Program Manager. Abuja

• Translate grant agreements, log-frames, and donor workplans into execution roadmaps with named owners, sequenced milestones, and dated deliverables.
  
• Run multi state roll-outs end to end, covering pilot design, scale up, and national deployment.
  
• Maintain a live risk register and issue log for every project, with mitigations assigned and tracked to closure.
  

• Own project budgets, burn rates, and forecasts, and flag variance against plan before it becomes a donor conversation.
  
• Track delivery against grant indicators, targets, and timelines, and escalate slippage early with a recovery plan attached.
  
• Produce donor reports covering narrative, financial, and monitoring and evaluation inputs, working with finance and analytics.
  
• Keep projects audit ready at all times: procurement records, sub award documentation, field payment evidence, and approvals filed as work happens rather than at reporting time.
  
• Manage no cost extensions, budget realignments, and modification requests through to donor approval.
  

• Act as the primary interface with donor agencies, implementing partners, government stakeholders including NAFDAC, NMEP, NPHCDA, and state ministries of health, and with vendors.
  
• Coordinate cross functional delivery across call centre operations, field officers, data analysts, product, and engineering, without formal authority over every team involved.
  
• Contract and manage third party vendors, consultants, and field partners, including scope, performance, and payment milestones.
  
• Represent Sproxil in technical working groups, review meetings, and stakeholder engagements.
  

• Oversee field operations, training programmes, call centre based surveys, and digital data collection workflows.
  
• Identify operational risk early, particularly around field access, enumerator performance, and seasonal constraints, and put mitigations in place before delivery is affected.
  
• Protect data quality end to end, from instrument design and enumerator training through to validation checks and data quality assessments.
  
• Ensure respondent consent, data handling, and record retention meet the Nigeria Data Protection Act and donor requirements.
  
• Run clean handoffs between field, call centre, analytics, and client facing teams.
  

• Work with analytics and monitoring and evaluation colleagues to track performance, surface insight, and capture lessons learned.
  
• Improve delivery models, tools, templates, and standard operating procedures so each project starts further ahead than the last.
  
• Contribute to proposals, concept notes, and scale up strategies, including workplans, budgets, and delivery narratives.
  

• Full command of the active portfolio: scope, budget position, indicator status, and reporting calendar for every live project.
  
• Relationships established with donor contacts, government counterparts, and internal delivery leads.
  
• A single consolidated delivery tracker in place across all projects, replacing project by project reporting.
  

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in project management, public health, social sciences, engineering, business management, or a related field.
  
• Seven or more years managing complex projects, including at least three years on donor funded, grant supported, or social enterprise programmes.
  
• Demonstrated delivery of multi state or national level projects in Nigeria.
  
• Strong command of grant compliance, budgeting, reporting, and donor expectations.
  
• Proven ability to lead cross functional teams and manage external stakeholders.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including donor grade report writing.
  
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently across Nigeria.
  

• PMP, PRINCE2, or an equivalent project management certification.
  
• Experience with major international funders, for example the Gates Foundation, the Global Fund, USAID, FCDO, or United Nations agencies.
  
• Background in public health, malaria programmes, household or facility surveys, monitoring and evaluation, or digital data collection.
  
• Familiarity with computer assisted telephone interviewing, field surveys, dashboards, or large scale data operations.
  
• Working experience with Nigerian government agencies or regulators.
  
• Master's degree in a relevant discipline.
  

• Ownership. Takes a problem to resolution without being chased, and says so early when a date is at risk.
  
• Stakeholder judgement. Reads a room of donors, regulators, and partners, and adjusts without losing the position.
  
• Execution discipline. Works from plans, trackers, and evidence rather than recollection.
  
• Commercial and data acumen. Reads a budget and a dataset with equal comfort, and questions numbers that do not reconcile.
  
• Composure. Structured and calm when field conditions, funders, or timelines change at short notice.
  
• Multi project fluency. Holds several concurrent programmes without letting the quiet one drift.
  

Benefits

• Competitive salary benchmarked against the Nigerian development and technology sector, with performance based review.
  
• Health cover, statutory pension, and paid leave in line with Sproxil Nigeria policy.
  
• Direct ownership of nationally visible programmes with senior stakeholder exposure from day one.
  
• A small team where the work you do is attributable and the decisions you make stick.