Job Opportunities at Idmibok International (360HSDC)

Job Overview

• This is a consultancy for a proposal the organization is working on. We are looking for a meticulous, detail-oriented Research Expert to assist with the planning and conducting of scientific experiments and research projects
• The Research Expert's responsibilities include collecting, sorting, and analyzing data, developing, executing, and interpreting research projects, performing laboratory experiments for product development, and overseeing the daily laboratory tasks
• The Research Expert would also assist in the preparation of documentation for experimental procedures, monitoring researchers in their assigned responsibilities, and presenting your findings to management.

Responsibilities

• Developing objectives and designing research projects and proposals.
• Formulating and conducting scientific experiments, performing data collection, and analyzing and evaluating test and research results.
• Replicating, evaluating, and refining research strategies and approaches and recommending improvements, and testing, customizing, and implementing new methods and procedures.
• Responding to research questions, troubleshooting problems, developing, and writing advanced experimental protocols, and monitoring ongoing projects and proposing and implementing changes.
• Proposing techniques to improve research quality and team productivity.
• Reporting equipment problems and assisting with setting up new equipment.
• Contributing to and writing research findings for publications, papers, presentations, grants, and other documents.
• Assisting with grant and manuscript submissions.
• Guiding, training, and advising junior researchers and students, and supporting senior research staff.
• Developing and following standard operating procedures and adhering to company policies and safety guidelines.

Qualifications / Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree in Science or related field.
• At least 3 years research-related experience.
• Knowledge of research principles, concepts, practices, and methods.
• Knowledge of scientific laboratory research techniques.
• Computer literacy and strong mathematical, analytical, and research skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrable experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis;
• Experience in electronic and mobile data capturing tools (eg ODK, CSPro, Survey CTO);
• Demonstrable experience in developing monitoring and / or evaluation frameworks or methodologies for strategic. plans

Language Requirements:

• Excellent ability to communicate in English, both verbally and in writing
• Knowledge of other languages, particularly French, is desirable.

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Job Overview

• This is a consultancy for a proposal the organization is working on. The Medical Sociologist is responsible for monitoring the impact of social and cultural factors on health care
• This work includes studying the access to medical care of different ethnic groups and social classes and the ways that broader socioeconomic factors shape the organizational structures used by healthcare providers
• S/He would assist physicians, or intermediate care providers, and other team members in understanding the social and emotional factors related to the health problem
• S/He would be responsible for the development of the plan of care and the preparation of clinical and progress notes.

Responsibilities

• Help coordinate the organization's services with the services of other community resources, use community resources.
• Participate in in-services and continuing education programs.
• Be a consultant to other organization personnel.
• Be a resource person to employees, patients, physicians, and other allied healthcare providers.
• Develop a cooperative relationship and communicate with physicians.
• Immediately report any accident, incident, lost articles, or unusual occurrence to the Supervisor.
• Participate in staff meetings and patient care conferences as scheduled.
• Maintain contact with community support groups and provide professional expertise.
• Coordinate social services within the organization.
• Help develop the plan of care; ensure that the patient plan of care includes identified problems, interventions, and goals.
• Participate in community activities and promote community awareness and support.
• Provide psychosocial services following established standards. Evaluate the quality of psychosocial services provided.
• Inform the Supervisor of changes in the patient's condition and needs.
• Schedule patient visits according to patient needs and as physician orders.
• Observe confidentiality and safeguards all patient-related information.
• Attend staff meetings and patient care conferences as scheduled.
• Participate in peer review and activities.
• Report all incomplete work assignments to the Supervisor.
• Perform other tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

• May have a Master's Degree in Sociology.
• Have a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, or other field related to Social Work, and has had at least one-year experience in a health care setting (functions as an assistant),
• 3 or more years experience, preferred.
• Demonstrable experience in developing monitoring and/or evaluation frameworks or methodologies for strategic plans;
• Demonstrable experience in conducting research funded by large donor organisations
• One (1) year experience in-home care, preferred.

