Society for Family Health (SFH) - Senior Officer, Procurement, Senior Officer- Malaria Field Programmes

Society for Family Health (SFH) is one of the leading public health Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Nigeria, implementing programmes in Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS prevention, and Maternal and Child Health. SFH works in partnership with the Federal and State Governments of Nigeria, the British Department for International Development (DFID) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) among other International Donors.
   We seek to recruit qualified persons as a result of growth in our Organization. We offer Professional opportunities for career advancement, a good working environment and competitive remuneration. We require competent candidates for the following positions.

Position: Senior Officer, Procurement (based in Abuja)

E-mail: soprocabj2@sfhnigeria.org

Job Profile:
Reporting to the Manager -Procurement, the successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Placing public tenders and procurement opportunities in national and international portals, coordinate tender openings with its reports documented, maintain vendors’ entry documentation and associated registers.
• S/He is responsible for ranking of vendors in addition to evaluating performance of vendors against purchase orders and provides monthly report.
• Successful candidate will be required to run vendors through existing watch lists to ensure that unapproved vendors are not recruited or maintained.
• Candidates will be required to ensure adequate filing of hard documents and the maintenance of a mirror electronic version of procurement documents.

Qualifications/Experience: Candidates applying for this position

• Must have a first degree in any of the sciences.
• Must possess minimum of three (3) years post NYSC working experience, one (1) year of which must be in a similar function/ capacity.
• Must have proven experience and basic skills in procurement management and administration.
• Must have high proficiency in the Microsoft Excel and Word packages.
• Should have had hands-on awareness of the required scope of the needed work environment and the attendant equipment necessary for the job.
• Knowledge of the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Package will be of added advantage.
• Will be at an advantage if they posses any Professional qualification in procurement.

Position: Senior Officer- Malaria Field Programmes (based in Taraba)

E-mail: somtar@sfhnigeria.org

Job Profile:
This is a senior officer position, reporting to the GF Malaria Programme Manager (North). The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• The coordination of all Global Fund Malaria activities in the Zone (3 states). Primary duties will be management of the Sub-Recipients (SRs), through monitoring Sub-Recipients’ and contractor’s/Consultant’s progress towards achievement of programme deliverables, monitoring the quality of outputs, and assuring the fiscal integrity of all transactions and operations, and training.
• S/He will strengthen the RBM partnership in the state and will be the liaison of SFH to the public sector aspect of the malaria control programme.
• S/He will also be responsible for commodity distribution, site management and data retrieval in the state (Taraba).

Qualifications/Experience: The desired candidate:

• Must have a first degree in any health, behavioural or social sciences, and must possess a post graduate degree in public health.
• Must possess minimum of three (3) years post NYSC working experience in NGO field work.
• Must possess sound experience in health commodities marketing, distribution and channel management.
• Proven experience in GF monitoring and evaluation systems and performance frameworks in implementing national M&E systems for data collation and use.
• Experience in planning and facilitation of training for different cadres of staff, and in data quality assessments.
• Good oral, presentation and written comprehension skills, strong capacity building skills and willingness to train, with well developed written and oral communication skills.
• Experience with database management and data entry, cleaning and verification.
• Ability to work with MS Word, Access, Excel, Power Point, DHIS 1.4 and 2.0 is essential.

Compensation & Benefits:
The compensation package for these positions is very attractive and designed to attract, motivate and retain talented candidates.

Method of Application
A one page application letter, addressed to the Assistant Director-HR, clearly providing evidence of competences required for the job, current remuneration, as well as comprehensive Curriculum Vitae indicating clearly your valid telephone numbers, email address and current contact address should be sent on or before 18^th July, 2012 to the email address beside the job you are applying for.

Do note:

• That any candidate with multiple submissions will be disqualified.
• Candidates without the minimum requirements need not apply.
• Only shortlisted candidate will be contacted.

SFH is an equal opportunity employer

• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.