Jobs at Grassroots Life Saving Outreach

Location: Yola-South,  Lamurde - Adamawa

Job Description

• We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytical MEAL Coordinator.
• The successful candidate will lead in collecting and analyzing data, conducting assessments, and providing insights to improve program performance and impact.
• The MEAL Coordinator will work closely with the team, partners, and communities to ensure accountability and learning, ultimately contributing to the delivery of high-quality services to affected populations.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing MEAL plans and tools
• Collect and analyze data on program indicators and outcomes
• Conduct field visits and assessments to monitor program progress
• Provide insights and recommendations to improve program performance
• Support accountability mechanisms, such as community feedback and complaints response
• Contribute to learning and knowledge management, including documentation and reporting
• Provide technical support on MEAL to program staff.
• Contribute to proposal development and reporting.
• Monitor and report on program indicators, targets, and outcomes.
• Dashboard design to showcase weekly achievement across all indicators.
• Support all capacity building within the Organization.

Requirements

• B.Sc or HND in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Sciences, or any relevant technical qualification.
• At least 3-4 year of experience in MEAL, preferably in humanitarian context.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in challenging environments and under pressure
• Fluency in English and Hausa languages

Skills:

• Good relationship management/ advocacy skills
• Must possess good data analysis, report writing, interpretation, and presentation skills.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Leadership/mentoring skills, supervisory and good interpersonal skills
• Patient counselling.
• High level of integrity and adherence to professional ethics
• Proficiency at using Microsoft office software: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.
• Ability to prioritize, plan and organize workflow to tight timeframes
• Ability to multitask and work with minimal supervision
• Attention to detail and ability to follow up on tasks to completion
• Excellent interpersonal skills, a good listener that is easy to talk to.

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Slot: 2 Opening: 

Job Summary

• Supervise the overall implementation of the project technical aspect, ensuring adequate communication between LESGO and field staff, stakeholders and Agencies.
• S/he will provide technical leadership and support to strengthen all health interventions, and performance reporting within the targeted geographic area, which may include strengthening capacity of health workers and other stakeholders to monitor, document and analyze the performance of health services and activities and ensure data quality. /S/he reports directly to Project Manager.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Coordinates and supervises activities of Clinical Supervisors
• Counsel and referring advanced issues to secondary healthcare
• Work with the MEAL Officer to Monitor and Evaluate the effectiveness of facility and outreaches, making recommendations for improvement as needed
• Provide overall managerial oversight for implementation of the health program activities in the target LGA;
• Ensure health projects implementation are of high quality and meets the LESGO/ optimal standards.
• Provide technical support to field staff and provide them necessary mentoring and trainings as needed to enhance their capacity for optimal performance
• Ensure data collection, data compilation, timely preparation and submission of all reports including weekly and periodic reports
• Maintain open and professional relations with team members
• Approve and manage all time, attendance and leave requests to ensure adequate departmental coverage; ensure monthly, accurate timesheet submission.
• Make regular field and health facilities visits to monitor project implementation and provide on spot support to volunteers and propose modifications as necessary
• Conduct performance reviews and clearance of Clinical Supervisors for monthly stipends.

Qualifications

• Health professional (B.Sc Public Health, Registered Nurse, Registered Midwife etc)
• 5 - 6 years’ experience in coordinating, implementing and managing primary and secondary health programs
• Experience in writing donors’ reports.
• Have experience in general management.

Demonstrated Technical Skills:

• Demonstrated Managerial / Leadership Competencies:
• Skills and experience of remote management and willingness to travel extensively
• Flexible, diplomatic and have ability and willingness live and work under pressure of workloads.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Languages: English and Hausa

Compliance & Ethics:

• Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics.
• As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of LESGO and donor compliance and ethical standards.
• Conducts work with the highest level of professionalism.

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Locations: Lamurde and Yola South - Adamawa

Job Summary

• This position will be responsible for the Coordination of health services through the provision of clinical services in facilities and in the field (Mobile Services).
• The Clinical Supervisor directs and manages an effective clinical service delivery team using applicable principles of Social Work and/or Counseling which include - patient psychosocial assessment, group and individual psychotherapy, family intervention, patient/family education and treatment planning.
• Setting goals for performance and deadlines in ways that comply with project goal. Organizing workflow and ensuring field staff understand their duties or delegated tasks. Monitoring field staff and facility focal persons productivity and providing constructive feedback and coaching. He/She reports to LGA Team Lead.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Shall report to the LGA Team Lead
• Supervise health workers and volunteers (Nurses, CHEWs and CHVs)
• Mobilize and coordinate facility and field health volunteers during service delivery at facility level and mobile outreaches
• Develop and implement community outreach plans to increase awareness in target communities or locations
• Maintain and Keep accurate records of activities, and meetings and submit same to Team lead on weekly or as may be required
• Undertake/lead advocacy and build good relationships with the community
• Coordinate and ensure seamless referral services to appropriate quarters or service locations
• Identify and report challenges and successes to the project management team
• Provide mentorship, guide and training to health volunteers
• Ensure compliance with project guidelines and standards
• Supervise drugs stock management in mobile medical teams and facilities.
• Act as focal point for liaison with community leaders and representatives in facilities
• Share regular, timely updates to Team Lead.
• Monitor the drugs consumption by establishing/maintaining mechanisms of consumption record and inform the Team Lead in case of any unusual usage, or stock shortages
• Identify and rectify gaps or weaknesses in medical activities by using monitoring and supervision tools
• Ensure rapid communication of suspect communicable disease
• Supervises the team to ensure high quality service delivery in the community according to the current National guideline.
• Support monthly community-level review meetings