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Job Overview
This is a consultancy for a proposal the organization is working on The Public Health Expert will work closely with the Country Director to support program design, planning, implementation and epidemiological field activities, including technical inputs in the development of protocols, data management, analysis, interpretation of findings and writing of progress and scientific reports in the following project areas:

• Knowledge and experience malaria programme implementation across the various thematic area
• Integrated community case management (iCCM) for malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea
• Nutrition
• Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention
• Demonstrable experience in developing monitoring and/or evaluation frameworks or methodologies for strategic plans;
• Demonstrable experience in developing monitoring and/or evaluation frameworks or methodologies for strategic plans;
• Knowledge of Epidemiology sciences will be an added advantage
• The post-holder will follow up on technical support to facility level and community-based health service delivery programs.
• S/he will actively contribute to M&E, Knowledge Management, and internal capacity building for staff.

Key Working Relationships:

• The Public Health Expert will work closely with all members of the Technical Team, including project Technical Officers/Experts, Operations Research/M&E Managers/Experts/Officers, Country Commodity Manager, Data Analysts and Program Managers under the mentorship of the Country Technical Coordinator.
• S/he will need to liaise with stakeholders such as the Federal Ministry of Health, National Malaria Elimination Programs, State Ministry of Health, and Malaria Elimination Programs.

Responsibilities

• As part of the Senior Country Team, work in collaboration with Country Technical Coordinator (CTC) to provide technical support to the portfolio of malaria consortium projects to ensure global best practices are utilised in program design and roll out.
• Work with the team to support projects in design, implementation, and interpretation of results frameworks.
• Lead the effort of the country office in the development of plans of action for project evaluations and coordinate the evaluation of country projects
• Lead statistical analysis of research and M&E data and contribute to reports and publications to disseminate to national stakeholders.
• Contribute to the planning of field activities and the development of standard operating procedures.
• Contribute to the design of data collection tools and database systems for the entry, storage, and retrieval of epidemiological data
• Work with M&E officers across projects in the development/strengthening of routine and supplementary disease surveillance systems.
• Liaise with the National Malaria Elimination Program and other health service departments responsible for health program implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation and Health Management Information System at all levels.
• Provide technical assistance in the analysis and interpretation of results from surveys conducted and surveillance systems.
• Contribute to the design of technical proposals.
• Contribute to the organization’s Knowledge Management content and strategy at National, Regional and Global levels
• Contribute to on-going operational research work across the Nigeria portfolio of projects.
• Work with the M&E team in the planning, design, and implementation of health-related surveillance systems or epidemiologic studies and participate in the development of field testing of innovative tools and approaches in surveys, rapid assessments, routine data collection, and surveillance.
• Work as part of the Nigerian Technical team to provide technical assistance to country requests
• Provide technical support to project managers in the review of consultancy and donor reports to ensure compliance with MC’s technical standards.
• Organize and participate in technical update meetings between projects and follow up actions.
• Support the collation of periodic Technical Assistance Forecasts from projects to develop.
• Collate achievement against strategic milestones from the project to prepare reports.
• Draft manuscripts as identified by the technical team for peer-reviewed journals
• Contribute to documentation of lessons learned from the organization’s work including the production of learning briefs, learning papers, general documentation, and contribution to publications.

Qualifications and Experience
Essential:

• Postgraduate Degree in Public Health with a focus on Epidemiology / Biostatistics or Demography.
• A minimum of 8 years post-graduate working experience in public health.
• Substantial Experience in the development, implementation, monitoring, review, documentation, reporting, and dissemination of malaria interventions.
• Mid-level management experience in planning and implementing large-sized malaria health projects in Nigeria
• Experience working on maternal and child health programs, including community health delivery
• Extensive experience in research design and implementation
• Excellent writing and presentation skills
• Flexibility and ability to work independently
• Full professional proficiency in English (written and spoken) required

Desirable:

• Experience managing donor grants or contracts such as BMGF, DFID, GFATM, or USAID/PMI.
• Demonstrable skills in manuscript writing for peer-reviewed journals

Skills
Essential:

• Significant knowledge of communicable disease control and child health
• Good technical knowledge of malaria control
• Excellent program management skills, with proven ability to implement high-quality projects on time and within budget
• Ability to remain compliant with organizational and donor policies
• Ability to manage and prioritize high workload and multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
• Excellent writing and presentation skills in English
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Capable of establishing strong working relationships with colleagues from different functions and cultures
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Word and Excel
• A team player, with a friendly attitude
• Proactive and takes initiative
• Results-oriented work ethic.

