Project Manager Job at ThinkWell

ThinkWell is a health systems development organization using tailored health financing approaches to help low- and middle-income countries achieve universal health coverage.

We believe that effective health financing systems are essential to ensuring health services are well-resourced, high quality, accessible, and do not cause financial impoverishment by those who use them. We also believe that health financing can serve as a crucial lever to improve overall health system performance.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Project Manager

Job Location: Kano

Description 

• The Kano State Project Manager is a recognized leader in health financing, policy and governance. The State Program Manager will support program design and execution, managing a project team of staff, consultants, and sub-contracts, as needed as relates to implementing the BMGF project in Kano State.
• The State Program Manager is responsible for providing technical leadership, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring high-quality technical project execution in the Kano State BMGF Project.
• The Kano State Project Manager reports to the Project Lead.
• The State Program Manager comes with a wealth of experience and has a deep understanding of the Kano State health sector.
• S/he will work in close coordination with key stakeholders in the State, including the State government, the Ministry of Health/SHIA/SPHCDB, consortium partners, and other development partners.
• This is a full-time position based in Kano, Nigeria. Nigerian nationals are encouraged to apply. ?

Technical Leadership:

• Provide oversight of the Kano State project team.
• Provide direct technical assistance to ensure high-quality program results and execution.
• Produce high-quality written reports and presentations, including technical documents, project status reports, policy briefs, and publications for conferences and journals.
• Support ministries of health and finance on the development of state-level health financing strategies, budget planning, preparation and execution, and budget advocacy.
• Contribute to project work planning, coordinate across external partners and lead their engagement in collaborative projects.
• Support the Project Lead in overseeing monitoring, evaluation, research and learning function, staff, and outputs at the state-level.
• Lead analyses on health expenditure, including out-of-pocket spending, financial forecasting, benefit incidence analysis, resource tracking and cost-effectiveness.
• Create graphics and visualizations of quantitative and qualitative data.
• Design a sustainable capacity-building model to ensure the Ministry of Health counterparts are directly engaged and evolve their health financing competencies and applied knowledge.

Project Operations and Administration:

• Work with the ThinkWell operations team to maintain operational excellence for the project, including ensuring appropriate policies, procedures, and systems.?
• Ensure project compliance with BMGF operational policies and regulations and the terms of the award.
• Ensure that contract deliverables are met in accordance with contract requirements.?
• Manage and monitor the local sub-contract organization and any other partners.
• Ensure technical staff and sub-contracts comply with BMGF financing systems, including financial tracking, recording of financial transactions, financial risk management, and fraud prevention.

Requirements

• BA / BS and 8+ years of experience or Graduate Degree and 6+ years experience;
• In-depth experience working with Kano State officials, particularly in the Ministry of Health / Finance / Budget and Planning;
• Deep understanding and knowledge of Kano State PFM processes and key programmatic and budget cycles;
• Strong leadership and organizational capacity in working with other State stakeholders, partners and donors;
• Substantive, relevant work experience in data management, data analysis, health financing, and health policy in Nigeria, particularly in Kano State;
• In-depth understanding of current and emerging health financing policy and systems reforms in Nigeria, particularly in Kano State;
• Recognized as a leader in the area of technical specialty; strong professional network in the field;
• Demonstrated ability to engage effectively with external strategic partners, donors, and stakeholders;
• Language fluency in English and Hausa;
• Adept at communicating technical information to non-technical audiences;
• Demonstrated interest and ability in growing staff, mentoring and coaching junior professionals;
• A senior leader, able to rally staff around ThinkWell’s mission and priorities;
• A thoughtful systems thinker with grounded, pragmatic understanding of the complexities of our work;
• Outstanding cross-cultural communication skills, including the ability to relate respectfully with staff at all levels, ages, genders, nationalities and orientations as well as across work areas;
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 30%.