Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi) is a leading non-profit organization that promotes socio-economic
development by supporting global health and economic initiatives in Nigeria. It was established as an affiliate of the Family Health International (FHI) to sustain FHI’s achievements in strengthening indigenous organizational capacity in Nigeria. AHNi currently has its headquarters in Abuja and two zonal offices in Nigeria. It implements several USAID-sponsored projects in seven states of Nigeria. To strengthen our operations in the country, we are seeking qualified candidates for the following position:

Pharmacy Specialist
The Pharmacy Specialist will provide technical support to the implementation of high quality services with primary focus on pharmacy-related monitoring and evaluation of program strategies and approaches related to program implementation.

Key Responsibilities
• With the Senior Medical Services Advisor, coordinate the design and implementation of components related to monitoring and evaluation of pharmacy-related activities
• With the Senior Medical Services Advisor, provide technical support to all aspects of monitoring and evaluation and capacity building relating to pharmacy best practices to field programs
• Provide technical assistance in all aspects of monitoring and evaluation including logistics management information system (LMIS) and capacity building relating to pharmacy best practices to field programs
• Contribute to the development of lessons learnt from programs and projects related to pharmacy practice and apply these lessons to modify existing programs and improve the design of new programs
• Assist in providing programmatic assistance to partners on issues of monitoring and evaluation of program activities related to pharmacy practice
• Represent AHNi at meetings, workshops and seminars related to pharmacy issues
• Remain informed on current developments in public health aspects of pharmacy practice and related development fields by reviewing current literature and staying alert to any implication of such development to program implementation and operations research
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements
• B. Pharm. degree with at least 5-7 years experience in health systems strengthening programs
• Experience in program monitoring and evaluation
• Excellent communication and computer skills
• Experience in developing collaborative relationships and liaising with senior level government officials, community leaders, and donors
• Familiarity with the Nigerian public sector health system, NGOs and CBOs is highly desirable.

Method of application:
Interested candidates should forward their suitability statement (application) and resume (CV) as a single MS Word document within 10 days from the date of this publication to:
[email protected]

Only applications sent electronically (I.e. by e-mail) with the job title and location clearly indicated as the Subject of the mail will be considered, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Please do NOT send more than one application. Failure to follow these instructions will lead to automatic disqualification.

DISCLAIMER: Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi) does not test/interview candidates for a fee and all our tests/interviews are conducted in the country office in Abuja or our zonal offices.

Federal ministry of health
vacancy announcement for the post of director general/ chief executive Nigerian institute of medical research, yaba Lagos.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified Nigerian candidates from within and outside Nigeria for the post director-general/ chief executive of the Nigerian institute of medical research (nimr)

the institute is a parastatal of the federal ministry of health. Its mandate is to undertake basic, applied and operational research in the biomedical sciences with the aim of advancing the frontiers of knowledge in medicine, producing better understanding of the diseases prevalent in the country and improving their control.

Qualification and experience:
the position is open to clinical & bio-medical scientists of high national and international repute suitable candidates must:

- possess postgraduate academic qualification as well as postgraduate profesional qualification where appropriate
- provide evidence of distinguished and continuing contribution to medical knowledge through research and publications.
- have leadership experience in research and management at university or research institute level
duties:
the director-general is the chief executive of the institute. He is responsible for the execution of the mandate of the institute and for the smooth running of its day-to-day affairs. As a scientist, he is to provide research leadership and as managerhe is expected to provide and environment congenial for high level scientific pursuit.

Conditions of service
the conditions of service are the same as those applicable to direct-general/chief executive in charge of federal government parastatals.

Method of application
interested candidates should send 10 copies of their applications and up-to-date cv together with three copies of their scientific publications to:
office of the permanent secretary
federal ministry of health
headquarters
p.m.b 083
abuja

to reach the minister not later tha six weeks from the date of this publication. The application should include the names and addresses of three refrees who should be requested by the candidates to send references on them under separate confidential cover to the address above.

Signed
the permanent secretary
for: honorable minister of health
MORE JOB VACANCIES