Desirable:

• Excellent advocacy skills, and comfortable being a strong advocate for the program.

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Job Overview

• As part of the activities to enhance surveillance on the impact of the next-generation ITNs the Medical Statistician will be required to conduct statistical studies to generate data and insights, to innovate, plan and support the surveillance activities.
• He/She will be responsible for generating ideas and then designing, implementing and analysing clinical studies.

Responsibilities

• Prepare analysis plans to ensure the best statistical methods are developed and utilized.
• Write specifications for files, consistency checks, tables, and calculations used to collect and analyze data from a variety of sources.
• Interpret analyses and prepares exhibits for reports and presentations.
• Interface with non-technical users to assist with data interpretation and understanding of results.
• Demonstrable experience in developing monitoring and/or evaluation frameworks or methodologies for strategic plans;
• Demonstrable experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis;
• Experience in electronic and mobile data capturing tools (eg ODK, CSPro, Survey CTO);
• Prepare derived datasets for analysis using SAS
• Author statistical analysis plans

Qualifications

• Have a Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Physiology and other related studies
• A Master's Degree in Public Health, Biostatistics, Medical Statistics or Health Data Analytics is preferable
• At least 3 years experience in Pharmaceutical development and Clinical research, Biological or Health data analytical research
• Strong statistical skills and knowledge clinical trial methodology
• Experience with analysis planning and reporting of clinical trials
• Should be able to create a database and document analysis appropriately for dissemination
• Should be able to provide consultation on statistical method such as formulating and solving problems utilizing statistics in the analysis of complex data sets and serving as an expert on sampling, demography, trend analysis, computer techniques, data weighing and the utilization of progression analysis
• Should be able to provide deliverables in a timely manner

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Job Overview
The consultant will be gathering information on the social determinants of the impact for new dual active ingredient (AI) Interceptor (IG2), Royal Guard, and Piperonylbutoxide (PBO) Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) for four Local Government Areas.

Responsibilities

• Carry out direct observation
• Conduct key informant interviews
• Organize focus group discussions
• Develop data collection methods tailored to a specialty or project
• Prepare reports and present research findings
• Plan research projects to answer questions and test hypotheses about the interaction between nature and culture
• Record and manage records of observations taken in the field
• Collect information from observations, interviews, and documents
• Advise organizations on the cultural impact of policies, programs, and products
• Analyze data, laboratory samples, and other sources of information to uncover patterns about human life, culture, and origins

Qualifications

• Have a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology, Public Health, Sociology or any related field
• A Master’s degree in Anthropology or Public Health is preferred.
• Have at least 5 years work experience in Anthropological research
• Demonstrable experience in developing monitoring and/or evaluation frameworks or methodologies for strategic plans;
• Demonstrable experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis;
• Experience in electronic and mobile data capturing tools (eg ODK, CSPro, Survey CTO);

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Job Overview

• This is a consultancy for a proposal the organization is working on. The Epidemiologist is responsible for carrying out investigations, implementations, assessment and epidemiological surveillance systems/monitoring (if needed) according to the organization’s protocols in order to contribute to appropriate evidence-based decision making using well managed health data in outbreak and emergency programs. The research study will be done in Kwara and Osun states.

