SCOPE OF WORK
Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is a serious human rights and public health issue affecting women and girls around the world. It impacts all aspects of women and girl’s physical, emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It has harmful consequences for the individuals who experience it, their families, and communities.
The WPE programming in NE Nigeria will cover Adamawa States. The WPE program Manager will lead the design, implementation, and monitoring of WPE projects in Adamawa State and reports to the WPE Coordinator.
The WPE Manager will provide technical oversight to prevention and response staff in Adamawa State in protection and empowerment of women and girls (and the effects of the conflict on women and girls in general), with an emphasis on coaching staff to build their capacity, advocating for improved services for women and girls, and ensuring quality response to reach women and girls in conflict affected areas.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Program Management, Technical Quality, and Strategy:
- Provide ongoing leadership, training, and guidance to staff to ensure programming meets best minimum standards and prioritizes the security of beneficiaries and staff.
- Support the team to conduct safety audits and take the lead communicating with other stakeholders to ensure all services mitigate the risk of GBV and are in line with IASC GBV Guidelines
- Design and lead assessments in Adamawa to ensure the voices of women and girls inform WPE program design.
- Lead the development of coordination and referral mechanisms to ensure GBV survivors can access health care in a timely manner.
- Promote and teach good practice regarding rapid WPE case management and psychosocial support.
- Develop protocols on information management in insecure environments.
- Support the WPE team to develop awareness-raising messages to promote uptake of GBV response services in a timely manner.
- Support the WPE team to ensure sustained programming.
- Promote coordination with the other sectors within the IRC.
- Design and lead on rapid responses in newly opened LGAs
- Liaise with the IRC Health Manager to help provide support in terms of health services to GBV Survivors.
- Lead the development of proposals for Adamawa State to ensure consistent funding, with technical support from the WPE Coordinator and Senior Technical Advisor
- Review monthly BvAs and submit monthly BvA corrections.
- Prepare and keep updated budget spent out plans to maintain program expenditure within budget.
Staff Performance Management, Learning & Development:
- Collaborate with the WPE Coordinator to implement the staff training plan for WPE Team members.
- Oversee and when necessary, conduct trainings for community and service providers.
- Collaborate with the Health Sector to organize Clinical Care of Sexual Assault Survivors training for health staff, as needed.
- Collaborate with the other IRC Program Managers to maintain an on-going training program to ensure WPE is integrated into health, child protection, ProL, ERD, Education and vice versa.
- Oversee administrative aspects of the program including, but not limited to, writing job descriptions, interviewing, and hiring staff, developing staff performance objectives and conducting timely performance appraisals.
- Ensure the staff follows IRC global financial procedures and meeting donor requirements.
- Other duties as required.
Research, Learning and Analysis:
- Lead the development and oversee implementation of strong monitoring and evaluation systems.
- Lead the preparation of reports to the Women Protection and Empowerment Coordinator and donors.
- Provide trend analysis on areas where WPE is implementing to improve services and advocacy for women and girls.
- Liaise with other teams on best practices and assist each other with information sharing.
Coordination & Representation:
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders – including community leaders, Camp chairpersons, National Emergency Management Agency, State Emergency Management Agency) NGOs, UN agencies, Local Partners and other IRC sectors to enhance multi-agency and multi-sectoral cooperation and coordination.
- Ensure that information from coordination meetings is shared, as appropriate.
- Advocate for women and girls, with feedback from women and girls, in external meetings
Key Working Relationships:
- Position Reports to: WPE Program Coordinator
- Indirect/Technical Reporting: Senior Program Coordinator and Senior Technical Advisor
- Position directly Supervises: WPE Officers in Adamawa.
Key Internal Contacts:
- Country Program:
- Region/Global:
Key External Contacts:
- GBV Subcluster
- Ministry of women affairs.
Qualifications
Education:
- Must have a University Degree in public health, social work, or social science, with significant relevant work experience in conflict-affected areas.
Work Experience:
- 5 years GBV program management experience, preferably in insecure locations,
Demonstrated Technical Skills:
- Excellent GBV case management skills and have provided direct case management to survivors of GBV,
- Experience in managing a GBV emergency response team using rapid case management,
- Experience using and good knowledge of the GBVIMS.
- Good interpersonal and team-building skills.
- Thorough understanding of feminist theory and survivor-centered programming
- Ability to live and work under pressure in an unstable security environment.
- Knowledge and experience of participatory planning methods
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Experience in grant management and proposal writing is preferred.
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SCOPE OF WORK:
Medical degree (MBBS: MBChB or equivalent) from a recognized/accredited university in Nigeria and registered with Nigeria Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria Dentist on board and have a valid practice license.
- A medical doctor duly registered and validly licensed by the appropriate regulatory body,
- At least 1 year of experience post-graduation in a busy hospital set up with pediatric services, experience in inpatient treatment of pediatrics and severe acute malnutrition with complications.
- Experience in Nutrition in community-based programs
- Training and experience on treatment of acute malnutrition
- Advocacy and logistics experience
- Fluency in English, Hausa spoken and written, Fulfulde are added advantage.
- Experience in managing Nutrition program in complex emergencies.
- Excellent management skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to live under pressure in an unstable security environment.
- Excellent computer skills MS Word, Excel, Power-Point, Epi- info/SPSS outlook and the internet
Key Areas of Accountability
Under direct supervision of the stabilization center manager, the stabilization center Doctor will have the following stabilization center functions:
- Daily calculation of the quantity of food needed for the day to day based on the number of children present in phase I and transition or refers the work to somebody who will calculate, and he supervises him.
