Strengthening Systems for Safer Childbirth Initiative (S3C) - Project Aisha

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A three-year-long intervention funded by Merck for Mothers in Lagos and Kaduna focused on ensuring challenged and mixed health systems improve the quality of care and maternal and newborn health outcomes in Nigeria. We aim to reduce maternal deaths by 15%, improve maternal health outcomes and strengthen the health system at community, primary and secondary levels to ensure care is more responsive to women’s needs.

Embedded in this intervention is the support for the ongoing introduction of group antenatal care (GANC) services to public sector primary healthcare facilities in Lagos, an intervention that has been successfully implemented with evidence indicating improved healthcare outcomes for both mothers and their newborns.

In this deployment, the primary role of Ingress Health Partners is to 

• Lead the building of networks of community providers including TBAs, and nurse-led providers

• Design and facilitate knowledge management (learning, content creation, and dissemination) for community providers and nurse-led providers

• Conduct community engagement and mobilization

Together with the other members of the Health Strategy and Delivery Foundation-led consortium, we will provide technical assistance to the Primary Healthcare Board, the Lagos State Ministry of Health, and their identified Primary Healthcare and Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent stakeholders throughout the communities 

Job Summary/Overview of Position 

The Finance and Grants Manager under the supervision of the Project director will have day to day responsibility for the financial management of this grant, ensuring correlation between spend and outputs. S/He will be expected to take responsibility for the budget, and work with program staff on budget development and implementation. 

The F&GM will support the monitoring of effective administrative policies and procedures, and will disseminate  financial information to staff and vendors in a timely and efficient manner ensuring accurate stewardship reports are presented through financial reporting

Duties and Responsibilities

The F&GM will provide financial and administrative management of day-to-day office operations and all finance and administrative grants management support under the supervision of the project director. S/He will ensure standards for work environment are observed and in compliance with donor requirements.  S/He will help recruit and train any additional needed finance, grants and procurement staff, strengthen procurement security, and supervise general office maintenance.   S/He will also manage finance, and admin staff in the areas of enhancing administrative and personnel policies and procedures, and sub grants management. 

Under the guidance and supervision of the Project Director, the F&GM, will carry out the following additional related responsibilities

1. Effectively plan, manage, monitor, and forecast Ingress Health Partners’ Financial Management Systems operations with clear structures, roles, and responsibilities as they are related to the S3C project

2. Implement a policy with clear procedures of zero tolerance for fraud, financial mismanagement, or other forms of malpractice, and continuously review and assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the financial management and administrative policies, procedures and processes and identify improvement where necessary Ingress Health Partners especially with additional contractual or grant funding.

3. Regularly review the annual budget, work plan, and budget/forecast continuously; ensure implementing staff have a clear view of the working budget and clarity around their work plans and ensure prompt preparation of regular and reliable financial statements and donor reports for Ingress Health Partners.

4. Supervise and Implement an Accounting Systems and Data Transaction management system with integrity for Ingress Health Partners.

5. Supervise and manage the process of disbursing funds to program staff, procurement agents, and suppliers in a timely, transparent, and accountable manner for Ingress Health Partners. 

6. Supervise the systems to support the management of vendor relationships, pay bills and invoices in a timely manner for Ingress Health Partners

7. Supervise the Audit Arrangement and Oversight mechanisms including annual audits by the internal/external auditors for Ingress Health Partners.

8. Perform any other work that may be assigned by the Executive Director and or Project Director 

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Preferred Skills / Prerequisites

• Preferred Skills / Prerequisites

• A good Bachelor’s (BS) degree in Accounting, Finance, or a similar field  

• Preferably also has a Master’s in Business Administration 

• Additional ICAN or ACCA certification is also preferable 

• At least seven years of relevant work experience, preferably in the non-profit space 

• Experience with the management of projects funded locally and internally Experience with office set-up, procurement, and administration of small to moderately sized organizations 

• An understanding and ability to apply Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GAAP 

• Demonstrable evidence of the use of QuickBooks, SAGE, Peoplesoft or similar financial applications. 

• Proficiency in Microsoft Windows, Excel, Word, PowerPoint

• Excellent organizational skills and 

• Excellent oral and written communications skills in English

• Previous experience with other funded programs- 

• Familiarity with project administration, procurement, budget management, and costed work planning