Program Manager Nigeria
Program Manager Nigeria
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Job Description
Position Title: Program Manager Nigeria
Location: Nigeria
Type: Fully remote with travel to inperson meetings and events
Reports to: Dr Norah Obudho Director East Africa
Hours per week (average): 40 (full time)
Vision and Mission
WomenLift Health envisions a world where diverse accomplished leaders collectively transform health outcomes. To realize that vision we are expanding the power and influence of women leaders to transform health outcomes for women girls and vulnerable populations and be change agents for inclusive leadership.
Work
At WomenLift Health we champion the belief that when women lead better health follows. While women form the foundation of the worlds health workforce they continue to hold few leadership positions. Working through regional hubs in East Africa India North America and Southern Africa and in partnership with Women in Leadership Advancement Network (WILAN) for Nigeria we deliver contextualized leadership development programs to serve thousands of mid to senior women leaders around the world equipping them with tools and support systems to navigate their path to the highest decisionmaking levels in health. We build partnerships with institutions to create environments where women leaders can thrive. Finally we create platforms and contribute evidence for changemakers at all levels to reimagine and reshape leadership.
Our Culture and Values
We are building a diverse entrepreneurial team of people who bring unique cultural and technical perspectives and experiences. We welcome resultsoriented problemsolvers of any nationality race gender sexual orientation age and disability. We are a growing organization that is committed to building a culture with our partners that values:
- Collaborative leadership that celebrates diverse perspectives and experiences and ensures everyone contributes to their full potential.
- Partnership grounded in humility respect empathy and inclusion.
- Transformative change based upon bold strategic thinking combined with adaptability and pragmatic action.
- Spirit of learning ensures we are open forwardlooking constructive and committed to growing collectively and individually.
- Achieving impact by improving global health and gender equality.
POSITION SUMMARY
We are seeking an experienced and resultsoriented Program Manager to play a crucial role in supporting the coordination and implementation of a strategic partnership between WomenLift Health and WILAN in Nigeria. This role will focus on ensuring effective communication collaboration and implementation of our shared work program aimed at advancing womens leadership in the health sector in Nigeria. The manager will work under the direction of Dr Norah Obudho East Africa Director WomenLift Health and in close collaboration with Abosede GeorgeOgan Founder WILAN.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partnership Coordination: Serve as the main point of contact between both organizations fostering strong relationships and facilitating open lines of communication.
- Team Engagement: Identify and engage the appropriate staff members within both organizations who will be integral to partnership activities.
- Problem Solving: Assist in identifying challenges that arise within the partnership framework and work program. Support collaborative problemsolving and facilitate discussions to find effective solutions that address shared concerns.
- Program Implementation: Support the implementation of the shared work program ensuring that all activities are executed in alignment with the established goals and timelines.
- Capturing Learning: Create and maintain systems for capturing lessons learned and best practices throughout the partnership. Analyze and document successes challenges and insights gained from the implementation of the work program.
The Nigeria Program Manager will play a critical role in supporting the design and implementation the WomenLift Health WILAN work program including:
- Leadership Development Programs (60% of time):
- Endtoend Implementation of the oneyear long hybrid leadership development program (Leadership Journey) for a cohort of 30 women leaders including — supporting the selection process of women scheduling of key Journey milestones communication and followup with cohort members support for mentors coaches reviewers and technical experts engaged with the cohort project management of two inperson events for the cohort members and support for the women in their Leadership Projects and other needs over the duration of the program through officehours and responding to requests.
- Implementation of 35 leadership workshops (virtual and inperson) for women leaders in Nigeria including support in scheduling the workshops and providing operational support for the virtual platform or inperson event.
- Manage the use and maintenance of tools for implementing and tracking key milestones deliverables and budget according to established program timeline for the hub.
- Support cohort members and health partners by bringing relevant public and/or global health knowledge/experience to discussions and providing active support to meet their needs.
- Actively contribute to and/or facilitate crossregional ideation brainstorming in the creation of new systems processes and modalities for the leadership development activities.
- MEL (20% of time):
- Manage program monitoring evaluation and learning (MEL) efforts for the Nigeria Hub under the guidance of the WomenLift Health and WILAN MEL team.
- ThoughtLeadership and Communications (20% of time): In collaboration with WomenLift Health and WILAN Communications Teammates:
- Support the development and dissemination of messaging materials speaker events videos and thoughtleadership products as needed.
Education & Experience (Required):
- Masters degree in a related field
- Minimum 7 years of work experience with 3 years in public or global health
- Demonstrated track record of independently adapting and establishing processes systems and tools to implement capacity building programs
Knowledge Skills and Abilities (Required):
- Commitment to WomenLift Health and WILANs Mission Vision and Values
- Understanding of womens leadership in the development and/or health sector in Nigeria
- Proven ability to collaborate and cocreate with diverse colleagues across cultures countries disciplines and timezones
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English
- Depth of experience maturity confidence gravitas ability to learn and adapt and give and receive feedback befitting a manager
- Selfstarter selfdriven learner who thrives in an entrepreneurial environment
- Solid computer skills and demonstrated experience in using MS office suite including spreadsheets webbased applications such as email social media videoconferencing program and task management applications and ease in learning new programs
- Demonstrated project management and organizational skills
Education & Experience (Preferred):
- Womens Leadership Gender Equality or Public Health is a plus
- Additional language preferred but not required
HOW TO APPLY
Hiring Information
WomenLift Health is a project of New Venture Fund (NVF) a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative publicinterest projects and grantmaking programs. NVF is committed to attracting developing and retaining exceptional people and to creating a work environment that is dynamic rewarding and enables each of us to realize our potential. NVFs work environment is safe and open to all employees and partners respecting the full spectrum of race color religious creed sex gender identity sexual orientation national origin political affiliation ancestry age disability genetic information veteran status and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working.
WomenLift Health intends to hire the selected candidate via a PEO (Professional Employer Organization) partner. Candidate must live and be authorized to work in Nigeria.
Employment Type
Full Time
