Company Info
Research Triangle Institute (RTI) has over 30 years’ experience assisting governments, communities, and the private sector. As a not-for-profit, independent research institute based in North Carolina, USA, RTI has roughly 6,000 employees with global experience implementing international development projects. IDG’s Global Health Division works in Neglected Tropical Diseases, infectious disease, including TB, HIV/AIDS, and Malaria; global health security, Heath Systems Strengthening – including Health Governance, Health Finance, Human Resources for Health, Capacity Building, and Health Policy and Advocacy; Public-Private Partnerships; and Maternal-Neonatal-Child Heath and Reproductive Health and Family Planning. We address a range of public health problems to reduce disparities, lower disease burdens, and build locally owned sustainable health programs in lower- and middle-income countries.
1). Senior Grants Manager (Nigeria Integrated Health Activity)
Location: Abuja
Position Type: Regular, Full-Time
Category: Contract Management
Program Description
- The anticipated $200M (est.) USAID/Nigeria integrated health activity seeks to increase the survival and well-being of vulnerable populations and improve health system resilience in priority states.
- The activity will strengthen the development and execution of state-level health and development plans and scale-up high-impact MNCAH, FP/RH, nutrition, malaria and HSS interventions.
- The anticipated activity will be based in Abuja, Nigeria and provide technical assistance in approximately five TBD priority states.
Position Description
- RTI is seeking a Senior Grants Manager for an anticipated USAID/Nigeria integrated health activity.
- The Senior Grants Manager will administer the grants program and conduct grant activity reporting, budget and program monitoring, and other operational activities related to compliance with RTI and USAID grant making guidelines.
- This position will report to the Deputy Chief of Party, Operations and be based in Abuja, with travel to state-level implementation areas.
Responsibilities
- Develops the grants management program and customizes the project grants manual with the input and oversight of the Chief of Party, Deputy Chief of Party, Operations, and the RTI Office of International Grants, Procurement, and Subcontracts.
- Oversees the entire grants management process from developing Requests for Applications (RFAs), grant application tracking and review, budget and scope negotiation, grant approval and award, and closeout
- Reviews technical and financial proposals from local NGOs/CBOs, including negotiating budgets, and reviews grantee financial expenditure reports for accuracy and adherence to the SOW and budget.
- Conduct pre-award assessments to ensure that applicants have the capacity to adequately perform the tasks associated with the grant award.
- Maintains all files pertaining to grant award and management and ensures audit trail for all grant documentation.
- Ensures timely financial disbursements, compliance with grants financial management policies, monitoring all grant expenses and ensures routine invoicing and provides regular updates to project leadership on grant status.
- Ensures grantees understand the procurement process to avoid the purchasing of unallowable or unnecessary items
- Conduct periodic reviews of grantee compliance with grant terms and conditions and the grant schedule, as well as conduct a review of the timeliness and quality of performance.
- Provides technical assistance as required to build capacity of local partners and grantees.
Qualifications
- Master’s Degree and 10 years of experience, or Bachelor’s Degree and 12 years of experience.
- At least six (6) years of experience in grants design and administration, management, and distribution of grants; experience administering USAID grants strongly preferred.
- Prior experience with USAID-funded programs or organizations strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated knowledge of development issues in the program regions, ability to travel and work in the field with administrative and sector technicians, as well as civil society organizations.
- Ability to travel and work in any of the anticipated priority states.
- Demonstrated competency in the use of computers, computer programs
- Proven ability to work under pressure, and with multiple concurrent demands.
- Excellent interpersonal communication and writing skills.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Verbal and written English proficiency is required.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Note: This position is contingent upon funding availability/award from USAID.===
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2). Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning, and Adapting (MERLA) Director (Nigeria Integrated Health Activity)
Location: Abuja
Position Type: Regular Full-Time
Category: Project Management
Program Description
- The anticipated $200M (est.) USAID/Nigeria integrated health activity seeks to increase the survival and well-being of vulnerable populations and improve health system resilience in priority states.
- The activity will strengthen the development and execution of state-level health and development plans and scale-up high-impact MNCAH, FP/RH, malaria, nutrition, and HSS interventions.
- The anticipated activity will be based in Abuja, Nigeria and provide technical assistance in approximately five TBD priority states.
Position Description
- We are seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning, and Adapting (MERLA) Director for an anticipated USAID/Nigeria integrated health activity.
- The MERLA Director will oversee all MEL components of the activity, including the design and implementation of the Activity MEL Plan and corresponding information system to track delivery against targets.
- The position will promote learning and knowledge sharing of best practices, and dissemination of lessons learned and project outcomes as part of its collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) approach.
- The MERLA Director will also mentor and support all the technical staff in MEL functions and data-driven decision-making and will manage any MEL-related program staff.
- This position will report to the Chief of Party (COP) and be based in Abuja, with travel to state-level implementation areas.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a member of the leadership team, setting a positive and professional tone for the team, collaborating closely with the other team leaders.
- Develop, monitor, and ensure successful implementation of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan (AMELP) by overseeing project results, data management, reporting on indicators, capturing evidence and learning, and supporting evidenced-based decision-making.
- Work closely with technical team members to gather and share necessary data for M&E reporting needs and CLA activities.
- Oversee MEL technical assistance to subcontractors, FMOH, and local partners.
- Prepare quarterly report summarizing performance against the indicator list and performance standards of the Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan.
