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Global Initiative for Health and Right is a Non governmental Ogarnisation, which emerged out of the direct need to comprhensivly and sustainably address the rising prevalence rate of new HIV infection amongst youths within the Niger Delta and other parts of Nigeria. The organisation with its head office in Rivers state is registered with both cooperate affai...
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Background
Needle and Syringe Programs' (NSP) primary goal is to improve the health of People Who Inject Drugs (PWIDs), so it is essential to deliberately seek the involvement of active PWIDs. Active PWIDs have insight into current cultural norms, practices, and needs among people who use drugs, and may be able to gain trust more easily from participants; their involvement will reinforce the program's respect for active PWIDs. Needle and Syringe Exchange program (NSEP) can serve a number of purposes. GIHR will initiate her NSEP programs:
- Tapping into existing social networks to reach PWIDs in areas where people are not currently accessing NSEP services. This program will use peers to bridge the gap between participants and NSEP services.
- GIHR is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our program participants, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.
Role Description
- Mobilize and lead efforts to ensure timely data generation and data entry into the appropriate databases.
- Conduct regular zonal level data quality checks, validation and cleaning to ensure availability of high quality data for reporting and use.
- Carry out regular data analysis, interpretation and dissemination among program/clinical team to inform continuous program/service quality improvement.
- Support the Zonal Program Manager to meet data demands and other approved M&E related requests (participation in data review meetings, assessments etc.)
- Provide support at the field level for the collation and processing of monthly summary forms
- Carry out data verification exercises at collection points.
- Liaise with Program Manager and Clinician to analyze required data.
- Support in the design and implementation of midterm and end of project evaluation and special data requests.
- Represent the technical content of the project’s M&E work to key stakeholders in the state
- Support the development and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for management of program data.
- Support the preparation of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, annual and ad-hoc reports to donors.
- Maintain an inventory of data collection and monitoring visits to partners on a regular basis to monitor M&E systems.
- Provide technical support and mentorship to Data Entry Assistants
Requirements
Our Ideal candidate:
- First Degree in Social Science, Public Health or another relevant discipline.
- At least 3 years M&E experience working on M & E systems for HIV prevention and care programs will be an advantage.
- Demonstrated skills in training and capacity building through technical assistance and mentoring.
- Experience in data analysis in MS Excel and MS Access
- Time Management – Ability to prioritize tasks, manage time and complete projects in a fast-paced, changing environment with minimal supervision.
- Quality Management - Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.
- Written Communication - Writes clearly and informatively; edits work for spelling and grammar; varies writing style to meet needs; presents numerical data effectively.
- Adaptability - adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation; able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
- Cultural Sensitivity – Respects cultural environment in which person is working and does not act in a manner that is outwardly offensive to the local community.
- Non-discriminatory- Does not discriminate persons based on sexual orientation or gender identity, age, preferred jobs or behavioral habits.
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Background
Needle and Syringe Programs' (NSP) primary goal is to improve the health of People Who Inject Drugs (PWIDs), so it is essential to deliberately seek the involvement of active PWIDs. Active PWIDs have insight into current cultural norms, practices, and needs among people who use drugs, and may be able to gain trust more easily from participants; their involvement will reinforce the program's respect for active PWIDs. Needle and Syringe Exchange program (NSEP) can serve a number of purposes. GIHR will initiate her NSEP programs:
- Tapping into existing social networks to reach PWIDs in areas where people are not currently accessing NSEP services. This program will use peers to bridge the gap between participants and NSEP services.
- GIHR is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our program participants, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.
Role Description
The role of the Peer Educator (PE) is to deliver effective, friendly and efficient services to clients by:
- Providing engagement and support, including advocacy and liaison
- Providing information and referral to appropriate services both within hotspot and across
- Working to facilitate the delivery of sterile needle and syringes in collaboration with GlobalFund’s standard
- Promoting health and risk-reducing behaviors amongst PWID
- NSEP duties as required at sites across peers
- Working with PWIDs in a sensitive, confidential and non-judgmental manner.
Job Description
What you'll be doing
- As an NSP & Outreach Peer Worker, you’ll be part of the GIHR team delivering harm reduction services such as providing clean injecting equipment, overdose prevention, testing for HIV/hepatitis C and health education.
- You’ll also have the opportunity to help with health promotion activities and PWID community events.
- You’ll be working across hotspots locations in different LGAs, including outreach.
Requirements
Our ideal candidate:
- Member of a drug-using community
- Comfortable approaching and initiating conversation with others
- Basic literacy
- Speaks the language of the PWID community
- Cultural competency with the PWID community
- Willingness to learn: prevention messages, laws regarding NSEP and possession, etc.
- Eager to educate self and peers
- Trustworthy
- Does not have any open warrants (that could endanger the operations of both the peer and program)
- Desire to serve his or her community
- Knows the “lay of the land”
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills, including conflict resolution and negotiation and the ability to communicate effectively with people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds.
