State Program Coordinator- HIV

Maisha Meds is hiring! We’re looking for a State Program Coordinator - HIV with strong program management, stakeholder engagement and health systems experience to lead day to day operational delivery of our Private Sector HIV Prevention and Treatment Service Delivery programs in their assigned state, ensuring execution in line with approved protocols, national guidelines, donor requirement and state health priorities.

Maisha Meds is an organization dedicated to improving health care in Africa through best‑in‑class technology. Founded in 2017, Maisha Meds has created the largest digital network of private pharmacies and clinics across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, and Zambia through our mobile software. Our platform not only helps these providers improve business by making sales, managing inventory, and tracking patients. It also reimburses them for providing high‑quality care for malaria, family planning, and HIV prevention at discounted costs.

Maisha Meds logs millions of patient visits every year and has provided hundreds of thousands of reimbursements to date. We harness data from our network of pharmacies and clinics to reveal health and market trends, which allows us to design better solutions that work for the people we serve. We have worked with leading academic institutions such as UC Berkeley, Emory University, and KEMRI to evaluate the effectiveness of our programs.

Research shows that our system is able to significantly increase the uptake of long‑acting contraceptives and appropriate malaria case management.

Our work is funded by a range of partners including scale‑up funding from USAID Development Innovation Ventures and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This will help Maisha Meds greatly expand its mobile software to 7,500 total pharmacies and clinics by late 2026, delivering subsidized care to nearly a million new patients in the process.

This role is responsible for translating agreed policy and technical designs into effective field execution, maintaining alignment with state and national HIV priorities, national guidelines (NASCP, NACA, PCN), and donor reporting requirements. The State Program Coordinator will serve as the primary interface between Maisha Meds and state‑level stakeholders including the Honorable Commissioner, Permanent Secretary, State AIDS and STIs Control Program (SASCP), implementing partners (IPs), ART coordinators, Community Pharmacies, Civil Society Organizations, Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) and the PCN.

This role is based in Rivers state with occasional travel to Abuja and Lagos. You will report to the Senior Program Manager and will supervise Program Assistants and contractors.

This is a fixed‑term contract that will run for 1 year.

The start date is 17 August, 2026, and compensation is commensurate with experience.

• Serve as the primary state‑level operational lead for both the HIV ARV Refill Project and the PrEP/PEP Initiation Project.
• Maintain an up‑to‑date state implementation work plan, tracking all milestones, deliverables, and decision points across both programs.
• Coordinate the day‑to‑day activities of program Assistants, field support staff, and any state‑based consultants engaged on the programs.
• Ensure both programs operate in full compliance with NASCP guidelines, PCN practice standards, and donor requirements.

• Serve as the primary point of contact between Maisha Meds and state‑level government stakeholders.
• Maintain and strengthen relationships with HIV implementing partners (IPs) supporting public facilities in the state, ensuring the Maisha Meds collaboration framework and Terms of Reference are adhered to and mutually beneficial.
• Participate in and represent Maisha Meds at state HIV technical working groups, DSD coordination meetings, and any state‑level HIV program review fora.
• Manage the relationship with civil society organizations (KP Secretariat, NYNETA, NEPHWAN, CISHAN) on the PrEP/PEP program.

• Lead the identification,…