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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Abuja Municipal, Nigeria

Responsible for provision of overall technical and budgetary oversight for Data.FI Nigeria; Ensuring the strategic and functional integration across all technical areas of the project; Meeting contractual obligations, producing all products, deliverables and targets, and achieving project results as specified by USAID/Nigeria; Oversight of project planning, contributing technical expertise as necessary to ensure project implementation, with a focus on results and financial accountability for all project activities; Providing strategic vision on program sustainability; Establishing quality control standards in-line with Data.FI and USAID standards; Maintaining strong, positive working relationships with Palladium colleagues, USAID Washington, USAID Missions, and partners, including but not limited to major subrecipients, local grantees, subcontractors, and local governments, to ensure effective implementation of project activities; Leading and advising on best governance principles, including ownership, inclusiveness, transparency, accountability, integrity, and ethical standards; balance the interests of various stakeholders and supporting participatory governance through multisectoral partnerships; Provision of oversight for management of project partners and sub-contractors in collaboration with the Deputy Director for Finance; Building capacity of local partner organizations to increase ownership and sustainability of activities beyond the life of the project; Representing the project at national, regional, and global technical forums as required; Contributing to new business development.

Abuja, Nigeria

Leading work plan implementation and achieving targeted results through providing support to health authorities to improve efficient budget allocation and execution of TB and HIV funding at state level; Providing support to the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), National TB and Leprosy Control Program (NTBLCP), National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Lagos State Health Insurance Scheme (LSHS), and the Kano State Contributory Healthcare Scheme (KSCHS) to develop national and state-level blueprints for TB integration in health insurance schemes, defining package of services and the integration approach; Support to the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) and the health insurance actors to develop a national blueprint and state-level roadmaps for HIV integration in health insurance schemes; Support to the FMOH, NTBLCP, NACA, and the National AIDS and STD Control Programme (NASCP) to develop outcome-based provider payment models for TB and HIV to raise TB treatment completion and success rates and increase patient retention and viral suppression among people living with HIV (PLHIV); Serving as Principal Investigator for the conduct of an assessment of user fees among PLHIV in Nigeria to inform interventions toward future reduction and elimination of these fees; Supporting the FMOH and NTBLCP to establish a high-level TB Secretariat to consolidate activities for TB within a framework; Coordinate capacity-building to ensure sustainable functionality of the Stop TB partnership Nigeria Secretariat; Providing support to NACA to develop and implement an HIV domestic resource mobilization strategy; Daily management and leadership to ensure activities are implemented as efficiently as possible and executed with the highest possible technical quality through direct supervision of project staff and consultants.

Abuja, Nigeria

Responsible for coordination of company activities in Nigeria; general oversight of projects and staff in-country; Coordinating activities across in-country projects and serving as the primary liaison with the Government of Nigeria, funding agencies, clients, and other stakeholders; Ensuring compliance to all Palladium policies and procedures; Serving as liaison between Palladium headquarters and projects with the goal of meeting all administrative and finance reporting requirements; Signatory on company accounts in Nigeria, and providing oversight for imprest management and inventory and asset management and control; Ensuring regular communication between headquarters finance, contracts, and administrative staff and project operations, and providing leadership for all major procurement activities; Representing Palladium at regional and international conferences.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

Coordinated HMIS for the Sustainable HIV Care and Treatment Action in Nigeria (SUSTAIN) and the Global Action Towards HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control in Sub-National Units (4GATES) projects. Coordinated and provided training for data analysis to local partner facilities; Provided HMIS quality control/assurance; Managed analysis of facility data and ensured regular, accurate monitoring reports (monthly, quarterly, annually) on all required indicators; Worked with the field team to identify critical enhancements to informatics solutions; Coordinated and monitored deployment schedules.

