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The Finance and Grants Officer will be responsible for providing end-to-end financial and grants management support for the GAVI-supported project by overseeing budget development and monitoring, tracking expenditures against approved plans, analyzing spending trends and variances, supporting cash flow forecasting, and ensuring accurate processing of payments, advances, and reimbursements. It also includes ensuring full compliance with GAVI donor requirements, AHNi policies, contractual obligations, procurement standards, and statutory regulations through effective grant tracking, audit-ready documentation, and close monitoring of work plans, grant conditions, and expenditure thresholds. The position further supports timely financial reporting, reconciliation, record-keeping, and document archiving, while strengthening internal controls, mitigating financial risks, promoting accountability, and contributing to audits and compliance reviews. In addition, the role provides financial oversight for procurement and logistics processes, supports asset and inventory management, collaborates closely with program and technical teams to align financial implementation with project activities, offers guidance on allowable costs and budget use, facilitates financial planning for field activities and campaigns, builds staff and partner capacity on financial procedures and donor compliance, and represents the finance function in coordination with banks, vendors, auditors, government stakeholders, implementing partners, and donor representatives.                                                                 

Minimum Recruitment Standard

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or related field.
• ACA, ACCA, ICAN, ANAN, or other professional accounting certification is highly desirable.
• Master’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related discipline is an added advantage.
• Minimum of 5–7 years progressive experience in finance and grants management within donor-funded projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing grants funded by GAVI, Global Fund, DoS, UNICEF, WHO, or similar international donors.
• Strong understanding of donor compliance regulations, financial reporting standards, and grants administration.
• Experience in budget monitoring, financial analysis, audit preparation, and risk management.
• Proficiency in accounting software, ERP systems, Microsoft Excel, and financial reporting tools.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and report-writing skills.
• Familiarity with public health or development sector financing is strongly preferred.
• Experience working in Kaduna State or Northern Nigeria operational context is an added advantage.

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The LGA Data Officer will support the collection, collation, validation, analysis, and timely reporting of immunization and project-related data across supported facilities, wards, and communities; maintain accurate databases and reporting records; and ensure complete documentation of routine immunization sessions, outreach activities, and community interventions. The role includes conducting data verification and consistency checks, supporting Data Quality Assessments and corrective actions, resolving discrepancies, and ensuring alignment between source documents, registers, summary forms, and electronic reporting systems in compliance with national, donor, and organizational standards. The officer will provide technical support for DHIS2 and other health information systems, troubleshoot reporting issues, monitor trends and key immunization indicators, generate summaries and performance reports for decision-making, and support review meetings to identify gaps and low-performing areas requiring intervention. In addition, the officer will participate in supportive supervision visits, mentor and train health workers and community volunteers on data tools and reporting processes, strengthen documentation and record management, support community-level tracking and analysis, collaborate with LGA authorities and partners on data-related activities, and ensure confidentiality, safeguarding, accountability, and ethical data management throughout project implementation.                                                                     

Minimum Recruitment Standard

• Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Health Information Management, Public Health, Epidemiology, Demography, Mathematics, Social Sciences, or related fields.
• Minimum of 2–4 years relevant experience in data management, monitoring and evaluation, or health information systems.
• Experience working on donor-funded public health projects, preferably GAVI, Global Fund, DoS, UNICEF, or WHO-supported programs.
• Strong understanding of routine immunization indicators and health information systems.
• Hands-on experience using DHIS2, Microsoft Excel, and other data management tools.
• Experience conducting data quality verification and supportive supervision activities.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and report-writing skills.
• Ability to work effectively in field-based and multicultural environments.
• Knowledge of Kaduna State local operational context and local languages is an added advantage.

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