Responsibilities

• Carry out key epidemiological activities in outbreak investigation (description including time, place, people with emphasis on mapping when it is needed) and advise on the operational response
• Supervise epidemiological activities in community-based surveillance (mortality, malnutrition), in outbreak investigations (description including person, place and time with emphasis on mapping when needed) and advise on operational response.
• Monitor data quality in the data collection tools used through follow up with appropriate staff on missing, erroneous and duplicate data, correcting data errors in a timely manner, and liaising with staff to ensure data integrity is maintained.
• Develop and maintain community-based and hospital-based surveillance systems to monitor health status of beneficiaries.
• Monitor epidemiological trends of relevant outbreak-prone diseases.
• Guide activities of medical staff and community staff for surveillance and/or active case finding, including ensuring understanding of the need for consistent case definitions and data recording (briefing of all new staff).
• Develop and maintain accurate and high-quality data systems/databases.
• Performs quantitative data analysis using descriptive, statistical, and spatial methodologies and computerized statistical software,
• Prepare regular written reports on progress and findings for medical coordinator, and when appropriate to external collaborators/networks (MoH, other NGOs).
• Conduct initial assessments (for emergency situations), rapid health assessments and (baseline or follow-up) surveys to inform appropriate response.
• Where standard protocols are not available or appropriate, develop a protocol seeking extensive feedback and pilot testing of robust tools to ensure the objectives will be met with support of HQ epidemiologist.
• Prepare / adapt routine documentation (survey forms, training materials, letters of request/notification, locally appropriate consent forms etc) with support of HQ epidemiologist.
• Prepare an appropriate sampling frame and sample selection guidelines with support of HQ epidemiologist
• Hire, train and supervise survey staff, including ensuring staff exhibit required skills after training and pilot test.
• Analyze results and report on findings
• Manage data systems and ensure accurate, high quality databases
• Analyze results and report on findings
• Implement/maintain relevant epidemiological surveillance systems/monitoring
• Provide training sessions to medical teams on relevant aspects of epidemiology to enhance team response capacity.
• Follow up, monitor, and provide result interpretation of community-based nutrition and mortality surveillance system in the projects where implemented.
• Support implementation of remote surveillance system in project site.
• Follow up on reported cases of communicable diseases and conduct analysis of the data to support early detection and to help inform appropriate response.
• Monitor epidemiological trends of relevant outbreak-prone diseases (e.g meningitis, measles, cholera etc.), and provide appropriate technical advice and support to the PMRs.
• Follow up and harmonize project’s Health Information System (HMIS) and support analysis of this data.
• Ensure timely reporting for monthly and quarterly indicators.
• Support and manage surveillance data tools when requested Provide technical support to field team in building capacity regarding surveillance for meningitis outbreak preparedness.
• Update the medical dashboard to support program improvement and sharing with the medical coordinator on a weekly basis.
• Ensure external data management tools (e.gMOH, Nut 5W cluster) are updated with weekly and monthly data for external sharing purposes.
• Ensure regular reporting on progress, challenges and findings at medical meetings or coordination meetings if applicable.
• Support emergency team on analysis of the data during/after exploratory missions if relevant.
• Participate in relevant team, inter-sectional and inter-agency/ governmental meetings if requested by medical coordinator
• Design/develop protocols of epidemiological study carry out epidemiological study and publish results in norms with studies internal regulations.
• Being flexible to any other task to be carried out asked by the supervisor according to the mission need.

Requirements
Education:

• Medical Doctor (preferable), Nurse or Biomedical background with a Degree in Epidemiology.

Experience:

• At least 3 years' experience in tropical medicine (having assumed coordination position is a plus).
• Experience in field epidemiology
• Experience working in Nigeria
• Demonstrate experience in conducting research funded by large donor

Competencies:

• Commitment to the organization’s principles.
• Cross-cultural Awareness
• Behavioral Flexibility
• Stress Management
• Results and Quality Orientation
• Service Orientation
• Initiative and Innovation
• Teamwork and Cooperation

Other Required skills:

• Organization and planning skills, initiative and proactive.
• Committed to humanitarian principles.
• Due to the nature of MSF operations, flexibility is indispensable and unavoidable.
• Committed to humanitarian principles.
• Sensitive and respectful of religious and cultural differences

Language Requirements:

• Excellent ability to communicate in English, both verbally and in writing. Knowledge of the Yoruba language is desirable.