PSS Channel Lead-North and PSS Channel Lead-South at MSI Reproductive Choices

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. 

From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all. Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world.  For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.

• Experience 8 years
• Location Abuja

Job Description

• The role holder will lead the overall management of assigned projects and channel of service delivery.
• S/he will be responsible for providing key day-to-day management oversight of assigned projects, manage, oversee and supervise assigned channels of service delivery within MSIN, and ensuring country programme and support office teams are reporting, spending, and delivering as per proposal deliverables and objectives.
• Furthermore, the role holds full responsibility for the management of the external partners that are strategic to MSIN’s 2030 goals as related to assigned projects and channel.
• The role also contributes to furthering MSI’s Vision: To create A WORLD IN WHICH EVERY BIRTH IS WANTED and its mission of ensuring the individual’s right to CHILDREN BY CHOICE, NOT CHANCE.

Responsibilities
Portfolio Management:

• Provide leadership and support for efficient management of the project.
• Ensure projects are implemented to a high donor standard/commitment and on budget, working with all key internal stakeholders.
• Facilitate and lead monthly/routine project management meetings.
• Organise quarterly/annual project governance meetings.
• Provide oversight, advice and clear project guidance to regional teams and departments. This will include work planning, reviews (visits), reporting, budgets, and forecasting.
• Ensure the submission of high-quality reports in a timely manner.
• Conduct/organise regional support visits to monitor progress against project priorities.

Donor Management and Reporting:

• Ensure reporting (programmatic/financial) and invoicing is timely and standard.
• Ensure clear project documentation systems are applied and up to date.
• Build strong internal/external relationships. This includes facilitating coordination and learning across implementing partners, teams etc.
• Actively participate in new business – proposal writing and mobilising new resources for projects.

Compliance:

• Ensure strict compliance with donor rules and regulations.
• Ensure the project team (at national and state) complies with MSI clinical quality, finance, monitoring and data reporting standards.
• Ensuring clear project documentation systems are applied and up to date for projects.
• Conform to and enforce the MSI Anti-fraud and Bribery (AFB) guidelines for the channel and all related work.

Channel Management:

• Strategic Leadership / development of the channel for increased Performance against KPIs
• Clear ongoing analysis of the situation in which the managed channel performs and the business model needed.
• Work with Clinical Directorate to ensure clinical standards are maintained in the channel.
• Provide leadership to the channel and facilitate teams’ productivity.
• Routine mapping of the operational environment to identify opportunities and threats for intervention given Nigeria’s context for family planning and post-abortion care.

Other Responsibilities:

• Support an inclusive team through fostering oneness, and professionalism.
• Provide support remotely to teams and assist on regional support visits as required in accordance with work plans and deliverables.
• Actively participate in the annual business plan development
• Any other business as may be assigned.

Requirements

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Relevant higher degree/business qualification (Desirable)
• Track record in achieving financial and non-financial targets
• Strategic thinker, with excellent analytical and business communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Excellent leadership and management aptitude in leading diverse teams remotely
• Pro-choice.
• Flexibility in operating in a changing environment and strong change management skills.
• High Decision and initiation skills
• Ability to travel (50%).
• Eight years of project management experience and the last three years must be one managing a large grant on sexual and reproductive health preferably family planning.
• Experience managing interventions on Cervical Cancer, disability inclusion, menstrual hygiene, and sexual and gender-based violence will be an added advantage.
• Excellent understanding of the sexual and reproductive health and family planning environment in Nigeria.
• Good understanding and working knowledge of the North.
• Experience managing donors including BMGF, USAID, FCDO, BMZ etc.
• Ability to work under own initiative.
• Accuracy, attention to detail and high numeracy and analytical skills.
• Strong communication skills – both written and verbal; diplomatic and able to manage sensitive information.

Note

• Specify the Position and the Location of interest in the Subject Line of your application if you want your application to be considered.
• If the underlined instructions are not followed application will not be considered.
• This role is open until filled, and we will be conducting interviews on a rolling basis even while the advertisement is still active.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should send a comprehensive resume with a brief cover letter as ONE MS Word document or PDF to: msngrecruitment@msichoices.org.ng using the Job Title as the subject of the mail