- Review data and reporting to analyze progress toward targets and determine corrective action needed to improve goal achievement.
- Outline specific learning questions and activities and work closely with the staff to generate, validate, and present data in user-friendly format.
- Facilitate constructive and collaborative dialogue during regular MEL project reviews and biweekly team meetings.
- Support the Senior Management team to lead quarterly “pause and reflect” performance review processes with Workstream Leads.
- Represent the project in professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations and assist with dissemination of project results and learning.
Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in a relevant field, such as Public Health, Epidemiology, Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, or Social Sciences.
- At least 10 years of experience in managing and/or leading MEL activities for large-scale health service delivery or health system strengthening (HSS) programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, with at least three of those years working in Nigeria as a senior advisor or staff member.
- Knowledge of and experience with key MNCAH, FP/RH, nutrition, water and sanitation hygiene (WASH), and/or HIV/AIDS indicators and GON and USG data collection systems (e.g. DHIS2).
- Strong analytical skills to successfully use data and evidence to guide program adaptations.
- Demonstrated experience in setting up and managing MEL systems that track performance as per the objectives of IHP.
- Familiarity with CLA approaches. Excellent ability to articulate oral and written technical information clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences. Data visualization skills a plus.
- Experience supervising MEL staff at different levels across different offices.
- Proven ability to work independently and multi-task in high-pressure settings.
- Ability to travel and work in any of the anticipated priority states.
- Excellent interpersonal communication and writing skills.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Verbal and written English proficiency is required.
- Experience working on USG-funded health programming in Nigeria.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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3). Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP), Operations (Nigeria Integrated Health Activity)
Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full time
Program Description
- The anticipated $200M (est.) USAID/Nigeria integrated health activity seeks to increase the survival and well-being of vulnerable populations and improve health system resilience in priority states.
- The activity will strengthen the development and execution of state-level health and development plans and scale-up high-impact MNCAH, FP/RH, nutrition, and HSS interventions.
- The anticipated activity will be based in Abuja, Nigeria and provide technical assistance in approximately five TBD priority states.
Position Description
- RTI is seeking a Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP), Operations for an anticipated USAID/Nigeria integrated health activity.
- The DCOP, Operations will be responsible for supporting the Chief of Party in all operational and financial aspects of the anticipated activity, supporting seamless implementation across an anticipated five states.
- This position will be responsible for the overseeing all financial management, procurement, sub-grants, human resources, logistics, security, and operations on the activity, leading a high-functioning finance and operations team.
- A key function of the DCOP, Operations will be to identify improvements to operational and financial tools and approaches in this highly-complex implementing environment and to increase capacity in U.S. government compliance and sub-contracting among local subcontractors.
- This position will report to the COP and be based in Abuja, with travel to state-level implementation areas.
Responsibilities
- Support the COP in leading all operational and management aspects of the activity.
- Serves as a member of leadership team, setting a positive and professional tone for the team, collaborating closely with the other team leaders.
- Develops and maintains effective partnerships with donors, implementers, consortium members, and other stakeholders to foster collaboration.
- Leads the program’s operations function, ensuring sufficient resources and needed skill sets are present to meet the needs of RTI and the activity across task orders/states.
- Responsible for identifying and implementing improvements in work processes.
- Ensure proper administration of the activity and oversee all financial, procurement, sub grants/contracts, and operational areas of responsibility.
- Monitor and review project budget and expenditures, financial forecasts, working with subcontractors to ensure compliance with corporate and USAID regulations.
- Contributes to planning, oversight and coordination of program activities, resource allocation, and financial performance. Responsible for the accuracy of project timelines, tasks, resource requirements, costs, risks, and execution.
- Produces financial and operational reports and updates for deliverable reporting.
- Responsible for grants management process & subcontracts for local organizations, including grant proposal tracking, review, and approval process.
- Collaborates with Chief of Party to identify and manage risks and participates in the resolution of performance issues with project staff and sub-contractors.
- Assists Chief of Party in managing all staffing and creating/maintaining a clear organizational structure with specific roles, responsibilities and reporting lines.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant areas (Management, Public Administration, Health Policy, Economic) or other relevant discipline with 15 years relevant work experience or Master’s Degree with at least 12 years relevant work experience.
- Ten years of progressively responsible experience implementing USAID-supported activities that are similar in terms of complexity, scope, and budget.
- Experience in management of large USAID contracts or cooperative agreements ($50M or greater), including developing and managing large budgets.
- Familiarity with Federal Acquisition Regulation policies and procedures related to grants, procurements, and subcontracts and other relevant USG cost accounting standards and USAID rules and regulations.
- Strong demonstrated skills in operations and administrative management, including HR, procurement, logistics, and security.
- Demonstrated skills in building, mobilizing, and leading multidisciplinary teams.
- Proven ability to work independently and multi-task in high-pressure settings.
- Ability to resolve sensitive and complicated work issues with senior high-level country counterparts, donor representatives, and senior-level staff.
- Ability to travel and work in any of the anticipated priority states.
- Excellent interpersonal communication and writing skills.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, QuickBooks, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Verbal and written English proficiency is required.
- Experience working in West Africa, preferably in Nigeria.
Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply:
- Senior Grants Manager (Nigeria Integrated Health Activity)
- Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning, and Adapting (MERLA) Director (Nigeria Integrated Health Activity)
- Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP), Operations (Nigeria Integrated Health Activity)
Note: This position is contingent upon funding availability / award from USAID.