Society for Family Health (SFH) is one of the leading public health NGOs in Nigeria, implementing programmes in reproductive health, HIV and AIDS prevention, and maternal and child health. SFH works in partnership with the Federal and State Government of Nigeria, the British Department for International Development (DFID) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) among other international donoers. We seek to recruit qualified persons as a result of growth in our organisation. We offer professionals opportunities for career advancement, a good working environment and competitve remuneration. We require competent candidates for the following positions

Head, Gates Project (based in Abuja)

Ref email: [email protected]

Job Profile.

This is a Deputy Director position. Reporting to the Chief Programme Officer, the candidate will be responsible for the overall implementation of Maternal and New-born Health Improvement project starting in Gornbe state. S/He will lead coordination and management of the entire project and will be based in Abuja. The person will also focus on managing the relationships between SFH, other development partners, consultants, sub-contractors and the Government (including FMOH), representing the project in the national arena. and ensuring that the project receives appropriate technical assistance. 

Qualilications/Experience:

• Minimum Academic/Professional Qualifications required for the position:

• Must possess a Medical or Nursing Degree and a post-graduate degree in a related program area (Population studies. Public Health or Social Work). 

• Must possess a minimum of twelve (12) years post NYSC working experience, the past five (5) of which must preferably be at senior management level. 

• Must possess high level of integrity. 

• Must have proven experience, working with consortium partners and delivering services within a 

collegiate system. 

• Must have experience in Knowledge improvement for various cadres of health workers. 

• Must be familiar working'wirhin a donor community. 

• Good interpersonal, communication presentation skills and report writing skills are very important to this position. . 

Senior Officers, Monitoring and Evaluation- Enugu and Abia. (2 positions) 

Ref email to: Enugu: [email protected]; Abia: [email protected]:

Job Profile: . 

Reporting to the Territorial Manager at the State level and Deputy Manager M&E at the HQ, the desired candidates will ensure that routine tracking, data collection and documentation are utilized to showcase progress on success of project indicators and interventions. S/He will ensure that data collected from state level implementation are collated and entered expeditiously in the web-based DHIS: and summaries included in all field activity quarterly report submissions. S/He will also, oversee the tracking, analysing and reporting of data on the various components the SFH territorial programmes. The successful candidate will equally track project performance indicator data related to relevant states, and disseminate M&E data and information regularly to stakeholders. SlHe will be required to build the capacity of SFH project partner organisations, CSOs/CBOs and other stakeholders to implement M&E. S/He will take the lead in implementing SrH and National surveys in the States. S/Hemust be able to analyse datasets to provide data to inform programme decisions. 

Qualifications/Experience:

•  Minimum Academic/Professional Qualifications required for the position:

•  Must possess a first degree in Sciences/MedicallBehaviourai/Social Sciences or its equivalent in a relevantfield. 

•  Must have minimum of 3 years experience in implementing monitoring and evaluation of health and related programmes. 

•  Must have considerable expertise in mixed-methods (qualitative and quantitative) M&E and research. S/He must possess ability to analyse and interpret both quantitative and qualitative data to inform programming. 

•  Must have intermediate knowledge of SPSS or STATA or Epi Info/CS Pro. 

•  Knowledge of DHIS, MS-Access or other compatible database software will be of added advantage. 

•  Experience with conducting monitoring visits utilising checklist and other tools, including ability to develop M&E tools as needed, and experience with government partners will be important to this position. 

Compensation & Benefits: The compensation package for these positions is very attractive and designed toattract, motivate and retain talented candidates

Method of Application: A one page application letter (using the position reference as subject), addressed to the Deputy Director-HR, clealy providing evidence of competences required for the job, current remuneration, as well as a comprehensive Curriculum Vitae indicating Clearly your valid telephone numbers, e-mail address and current contact address should be sent no later 20th of May 2014 to the email address beside the jobyou are applying for.

Additional information

Please provide the following information stated below (in the order) in the body of your email:

1. University Qualification

2. Year of graduation:

3. Year of completion of NYSC

4. Current employment with date

5. Current job designation:

6. Current responsibility 

We kindly that only candidates with the minimum requirements need apply. While we respect your application, due to the large number of applications received by SFH Nigeria, please note that we are only able to contact shortlised candidates

For details of these and other positions, please refer to our website: www.sfhnigeria.org/careers

• SFH IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.

SFH DOES NOT USE THIRD PARTY RECRUITERS OR CHARGE A FEE FOR EMPLOYMENT