Management:

• Reporting and attending different meetings
• Operational Management of Clinic team.
• Manage supervise and activities of all field support staffs ensuring presence, accountability, reporting, data collection and submission.
• Updating team on any development from LESGO Office
• Report any issue relating to misconduct to Team Lead or HR team.
• Daily supervision of Nurses, CHEWs and CHVs
• Tracking activities of team members.
• Ensure time sheet, attendance are filled and signed daily and monthly
• Organize the weekly schedule of the Clinic team to ensure the smooth running of the activities
• Ensure that field staff respect their assigned tasks
• Provide strong leadership to ensure Clinic staff understand and work according to LESGO principles.
• Prepare weekly activities report to submit to the Team Lead

Position Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Registered Nurse, Registered Midwife, Community Health or any other health-related field
• Qualification: Registered Nurse, Registered Midwife
• Experience: 4 - 5 years
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Excellent leadership and coordination spirit
• Fluent in English and local language (Hausa)
• Experience working with NGO
• At least 4-5 years of experience in coordinating, implementing and managing primary and secondary health program in the humanitarian context
• Ability to Travel as the need arise

Skills and Competency Required:

• Good relationship management/ advocacy skills
• Must possess good data analysis, report writing, interpretation, and presentation skills.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Leadership/mentoring skills, supervisory and good interpersonal skills
• Patient counseling.
• High level of integrity and adherence to professional ethics
• Proficiency at using Microsoft office software: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.
• Ability to prioritize, plan and organize workflow to tight time frames
• Ability to multitask and work with minimal supervision
• Attention to detail and ability to follow up on tasks to completion
• Excellent interpersonal skills, a good listener that is easy to talk to.
• Any other duties that may be assigned from time by Team Lead.

Compliance & Ethics:

• Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout LESGO
• As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of LESGO and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.
• Conducts work with the highest level of integrity.

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Slot: 15 Opening

Job Summary

• Nurse/Midwife provides technical support and mentoring to CHEWs and CHVs in the supported primary health facilities and Mobile health team respectively under the direct supervision of Clinical Supervisors.
• The Nurse/Midwife supervises and ensure execution of the Nutrition/Health activities including, SAM/MAM cases, ANC, PNC, basic emergency obstetric and neonatal care, family planning, deliveries, active case search on Cholera etc. in accordance with the project design, planning, implementation, monitoring and report progress of support of the planned objectives to aligned with project goals and strategy.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Assists the preparation and periodic update of the Situation Analysis by compiling Health & Nutrition data, analyzing and evaluating relevant information and providing the technical input in a timely and accurate manner.
• Drafts chapters, prepares statistical data reports, and assists with preparation of sectoral input to the program documents as required. Contributes to the consultation and coordination with key partners at all levels.
• Provides professional technical assistance to CHEWs in supported PHCs on the integration of the SRH & Nutrition services, clinical treatment, management and support deliveries that will contributes to building CHEWs skills on BEmONC, SAM/MAM cases, ANC, PNC, basic emergency obstetric and neonatal care, family planning, deliveries etc. Establish partnerships to promote innovative approaches to address immediate and underlying determinants of maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition.
• Strictly adhere to clinical guidelines and standard operating procedures set by the Adamawa State Health Care Development Agency
• Support the Clinical Supervisor during mobile medical outreaches in hard-to-reach communities away from the health facility
• Support the Medical Clinical Supervisor in identifying necessary action for adjustments, improvement and sustainability of the project achievement
• Support the Medical Mobile team on active case search on cholera
• Reports outcome to Clinical Supervisors
• Provides timely data on ANC, PNC, Deliveries, SAM/MAM case, number of beneficiaries who access commodities, sensitization, etc to M&E officer
• Ensure follow ups/referrals
• Work in assigned health facility(ies) to provide technical guidance on project activities to MoH staff and follows up on cases
• Notify the Clinical Supervisor levels of essential commodities selected PHCs and households conducted in transparent manner in accordance with LESGO accountability procedure.
• Keeps close contacts with community stakeholders in order to improve the ability to collect and disseminate relevant information on program/project implementation in the communities and feedbacks
• Assists the monitoring team to ensure that data collection and analysis from field visits are standardized to feed into to M&E monitoring plan.
• Ensure timely preparation of Monthly/quarterly reports
• In case of emergency, assists in monitoring and assessing the nature and extent of the emergency in the assigned area.

Requirements

• Minimum of Registered Nurse, Registered Midwife or any other health related field
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Excellent leadership and coordination spirit
• Fluent in English and local language (Hausa)
• At least 2-3 years’ experience in coordinating, implementing and managing primary and secondary health program in humanitarian context
• Any other duties that may be assigned from time by supervisors.

Skills and Competency Required:

• Good relationship management/ advocacy skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Leadership/mentoring skills, supervisory and good interpersonal skills
• Patient counselling.
• High level of integrity and adherence to professional ethics
• Proficiency at using Microsoft office software: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.
• Ability to prioritize, plan and organize workflow to tight timeframes
• Ability to multitask and work with minimal supervision
• Attention to detail and ability to follow up on tasks to completion
• Excellent interpersonal skills, a good listener that is easy to talk to.