Society for Family Health is one of Nigeria’s largest non-governmental organisations. Founded in 1985 by three eminent Nigerians: Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, Justice Ifeyinwa Nzeako, Pharmacist Dahiru Wali and Phil Harvey. Society for Family Health Nigeria has a mission to empower Nigerians, particularly the poor and vulnerable to lead healthier lives. Working with the private and public sectors, SFH adopts social marketing and behaviour change communication to improve access to essential health information, services, and products to motivate the adoption of healthy behaviours.
Location: Kaduna State (Kaduna North, Kaduna South, Chikun, Kajuru, Kachia, Zagon Kataf, Kaura, Jema’a, Sanga , Kagarko, Jaba, Ikara).
Job Profile:
The ANRiN intervention will be implemented in 12 LGAs with focus on nutritional counselling and distribution of nutrition product to be conducted at community level. The project requires LGA Coordinators to manage intervention within a specific LGA to enhance quality of intervention and reduce security risk of state nutrition team who otherwise would be on the road frequently.
Job-role:
The successful candidate will perform the following functions:
- Coordinate delivery of a combination of Basic Package of Nutrition Services (BPNS) counselling and Nutrition /Health product distribution at the community level.
- Reside within the confines of the local government and create a binding force and a clearing house for the IPCAs and the community structures to facilitate the distribution of the commodities.
- Work with relevant community structures to enhance stakeholders support for the project including identifying distributors of the commodities within the target communities.
- Lead the training and continuous capacity building of the distributors to ensure a successful project outcome.
- Provide logistic support and supervise IPCAs to achieve seamless distribution of commodities.
- Support harmonizes the commodity management activities and reconcile commodities and activities within the local government.
- Manage Grievance Response mechanism to resolve any bottlenecks that may arise during the commodity distribution.
- Ensure the development of budget and work plan for BPNS in the LGA on a monthly and quarterly basis.
- Support the accountability process in compliance to SFH, State government and World Bank financial rules and regulations.
- Documents best practices and /lessons learned from ANRiN operations at the LGA
- Facilitate monthly review meetings
- Articulate and submit regular report to the direct supervisor to meet the stipulated targets
Qualifications/Experience:
- BSc/HND in Nutrition, biological sciences, or other health related fields.
- 3 years of experience in managing nutrition or other health projects at state or local level.
- Experience working with health data using electronic system.
- Experience working with communities with ability to guide demand creation activities.
Skills and Competencies required:
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills
- Ability to use MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.
Closing Date: January 05, 2024
