Health Officer at Jireh Doo Foundation

Duties and responsibilities

• Focal point for all matters related to the JDF supported community-based health in in Borno state, including but not limited to promotive and preventive healthcare, communicable diseases, nutrition, hygiene promotion and sexual and gender-based violence.
• Supports with background information and data collection, monitors, and reports on the community health program.
• Ensure that all activities are implemented in collaboration with the SMOH/LGA health/nutrition authorities, national protocols are observed/available and in line with principles.
• Ensure timely implementation and quality monitoring of the JDF supported community health projects through structured and regular monitoring, field visits, follow up and reporting.
• In a collaboration with partners, JDF and branches, organizes for a joint monitoring field visits to the selected project sites.
• Ensure Community Engagement and Accountability methodologies are used in the design and implementation of community-based health projects.
• Ensure that community health volunteers receive consistent professional clinical supervision, and that outreach activities are tied to the provision of adequate clinical services.
• Support the integration of relevant activities to improve health status of beneficiaries and facilitate access to adequate services for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, when relevant and in coordination with other partners providing these services e.g. protection.
• Identifies training needs of the community health volunteers, prepares plan / budget, and implements training programs including on-site training.
• In liaison with Nutrition team, ensure coordination and proper linkages are established for nutrition
• activities at community level and routine health/nutrition activities in the facilities.
• Oversee the coordination of all the components of the Community health activities in collaboration with the nutrition team.
• Consult with health authorities State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA), State Ministry of Health (SMoH), Local Government Authorities (LGAs) and humanitarian organizations working in community health, nutrition and health as required by his/her supervisor.
• Ensures timely data collection and reporting on the community health program in his area of responsibility i.e. Beneficiary statistics.

Qualification and Experience

Essential:

• University Degree in related Health Sciences e.g., nursing, midwifery; Public health registered and with relevant experience,
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience managing community-based health or other related health programs
• Excellent written and spoken English, Hausa
• Previous experience in community-based health and/or nutrition programs
• Previous experience in the local humanitarian context in N.E Nigeria
• Exceptionally good understanding of culture/health structure in Northeast

Knowledge skills and Abilities

• Desired knowledge and Skills:
• Understanding of humanitarian cluster systems
• Good reporting and analytical skills
• Good negotiation and diplomatic skills
• Computer literate (Word, Excel).