Overview

• The Program Manager (PM) will provide programmatic coordination, operational management, and performance oversight for Jhpiego Global Health Security (GHS) portfolio in Nigeria. Supervised by the Project Director, working in collaboration with STA, team members, Government and donor counterparts, the PM will ensure that project activities are strategically planned, efficiently executed, and aligned with technical, financial, and compliance standards. The PM will lead coordination among technical teams, field offices, implementing partners, and government stakeholders to strengthen International Health Regulations (IHR) core capacities particularly in surveillance, emergency preparedness, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), One Health collaboration and other GHS priorities at National and Subnational.
• The PM will also provide strategic support to the Project Director in government engagement, donor reporting, coordination, and accountability. S/he will be responsible for tracking implementation progress, ensuring compliance with donor and Jhpiego policies, managing grants and budgets, and supporting adaptive program management. The PM will champion quality improvement, program learning, and system strengthening across GHS interventions.

Responsibilities

Program Coordination and Implementation

• Coordinate development and execution of detailed work plans, ensuring coherence across technical, operational, and community engagement components.
• Coordinate implementation across states, ensuring integration of surveillance, AMR, One Health, and emergency preparedness priorities.
• Track implementation progress, proactively identifying bottlenecks and facilitating timely resolution.
• Lead operational planning for trainings, simulation exercises, and emergency response activities.
• Ensure activities are implemented in line with Jhpiego and donor regulations, national strategies, and IHR/NAPHS frameworks.

Social Mobilization, and Stakeholder Engagement

• Drive social mobilization and community engagement strategies that build awareness, trust, and active participation of community actors (PPMVs, CHWs, agrovets, and private sector providers) in surveillance and AMR containment efforts.
• Strengthen collaboration with professional associations, traditional and religious leaders, private-sector stakeholders, and other influencers to promote behavioral change and ownership of GHS interventions.
• Facilitate multi-sectoral coordination with national and subnational partners including NCDC, FMoH, NAFDAC, PCN, VCN, and SMoHs, ensuring alignment of Jhpiego’s GHS interventions with national priorities.
• Represent Jhpiego in national and subnational One Health platforms, technical working groups, and emergency response coordination forums.
• Support advocacy and communications strategies that promote visibility and sustainability of project outcomes.

Program Management, Quality Assurance, and Reporting

• Ensure timely and quality delivery of project milestones and outputs, maintaining strong links between technical, financial, and operational components.
• Oversee tracking systems and dashboards for performance monitoring and early warning to flag delays or implementation risks.
• Apply Quality Improvement (QI) tools to monitor and enhance implementation quality across technical and community components.
• Lead program documentation, success stories, learning briefs, and dissemination of results through national and donor platforms.
• Prepare and coordinate submission of high-quality programmatic reports and deliverables to donors and stakeholders.

Financial, Administrative, and Grants Management

• Work closely with finance, grants, and operations teams to ensure sound budget management and compliance.
• Oversee financial tracking, procurement planning, and cost monitoring across states.
• Support management of sub-awards and partner grants, ensuring adherence to Jhpiego and donor regulations.
• Ensure timely and accurate financial and program reporting to donors.

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL)

• Collaborate with the M&E team to monitor performance indicators, using data to guide adaptive management and decision-making.
• Ensure timely data submission, validation, and integration into donor and government reporting platforms.
• Coordinate program review and learning sessions, including pause-and-reflect meetings and adaptive planning workshops.
• Promote documentation and sharing of innovations and best practices.

Capacity Building and Team Leadership

• Supervise and mentor program and field teams to strengthen leadership, communication, and implementation capacity.
• Conduct supportive supervision visits and ensure consistent technical and operational oversight at state level.
• Coordinate capacity-building initiatives for staff, implementing partners, and stakeholders on program management, surveillance, emergency preparedness, and community engagement.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture focused on results, learning, and accountability

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in public health, Health Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years experience in management, operational and technical expertise with a preference in Global health security and public health program implementation.
• Proven experience in program planning, implementation, and coordination of health security, surveillance, or emergency preparedness
• Strong understanding of IHR (2005), One Health, and Nigeria’s National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS).
• Excellent leadership, organizational, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with government, partners, and diverse field teams.
• Strong report writing, budgeting, and presentation skills; proficiency in Microsoft Office and project management tools.
• Experience working with NCDC, FMoH, WHO, or other GHS-related agencies.
• Familiarity with digital health platforms (e.g., DHIS2, SORMAS, Com-WATCH).
• Certification in project management (PMP, PRINCE2, etc.) desirable.
• Willingness to travel frequently within Nigeria to support state-level implementation.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Familiarity with Nigeria’s health systems and reporting structure and demonstrated ability to collaborate with government level officials to strengthen program implementation
• Excellent writing and communications skills, including demonstrated technical writing skills for publication
• Ability to work effectively with diverse international teams and willingness to learn and empower others
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
• References will be required.
• Demonstrated ability in working and collaborating with a wide range of local and international partner organizations
• Demonstrated experience in maintaining donor relations
• Excellent skills in facilitation, team building and coordination

