Latest Jobs at Centre for Family Health Initiative (CFHI)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop, support, and promote CFHI organization goals, including message development, social media content creation and media outreach.
• Develop and disseminate public relations materials that increase CFHI visibility among stakeholders.
• Build and maintain relationships with journalists, bloggers, investors, and customer audience that will help advance CFHI’s work.
• Identify target audiences and create strategies to effectively engage them.
• Ensure digital marketing content aligns with CFHI brand’s identity and message and assist with marketing campaigns as needed.
• Provide editing quality assurance for all CFHI’s IEC materials to ensure written text is free of errors.
• Design Infographics, Newsletters, Annual reports, Proposals, Brochures, and any other documentary.
• Publish CFHI’s work online; e-mail copy, blog posts, infographics, video scripts, social media posts and other content.
• Update CFHI’s website regularly.
• Produce a monthly newsletter covering CFHI’s work in the head office at Abuja, and in other states where it operates.

Others

• Select and work with external vendors, including graphic designers and printers and liaise with relevant print and news media to cover relevant CFHI’s programs
• Actively participate in the implementation of project activities where your specialized strategic information and communication skills are relevant.
• Ensure all staff systems are always in good condition.
• Perform any other relevant duties as may be assigned by the Director or her Designee.

Qualifications/ Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor's Degree in Social / Health Science, Information Communications Technology, Public Administration, Mass Communication, Health Communication, or any related discipline.
• Experience in graphic designs, photography, and videography.
• 2-3 years of experience in writing and editing content for digital and print.
• Demonstrated skills in documentary and online research.
• Experience working and reporting on results for donor funded public health projects.
• Advanced skill with technologies and software such as Microsoft Office.
• Advanced skills in graphic designs especially Corel draw and Adobe Photoshop.
• Expertise with clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, and other office procedures and terminology.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong negotiating skills

Key Competencies:
Candidate must have:

• 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 professional manner.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in graphic designs and videography, and content development.
• Sensitivity in working with multiple cultures and beliefs, and to gender equity.
• Strong attention to detail and good analytical skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and adept at cross-functional collaboration.
• Excellent professional written and verbal communication.
• Basic knowledge of computer hardware.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Ability to multitask.

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Key Responsibilities
Psychosocial Support:

• Play a key role in Quality Improvement from the baseline status to all enrolled OVC
• Provide technical support to other program areas
• Coordinate the Community Improvement Team
• Coordinate the Caregivers’ forum
• Coordinate Psychosocial Support activities
• Coordinate the volunteer training and mentoring
• Coordinate the child friendly centre set-up and usage
• Coordinate the kiddies club activities
• Develop comprehensive work plans and budgets for the implementation of quality OVC activities
• Conduct field visits to support OVC activities and use the learning to continuously modify programming
• Continuously document new developments in OVC programming and align them to proposed activities.
• Oversee achievement of OVC performance targets in line with technical standards and best practices
• Monitoring and reporting of programmes activities
• Strengthen reporting on OVC activities through National OVC Management Information System.

Protection:

• Ensure that all the children in the enrolled households have birth registration certificate.
• Set up child protection committee within the communities the OVC project is being carried out.
• Conduct sensitization forum during the caregivers meeting on the need to report cases of abuse, neglect & shelter stressing the primary and secondary reasons why cases should be reported as early as possible.
• Ensure that all enrolled children are protected from abuse.
• Initiate and follow through with lasting solutions to issues that revolve around shelter and care
• Attend child protection network meeting (CPN)
• Formulate and Coordinate conduct of quality research and policy analysis on children and women, addressing the determinants of the social exclusion, disparities, inequalities as well as implications of the economic, financial trends, and national public policies
• Lead in facilitating the development of safeguarding and child protection policies, training and procedures and guidance for CFHI OVC children
• Receive and coordinate referrals, arranging action and reviewing services for children and families.
• Maintain accurate, confidential and up to date documentation on all cases of safeguarding and child protection.
• Ensure that CFHI is always represented positively within and beyond the organisation.
• Ensure that children who are victims of abuse are supported appropriately and sensitively.
• Coordinate the Educational aspect of the project.

Gender:

• Ensure mainstreaming of gender, including systematic age and gender analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting, on specific gender issues.
• Encourage implementation of targeted actions aiming to achieve gender outcomes.
• Support detailed gender analysis during the project implementation.
• Participate in gender norms assessment and analysis and inform programming.
• Take lead in providing technical support to community volunteers in developing effective gender focused project strategies.
• Support relevant training and learning opportunities for community volunteers to advance knowledge and skills in gender.
• Contribute to gender knowledge networks through identification of best practices and lessons learnt.
• Support the development of gender related advocacy messages.
• Represent CFHI in meetings and other events as requested, to support forging relations with the relevant State Ministries, stakeholders and the community.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with 2 - 3 years work experience
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral and ability to relate sensitively to diverse groups.
• Strong technical and programmatic skills and experience across a range of adolescent issues and topics.
• Training and knowledge in community HIV/AIDS prevention and working with adolescents
• In-depth understanding of donor expectations for program results, outcomes, impact and reporting
• Experience in the development of strategic and tactical plans with stakeholders who may represent a wide a range of needs and interest
• Good interpersonal and team working skills
• Demonstrated experience in training, capacity building of partners and team members.
• Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work independently and cooperatively with team members is required
• Highly developed computer skills with strong familiarity with Microsoft Office are mandatory.