State Clinical Coordinator at AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Reports to:  Medical Director

Job Summary:

The State Clinical Coordinator directly oversees all medical activities, at AHF-Nigeria supported facilities in the located State, in Nigeria, covering all comprehensive sites and outposts within the State/region, and see to the expansion of services within the State/region in Nigeria, ensuring delivery of high-quality standard of care for all patients as well as providing leadership within the state.   

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Leadership and Management 

• As a coordinator, he/she oversees medical, AHF operations in the State and supports the Country Program Manager to efficiently and effectively deliver quality clinical services in the state/region. 
• He/she will lead the expansion of AHF Program within the state.
• Provide technical support to Prevention and Treatment program and ensure linkage of outreach activities to treatment and care program through well-established processes of patient linkages and service integration
• Attends key technical partners meetings and provides feedback to management through the Medical Director.  
• Ensure that CMEs are conducted in all sites and participates in the facilitation of CME sessions.
• He/she participates in staff need assessment and induction of newly hired staff. 
• He/she participates in setting performance targets and staff appraisal, disciplining and addressing complaints of employees under his/her supervision. 

Clinical Responsibilities:

• Ensure the standard quality of clinical services at all AHF supported sites in his/her region.
•  Provide periodic comprehensive support supervision report, adhering to the tools provided by AHF
• Promotes the implementation of standard operating procedures for all activities relating to good clinical practice and ensure functional QI teams are in existence at site levels
• Supervise and implement quality management activities and quality benchmarks monitoring, facilitation of quality assurance and quality improvement sessions.
• Strengthen TB/HIV, PMTCT, ART services through integrated service delivery and provision of quality services in the state program.
• Ensures optimal operations of the laboratory services, including functioning of sample referral networks at regional level 
• Provide on-site technical support and mentoring to the field staff and coordinate M&E of the project
• Ensures effective patient flow in all sites, especially those with high volume of patients and coordinate time motion surveys to monitor performance
• Oversee the timely collection, compilation and reporting of routine and specific data to guide decision making at site, regional and country program level. 
• Identify early warning resistance indicators and intervention strategies
• Remain updated on current trends and standards in clinical management of HIV/AIDS and related illnesses 
• Participate in the elaboration/monitoring of annual targets and ensure that they are achieved in all regional sites

Supervisory Responsibilities: 

• Provides direct supervision and mentorship to doctors, nurses, laboratory scientists, pharmacists working in the different facilities in the region to ensure continuous growth and learning
• Ensure timely compilation and submission of monthly drug inventory reports in coordination with the Program pharmacist
• Work with the program pharmacist to ensure that pharmacy operations are in accordance with good pharmacy practices
• Identify and promote operational research at state level and build capacity among the staff in case presentations and elaboration of scientific papers

Education and Experience:

• Must be a medical doctor from a recognized institution.
•  Additional qualifications in Health systems management or public health will be an added advantage. 
• Must possess a valid license to practice as a Medical Doctor.
• Five years of medical/health service experience preferred with a sound knowledge of basic medical disciplines to allow for accurate diagnosis and appropriate management of clinical problems.
• Five years or more of recent experience with HIV/AIDS treatment; three years minimum of administration and program management experience with knowledge of clinical protocols and procedures in the management of HIV related diseases.
• Experience in planning and budgeting required
• Experience in quality management and assurance practices desired
• Demonstrate computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc
• Experience providing and facilitating training; experience setting up training programs and workshops preferred