We are a global team of experts and innovators tackling some of the world’s most pressing health challenges. We work with leaders and change makers around the globe to bring health strategies to life. We provide ideas, advice and technical know-how that enable our partners to build a path to lasting change.

With 30 years’ experience in global health, we collaborate with our partners to explore existing evidence, combine expertise, scale up ideas and co-create solutions that accelerate change. This includes collaborating on policy design, managing initiatives, building powerful coalitions and galvanising social movements. Our impact is felt across whole communities, with a focus on women, girls and those who have been marginalised.

As part of MSI Reproductive Choices, all our profits go back into supporting MSI’s own mission of children by choice, not chance.

The Team Lead (TL) will be responsible for the delivery of a donor-funded programme focused on public health, demographic transition and human capital development. The TL will be responsible for stewarding a regional programme, working with multi-sectoral actors in government, civil society and public and private sectors across sub-Saharan Africa to strengthen the evidence base, use of data and capacity of African stakeholders and institutions on current and projected population needs. The TL will be responsible for working with different teams to strengthen the case for investing in health, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, as a necessity for achieving a demographic dividend.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic leadership and people management: provide overall leadership, technical direction and management oversight to staff and the overall programme team including staff, consultants and consortium partners. Plan, direct and coordinate strategic plans, annual and quarterly work plans and overall management of the programme to achieve programme objectives in line with the donor requirements and Options policies.
• Technical and operational oversight: Provide overall technical and administrative leadership to the programme implementation team, including the development of strategies, theories of change, log frames, work plans, budgets and reporting. Responsible for meeting contractual obligations, producing deliverables and targets and achieving programme results.
• Relationship management: Primary point of contact with the donor, consortium implementing partners, and stakeholders at regional and national level including government ministries, civil society, and private and public sector actors. Maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders, delegating country-level relationship management as and when appropriate.

• University degree in a relevant subject
• Significant knowledge and experience in government health systems in sub-Saharan Africa, including fragile states
• Specialist knowledge in demographic transition and expertise in ensuring demographic data informs policy, planning and budgeting at national and sub-national level.
• The specialist knowledge of one or more aspects of health systems strengthening, including data for decision-making, leadership and governance, planning and budgeting etc.
• Strong experience of managing international donor-funded technical assistance projects, ideally in a Team Lead or programme leadership role
• Strong knowledge of good practices in capacity building and experience of applying in the design and delivery of technical assistance
• Minimum of ten years’ experience providing technical assistance, including long-term, embedded technical assistance to government ministries/departments
• Specialist knowledge RMNCAH, including family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights
• Proven experience in mixed-methods research, including analysing large-volume quantitative data sets and distilling key insights into accessible formats to influence policy
• Proven ability to represent organisations and programmes at the highest levels internationally, regionally and nationally.
• Fluency in English and French preferred

Benefits

Options offers a competitive, comprehensive benefits package specific to each country, for further information please contact HR at [email protected].

Application process

• To apply, please fill in the form.
• Closing date for applications is: 26th June 2023
• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for an interview.
• Please note that this role will be subject to full pre-employment background checks including criminal record check, identification check, employment references and right to work verification (where appropriate).

Other information

• As an equal opportunity employer, Options Consultancy Services is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage or civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified candidates from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Options Consultancy Services.
• Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and postholders to share this commitment.
• We seek people who are pro-choice, promote diversity and inclusion, are energetic and enthusiastic about Options’ vision.
• Applicants must have the right to work in any of the following countries Nigeria, Kenya or UK.