Health and MHPSS Officer at Plan International

Role Purpose

• The ASPIRE project is a 5-year project funded with support from Global Affairs Canada and focused on improving sexual rights and reproductive health of adolescent girls and boys in Sokoto state.
• The purpose of this role is to provide support to the Health/SRH coordinator in project implementation.

Dimensions of the Role

• Support the development, implementation and periodic review of the health (SRH) components of the project, including engagement with broad range of project stakeholders.

Accountabilities

• Support on the assessment of health facilities in line with minimum standards and working with stakeholders and partners to ensure the health facilities meet the standards.
• Support on the development and implementation of all health (SRH & mental health training activities on the project, ensuring the highest quality of standard.
• Support the implementation of an age and gender responsive community and health facility roll out and referral process.
• Support health facilities to be adolescent friendly and gender responsive.
• Contribute to project research and support Monitoring and Evaluation processes.
• Provide support in the development of curricula, advocacy and community mobilization strategies, including information, education and communication (IEC) materials and radio messages to ensure service delivery issues are captured.
• Regularly utilize project level data, to track progress against planned service delivery outputs and outcomes, and manage performance using Results-Based Management (RBM) methodologies.
• Provide regular updates to supervisor and other project team members to inform project programming decision making and advocacy efforts.
• Identify success stories in collaboration with partners and share with Program Management
• Support on the technical report writing under the supervision of the program manager. Work with community-based structures for successful implementation of community outreach services.
• Support regular advocacies to local stakeholders to improve and sustain project buy-in and operations.
• Support the establishment and maintenance of good working relationship with the relevant State actors, local government authorities and other stakeholders.
• Assume any other responsibility as assigned by Supervisor.

Qualifications and Experience

• 2 – 3 years working (or more) experience providing support to health and SRH projects in Nigeria, preferably in Norther Nigeria.
• University Education in Medicine or Health related course.
• Experience in SRH and mental health programming a plus.
• Experience in utilizing adolescent peer education methodologies and comprehensive sexuality Education in communities will be a plus.
• Demonstrated knowledge and background in community mobilization and engagement on health and SRH and projects.
• Demonstrated problem solving skills, collaboration experience, creativity and willingness to innovate
• Experience drafting project reporting and monitoring project progress
• Excellent written and spoken English language skills
• Knowledge of Hausa language preferred but not required.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Basic financial and administrative skills
• Communicates clearly and effectively appropriate to the audience
• Possession of good report writing skills
• Passion for learning and development.
• Good computer literacy skills.
• Team player .

Behaviours:

• Provides good and adequate administrative support to enable the project meet its agreed program outcomes.
• Actively seeks for support in addressing difficulties in execution of duties.