Grant and Partnership:
Act as the focal point for drafting contractual reports based on program expertise and the geographical area covered.
Prepare the first draft of the report within the communicated timeframe and in accordance with the guidelines provided by the Grants Team.
- Under the direct management of the Field Coordinator and the technical supervision of the [program coordinator], serve as the primary contributor in its program expertise and geographical scope for developing proposal documentation, including but not limited to the Logical Framework, Narrative, Bill of Quantities (BoQ), and Beneficiary breakdown.
- Contribute to base-level Kick-off and Close-out meetings as coordinated by the Field Coordinator.
- Act as the focal point for the monthly reporting process in its geographical area.
- Lead the first stage of partner reporting by setting an internal deadline within the timeline set by the coordination office and coordinating the first back-and-forth round of review for partners
- Under the technical guidance of the program coordinator, he carries out capacity building sessions with the partner as needed and communicates the outcome with the coordination.
- During proposal development involving a partner within its geographical area, organize a preliminary meeting with the partner’s Project Manager focal point to ensure the complementary design of activities within the budget allocated to the partner.
- Subsequent meetings are organized as needed.
- Conduct recurrent meetings with partners and counterparts to discuss project implementation, budget follow-up, mitigate challenges, and support a constructive relationship.
Requirements:
- Interested candidates should possess relevant qualifications with experience.
Salary: N1,060,667 monthly.
Location: Gusau, Zamfara
Deadline:
- 13th September, 2026.
How to Apply
Interested applicant can apply via this link
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