Technical Assistant - Health Systems & Programme Implementation

Technical Assistant - Health Systems & Programme Implementation at Kainuwa Sustainale Development Foundations (KSDF)

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Sep 25, 2026, 7:04 AM

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Kainuwa Sustainale Development Foundations (KSDF) was founded in 2019 out of a shared passion for social equity and human development. Recognizing the deep inequalities in access to basic services, our founders created KSDF as a platform for change where sustainable impact could be delivered through practical, community-driven solutions.

As a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization, we are dedicated to improving human capital in underserved communities. Since 2019, we have been ensuring that every person regardless of background has access to the resources they need to live a healthier, more empowered life. In 2025, the Foundation was formally registered, marking a new chapter of growth and greater accountability to the communities we serve.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Technical Assistant - Health Systems & Programme Implementation

Location: Abuja

Reports to: Program Manager

Employment level: Technical Assistant – Junior / Early-Career Technical Professional

Contract: Initially 12 months, renewable subject to performance and programme requirements

Functional Relationships: Program Director; Programme Leads; SDIU/HDIU Team; FMoH Technical Advisers; Finance & Operations; government and partner counterparts

Background

KSDF therefore requires a Technical Assistant – Health Systems & Programme Implementation based in its Abuja Office.

Kainuwa Sustainable Development Foundation (KSDF) is implementing and supporting an expanding portfolio of health systems strengthening, primary healthcare, institutional capacity-building, and social-development interventions. Current and emerging areas of work include:

Community and charitable health interventions, education support, and other social-development activities.

Health-facility performance, PHC functionality, implementation discipline, quality improvement, and accountability initiatives.

Technical assistance to the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, including Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) and Human Resources for Health (HRH).

The Gombe State Execution Grant and technical support to the State Delivery/Health Delivery Implementation Unit (SDIU/HDIU).

Research, policy development, evidence synthesis, proposal development, stakeholder engagement, and implementation support to government institutions and partners.

The growing breadth of this portfolio requires reliable day-to-day technical coordination, documentation, evidence synthesis, implementation follow-up, field coordination, and structured programme management assistance.

Role Rationale

This role is designed as a cross-cutting technical programme position rather than a clinical nursing post. It translates frontline clinical(Primary health care) and community-health experience into practical programme implementation, technical documentation, research, stakeholder coordination, quality improvement, and health-systems support across KSDF investments.

The Technical Assistant will provide day-to-day technical, programme coordination, documentation, research, field implementation, stakeholder engagement, and administrative support across KSDF’s health and social-development programmes.

The role will strengthen the ability of senior technical staff to manage multiple investments by ensuring that routine technical work, research, documentation, stakeholder follow-up, meeting preparation, field coordination, and narrative reporting are undertaken consistently and to a high standard.

Capability - Area How the Role Uses It:

Technical documentation & research - Prepares meeting packs, technical notes, minutes, action matrices, briefs, workshop reports, literature summaries, and structured follow-up for programme teams.

Programme implementation & coordination - Supports workplans, technical activities, field implementation, action follow-up, programme coordination, and delivery of assigned technical tasks.

PHC & frontline insight - Applies practical understanding of service delivery, maternal and newborn health, community health, quality of care, infection prevention, referral pathways, and frontline operational realities.

Community & stakeholder engagement - Supports outreach, community engagement, beneficiary case support, stakeholder consultations, workshops, and documentation of charitable and social-development activities.

