Technical Advisor - OVC Case Management at Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH)

The Technical Advisor OVC Case Management will be reporting to the Associate Director and coordinate all the OVC case management processes and ensure quality service delivery is provided across the OVC case management domains required for Care Plan Achievement. S/He will provide guidance on the enrolment of priority enrolment streams and offer strategic direction for the achievement of enrolment target in Delta, Ekiti and Osun States. S/he will ensure facility enrolment saturation; facilitate bi-direction referral from the facility to the community and vice-versa. S/he provide innovative strategies for increasing community HIV case finding among paediatric and adolescents living with HIV, deployed strategies that will erode linkage gap, improve continuity in treatment, prevent interruption in treatment among children and adolescents living with HIV, achieve viral load suppression and become resilient, through provision of targeted household economic strengthening activities. S/He will provide programmatic, technical and financial responsibility, leadership and management of and reporting on program activities, making decisions and solving problems in short time-frames, while ensuring operational and program quality and integrity, in addition to serving as the program’s first point of interface with CDC on routine and strategic matters, with guidance from the Project Management Team (PMT). Other responsibilities include, effective coordination of program and strategic information and activities of the project and ensuring productive organizational management, communication/interacting with other projects, Government of Nigeria, stakeholders at the National, State, and LGA levels, community and local stakeholder groups, implementing partners and Networks.  100% of his/her time per annum is chargeable to the project.

Qualification:

A Degree in Medical Field, Social Sciences or related disciplines, with at least 6 years’ cognate experience, which must include at least 3years in Programming for OVC, and Sub granting to CBOs. Also, preferred are knowledge of health programs with the Nigeria public sector, health system, NGOs/CBOs and collaborative relationship and liaison with community leaders. An MPH is an added advantage.

Method of Application

Applicants should complete the online form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSI3p9nQ-77fyX-CY-cpvw35-GDCSHD847t9MP9NzJFdH7sA/viewform?usp=pp_url and send their comprehensive Curriculum Vitae and cover letter in ONLY one attachment (MSWord document) explaining suitability for the job; to techadvisorovc@arfh-ng.org on/or before 2nd October, 2022.

Please indicate the title of post applied for in the subject line of the email. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. Applicants are advised to provide their functional emails/mobile phone numbers on the application letter as well as three professional referees including their functional e-mail addresses and telephone numbers. Eligible female applicants are encouraged to apply. ARFH has a Child Safeguarding policy in place and is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).