Senior Programme Analyst

KSDF - Senior Programme Analyst (Gombe, Nigeria)

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: Senior Programme Analyst

Location: Gombe

Background

• The Gombe State Delivery and Insights Unit (SDIU) aims to strengthen the state’s existing health-system architecture by creating a consistent mechanism that connects data, management decisions, coordinated implementation, follow-up and escalation.
• The SDIU works to strengthen existing statutory functions and connect them into one repeatable evidence-to-decision-to-action cycle. it will connect leadership structures, technical forums, delivery agencies and data systems into one government-led decision-to-action mechanism.
• The SDIU is not intended to operate as a parallel programme management unit, replace existing government institutions, duplicate technical committees, or assume responsibility for programme implementation.

Role Purpose

• To serve as the analytical-management bridge within the DMU by converting fragmented technical updates, committee submissions, Execution Grant progress, AOP tracking and DIU findings into concise management problems and decision-ready briefs.
• The role interprets implementation, institutional dependencies and programme progress and translates them into management decisions.

Key Responsibilities

Consolidate implementation evidence:

• Receive and synthesize submissions from existing technical committees and TWGs.
• Review Execution Grant milestones, AOP actions and partner implementation updates.
• Identify duplicate, inconsistent or conflicting progress reports across mechanisms.

Frame management problems:

• Work with DIU colleagues to determine whether a programme concern is supported by available evidence.
• Develop structured problem statements covering what is happening, where, since when, likely drivers, what has already been tried and what decision is needed.
• Distinguish technical issues, coordination issues and matters requiring leadership authority.

Prepare decision products:

• Prepare TMT decision briefs with options, implications and recommended accountable institutions.
• Maintain a cross-cutting view of dependencies across service delivery, financing, supply chain, HRH and data.
• Support the Senior TA in identifying repeated system constraints requiring policy or structural action.

Minimize reporting burden:

• Avoid creating additional programme reporting requests where AOP, grant or committee reports can provide the necessary information.

• Work with the TMT Secretary to establish one authoritative action narrative for each priority issue.

• Key Deliverables

• Monthly integrated programme-performance narrative.

• Decision briefs for TMT agenda items.

• Cross-cutting risk and dependency register.

• Quarterly analysis of repeated delivery bottlenecks.

• Consolidated view of AOP and Execution Grant risks.

Suggested performance indicators:

• Percentage of TMT agenda items supported by decision-ready briefs.

• Reduction in agenda items returned because evidence or decision asks are unclear.

• Evidence that TMT decisions increasingly address root causes rather than symptoms.

• Recommended Profile / Capabilities

• Mid-to-senior programme-management professional with strong public-health understanding and background

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience in programme analysis, management

• Master’s Degree in a relevant field is desirable.

• Strong analytical reasoning and structured problem solving.

• Excellent executive-writing and synthesis capability.

• Ability to work across programmes, agencies and data sources without becoming the technical owner of those programmes.

• Demonstrate experience preparing high-level analytical reports and executive decision materials.

• Strong experience synthesizing information from multiple technical and organizational sources.

• Experience working with senior management, governance committees, or executive decision-making structures.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent written communication and presentation skills.

• Strong ability to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines simultaneously.