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Background
Needle and Syringe Programs' (NSP) primary goal is to improve the health of People Who Inject Drugs (PWIDs), so it is essential to deliberately seek the involvement of active PWIDs. Active PWIDs have insight into current cultural norms, practices, and needs among people who use drugs, and may be able to gain trust more easily from participants; their involvement will reinforce the program's respect for active PWIDs. Needle and Syringe Exchange program (NSEP) can serve a number of purposes. GIHR will initiate her NSEP programs:
- Tapping into existing social networks to reach PWIDs in areas where people are not currently accessing NSEP services. This program will use peers to bridge the gap between participants and NSEP services.
- GIHR is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our program participants, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.
Role Description
- Assist the Senior M&E Officer in the correct implementation and use of monitoring and evaluation tools, as well as the timely submission of complete reports.
- Conduct routine monitoring visits to various hotspots
- Assist with collation and processing of weekly and monthly reports
- Maintain strong data quality, including implementing data quality assessments (DQAs) on a periodic basis with approved tools.
- Maintain accurate documentation of M&E records and ensure their secure storage and simple retrieval.
- Collect relevant baseline and final data in conjunction with technical support teams.
- Ensure Program data is entered across all reporting platforms
- Other duties as assigned.
Our Ideal Candidate
- First Degree in any relevant discipline.
- Experience working in the implementation and management of health strategic information systems (HIV/AIDS programming preferred).
- Basic data management and analysis skills.
- Knowledge of electronic medical records systems and deployment of database systems for patient monitoring.
- High- level computer skills using MS Excel and MS Access
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Background
Needle and Syringe Programs' (NSP) primary goal is to improve the health of People Who Inject Drugs (PWIDs), so it is essential to deliberately seek the involvement of active PWIDs. Active PWIDs have insight into current cultural norms, practices, and needs among people who use drugs, and may be able to gain trust more easily from participants; their involvement will reinforce the program's respect for active PWIDs. Needle and Syringe Exchange program (NSEP) can serve a number of purposes. GIHR will initiate her NSEP programs:
- Tapping into existing social networks to reach PWIDs in areas where people are not currently accessing NSEP services. This program will use peers to bridge the gap between participants and NSEP services.
- GIHR is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our program participants, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.
Role Description
- NSP project cycle management
- Overall responsible for management of NSP and delivery of outputs in accordance with the contract.
- Oversee the management of the project cycle.
- Ensure that technical quality and standards are implemented during the project implementation:
- Undertake quality control:
- Analyse technical added-value and project impact;
- Set up technical evaluation exercises during and following implementation.
- Coordination with other stakeholders
- To liaise with local stakeholders, at all levels and attend relevant coordination meetings in the hotspots.
- Reporting and Communications
- Project reporting requirements:
- To ensure accurate and timely reporting of activities, both internal and external
- Set up a clear timeline of reports to be submitted to project Donors;
- Review reports and contribute to the development of financial reports through regular budgetary follow up;
- Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within the scope and within budget
- Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
- Ensure resource availability and allocation
- Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
- Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques
- Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
Our Ideal candidate
- First Degree in any relevant discipline.
- Experience as a Program Manager working with PWIDs in an HIV prevention and care program will be an added advantage.
- Demonstrated skills in training and capacity building through technical assistance and mentoring.
- Demonstrated commitment to gender responsive programming.
- Willingness to travel within Rivers State.
- Ability to work effectively with government and civil society partners and communities as well as transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through workshops, training and meetings using participatory methods and adult learning principles.
- Time Management – Ability to prioritize tasks, manage time and complete projects in a fast-paced, changing environment with minimal supervision.
- Quality Management - Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.
- Written Communication - Writes clearly and informatively; edits work for spelling and grammar; varies writing style to meet needs; presents numerical data effectively.
- Adaptability - adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation; able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
- Cultural Sensitivity – Respects cultural environment in which person is working and does not act in a manner that is outwardly offensive to the local community.
- Non-discriminatory- Does not discriminate persons based on sexual orientation or gender identity, age, preferred jobs or behavioral habits.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Outlook/Exchange, Power Point.
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Background
Needle and Syringe Programs' (NSP) primary goal is to improve the health of People Who Inject Drugs (PWIDs), so it is essential to deliberately seek the involvement of active PWIDs. Active PWIDs have insight into current cultural norms, practices, and needs among people who use drugs, and may be able to gain trust more easily from participants; their involvement will reinforce the program's respect for active PWIDs. Needle and Syringe Exchange program (NSEP) can serve a number of purposes. GIHR will initiate her NSEP programs:
- Tapping into existing social networks to reach PWIDs in areas where people are not currently accessing NSEP services. This program will use peers to bridge the gap between participants and NSEP services.
- GIHR is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our program participants, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.
Role Description
- Provide and deliver quality health care as a competent and skilled Medical Practitioner.
- Provide medical services to PWIDs as part of GIHR Community Health Services
- Where practicable, be involved in PWID health issues at a community level and be an active representative and advocate for GIHR services.