Key Responsibilities

• General Technical Programme Support:
• Follow up internally with responsible personnel on technical assignments and deadlines.
• Participate in field visits and implementation activities as required.
• Draft meeting minutes, aide-memoires, action matrices, and follow-up notes.
• Undertake background research and evidence reviews for programme activities.
• Maintain organised electronic repositories of programme and technical documents.
• Support preparation of donor/partner updates and routine technical correspondence.
• Assist in coordinating and consolidating technical inputs from programme teams, consultants, and partners.
• Support technical staff in planning and implementing KSDF programmes and technical assistance activities.
• Support preparation of technical meetings, workshops, and stakeholder engagements.
• Maintain trackers for technical deliverables, milestones, decisions, and agreed actions.
• Support development and review of programme workplans, activity schedules, budgets, and implementation plan and schedules Including other programme documents.
• Assist in preparing technical notes, briefing papers, presentations, and reports.
• SDIU/HDIU and Gombe Execution Grant Support:
• Support coordination between KSDF, government agencies, implementing partners, and technical consultants.
• Maintain action trackers arising from performance reviews, workshops, and technical meetings.
• Support review and organisation of technical submissions, meeting papers, and programme documents requiring management follow-up.
• Participate in facility/LGA implementation visits, stakeholder consultations, and learning visits, and document agreed follow-up actions.
• Assist in preparing agendas, briefing notes, meeting packs, and technical materials required for implementation and performance-review meetings.
• Assist with preparation of presentations, briefing notes, technical summaries, and meeting packs.
• Assist with documentation of lessons learned, achievements, case examples, and emerging implementation issues.
• Support preparation for routine SDIU/HDIU implementation and performance-review meetings and related technical engagements.
• Support documentation of implementation bottlenecks, corrective actions, and resolutions.
• Follow up with relevant programme personnel on agreed activities, owners, and deadlines.
• Support preparation of narrative sections of quarterly and milestone Execution Grant reports and maintain well-organised supporting documentation for assigned deliverables.
• Federal HSS/HRH Technical Assistance:
• Assist in preparing and formatting technical products, presentations, and briefing materials.
• Assist in reviewing, organising, and summarising national and subnational health policy and strategy documents.
• Assist with documentation relating to HRH strategy, workforce planning, governance, and institutional strengthening.
• Support technical working-group meetings, workshop reports, consultation summaries, and follow-up of agreed actions.
• Maintain workplan, consultancy, and deliverable trackers.
• Undertake targeted background research requested by senior technical advisers.
• Coordinate documentation received from consultants and government counterparts and maintain orderly technical repositories.
• Support evidence synthesis, literature reviews, and preparation of technical background notes.
• Support preparation of HSS and HRH technical meetings, consultations, workshops, and working sessions.
• The Technical Assistant will support, but will not independently lead, complex HRH policy analysis, workforce planning, or senior policy advisory work.
• PHC, MNCH and Community Health Support:
• Support community-engagement, health-education, and outreach activities.
• Assist technical teams in reviewing programme approaches from a frontline service-delivery perspective.
• Support quality-of-care and infection-prevention activities where appropriately assigned.
• Assist with preparation of PHC implementation tools, checklists, and orientation materials.
• Provide implementation support to PHC-related activities and selected health service-delivery initiatives.
• Participate in field implementation and learning visits, documenting frontline service-delivery challenges, agreed actions, and technical support needs.
• Support maternal, newborn, child, and reproductive-health activities where relevant.
• Participate in technical reviews of service-delivery processes, referral pathways, workflow, and facility functionality where required.
• Technical Research and Knowledge Management:
• Compile reference materials and prepare concise summaries of policies, guidelines, and programme reports.
• Assist with drafting programme concepts, technical proposals, and selected narrative sections of reports.
• Maintain structured electronic reference libraries and programme knowledge repositories.
• Document, implementation challenges, and recommendations for programme improvement.
• Document programme learning, best practices and support development of case studies, success stories, and learning products.
• Maintain appropriate document version control and archives of technical outputs.
• Conduct targeted literature, policy, and document searches under supervision.
• Assist with rapid evidence reviews, benchmarking exercises, and meeting background notes.
• Workshops, Meetings and Stakeholder Coordination:
• Support preparation of agendas, participant materials, presentations, and meeting packs.
• Coordinate technical inputs required ahead of meetings and workshops.
• Maintain stakeholder contact and engagement records where required.
• Track post-meeting commitments and follow up on assigned actions.
• Take structured meeting notes and prepare action matrices with owners and deadlines.
• Support documentation of workshops, consultations, and technical working-group meetings.
• Support professional and effective communication with government, partners, consultants, and other stakeholders to to facilitate timely implementation
• Health Commodities and Programme Logistics Support:
• Liaise with Operations and Procurement colleagues to ensure technical specifications and quantities reflect programme needs.
• Document and promptly escalate operational concerns relating to commodity availability, usability, or equipment readiness raised during implementation.
• Help programme teams define commodity and equipment requirements for workshops, outreach activities, and field implementation.
• Support technical planning for programme commodities, supplies, and relevant equipment required for programme activities.
• Provide appropriate frontline clinical input on the use, handling, storage, and readiness of relevant medical supplies and equipment within the limits of the role.
• These responsibilities are technical support functions and do not replace KSDF’s formal procurement, logistics, finance, or asset-control processes.
• Support preparation of commodity-related technical checklists, job aids, and activity documentation.
• Quality Improvement and Frontline Clinical Perspective:
• Participate in technical walkthroughs and reviews of selected service-delivery processes.
• Help programme teams understand practical frontline operational challenges and identify issues for escalation.
• The position is not primarily a practising nursing role; its purpose is to translate frontline clinical experience into stronger programme implementation and health-systems support.
• Support documentation of quality-of-care, infection-prevention, workflow, staffing, referral, and commodity gaps where relevant.
• Support development and use of simple quality-improvement tools and practical facility-support checklists.
• Support documentation of improvement actions and relevant capacity-building activities.
• Documentation and Programme Administration:
• Contribute and assist with formatting concept notes, briefs, technical reports, presentations, and workshop materials.
• Compile supporting documents required for programme and donor reporting.
• Support preparation of technical correspondence and maintain action logs and decision registers.
• Coordinate document reviews and maintain appropriate version control.
• Maintain organised programme files, technical workplans, calendars, and deadline trackers.
• Undertake other programme and technical assignments reasonably required by KSDF management
• Key Deliverables
• High-quality documentation of assigned technical meetings, consultations, and workshops.
• A properly maintained electronic technical-document repository with clear version control.
• Up-to-date workplans, technical action matrices, and assignment schedules.
• At least two programme case studies, lessons-learned notes, or knowledge products annually.
• Technical background notes, rapid evidence summaries, and document syntheses as requested.
• Reports and records from assigned charitable/community interventions.
• Documentation and narrative-reporting support for quarterly/milestone Execution Grant requirements.
• Timely SDIU/HDIU performance-review support and follow-up of agreed actions.
• Documentation and coordination support for FMoH HSS/HRH activities.
• Well-organized supporting-document files for assigned programme deliverables.
• Field implementation, supportive-supervision, and activity reports.
• Timely preparation of meeting briefs, presentations, and supporting technical materials.
• Regular programme implementation summaries and follow-up notes.
• Key Performance Indicators
• Performance - Area Indicative KPI:
• Stakeholder coordination - Agreed stakeholder actions are documented, communicated, and followed through consistently.
• Action follow-up - At least 90% of assigned actions followed up within each agreed review cycle.
• Technical assignments - At least 90% completed within agreed timelines and to the required standard.
• Writing quality - Technical and narrative outputs require minimal substantive correction after supervisor review.
• Programme documentation - Supporting documents for assigned deliverables are complete, organised, and readily retrievable.
• Field implementation support - Activity/debrief reports completed within the agreed post-activity timeline.
• Research support - Technical summaries are accurate, concise, appropriately referenced, and responsive to the assignment.
• Professional development - Demonstrable improvement in programme management, HSS concepts, policy analysis, technical writing, and facilitation.
• Deliverable coordination - No avoidable missed programme deadlines attributable to poor follow-up or coordination.
• Meeting documentation - Minutes/action matrix completed and circulated within 48-72 hours unless otherwise agreed.
• Qualifications and Experience
• Essential:
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Basic competence in Microsoft Word, Excel, and related office applications.
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams and across multiple projects.
• Registered Nurse or other recognised health professional qualification.
• Ability to organise, review, and summarise technical information.
• Practical experience in healthcare delivery, public-health programming, or community-health activities.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, Public Health, Health Sciences, or a related discipline desirable.
• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and willingness to travel within Nigeria.
• Desirable:
• Exposure to government health programmes and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience in medical inventory or logistics management.
• Experience with donor-funded projects or development-sector programmes.
• Familiarity with health systems strengthening concepts and programme implementation.
• Experience supporting workshops, trainings, or technical meetings.
• Knowledge of PHC, MNCH, community health, or health promotion programming.
• Experience in field programme implementation, community engagement, supportive supervision, or quality improvement.
• Experience supporting programme documentation, technical reporting, stakeholder follow-up, or implementation coordination.
• Required Competencies:
• Technical Competencies - Behavioural Competencies:
• Stakeholder coordination and workshop support - Teamwork and collaboration
• Technical research and evidence synthesis - Initiative and reliability
• Health programme implementation - Strong organisational ability PHC and community health Attention to detail
• Community engagement and health promotion - Respectful stakeholder engagement
• Technical documentation and narrative reporting - Strong follow-through
• Microsoft Office and records management - Ability to work under pressure
• Basic HSS concepts - Confidentiality and sound judgement
• Quality improvement and supportive supervision - Adaptability and willingness to learn
• MNCH and frontline service delivery - Professionalism and integrity
• Recommended Development Plan:
• The role should be deliberately developmental. During the first 12-18 months, KSDF should progressively build the Technical Assistant’s capability in programme management, PHC systems, HSS, technical writing, policy analysis, government engagement, grant management, HRH, quality improvement, stakeholder coordination, workshop facilitation, and strategy development.
• Programme management
• Health systems strengthening
• Technical writing
• PHC service delivery
• Health policy analysis
• Stakeholder engagement
• HRH fundamentals
• Quality improvement
• Grant / donor reporting
• Implementation research
• Workshop facilitation
• Presentation skills
• Recommended Organizational Positioning:
• The position should sit within KSDF’s technical/programme function rather than Administration.
• The role should complement, not substitute for, specialist clinical, policy, finance, procurement, operations, or senior advisory functions.
• The officer should work closely with senior technical personnel and be deliberately exposed to the SDIU/HDIU, Execution Grant, FMoH HSS/HRH assignment, and selected charitable/community programmes.
• How to Apply
• Interested and qualified candidates should:
• Click here to apply online
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