Latest Job Vacancies at Jhpiego Nigeria

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations of project office in Nigeria office.
• Organize schedules and support project site visits.
• Arrange travel/hotel reservations and track related travel expenses.
• Provide administrative support to operation of project activities.
• Work within established Jhpiego systems and in accordance with local regulations.
• Draft correspondence to NGOs, MOH and other agencies as requested.
• Coordinate the procurement of office supplies, organize proper storage, maintain stock reports and monitor usage.
• Organize transport and distribution of project materials to project sites and maintain accurate stock reports.
• Report issues to the project director and troubleshoot as needed.
• Schedule and coordinate internal and external meetings, including invitations, meeting space, logistics, and refreshments. Coordinate technological needs with IT Officer.  Draft meeting notes and share with meeting participants.
• Maintain files and support the dissemination of project information among the project team.
• Schedule and support project visitors, including travel, visas, logistics, office space and meetings.
• Assist with drafting, editing and proofreading of technical materials and program reports, including progress reports, activity charts, and annual reports as requested.
• Work collaboratively with project and administration and finance staff to prepare and track the progress of project and activity budgets.
• Ensure compliance with USAID operational policies and regulations.
• Work collaboratively with other project team members to ensure necessary project planning, resource availability and management activities function smoothly and efficiently.
• Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors’  Degree in public health, business administration, Nursing/midwifery, Social sciences, Social works.  
• Programmatic experience,experience on research to practice—identifying best practices and adapting them to project realities or related field or equivalent experience
• Experience in coordinating international donor financed projects
• Familiarity with international donor policies and administrative procedures
• 4+ years’ of experience in administrative support of international health projects
• Ability to track expenses, keep accurate financial records and work within donor budgets.
• Proficiency in writing and editing letters, reports, and documents
• Strong decision making and results oriented approach
• Ability to interact skillfully and diplomatically with numerous counterparts such as networks of senior level international health professionals, donors, universities and other partners
• Familiarity with Nigeria government regulations including immigration, importation, and customs.
• Experience and understanding of WASH, prevention, care and treatment
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple projects/tasks, short deadlines, competing deadlines and intense pressure to perform
• Appreciation for socio-cultural differences in countries, preferably having lived and worked in one or more low resource settings
• Ability to develop productive working relationships with counterparts in other agencies and organizations worldwide
• Ability to work effectively with diverse international teams
• Proficiency in word processing and Microsoft Office
• Fluent in written and spoken English; Fluency in English preferred
• Excellent facilitation, oral and written communications skills
• Ability to travel nationally

SALARY RANGE: NGN638,000 - NGN 721,000 Monthly Gross

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Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package including: medical and dental plans; paid vacation, holidays and sick leave; personal accident insurance; 403(b) retirement plan; life and disability insurance; travel insurance; education assistance plan and more.

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Job ID: 2022-4780
Location: Abuja
Employment Status Full-Time
Category: International Positions 

Overview

• The Jhpiego Nigeria Country Office seeks a candidate for a full-time EBS Advisor position focused on carrying out a full range of complex epidemiologic and surveillance activities associated with event-based surveillance (EBS) systems and associated alert and response operations (ARO) at the Nigeria CDC. This position works 40 hours a week.
• The advisor will be hired by Jhpiego and assigned to the Connect Centre and/or Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) at NCDC headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria.
• This is an outstanding opportunity to work with the nation’s lead agency charged with protecting Nigeria’s public health.

Responsibilities

• Support development and review of scripts and checklist for call agents
• Conduct routine surveillance using digital surveillance platforms, such as EIOS and TATAFO, to detect signals of unusual or unexpected events
• Support the Connect Centre/EOC in the verification of events
• Support the Connect Centre/EOC in outbreak investigation and response activities
• Register and log signals/events and their associated follow up actions into NCDC’s event management system (SITAware)
• Support the development and implementation of epidemic intelligence products, such as daily EBS reports, situation reports, maps, dashboards, and other data visualizations
• Monitor and evaluate uptake and performance of new and existing EBS technologies and products
• Liaise with NCDC surveillance staff supporting indicator-based surveillance (IBS) systems such as SORMAS
• Development of concepts and strategy/SOPs for subnational EBS deployment and implementation
• Development/improvement and standardization of training materials/SOPs/manual
• Support Jhpiego GHS programs
• Facilitate EBS learning and community of practice for Jhpiego regional EBS team
• Share routine advisory on EBS outbreak and response
• Carry out other tasks that may be assigned by the Director of Surveillance or the DG of NCDC

Required Qualifications

• Advanced Degree in Health Communications, Public Health, or related field, with at least 7-8 years of professional experience
• Strong skills in script writing, social media and prior experience working communications organizations or call centers
• Experience in designing and implementing health communications program
• Knowledge of digital disease surveillance platforms
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office products and Information Technology
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal relationship skills
• Ability to interact and communicate well with a multi-disciplinary team
• Detail-oriented work ethics
• Ability to communicate well with internal and external partners, including international partners

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform.
• Excellent presentation skills and verbal and written communications skills.
• Previous experience working in INGO.
• Proficiency in word processing, Microsoft Office and data software.
• Ability to travel 25% of time.

