Capacity Building and Knowledge Management Specialist at National AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections Control and Hepatitis Programme (NASCP)

Background

• The Government of Nigeria through the National AIDS/STIs Control Programme (NASCP) is responsible for the health sector response to HIV control in Nigeria, under the Federal Ministry of Health.
• As part of our vision to ensure sustained epidemic control in-country, NASCP is implementing a 5-year Government-to-Government grant funded by the United States Centre for Disease Control (US-US-CDC) and it is called the Nigeria Sustainability & HIV Impact Project (NSHIP).

Responsibilities

• Facilitate expansion and the use of the ECHO platform to all ART comprehensive sites across the States and FCT;
• Preparation of ECHO reports and provide support the hubs and sub-hubs in the implementation of I-ECHO
• Work with relevant teams and TWGs to standardise training modules and materials in line with the national guidelines and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Facilitate the process of integrating comprehensive HIV/AIDS modules into the pre-service and continuing education training curricula.
• Conduct capacity needs assessment in liaison with relevant teams involved in HIV service delivery States and the FCT and to identify gaps in the delivery of quality HIV/AIDS clinical management training among health institutions/providers in Nigeria to inform curricula development.
• Lead the development and management of an HIV Workforce Registry (HWR); 
• Facilitate training of trainer’s (ToT) workshops to build the capacity of an identified pool of trainers to routinely train HIV clinical mentors and other actors in health sector response.
• Monitor the implementation of recommendations from workshops, meetings, and missions 
• Contribute to the development of quarterly and annual reports.
• Facilitate the creation of a knowledge management (KM) charter in line with the priorities of the NSHIP programme, including a vision, mission and KM strategy.
• Work with the ICT team to design, deploy and maintain a knowledge database for NASCP and the NSHIP programme.
• Facilitate the selection of knowledge management champions within NASCP’s components and assist them in capturing and sharing data as may be required.
• Facilitate manuscripts publications and documentations in NASCP

Deliverables

• Strategic Human Resources Deliverables
• Training needs assessment report
• Health Worker Capacity Building Strategy and Costed Work Plan – 3 Years
• Standardized training modules and materials in line with National Guidelines and SOPs
• HIV Health Workforce Registry
• Midwifing of NASCP academy.

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field of science, Art or Social Science
• Advanced-level qualification in public health, and / or relevant social sciences.
• Experienced with a training such as FETP or similar will be an added advantage
• Minimum of 10 years’ active post-graduation experience inclusive of NYSC (except with exemption certificate.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in curriculum development and / or active engagement in delivering capacity building systems and activities
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in Health, Education or Social protection
• Have at least 3 manuscript publications as first author and atleast 5 publications in total.
• Direct experience in curriculum development and development of training tools.
• Prior experience in facilitating training workshops
• Understanding of knowledge management and the process of creating such a system within a closed group.
• Understanding of Nigeria's health data ecosystems
• Demonstrated ability to simplify and present complex concepts to a varied audience.
• Demonstrable knowledge of the use of electronic platforms for learning
• Experience in the use of any data analysis software such as R, SPSS, STATA, SAS, Excel; Power Bi and any other data visualization; collection tools such CAPI, google sheet, etc
• Experience with referencing software such Mendeley.