Job Openings at the Society for Family Health (SFH)

Job Profile: The AHS will provide technical leadership for conceptualizing and designing reproductive health, specifically Family Planning interventions to enhance the effectiveness of the project in health promotion activities that affect adolescent, including in nutrition, sexual and reproductive health and Maternal neonatal child health (MNCH). He/she will provide technical leadership for adolescent health activities including a range of quality Adolescent Reproductive sexual health (ARSH) programming from contraception and maternal care HIV prevention and AIDS care and treatment, strengthening access to Family planning, and advocating for sound reproductive health policies.

Job-role: The successful candidate will perform the following functions:

• Ensure periodic development of budget and work plan for Adolescent Health, creating and sustaining a mechanism for synergy and integration of adolescent health services and nutrition services for the project at fixed post, during outreaches & Safe space Initiative (SSI).
• Identified program implementing challenges, coordinate advocacy and sensitization programmes targeted at relevant gatekeepers and community stakeholders to create an enabling environment for programme implementation among the target adolescent girls.
• Develop, source, and facilitate adoption and adaptation of technical materials for use in the implementation of Adolescent Health Services (AHS) and coordinate the implementation of evidence-informed comprehensive Behavioural change & communication (BCC) programmes to address the myths and barriers to uptake of Family planning (FP) among adolescents.
• Coordinate with support of Local Government Area Reproductive health (LGA RH) Coordinators in the recruitment of Key staff at the LGAs and coordinate training of providers and mentors for the provision of FP including Long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) in both fixed post, outreach point of service and community.
• Develop a Quality of Care (QoC) framework for the project with regular capacity building of state actors on the use of the QoC checklist.

Qualifications/Experience:

• Bsc, Master’s degree, MPH preferred, MBBS, Nursing/Midwife, public health Nurse
• 7 years related experience, including a minimum of 5 years supervisory/project management or program development experience.
• Specific technical expertise relevant to international public health
• Outstanding leadership skills
• Excellent analytical skills and aptitude for details
• Capacity to work in difficult conditions and function well under pressure
• Extensive international experience and experience in a developing country required

Skills and Competencies required

• Excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication, organizational, and cross-cultural skills.
• Proactive, open personality and work hands-on.
• Demonstrable initiative, creativity, and flexibility
• Ability to work independently and effectively in groups.
• Problem solving and analytical ability
• Drive for continuous learning and knowledge sharing
• Demonstrated ability to manage consortium team performance
• Managed and mitigated challenges faced by team members on the field and Stakeholders’ management
• Conflict resolution & Management

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Job Profile: The Nutrition Specialist will provide guidance to the ANRiN team to reach all eligible beneficiaries with the basic package of nutrition services and will report to the Project Director.  This position provides leadership to the Basic Package of Nutrition Services and supervises the Basic package of Nutrition Services (BPNS) team comprised of Nutrition Officer, Advocacy & community engagement officer (A&CEO) and Field Coordinator.

Job-role: The successful candidate will perform the following functions:

• Provide technical Leadership on the planning and distribution of BPNS commodities in the state.
• Ensure quality supportive monitoring activities are undertaken monthly and involvement of key stakeholders in the monitoring activity.
• Lead on the stakeholders’ engagement, sensitization and awareness creation on the Project tenure and scope and ensure that Grievance response Mechanism (GRM) is established across the implementing wards and it’s functional.
• Work with the Nutrition Officer and Field Coordinator to ensure that field protocols are strictly adhered to in the delivery of BPNS and commodities in the field. Ensure that on the job training and ongoing mentoring is provided to support field personnel to deliver the BPNS in community accurately.
• Liaise with the Project Director (PD) to create a work environment conducive to professional growth and development for the BPNS team and support in the Human Resources management in the area of recruitment and retention, facilitate the use of performance planning and management system to establish performance expectations and regularly providing constructive feedback.
• Ensure timely preparation of programmatic reports including sharing of best practices, success stories, lessons learnt, opportunities and action pictures, making sure that the most up-to-date information regarding the BPNS is shared via a range of mechanisms: including reports, newsletters, advocacy brief, and journals.

Qualifications/Experience:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree, in Human Nutrition, Dietetics, Nursing or any related field while a. Master’s degree will be an added advantage
• 7 years related experience, with a minimum of 5 years in Nutrition or Maternal and Child Health program involving multiple partners, stakeholders, and geographic target areas in a developing country.
• Experience in nutrition program and community work.
• Experience in training of community volunteers on nutrition program.
• Familiar with planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of community-based health programmes.
• Knowledge of the working geographic area and ability to communicate in the local language (Hausa).
• Experience working with electronic data collection applications.
• Experience working in a multi-cultural project.
• Strict adherence to Child safeguards policies, thus ensuring that no child is harmed or left out.

Skills and Competencies required

• Good experience in the use of SAP
• Project Team Management skill
• Advocacy and partnership skill
• Community engagement skill
• Problem solving and innovative.