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Req Id: 58106
Location: Nigeria

Job Description

• The project seeks to harness the full potential of the private sector and catalyze public-private engagement to improve health outcomes in TB, family planning, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and other health areas.
• In Nigeria, SHOPS Plus will increase the availability of and access to TB services in the private sector by establishing a network of private providers from different cadres (clinicians, PPMVs, community pharmacists (CPs) and labs) to detect, diagnose, and successfully follow up and/or treat TB. SHOPS Plus will work in the states of Lagos and Kano.
• These two large states have high TB burdens as well as a high level of private sector activity.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• SHOPS Plus seeks to facilitate the availability of government supplied drugs and laboratory reagents in the private sector by providing technical support to the State TBL Control Program and private clinical facilities for the logistics management of anti-TB commodities (drugs and reagents) at the assigned state central medical stores and health facilities.

 The objectives of the Logistic Management Support are to:

• Build the capacity of Intermediary Organization (IO) network officers on Logistics Management Information System (LMIS): the logistics consultant will build the capacity of the Intermediary Organization to ensure adequate mentoring of the private facilities. The IO Network Officers will in turn build the capacity of private facilities on logistics management of anti-TB drugs and reagents on a continuous basis
• Provide on-the-job mentoring to private facilities: In addition to continuous capacity building of private providers by the IO, the logistics consultant will carry out periodic supportive supervisory visits to private facilities to carry out on-the-job mentoring on timely and accurate generation, collation and submission of logistics reports to ensure uninterrupted supply of drugs and commodities
• Conduct data quality assurance for LMIS: Conduct routine monitoring visits to private DOTs facilities and stand-alone laboratories for data verification, validation and logistics data quality assessments (DQAs) using standard checklists
• Ensure  minimum stock levels in private health facilities: build capacity of private providers on adequate quantification and forecasting in line with National TB Program (NTP) guidelines to prevent stock-out of TB commodities in clinical facilities and labs
• Provide  technical support to state TB logistics system: Support State TB Logistics Officer to remove organizational bottlenecks in third-party logistics for supply of anti-TB medicines and reagents to health facilities by facilitating documentation, quantification, distribution and other logistics processes
• Generate project logistics reports and tracking of project M&E indicators: provide periodic reports on stock status, commodities storage condition, logistics activities and warehousing maintenance and other month/bi-monthly/quarterly and supportive supervision reports
• Enhance collaboration between public and private TB Stakeholders: coordinate the TB state stakeholders in  logistics mentoring and supportive supervision to the supported facilities

The pharmacy/ logistics consultant  is expected to perform, but is not limited to the following tasks:

• Develop and maintain a logistics information database for all engaged facilities. The database will be updated periodically as more facilities are actiavted for TB services with SHOPS Plus support
• Build the capacity of the Intermediary Organization during formal training of IO personnel and during mentoring and supervisory visits
• Carry out site visits to private providers and laboratories for mentoring and supportive supervision on LMIS
• Carry out quarterly data quality assurance
• Attend program review meetings for  giving and receiving feedback during network meetings on a monthly basis
• Prepare monthly logistics reports and tracking of logistics indicators
• Support private providers on logistics processes including quantification and forecastiing in line with NTP guidelines to prevent stock out of TB commodities and reagents
• Attend state logistics planning and technical working group meetings to ensure effective collaboration between public and private TB stakeholders
• Periodic logistics reports

Minimum Qualifications (8+) years of experience and a Master Degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience

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Req Id: 58105
Location: Nigeria
 
Job Description

• Abt Associates seeks a qualified Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Assistant  to support the SHOPS Plus Nigeria M&E Director in all research, monitoring, and evaluation (RME) activities in the state. SHOPS Plus is USAID’s flagship initiative in private sector health. The project seeks to harness the full potential of the private sector and catalyze public-private engagement to improve health outcomes in TB, family planning, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and other priority health areas. In Nigeria, SHOPS Plus focuses on tuberculosis and family planning.
• The M&E Assistant will support the M&E Officer in the implementation of the Lagos TB program.  The TB program will focus on increasing availability of TB services in the private sector, improve flow of suspected TB patients into detection and treatment centers, improve the quality of private sector TB services, and strengthen health systems to foster and sustain Public Private Mix models for TB care.  While the FP program will support capacity-building of public and private providers to scale up family planning, especially long acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs).

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Collate and document materials that the data entry clerks will enter into the project data management system
• Supervise data entry clerks:
  • Supervise daily filing of the data forms by the data entry clerks
  • Ensure back-ups of the database daily
  • Assign forms on a daily basis to DEC to be entered into the database and ensure that the entries matches the forms assigned to them
  • Conduct data verification on the data entered to ensure completeness and accuracy
• Assist SHOPS Plus managers and technical leads in collecting, analyzing and reporting program data
• Make input in the development/review of Activity Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning documents
• Assist in development of research instruments for baseline, endline surveys and exploratory research studies
• Support research analysis and interpretation including data cleaning and other minor quantitative tasks; draft presentations and reports of the studies carried out
• Support the M&E officer/Director in reviewing program data to monitor performance (including carrying out data quality assurance activities)
• Work with the M&E officer/Director in providing evidence-based input/feedback to facilitate program design, review and implementation
• Track research expenditures (at the state level) against the budget, and monitor and manage RME sub-contracts
• Support in the reporting of program performance indicators to USAID and other stakeholders as may be necessary
• Make presentations on M&E as may be necessary (e.g. during trainings, meetings, etc.)
• Support the development of program progress report, case studies, and other documents as per program objectives

Preferred Skills / Prerequisites

• Bachelors Degree in any of the following areas: Public Health, Economics, Epidemiology, Demography, Social Work, Business Management or related/equivalent fields.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in a related professional space
• Experience in qualitative and/or quantitative research techniques preferred
• Excellent computer application skills, especially in use of MS Word, Excel, Acess and PowerPoint
• Familiarity with secondary data sources
• Excellent presentation and writing skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Competent in mathematical calculations and analysis
• Ability to multitask, have leadership and supervision skills
• Experience in data entry, cleaning and analysis

Minimum Qualifications:

• ( 2+ ) years of experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience

Remuneration
Abt Associates provides market-competitive salaries and comprehensive employee benefits.