Lead Facilitator for Paediatric ART Training Consultant at Management Sciences For Health - MSH

Job ID: 13-8840
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Grade: Senior
Dept/Unit: GEN (General)
Project/Program: A056 PRO-ACT
Reports To: Senior Technical Advisor

Overall Responsibilities

• In a bid to improve service delivery to PLHIV specifically children across project states in supported facilities, MSH will conduct a comprehensive Pediatric HIV/AIDs training with focus on anti-retroviral therapy update.
• For a smooth conduct of the training, 3 lead facilitators who will co-facilitate alongside MSH technical leads in respective project states will be engaged.
• These facilitators who will be drawn from independent project and program consultants, collaborating stakeholders including institutions of higher learning are to support training of health care workers in projects states.
• The 5-day training will draw participants from supported facilities.
• The training will have amplification effect, as trainees will receive technical support from MSH, to conduct stepdown training in their respective facilities.
• It is expected that at the end of the stepdown, the quality of Pediatric HIV services will be improved on and integrated into existing hospital services as a pool of HCWs would have had their capacities built, to provide HIV interventions to patients.

Specific Responsibilities
Terms of reference (TOR):

• The Facilitator will conduct in a 5-day training alongside MSH technical leads on Pediatric HIV/ ART.
• He/she will review and adapt existing paediatric training curriculum /slides in line with current treatment guidelines
• In the course of training, the facilitator will lead and facilitate group work sessions as detailed in the training slides including ensuring the objectives of the plenary sessions are met.
• H/she will be responsible for documenting and compiling the action plans arrived at after plenary group work sessions.
• He/she will collate, analyze, and report the daily training evaluation as part of the effort to improve training quality.
• He/she will be expected to conduct and analyze the pre and post test result in an excel sheet provided by MSH.
• At the end of the engagement, the facilitator will write a comprehensive training  report to be submitted to MSH leadership

Level of Effort:

• 9 days (2 days pre training meeting in Abuja, 5 days TOT and 1day for report writing).

Deliverables:

• Ensure a seamless conduct of training using adult learning principles
• Compile and present post training follow up action plans as agreed during plenary sessions
• Present a comprehensive training report to MSH leadership within 7 days of training completion

Facilitator's role:

• S/he will be responsible for conveying herself/himself to the venue of the training
• S/he is expected to arrive 2 days prior to the training for a pre-training meeting with MSH technical leads.

Qualifications

• Minimum of Post graduate Degree in Medicine/Public Health and/or Fellowship in relevant Postgraduate College.
• The Consultant will be a highly skilled clinician with at least 5 years of clinical work experience in a Paediatric ART centre
• S/he will have thorough knowledge of Paediatric ART treatment including current Knowledge in the field of HIV programming.
• S/he will be National Paediatric ART trainer
• Registered with the relevant professional bodies (Nigeria Medical and Dental Council).