LGA Field Officer at Malaria Consortium

LGA Field Officer (Location: Borno, 8 persons) - Re-advertised

The role of LGA Field Officer is to ensure quality implementation of delivery of SMC services at the community level by health facility workers (HFW)/supervisors and community drug distributors (CDDs) through the timely delivery of SMC commodities and supplies, provision of supportive supervision, training and documentation of programme activities. S/he provides supportive supervision and training to the above actors and ensures respect of SMC administration protocols within the COVID 19 pandemic setting. He/she interacts with the State Ministry of Health, LGA management team, keeps them updated on the programme progress and ensures high-quality SMC implementation.

Key responsibilities:

• Implement all SMC activities at health LGA level, including timely implementation of work plan, planning meetings, commodity distributions and monitoring to avoid any stock out, Community mobilization activities, supervision, monitoring and reporting.
• Ensure accountability of received commodities and supplies through tracking consumption levels and review of reconciliation reports
• Responsible for capacity building of field partners (Supervisors, HFW, CDDs, and community mobilisers) through training, on-job support and quality supervision.
• Track program targets and timely implement the planned activities to ensure program meets targets and review reports from LGAs and HFW for accuracy and completeness prio6r to submission.
• Ensure implementation of activities is in line with the laid down protocols, by continuously monitoring and conducting supervision and on-job training of LGA, HFW and CHWs. 
• Maintain a good relationship and work jointly with – Public Health Officers and other partners to undertake home visits, meetings and to ensure health LGA’s ownership.
• Assist Senior M&E Officer on the data quality queries and ensure identified issues are rectified in time;
• Ensure submission of end of cycle (EoC) report, success stories, trip reports etc. to keep the Zonal Project Manager abreast with the project implementation at LGA level
• Liaise with key partners including LGA Administrator, State Ministry of Health (SMoH), community leaders, other stakeholders (as necessary) for successful mass drug administration (MDAs);
• Attend data validation meetings at LGA level and as directed by ZPM;
• Overall planning of stock levels, making sure that they are sufficient for the operations at SMC sites;
• Ensure that all HF realized physical inventory of all SMC commodities supplied at the end of each cycle;
• Any other duties as required by the line manager.

Qualifications and Experience

• Clinical Officer, Nurse or Public Health qualification.
• At least two years’ field experience in related field.
• Fluency in English, Kanuri, Hausa and/or other local languages is required.
• Experience working in drug/commodity supply management, M&E and logistics.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences including LGA staff, HFW, CDDs and community leaders.
• Experience of conducting quality supportive supervision and data use.