M&E/ Malaria Service Delivery Intern at Management Sciences For Health - MSH

Project Overview

• PMI-S is a five-year PMI/USAID flagship malaria project implemented through a consortium led by MSH.
• The project is supporting the Government of Nigeria through its agencies at the federal, state, LGA and community levels to reduce under-five and maternal mortality by delivering quality services for management of malaria, its complications, and prevention.
• PMI-S project focuses on strengthening the capacity of the National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP) and State Malaria Elimination Programs (SMEPs) for the implementation of the National Malaria Strategic Plan 2014-2020

Main Purpose of the Job

• Responsibility of intern will include but are not limited to supporting technical and operations staff in documentation, collation, reporting, analysis, and use of malaria data for strategic decision making in FY24 as the project positions to demonstrate results to achieve the IDIQ targets.
• Intern would support mentoring of health facilities on best practices on service delivery, and data management, while also tracking the EMMP indicators.
• This is to improve the human resource strength of the project.
  • Malaria surveillance, monitoring and evaluation
  • Malaria service delivery
  • Health systems strengthening, including program management and coordination, especially as it relates to malaria control.  

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform basic research and collation of writing materials necessary for training and workshop
• To support technical operations in documentation, collation , reporting , analysis and use data for strategic decision making on malaria interventions in Oyo state
• To support the surveillance, monitoring and evaluation and track malaria performance indicators.
• Participate in data quality review meetings at the state and LGA levels
• Perform basic research and collation of written materials necessary for training and workshop
• Support field and facility visits and participate in data review meetings across LGAs and health facilities
• Manage schedules and take minutes of meetings as well as developing agenda for such meetings and ensuring the distribution of the minutes.
• Support timely collation of retirements’ supporting documents from the LGA and State offices and tracking of status of accomplishment of deliverables.
• Support the review of data entries and running of data quality checks on DHIS2 and provide timely feedback to the LGAs and State team
• Perform other official duties as may be assigned by supervisor

QUALIFICATIONS

• Candidate must have a background in health sciences, statistics, epidemiology, public health or related field, with NYSC discharge/completion or exemption certificate
• Knowledge and experience in international organization will be an added advantage
• Strong organizational skills, understanding the importance of paying attention to details
• Computer skills, with proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel
• Fluency in English.