Salary Range and Benefits

• Monthly Gross Salary Range: (NGN875,000 - NGN960,000)
• Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package including: medical and dental plans; paid vacation, holidays and sick leave; personal accident insurance; 403(b) retirement plan; life and disability insurance; travel insurance; education assistance plan and more.

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Job ID: 2022-4783
Location: Abuja
Employment Status Full-Time

Overview

• The Laboratory Advisors – expert will support and strengthen activities at the NRL, train and support national workforce at the NRL for COVID-19 Genomic sequencing, detection and characterization of COVID19 variant and other public health emergency.
• Standardized specimen collection, support the laboratory management and referral network procedures at the subnational level, in addition provide TA in laboratory assessment, support infection prevention and control practices and systems at the Laboratory and support revision and adaptation of policies and standard operation policies operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide TA to Laboratory Quality Management Systems (QMS) to strengthen laboratory samples transport networks, QA and biosafety for all supported laboratory facilities to ensure accuracy for laboratory investigations and quick turnaround time for results feedback to health facilities and clinicians
• Develop and monitor laboratory diagnostic methodology (viral isolation, molecular or serological), standard operating procedures and study design for ongoing research studies and for public health surveillance activities.
• Provide capacity building support and training to collaborating partners and shall participate in the development of training materials.
• Provide laboratory expertise, conduct assessments, and training with WHO, CDC and other health organizations to support the implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR).
• Assist in building laboratory diagnostic quality management capacity per IHR requirements.
• Support in developing SOP’s build the capacity of laboratory staffs to use SOPs for quantification and monitoring stock levels, update and submit utilization reports on time.
• Support a system for monitoring and reporting on the status of equipment functionality and develop preventive maintenance schedules.
• Strengthen ongoing laboratory-based surveillance system for acute febrile illness to include COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness surveillance.
• Implementation of biosafety and biosecurity practices for COVID19 testing, support revision and adaptation of biosafety manuals, procedures and protocols.
• Provide technical assistance to improve laboratory quality and Infection prevention and control.
• Exercise tact and diplomacy in organizational setting, transparent, direct with substance, self-starter, self-disciplined, be innovative and creative. Ability to intervene with staff with diplomacy and firmness.
• Demonstrate laboratory management, supervision, networking and leadership skills working with large, complex programs and ability to multi-task, communicate clearly and represent the organization at various platforms.
• Lead and manage by motivating employees to remain optimistic even when faced with challenges and encouraging good performance and values to work.
• Diplomatic; demonstrate experience in undertaking high-level policy dialogue with different stakeholders - Well-developed written and oral communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• The Laboratory Advisor-National Support will perform all other duties relating to the project as assigned by his/her supervisor.

Required Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Biological or Laboratory Sciences in a Clinical or Diagnostic or specialty discipline or equivalent job experience.
• 7-8 years of relevant work experience in laboratory quality assurance, quality control and audits or at least 6 years in a senior laboratory management position required.
• Experience developing and implementing lab policies and standard operating procedures, operational plans, guidelines, and accreditation and strengthening lab programs, and training and advising lab professionals.
• Demonstrated experience in quality assurance, quality control, protocol development, specimen management, and e-information systems in a lab context.
• Possess a range of computer skills (including Word Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access), which may need to be acquired through very quick learning.
• Experience working on USG funded projects and familiarity with international donor policies.
• Experience in training and mentoring government staff at the NRL and subnational.
• Fluency in verbal, written and interpersonal communication in English.
• Fluency in any local language in the project State will be an advantage
• Proficiency in writing and editing letters, reports, and documents.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform.
• Excellent presentation skills and verbal and written communications skills.
• Previous experience working in INGO.
• Proficiency in word processing, Microsoft Office and data software.
• Ability to travel 25% of time.

Salary Range and Benefits

• Monthly Gross Salary Range: (NGN875,000 - NGN960,000)
• Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package including: medical and dental plans; paid vacation, holidays and sick leave; personal accident insurance; 403(b) retirement plan; life and disability insurance; travel insurance; education assistance plan and more.

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Job ID: 2022-4784
Location: Abuja
Employment Status Full-Time
Category: International Positions

Overview

• The Technical Advisor- Surveillance & Epidemiology will work with NCDC team to support surge testing and active case finding at subnational level. Provide TA on National testing strategy, integration of COVID-19 testing across disease programs, expansion of testing among key populations and COVID-19 case identification and monitoring. This position will strengthen integrated disease surveillance, accelerate improvement and implementation of syndrome and/or event-based surveillance systems through the IDSR framework and strengthen surveillance systems to transmit standardized electronic surveillance data from LGA State and community levels to a central national hub. He/She will support community-based surveillance (CBS) implementations and coordination activities, foster coordination and collaborations, expand IDSR training across subnational region etc.

