Job Opportunity: Project Officer - Pathfinder International - Nigeria

VACANT POST - BASIC INFORMATION

Organisation: 

Pathfinder International

Location: 

Nigeria

Reference Number (optional): 

2015-30

Pathfinder International is a global leader in sexual and reproductive health. We place reproductive health care at the center of all that we do—believing that it is not only a fundamental human right, but is critical for expanding life opportunities for women, families, communities, and nations, and paving the way for transformations in environmental stewardship, decreases in population pressures, and innovations in poverty reduction. Pathfinder provides women, men, and adolescents with a range of quality health services—from contraception and maternal care to HIV prevention and AIDS care and treatment.

Evidence to Action for Strengthened Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services for Women and Girls (E2A) is USAID’s global flagship project for strengthening quality FP/RH service delivery and is led by Pathfinder International. The project is designed to reduce unmet need for family planning by scaling-up proven best practices (BPs) to ensure that women and girls receive – and use – quality services through all stages of the reproductive life cycle. E2A promotes healthy FP/RH behaviors, gender-equality, and the application of compelling evidence for FP use. The project is in partnership with the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), IntraHealth International, Management Sciences for Health (MSH), ExpandNet, and PATH.
 
Program Overview
Pathfinder International through the Evidence to Action for Strengthened Family Planning and Reproductive Health services for women and girls (E2A) project in partnership with the Saving Mothers, Giving Life initiative (SMGL) will implement an innovative integrated Maternal Newborn Health project in Cross River State, Nigeria building on the USAID Nigeria funded integrated PMTCT project. The project model consists of a suite of evidence-based MNH interventions tailored to the epidemiologic realities of the selected state/LGA and intends to address the three delays to women’s access to life-saving care, with a special focus on the time of labor, delivery and the first 48 hour postpartum.
 
Position Purpose
The State Project Officer (SMGL) is responsible for the implementation of all service-related project activities within their assigned catchment LGAs and in ensuring the project achieves high quality results.
Key Responsibilities

• Coordinates all SMGL-related project activities in the catchment LGAs including but not limited to:  , work scheduling, planning and supervising trainings, supportive supervision and mentoring of health care workers in project supported health facilities
• Develops and maintain effective project implementation relationships with key personnel at state, LGA and health facility level
• Carefully monitors the continuous availability of supplies essential for effective project implementation and take actions required to ensure uninterrupted supply
• Assists the M&E officers to ensure that routine data is appropriately recorded at all levels of the project, especially at the project facilities and other service outlets
• Ensures effective advocacy with relevant state local government organs, and with community structures in the catchment LGAs
• Ensures the planning and conduct of effective community mobilization and sensitization activities
• Provides continuous technical assistance and supportive supervision to facility and community providers in the areas of service delivery, M&E and other project activities.
• Performs any other duties as required by the SPM, PD and Country Representative

Basic Requirements

• A medical doctor or qualified nurse/midwife with a minimum  of 6 years relevant experience in reproductive health and community based programs to deliver health services, and good knowledge on primary health care, maternal and newborn/child survival, child spacing and STD/AIDS programs
• Good advocacy and people skills and experience in community mobilization and service delivery
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to work with various constituencies’ especially relevant government partners, USAID/PEPFAR, and other implementing partners.
• Good oral and /written communication skills and ability to effectively communicate technical material to both expert and lay audiences.
• Mature, responsible and able to meet deadlines under pressure and work with minimal supervision
• Strong interest in community/health care provider capability building
• Fluency in both written and spoken English in addition to one local language required.

Submission Instructions: 

http://www.pathfinder.org/about-us/careers/employment-opportunities/