Technical Consultant at Excellence Community Education Welfare Scheme Ltd/Gte (ECEWS)

Description

• The technical consultants will provide time-bound, outcomes-focused technical support to improve government-led delivery of HIV care and treatment in ECEWS ACE 5 supported states, in collaboration with the project leadership across various thematic Areas

Thematic Areas:

• Strategic Information (SI)
• HIV Care & Treatment (PCT)
• PMTCT & Pediatrics (AP3)
• Logistics & Supply Chain
• Laboratory Services
• TB/HIV

Objectives

• Improve data quality, completeness, timeliness, and use across platforms.
• Optimize clinical cascade performance.
• Drive uptake and quality of maternal–infant services.
• Strengthen last-mile availability of vital commodities, including requisition/reporting flows
• Improve accreditation-readiness of project-supported laboratories
• Ensure integration of TB/HIV services across continuum of care

Strategic Information (SI)
Key Tasks:

• Translate ACE 5’s rich data streams (LAMISPlus, DHIS2) into predictive and prescriptive insights for continuity on treatment, VL suppression, testing yield, and supply chain reliability.
• Reduce frontline burden via automation and copilots (data quality checks, documentation assistance, guideline search) with human-in-the-loop controls.
• Strengthen governance using existing AMELP and Data Management Plan assets; aligned with PEPFAR and GoN data standards and privacy requirements.
• Build sustainable capacity through targeted training.

HIV Care & Treatment (PCT):
Key Tasks:

• Support the state governments to develop a mentorship protocol for clinicians/other healthcare workers on HIV Care and Treatment (testing, adherence, advanced HIV disease, viral load, etc)
• Create state-specific training slides for government staff on ART services
• Develop protocol for site-level oversight and supervision of ART services by government staff.
• Support the development of a project-level guidance document covering implementation approaches in HIV care and Treatment.

PMTCT & Paediatric (AP3):
Key Tasks:

• Design a simplified framework for field teams to use PMTCT data for decision-making.
• Design a performance and accountability model for the Mentor Mother Initiative
• Identify alternative models and strategies to ensure host government ownership and support of the project-supported AP3 structures.
• Assess the PMTCT data flow to identify the root causes of underperforming quality indicators.

Logistics & Supply Chain
Key Tasks:

• Provide technical support to facility laboratory personnel to strengthen reporting systems, ensuring quality, accuracy, and timeliness of logistics data submissions, including weekly reporting and bimonthly CRRF.
• Strengthen state/LGA LMIS practices (forecasting/quantification, RIRF timeliness, stock status monitoring), with feedback loops into clinical micro-planning.

Laboratory Services
Key Tasks:

• Support and drive full integration of ART laboratory services into routine laboratory services in supported health facilities, ensuring sustainability, efficiency, and improved patient outcomes
• Advance MLSCN/WHO-AFRO accreditation readiness, including technical support for the implementation and strengthening of Quality Management Systems (QMS) in supported facilities
• Conduct capacity building and mentorship for laboratory personnel and implementing partners on HIV diagnostics and monitoring.

TB/HIV
Key Tasks:

• Collaborate with the government of Nigeria (MOH, NTBLCP, NACA) to drive sustainable activities promoting government ownership of TB/HIV interventions.
• Identify technical capacity gaps among program staff, facility teams, and stakeholders, and develop targeted mentorship and training plans.

Expected outcomes:

• Improved financial management and internal control framework and procedures.
• Reviewed policies and procedures with adequate controls and safeguards in place
• Development of risk management and mitigation strategies
• Improved human resources and asset management systems

Qualifications and Experience

• Advanced degree (MPH, PhD, Fellowships) in public health and related disciplines
• 8–12+ years’ progressive experience in PEPFAR HIV programs in Nigeria.
• Demonstrated success in thematic area
• Strong mentoring and government/partner coordination experience.