Responsibilities

• Support surge testing, leading to improved sub-national contact tracing and active case search in 12 priority states (subnational)
• Provide TA in the Implementation and scale up of National testing strategy
• Support and provide TA in the integration to COVID19 testing across disease programs, integration of data management systems for testing numbers and improved data interoperability
• Provide TA in expansion of testing amongst health care workers, HIV/TB/other immunocompromised persons, leverage established disease programs such as HIV TB and Malaria to scale up testing and other target population such as drivers- road transport workers, traders, IDP camps, prisons, NYSC camps and tertiary institutions across the country
• Provide TA in COVID19 cases identification and monitor to ensure early detection of new cases and clusters of COVID-19 and reduce transmission dynamics across the 12 priority States and LGAs.
• Strengthen integrated disease surveillance, with real time availability of actionable, high quality surveillance data that can be used to guide decision making.
• Collaborate with partner countries, FAO, OIE, WHO and other relevant partner organizations to adopt and implement agreed upon standards for surveillance data.
• Accelerate improvement and implementation of syndrome- and/or event-based surveillance systems through the IDSR framework.
• Sustain surveillance activities through training workshops, development of guidelines, provision of expert trainers, materials, and curricula, or other contributions in kind.
• Strengthen surveillance systems that reach across all levels of government (national and subnational to transmit standardized electronic surveillance data from LGA, State and community levels to a central national hub
• Support to implement IHR surveillance requirements using IDSR as a driving tool, support to improve JEE surveillance scores by implementing surveillance activities
• Support community-based surveillance (CBS) implementations and coordination activities; CBS training roll out to different regions, improvement on CBS reporting strategy and SOP’s and development of National Community Based Surveillance Strategic Plan
• Support to foster coordination’s and collaborations with ministries of agriculture and animal health to improve one health disease surveillance strategy
• Support to expand in country IDSR training across subnational region and provide technical support to the state’s surveillance team on the use of surveillance data for data driven decision making
• Collaborate with existing emergency preparedness programs in different state infusing surveillance as part of their IMS and EOC programs by supporting coordination of outbreak response and providing technical surveillance support in EOC’s and TWG’s meetings
• Support strategy to implement a subnational/state surveillance communication network to enhance disease surveillance and information sharing at all levels.
• Provide TA in review and updating of guidelines, travel regulations and standard operation procedures for NCDC.
• Develop a manuscript for publication in a scientific journal to document lessons learnt on the implementation process Event-based surveillance and community-based strategic (CBS) plan at the sub-nations.
• Exercise tact and diplomacy in organizational setting, transparent, direct with substance, self-starter, self-disciplined, be innovative and creative. Ability to intervene with staff with diplomacy and firmness.
• Demonstrate management, supervision, networking and leadership skills working with large, complex programs and ability to multi-task, communicate clearly and represent the organization at various platforms.
• Lead and manage by motivating employees to remain optimistic even when faced with challenges and encouraging good performance and values to work.
• Diplomatic; demonstrate experience in undertaking high-level policy dialogue with different stakeholders - Well-developed written and oral communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Undertake any other tasks assigned by the NCDC Director of Surveillance

Required Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Epidemiology, Strategic Information, International Development or other related fields.
• 7-8 years of experience working in epidemiology and a minimum of 5 years of work experience in developing countries,
• Experience in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data and in the calculation of demographic and epidemiological indicators,
• Experience in the design of protocols for epidemiological surveys, their implementation and dissemination of results,
• Experience in collecting data analysis and interpretation and calculating indicators for specific disease prevention and control programs,
• Experience in identifying and analyzing trends and risk factors by area and population group,
• Experience in collecting data analysis and interpretation and calculating indicators of availability of resources, effectiveness, utilization and hospital income,
• Experience in transferring knowledge and skills through seminars, brainstorms and workshops,
• Experience in word processing, use of spreadsheets (including graphing), database use, e-mail communication and Internet research,
• Possess a range of computer skills (including Word Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access), which may need to be acquired through very quick learning.
• Experience working on USG funded projects and familiarity with international donor policies.
• Experience in training and mentoring government staff at the NRL and subnational.
• Fluency in verbal, written and interpersonal communication in English.
• Fluency in any local language in the project State will be an advantage
• Proficiency in writing and editing letters, reports, and documents.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform.
• Excellent presentation skills and verbal and written communications skills.
• Previous experience working in INGO.
• Proficiency in word processing, Microsoft Office and data software.
• Ability to travel 25% of time.

Salary Range and Benefits

• Monthly Gross Salary Range: (NGN875,000 - NGN960,000)
• Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package including: medical and dental plans; paid vacation, holidays and sick leave; personal accident insurance; 403(b) retirement plan; life and disability insurance; travel insurance; education assistance plan and more.