Abuja, Nigeria

Responsible for coordinating all company activities in Nigeria; general oversight of all Futures Group projects and staff in-country—AIDSRelief/CHARIS, USAID’s MEASURE Evaluation project, Targeted States High Impact Project, the FMOH National Data Repository Project and Health Policy Project; Coordinating activities across in-country projects and serving as the primary liaison with the Government of Nigeria, funding agencies, clients, and other stakeholders. Ensuring compliance to all Futures Group policies and procedures. Serving as liaison between Futures Group headquarters and projects with the goal of meeting all administrative and finance reporting requirements. Acting as signatory on all Futures Group accounts in Nigeria, and providing oversight for imprest management and inventory and asset management and control. Ensuring regular communication between headquarters finance, contracts, and administrative staff and project operations, and providing leadership for all major procurement activities. Representing Futures Group at regional and international conferences.

Abuja, Nigeria

Coordinated M&E for the Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Response: the Interfaith Solution (CHARIS) project. Worked with country coordinating team to manage all SI work. Member of CHARIS Steering Committee and Technical Coordinating Team, facilitating annual country operational and work plans, budgets, and scope of work for SI activities. Represented program at government, donors, NGO, and other working group meetings. Organized and conducted training on data analysis and use to service delivery facilities (SDFs). Organized conferences for shared experiences and additional trainings, ensured quality control/assurance, and managed SDF data analysis. Guided project M&E officers to ensure regular, accurate monitoring reports from all SDFs (monthly, quarterly, annually) on required HIV/AIDS program indicators. Coordinated annual project evaluation and conducted periodic site visits to each SDF.

Abuja, Nigeria

Responsible for chairing general meetings of the Nigeria Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM), and the CCM Nigeria Executive Committee; Overseeing completion of tasks assigned to the Executive Committee at general meetings of the CCM Nigeria; Recruitment of Secretariat staff to the CCM; Oversight of the Secretariat and of the CCM budget; Formation of Task Teams consisting of CCM members and/or Technical Experts to address specific issues on an ad hoc basis; Communication activities for the CCM Nigeria including providing regular feedback to all the major constituencies making up the CCM; CCM membership renewal and ensuring members’ compliance with Global Fund requirements.

Abuja

Key responsibilities: Chairing meetings of the Executive Committee and broader Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) in the absence of the Chair; As part of the Executive Committee responsible for emergency decision-making between regularly scheduled meetings of the CCM Nigeria, when it is not practical or possible to organize a full meeting of the CCM; Completion of tasks assigned to the Executive Committee at a full meeting of the CCM Nigeria; Recruitment of Secretariat staff to the CCM; Oversight of the Secretariat and of the CCM budget; Formation of Task Teams consisting of CCM members and/or Technical Experts to address specific issues on an ad hoc basis; Communication activities for the CCM Nigeria including providing regular feedback to all the major constituencies making up the CCM; CCM membership renewal and ensuring members’ compliance with Global Fund requirements.

Abuja, Nigeria

Coordinated all M&E for AIDSRelief in Nigeria. Managed SI efforts in collaboration with country coordinating team. Member of AIDSRelief Nigeria Country Steering Committee and Technical Coordinating Team facilitating annual country operational and work plans, budgets, and scopes of work for SI activities. Organized and conducted training on data analysis and use to project Local Partner Treatment Facilities (LPTFs). Planned conferences to share experiences and lessons learned. Responsible for quality control/assurance; managed LPTF data analysis, and ensured regular, accurate monitoring reports from all LPTFs (monthly, quarterly, annually) on required HIV/AIDS program indicators. Conducted periodic site visits to each LPTF. Coordinated annual project evaluation. Represented program at regional and international conferences.

Calabar, Nigeria

Served as lead information technology specialist to GHAIN points of service within the state on all aspects of program implementation, including establishing and maintaining site databases, training on medical records systems, provision of technical assistance to facility-level staff on use of automated systems, data entry, and management issues. Maintained regular monitoring of project points of service to facilitate reporting of required indicators to identified project authorities, including harmonization with state and national-level data policies.

Mchir, Pediatric Surgery, Cum Laude

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