JOB TITLE: Technical Director
Job ID: 2021-1607
LOCATION: Abuja, NG
Overview
Banyan Global is a woman-owned small business and international development consulting firm committed to improving livelihoods through market approaches for a broad and lasting impact. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC and has program operations and activities in over 15 countries around the world. Banyan Global operates within six practice areas: gender, youth, finance and investment, enterprise development, health, and evaluation and learning.
Banyan Global is the prime recipient of the Nigeria Health Workforce Management (HWM) Activity in Nigeria. The HWM Activity is a five-year task order to support the establishment of a cost-effective, well trained, and motivated health workforce, particularly in targeted rural and remote areas of Bauchi, Ebonyi, Kebbi, and Sokoto States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). By its conclusion, HWM is expected to increase the production of new health workers competent to respond to current and future population health needs in these locations by 100,000; improve the distribution and skill mix of front-line workers to meet specific local demands; and strengthen the capacity of pre-service institutions to adopt and apply innovative education approaches.
Targeted interventions will contribute to (1) improved management of maternal, child, and newborn health conditions and (2) increased responsiveness to community health needs. USAID will support the Government of Nigeria’s (GON’s) commitment to plan, recruit, train, manage, and retain its primary healthcare (PHC) workforce as the country advances on its journey to self-reliance (J2SR). HWM will contribute to the achievement of Nigeria Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) Development Objective 2, a healthier, more educated population in targeted states and Intermediate Result (IR) 2.1 Utilization of quality health services in targeted areas and population groups increased.
Qualifications
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- Post-graduate degree in Public Health, Health Systems, Health Policy and Planning, or other related fields.
- Direct relevant experience in designing and implementing HRH programs in the areas of pre-service training, in-service training, human resource information systems (HRIS), HRH policy research and implementation, HRH leadership strengthening, HRH monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and HRH retention.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, oral, and written communications skills in English
- Demonstrated supervisory skills.
- Ability to work well on a team.
Job Features
Job Category | Engineering / Technical |