June 16, 2010

Program Manager - Eye Care - Nigeria at Tulsi Chanrai Foundation

Location: Nigeria
Last Date: June 30, 2010
Email: hr@tcfnigeria.org

PROGRAM MANAGER – EYE CARE – NIGERIA

Tulsi Chanrai Foundation (TCF), a social development organisation, has devised and implemented rural development programs in the fields of health care, eye care, and water resource management in Nigeria that is benefiting approx. 300,000 people. Based on this success, TCF is proposing to expand/set up new projects in partnership with Government and/or private sector. TCF projects are run in a very professional and goal oriented manner and are designed to deliver maximum benefit to the poor in the most effective and least costly methods.

TCF Programs:

TCF and its donor partners presently have three programs operating in Nigeria:

 Mission for Primary Health Care – projects in 5 states
 Mission for Vision – 4 eye centers
 Mission for Water – rehabilitation of hand pumps in 10 states

The Foundation desires to recruit a Program Manager for its Eye Care Project. The project envisages setting up Eye Care program covering a rural population and amply drawing on the successful methods adopted from the Foundation’s on going projects. The projects will be located in the State Capital, and will utilize Government infrastructure to achieve maximum results.

Role:

• Overall responsibility for effective implementation of the Eye Care Project.
• Supervise / coordinate the activities of the Nurses and paramedical staff.
• Liaison between Local Government, State Government and/or participating donors, multilateral agencies etc, as per the needs of the program
• Identification, selection and recruitment of Village Health Workers, nurses and other related technical / administrative staff.
• Providing training, appraising, developing for higher responsibility etc.
• Procurement, storage and distribution of drugs, consumables, etc
• Provision of effective logistics support
• Maintenance of regular MIS, and periodic reporting to the senior management and other agencies
• Preparation of project budgets, getting it approved from the management and controlling of project cost within the given budgets and report on variances with reasons.
• Periodic presentation on the project to various Government authorities, Non- Government authorities, donors and other agencies


Qualifications : Diploma / Post Graduate in Social Science / Masters in Health Administration or Rural Development from reputed institute.

Experience : Candidate with minimum 5 years of relevant experience in the field of Health Care in Rural setting will be preferred. Strong written and oral communication skills in English are essential.

Personal Profile : Strong Administrative Skills, Sound Health, Willing to travel extensively, result oriented, adaptable, with a lot of drive and initiative and committed to the cause, strong people skills / interrelationship etc.

EMAIL (for sending job applications): hr@tcfnigeria.org

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