- Order the food for the SC In collaboration with the hospital dietician.
- Order the drugs for the SC In collaboration with the pharmacist and the SC matron.
- Manage the daily collection of the number of new admissions and exits and attendance from the registrar.
- Weekly checks and transmit the statistics to the stabilization center manager.
- Give feedback to the team and take appropriate action.
- Compiles monthly reports and submits to SC manager, coordinator, and hospital/state leadership.
- Provision of high-quality care to complicated SAM cases
- Provide clinical care to complicated cases of SAM admitted at the stabilization center (SC)
- Ensure clinical care provided at the SC is in accordance with the National guidelines for inpatient Management of SAM
- Mentor and provide on the- job training on stabilization care and documentation to nurses and other health workers deployed to the SC to ensure:
- Respect of approved protocol for management of acute malnutrition
- Correct use of program monitoring and evaluation (recording tool)
- Appropriate use of resources, stock control and ordering procedures
- Program Management and Documentation
- Monitor the in-patient Management of SAM
- Supervise the use of medicines, medical supplies, and nutrition related commodities and data tools in the SC.
- Participate in the development and review of program monitoring and evaluation tools where necessary.
- Ensure timely collection, compilation, and analysis of quality data as well as production of quantitative and qualitative reports regarding all IRC activities.
- Produce case studies related to in-patient care, at least one per quarter or as per line manager’s request.
- Regularly evaluate the impact of the activities and propose changes for improvement.
- Prepare weekly and monthly activities reports and any other ad hoc report that may be required.
- Support the supply chain management and forecast for medicines, medical supplies, Nutrition commodities (F-75, F-100, Resomal,) and data tools.
- Monitor the stock of commodities, medicines, medical supplies: calculate needs, decide quantities to be delivered to the stabilization center.
- Plan logistics and materials needs for the SC.
- Participate in stakeholder meetings on crosscutting health issues.
- Facilitate integration of services for a holistic approach of SAM by working in collaboration with partners
- Therapeutic Feeding Functions:
- Checks the pharmacy for correct drug preparation, storage, and stock balance etc.
- Checks food stock: food consumption and cleaning of the store
- Food distribution: works with hospital dietician to ensure meals distributed on time and respect of the quantity.
- Maintains and supervises quality of medical care dispensed: drugs distribution correct application of the medical protocols: clinical follow up, rehydration, detection in times of the medical complication.
- Nutritional follow up: correct measurements and follow-up of weight and edema.
- Individual cards and the attendance register book correct filling
- Ensure and quality checks admission and exit: respect of criteria.
- Ensures and role-models respect for the dignity of the patients and the accompanying caretaker.
- Resolution of problems occurring between the patient and the personnel
- Ensure that mothers are well informed about the functioning of the center, the state, and the evolution of their child.
Clinical Functions:
- Set work schedule to include overnights shared with emergency hospital physicians.
- Clinical examination of all patients with signs of complicated pathologies or presenting complication or refer by the nurses.
- Prescription management and follow up of severe and complicated cases in consultation with hospital physician.
- Adaptation and change of specific medical treatment and differential diagnosis in partnership with hospital physician.
- Authorizes and interpret rapid clinical laboratory.
- Referral of patients to hospital and between hospital
- Training of hospital IRC nurses on routine treatment prescription (theoretical and on the job training)
- Works in collaboration with the nurses to ensure medical care of quality.
- Works as a member of the team taking in consideration the non-medical problems encountered by the patients (feeding and psychosocial)
- Develop relationship with medical counterparts with hospital.
Staff Management:
- Maintain updated job descriptions, conduct interviews, orient new staff to the IRC and the stabilization center manager.
- Supervise the stabilization center staff (Nurse, help mothers, cleaner and registrars) directly provide ongoing leadership to the project team and oversee implementation and coordination of activity plans to ensure targets are met.
- Provide ongoing supervision, leadership, training and technical support and guidance to nutrition staff and ensure all stabilization center staff adhere to best-practice principles in all aspects of program implementation.
- Overall responsibility for stabilization center staff team’s timesheet, workplan vacation schedules and staff training/development activities
- Ensure performance management system documentation for all staff is in place and followed up regularly.
- Build staff capacity in workplan development and reporting to ensure accurate monitoring and documentation of activities.
- Recommend and implement a capacity building/development plan for project staff based on documented capacity needs assessment exercise.
- Ensure stabilization center staff understands and follows IRC and donor policies and procedures.
- Participate in nutrition related meetings seminars and workshop and feed information acquired back into programming.
- Work and strengthen relationship with ADAMAWA State ministry of health and hospital management board UNICEF and other partners implementing CMAM in the state.
Qualifications
- Medical degree (MBBS: MBChB or equivalent) from a recognized/accredited university in Nigeria and registered with Nigeria Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria Dentist on board and have a valid practice license.
- A medical doctor duly registered and validly licensed by the appropriate regulatory body,
- At least 1 year of experience post-graduation in a busy hospital set up with pediatric services, experience in inpatient treatment of pediatrics and severe acute malnutrition with complications.
- Experience in Nutrition in community-based programs
- Training and experience on treatment of acute malnutrition
- Advocacy and logistics experience
- Fluency in English, Hausa spoken and written, Fulfulde are added advantage.
- Experience in managing Nutrition program in complex emergencies.
- Excellent management skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to live under pressure in an unstable security environment.
- Excellent computer skills MS Word, Excel, Power-Point, Epi- info/SPSS outlook and the internet
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