- Hotspots visit services where necessary
- Provide specialized skills where agreed to as part of the role.
- Develop care plans, conduct health assessment
- Assist with the integration of health promotion and the social model of health into the Community Medical Practice.
- Participation in relevant organizational meetings and planning forums as requested.
Our Ideal Candidate
- A Bachelor of Medicine credentialed to practice as a qualified Medical Practitioner/General Practitioner.
- Demonstrated experience as a General Practitioner working in a Community Health setting.
- A sound knowledge of general practice and community medicine.
- Experience working with PWIDs in the same capacity.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with patients.
- Demonstrated ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
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Background
Needle and Syringe Programs' (NSP) primary goal is to improve the health of People Who Inject Drugs (PWIDs), so it is essential to deliberately seek the involvement of active PWIDs. Active PWIDs have insight into current cultural norms, practices, and needs among people who use drugs, and may be able to gain trust more easily from participants; their involvement will reinforce the program's respect for active PWIDs. Needle and Syringe Exchange program (NSEP) can serve a number of purposes. GIHR will initiate her NSEP programs:
- Tapping into existing social networks to reach PWIDs in areas where people are not currently accessing NSEP services. This program will use peers to bridge the gap between participants and NSEP services.
- GIHR is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our program participants, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.
Role Description
- Provides routine and basic laboratory services for PWIDs attending the community center as required.
- Supports laboratory services provision, ensures standard, and current practices are in place for maintaining high quality laboratory services including calibration, standardization, and maintenance of automated or semi-automated instruments following established procedures.
- Participate in EQA and proficiency testing activities
- Support in ensuring compliance and implementation of laboratory protocols for all lab technicians and assistance involved with the lab function, including maximizing the use of available resources.
- Validates and reports, results of assays performed, delivers patients reports according to times indicated in policy and collection manual and ensuring strict adherence to safety procedures.
- Participates in inventory control management for laboratory supplies and reagents under GIHR
- Ensures the compilation of monthly laboratory inventory at the communityCenter.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Our Ideal Candidate
- First Degree in Laboratory Science
- Experience with handling fully or semi-automated machines is a must.
- A minimum of two years of experience in a similar position.
- Must poses a valid license to practice as a medical laboratory scientist.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Must be able to travel within the State.
- Sensitive to ethics and confidentiality of HIV/AIDS client issues.
- Possess current knowledge of best practices in HIV/AIDS laboratory management,
- Ability to prepare reports.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in computer operations.
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Background
Needle and Syringe Programs' (NSP) primary goal is to improve the health of People Who Inject Drugs (PWIDs), so it is essential to deliberately seek the involvement of active PWIDs. Active PWIDs have insight into current cultural norms, practices, and needs among people who use drugs, and may be able to gain trust more easily from participants; their involvement will reinforce the program's respect for active PWIDs. Needle and Syringe Exchange program (NSEP) can serve a number of purposes. GIHR will initiate her NSEP programs:
- Tapping into existing social networks to reach PWIDs in areas where people are not currently accessing NSEP services. This program will use peers to bridge the gap between participants and NSEP services.
- GIHR is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our program participants, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.
Role Description
- Assist the Program Manager with ensuring compliance with national guidelines for basic Minimum Prevention Package Intervention (MPPI).
- Assist with the integration of NSEP services into existing services provided by GIHR to PWIDs
- Assist with the design and implementation of approaches in comprehensive NSEP services for Key Population.
- Support capacity building of Community Members and community influencerswith respect to NSEPservices
- Assist with documenting and reporting GBV and human rights violations in the zone.
- Assist the Program Manager with the preparation of periodic project work plans and budgets in conjunction with other staff at theStatetoensure appropriate utilization of project resources.
- Support field implementation and ensuring demand creation and access to services of community members at the community center.
- Accompany other program and M&E staff for site visits to ensure program implementation and compliance at the zonal level.
Our Ideal Candidate
- A Degree in related field.
- Experience in health care programs or program support function.
- Experience in HIV/AIDS program implementation.
- Ability to work independently with strong problem-solving skills including the ability to foresee problems and initiate appropriate action.
- Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and make reasoned judgments in a timely fashion.
- Experience in dealing with difficult and sensitive situations in a diplomatic and professional manner.
- Willingness to travel within Rivers State.
- Time Management - Ability to prioritize tasks, manage time and complete projects in a fast-paced, changing environment with minimal supervision.
- Quality Management - Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.
- Written Communication - Writes clearly and informatively; edits work for spelling and grammar; varies writing style to meet needs; presents numerical data effectively.
- Adaptability - adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation; able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
- Cultural Sensitivity - Respects cultural environment in which person is working and does not act in a manner that is outwardly offensive to the local community.
- Non-discriminatory- Does not discriminate persons based on sexual orientation or gender identity, age, preferred jobs or behavioral habits.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Leter to: globalinitiativeforhealth@gmail.com using the Job Title and Location as the subject of the email.
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