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Overview

• The Technical Advisor for Surveillance and Data Management is a strategic position within Jhpiego Global health security initiatives supporting Nigeria to strengthen IHR core capacities and enhance National and subnational capacities for pandemic preparedness, outbreak and emergency prevention, detection and response. This position will work on strengthening Surveillance and data management, working closely on the Com-WATCH digital surveillance solutions, One health coordination, event based, community based and indicator-based surveillance. This Advisor will provide technical oversight for the project’s data lifecycle and its application within a multi-stakeholder, One Health framework. This role serves as the critical bridge connecting the Com-WATCH digital platform, community-level users, and national regulatory bodies to achieve public health impact, contributing to workforce development, PHEOC, PHEM, Surveillance, IHR core capacities and others.
• The successful candidate will also drive the project’s surveillance and data strategy, ensuring the integrity and flow of data from community sources (PPMVs, Agrovets, CHWs, citizens) to national dashboards. They will lead the analysis and interpretation of this data to identify trends, hotspots, and signals relevant to AMR across sectors. A key function will also be to manage complex relationships with government partners including NAFDAC, NCDC, PCN, and VCN, ensuring their sustained engagement and the system’s alignment with their needs. Furthermore, the Advisor will guide social mobilisation efforts to promote the widespread adoption and effective use of the Com-WATCH platform, ensuring it becomes a trusted tool for both surveillance, data management and stock management.

Responsibilities

Surveillance

• Facilitate the operationalisation of the project’s surveillance framework, including refining indicator definitions and data collection protocols.
• Strengthen integrated disease surveillance, with real time availability of actionable, high quality surveillance data that can be used to guide decision making National / subnational
• Facilitate the operationalization of EBS, CBS, and IBS systems at national and subnational levels, ensuring coherence with IHR 2005 and NAPHS priorities.
• Support NCDC and State Ministries of Health to establish and strengthen EBS structures, including signal detection, verification, risk assessment, and reporting workflows.
• Provide technical guidance for scaling CBS networks, integrating community informants (e.g., CHWs, PPMVs, Agrovets, veterinary workers) to enhance early detection and reporting.
• Improve IBS performance by standardizing data elements, indicators, and reporting timelines across the IDSR platform and related systems (e.g., DHIS2, SORMAS).
• Ensure interoperability of EBS, CBS, and IBS data through harmonized data pipelines, validation mechanisms, and dashboards.
• Support integration of Com-WATCH AMR reports into broader surveillance streams for One Health intelligence

Data Management, Analytics, and Interpretation

• Oversee the data pipeline for both Event-Based Surveillance (EBS) of SF reports and routine stock management data.
• Routinely monitor state-level reporting rates and other key performance indicators, proactively identifying and flagging gaps, and working with field teams to address them.
• Conduct in-depth scientific data analysis to explore correlations, causations, and trends
• Prepare and present sophisticated data analytics in a clear and compelling manner through reports, presentations, and interactive dashboards for the Project Steering Committee, donors, and government counterparts.
• Establish and manage robust data quality assurance (DQA) and validation protocols for all incoming data streams (mobile app, USSD, chatbots).
• Provide technical guidance for the design and execution of the project’s baseline and endline assessments
• Lead the preparation of data-driven abstracts, manuscripts for peer-reviewed publication, and technical briefs to contribute to the global evidence base on digital surveillance and AMR.
• Document challenges, lessons learned, and best practices related to community-based digital surveillance and data management.
• Contribute to project reporting and the development of public-good outputs.

One Health Surveillance & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary technical liaison for data management for all key regulatory partners, proactively managing relationships with NAFDAC, NCDC, the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), and the Veterinary Council of Nigeria (VCN).
• Champion the project’s One Health data vision, ensuring surveillance activities and data analytics address the human-animal interface
• Facilitate high-level stakeholder engagement, including co-designing data-sharing protocols and response workflows that are integrated into partners’ standard operating procedures.
• Represent the Com-WATCH project at the National One Health AMR Technical Working Group (TWG) and other strategic forums, presenting data-driven insights to inform national policy.
• Translate partner needs into technical requirements for the Com-WATCH platform, ensuring dashboards and analytics are fit-for-purpose for each regulatory body.

Social Mobilisation and Com-WATCH Adoption

• Implement robust social mobilisation and community engagement strategy to drive awareness, trust, and sustained adoption of the Com-WATCH platform among PPMVs, Agrovets, CHWs, and the public.
• Drive active mobilisation and demand generation amongst private sector working with associations and leaders to build a network of advocates and super-users.
• Monitor user adoption rates and gather qualitative feedback to inform continuous improvements to the platform and training approaches

Required Qualifications

Education

• Master’s degree in public health, Epidemiology, International Development, or a related field.

Experience

• A minimum of eight (8) years of progressive experience managing and implementing public health surveillance, M&E, or health information systems in developing countries.
• Demonstrated experience leading high-level stakeholder engagement and policy dialogue with diverse partners, particularly Nigerian government health agencies
• Strong, practical experience working within a One Health framework.
• Proven experience designing or managing Event-Based and Community-Based Surveillance systems.
• Demonstrated experience in social mobilisation, community engagement, or health communication for technology adoption or behaviour change.
• Previous experience working in an INGO is highly desirable.

Technical Skills

• Deep understanding of surveillance and epidemiological principles, particularly as they apply to AMR and pharmacovigilance.
• Advanced proficiency in data analysis, visualisation, and management using tools such as SORMAS, DHIS2, Stata/R/SPSS, Power BI, and GIS software (e.g., QGIS, ArcGIS).
• Demonstrated ability in scientific writing, with a track record of contributing to publications or high-level technical reports.

Core Competencies

• Exceptional analytical, strategic-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to manage complex partnerships through strong negotiation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines, and intense pressure to perform.
• Ability to travel 50% of time.

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