LGA Ad-Hoc Staff at Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria

Job description

• The Institute of Human Virology (IHVN) is a leading and reputable non-governmental organization addressing infectious and non-infectious diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, and cancer through prevention, diagnosis, treatment, capacity building, research, care, and support services. IHVN is in partnership with local and international organizations and the different tiers of the government of Nigeria at the national, state, and local levels. The Institute aims to provide quality health services, capacity building, and research in West Africa and beyond.
• The Immunization Plus and Malaria Progress by Accelerating Coverage and Transforming Services (IMPACT) project is a World Bank performance-based financing project in Nigeria that targets children under five and women as primary beneficiaries. The IMPACT project was developed in support of the commitment of the Government of Nigeria to improve its Human Capital to reduce under-five Mortality by half by 2030: from 132 to 79 per 1,000 births in 2030 (World Bank, 2020).

In order to successfully implement this project, IHVN is therefore seeking qualified candidates for the following position:

Position Overview

• Support high-quality data recording and reporting into documentation tools.
• Check and maintain the intensified malaria case management process at clustered facilities using the hub-and-spoke model.
• Perform malaria diagnosis using Rapid Diagnostic test kits (RDTs) and do necessary referral/network coordination.
• Support the Community Mobilization team in coordinating, collecting, and reviewing community intervention data.
• Collate and review data from facilities in his/her assigned clustered facilities using data capturing tools and electronic data collection systems (ODK).
• Routine visits to assigned facilities and communities within his/her cluster to ensure quality malaria diagnosis, treatment, and prevention services when necessary.
• Support referral linkage coordination, ensuring seamless integration between communities and facilities regarding referrals to ensure no patient loss (100% linkage rate to facilities).
• Support malaria commodity tracking and reporting at supported health facilities to avoid stock out of drugs and other malaria commodities.
• Collate weekly site reports, routinely verify reports generated against source documents, and report challenges to the IHVN supervising officer where necessary.
• Regularly support the updating of all NMEP documentation tools in the LGA.
• Ensure daily update is made into NMEP recording registers.
• Assist LGA M&E and Malaria program officers in monthly data collation and reporting.
• Support with data retrieval, collation, and review from different SDPs and interventions in the LGA.

Required Competencies

• Knowledge of the State/LGA is highly essential.

Education and Experience:

• Minimum HND/ Bachelor’s degree in health informatics, Public Health, Nursing, health Sciences or Community Health, Social Sciences, Biological Sciences or related field.

Safeguarding (PSEAH):/As an organization, IHVN takes the issue of Protection against Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH) seriously, because safeguarding the people we interface with in all our programmatic work is of the utmost importance to us.

IHVN only recruits’ representatives who are suited and abides to the strict responsibility of SEAH.

By applying to this role, you are agreeing to IHVN carrying out a background check on you with respect to SEAH records and you also confirm that not before or after being hired will you breach the IHVN policy on SEAH.