VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT AT ASSOCIATION FOR REPRODUCTIVE AND FAMILY HEALTH

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT AT ASSOCIATION FOR REPRODUCTIVE AND FAMILY HEALTH

Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) is one of the leading Nigerian Non-Governmental Organizations implementation programs for improving sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH), Prevention, Care and Support of HIV/AIDs, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria, etc. we seek application from qualified persons to fill various positions in Zamfara, Katsina and Jigawa states on a new project: Maternal Newborn and Child Health Project – MNCH2 funded by DFID,

1.            Integrated MNCH/HTSP Trainer (2positions): Location – Kano Specific Responsibilities

·         Ensure effective overall coordination of Training programming/activities of the projects in assigned states.

·         Coordinate assessments of capacity building and training needs for stakeholders in the state health sector on integrated maternal newborn and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy (HTSP) services.

·         Work with partners to support dissemination of national policy, strategy, guidelines and quality care model for MNCH and HTSP services at state and LGA level. Support partners at state level by proving technical assistance to the development of good quality state and LGA annual operational plans and their review.

·         Support dissemination and use of approved training modules and guidelines on selected high impact integrated maternal new-born child Health continuum of care interventions such as – Focused Antenatal care (FANC): skilled Birth Attendance (SBA): Emergency Obstetric and New-born care (emOMC); Helping Babies Breath (HBB) post Natal care (PNC) community Based New-born care and integrated community case management (iccm) for diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia. Support state and LGA level supportive supervision, monitoring and evaluation of MNCH programmes.

2.            State Midwives Mentors (3 positions), Location – (Zamfara, Katsina, Yobe states)

Specific Responsibilities

·         Provide leadership for effective coordination of programme activities in the state

·         Contribute to the development of annual workplans as well as state level monthly/quarterly implementation work plans for improvements in integrated MNCH services.

·         Design and implement a system of monitoring of project activities that ensures the achievement of project outputs and outcomes

·         Provide technical support through mentoring, integrated supportive supervision for improved scale up/delivery of clinical activities.

·         Track the progress of state partners activities to agreed annual plans, advise partner organization leadership on programme performance trends and implications for the achievement of plans/targets

·         Design and implement result oriented mentoring of sub-recipients and sub-sub recipient in assigned states.

·         Ensure adherence to all donor requirements in program, activities, reports and report

·         Provide technical support through mentoring, integrated supportive supervision for improved scale up/delivery of clinical activities.

·         Assist sub-recipients and sub-sub recipients in the design, development and implementation of programmes for improvement on MNCH services in the state

Qualifications:

A degree in Nursing and Midwifery with Master's degree in Public Health (MPH) and at least 3 years post NYSC experience in maternal newborn and child health as well as RH/FP programming will be an added advantage. The candidate should reside in each of the project states and should have strong interpersonal communication skills, excellent written and spoken English Language and proficiency in the use of Computer applications in MS Office Suite applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and relevant web based M&E softwares used to generate project reports.

Method of Application

Applicants should send their comprehensive Curriculum Vitae and cover letter in ONLY one attachment (MSWord document) explaining suitability for the job to: programs@arfh.ng.org

On/or before June 16^th June 2014. Please indicate the title of post applied for in the subject line of the email.

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.