Society for Family Health is one of Nigeria’s largest non-governmental organisations. Founded in 1985 by three eminent Nigerians: Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, Justice Ifeyinwa Nzeako, Pharmacist Dahiru Wali and Phil Harvey. Society for Family Health Nigeria has a mission to empower Nigerians, particularly the poor and vulnerable to lead healthier lives. Working with the private and public sectors, SFH adopts social marketing and behaviour change communication to improve access to essential health information, services, and products to motivate the adoption of healthy behaviours.
Location: Kaduna State (Kaduna North, Kaduna South, Chikun, Kajuru, Kachia, Zagon Kataf, Kaura, Jema’a, Sanga , Kagarko, Jaba, Ikara).
Job Profile: The Adolescent Health LGA supervisor will be responsible for the coordinating, planning, and execution/provision of reproductive health, specifically Family Planning interventions to enhance the effectiveness of the project in health promotion activities that affect adolescents, including in nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, and MNCH at the LGA. She/he will ensure client safety & satisfaction, demand creation data reporting as well as key stakeholder engagement within the LGAs.
Job-role: The successful candidate will perform the following functions:
- Ensure effective and impactful training and continuous supportive supervision of CHW/Service providers using approved checklists, develop & follows up on action plans ensuring updates are tracked and reported.
- Ensure competency of CHW/service providers in areas of counselling, Provision of full range of short-term and long-acting reversible birth-spacing methods documented and properly conveyed in monthly reports.
- Support in demand creation working with the Mentors in the selection and training in the community targeting the married adolescent girls.
- Ensure last mile distribution of adequate supply of commodities as well as relevant procedural equipment including overall support and management of intervention facilities.
- Ensure availability of data reporting/collection and management procedures and guidelines/protocols are strictly followed of all Adolescent health services across intervention communities using nationally approved tool.
- Ensure the availability, maintain, and comply with clinical governance guidelines, manuals, IEC and job aids, with strong referral linkages of service utilization in place and reporting incidents as if relate to short-term and long-acting reversible birth-spacing methods as set by the government of Nigeria.
- Plan and implement LGA/community/ facility level supportive supervision, quality audit, ISS, coaching and mentoring of the field team identifying & addressing training needs/ gaps of volunteers, IPCAs, CBOs/CSOs, CHIPs.
- Ensure that a high level of communication is maintained with field team members including other ANRiN units of implementation.
- Conduct monthly/quarterly review meetings with the CHW/service provider and Mentors at the PHC with the state team to provide DQA & QTA scores & general performance of the LGA.
- Ensure the development of budget and work plan for Adolescent Health Services from the LGA on a monthly and quarterly basis.
- Support the accountability process in compliance to SFH, State government and World Bank financial rules and regulations.
- Documents best practices and /lessons learned from ANRiN operations at the LGA.
- Plan & support the CHW/service providers to conduct monthly outreaches to the hard to reach.
- Ensure all assigned CHW/service providers are competent to provide full range of short-term and long-acting reversible birth-spacing methods.
- Must collate and maintain relevant data base at the LGA level of training register, competency data base, clinical incident, QTA scores to use same to develop the Training Needs Assessment.
- Establish partnership with implementing partners, CSOs and other stakeholders involved in Adolescent SRH programming, monitoring, to Forster support to LGA in bridging identified gaps.
- Coordinate advocacy and sensitization programmes targeted at relevant gatekeepers and community stakeholders to create an enabling environment for programme implementation among the target adolescent girls in the LGAs.
- Prepare and share monthly/quarterly/biannual report.
Qualifications/Experience:
- Minimum of 4 years cognate/ relevant experience.
- Working experience in ICT related function will be an advantage.
- Registered Nurse/Midwife, Senior Community Health Officer/CHO
- High competency in family Planning/SRH services, Adolescent Health & Nutrition services
- Experience in community mobilization and data management.
- Experience working with service providers and client level data.
- Experience in using DHIS2, MS Excel
Skills and Competencies required:
- Ability to participate and guide demand creation activities.
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
- Ability to initiate and maintain positive working relationships.
- Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.