Program Manager, Pharmacy Based Immunization Delivery

 

Program Manager, Pharmacy Based Immunization DeliveryLocation: Abuja, Nigeria Location type: On-siteReports to: Global Project Director(Technical) & PSI Nigeria (Administrative)*If you are unsure if you are in an eligible location, please visit our Career page for more details.

 

Welcome to PSI!PSI is a network of locally rooted, globally connected organizations working to achieve consumer-powered healthcare — people-centered health systems that ensure quality, affordable care wherever and whenever it is needed. Our origins in sexual and reproductive health have grown into a broader mission. Today, we work with the public and private sectors as well as local communities, prioritizing people’s voice and choice and developing solutions to meet their essential health needs. Over the past five decades, we have helped push boundaries, break taboos, set trends, and develop innovative solutions to complex global health challenges.

 

Do you want to join PSI to help make it easier for all people to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire? Read on!

Join us!

PSI is excited to launch the Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery (PBID) project in Nigeria. This is part of a 4-year, 3-country pilot project funded by Takeda Pharmaceuticals that aims to demonstrate that pharmacies can safely and effectively deliver vaccines to those in need, with potential for rapid scalability. African governments are making significant efforts to achieve scale in immunization, despite the challenges of overburdened public health systems and setbacks from COVID-19. Yet across Africa, 30 million children under 5 suffer from vaccine preventable diseases and half a million children die each year. Vaccines are a low-cost, high-impact health intervention, and local pharmacies have effectively delivered vaccines in many countries. PBID is a new model in most countries in Africa and has the potential to support governments in expanding vaccine access to millions. Creating new service points will also be important during health emergencies like climate shocks and pandemics. The project will deliver vaccines to nearly 1M people, a majority of whom are women and girls. The evidence generated will create a blueprint to scale access to immunization across Africa.

 

PSI seeks a Program Manager that will oversee PSI's operational, technical, and programmatic excellence goals and execution of quality standards by providing wide-ranging operational, technical, and/or project management support. May also supervise one or more staff who serve as a network member/country focal point. Work with network members/country project teams, headquarters technical and service departments, and subcontractors to ensure program/project objectives are met to high standards of quality and timeliness and are in compliance with donor requirements. Ensure the programmatic and financial health and technical quality of a portfolio of network members and country or global project(s) of high complexity. Demonstrate advanced knowledge or provides specialized subject matter support in a technical or functional area (e.g., a health area or specific program management skillset). Supports country, project, or departmental leadership with  donor relations. May also  contribute to  wider  departmental and/or organizational initiatives and working groups. Within a global project or technical team also contribute to the development of technical documents and presentations for internal and external audiences.

 

What You'll Do

• Monitor and ensure smooth operational and programmatic implementation and technical quality of the project, including monitoring workplans and deliverables, and subaward management in coordination with immediate team members, network member or global project team members, and global technical and service department.
• • Accountable for delivery of all aspects of the project, including achieving the project’s objectives and targets within budget.
  • Conduct regular visits to project sites to provide technical assistance and ensure proper monitoring of project activities, reviewing data collection processes and performing data quality assessments.
  • Lead the collection of periodic data reports and compilation of narrative reports, including inputs for donor reporting, in consultation with Evidence and Learning department.
  • Implement demand generation activities such as social behavior change campaigns, both digital and non-digital, against set timelines and engage community leaders to mobilize the community, driving traffic to pharmacies and increasing uptake of vaccines.
  • Liaise with national stakeholders, such as Ministry of Health officials, pharmaceutical associations