Adolescent Health Supervisor at Society for Family Health (SFH) - 12 Openings

Society for Family Health (SFH) is a leading non-governmental public health organization in Nigeria, implementing programmes in malaria prevention and treatment, Reproductive Health/Family Planning, HIV & AIDS treatment, primary health care system strengthening, non-communicable diseases and maternal, new-born, and child health care. SFH ignites the power of health system thinking and market shaping to transform health outcomes.

An emerging pan-African organization, we provide a partnership platform to communities, donors, the private sector and government to co-create and implement actions that create real and measurable impact at individual, family, society, and country level. In a career at SFH, you will be the centre of making all these happen. You will be joining a team of problem solvers, with real passion to change the world in a fast-paced environment. We are a truly Nigerian-rooted organisation with global standards and a diverse workforce. We pride ourselves on being open, inclusive, and collaborative — and in providing a work environment that encourages our employees to be their best.

We are recruiting passionate, self-motivated, and highly qualified individuals to fill the underlisted vacant position below, in the Accelerating Nutrition Results in Nigeria (ANRiN) team:

Job Title: Adolescent Health Supervisor

Job ID: sfh-51047
Locations: Kaduna North, Kaduna South, Chikun, Kajuru, Kachia, Zagon Kataf, Kaura, Jema’a, Sanga , Kagarko, Jaba, Ikara - Kaduna
Job type: Part-time
Category: Programs

Job Description

• The Adolescent Health LGA supervisor will be responsible for the coordinating, planning, and execution/provision of reproductive health, specifically Family Planning interventions to enhance the effectiveness of the project in health promotion activities that affect adolescents, including in nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, and MNCH at the LGA.
• She/he will ensure client safety & satisfaction, demand creation data reporting as well as key stakeholder engagement within the LGAs.                           

Job Profile

• The Adolescent Health LGA supervisor will be responsible for the coordinating, planning, and execution/provision of reproductive health, specifically Family Planning interventions to enhance the effectiveness of the project in health promotion activities that affect adolescents, including in nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, and MNCH at the LGA.
• She/he will ensure client safety & satisfaction, demand creation data reporting as well as key stakeholder engagement within the LGAs.

Job-role
The successful candidate will perform the following functions:

• Ensure effective and impactful training and continuous supportive supervision of CHW/Service providers using approved checklists, develop & follows up on action plans ensuring updates are tracked and reported.
• Ensure competency of CHW/service providers in areas of counselling, Provision of full range of short-term and long-acting reversible birth-spacing methods documented and properly conveyed in monthly reports.
• Support in demand creation working with the Mentors in the selection and training in the community targeting the married adolescent girls.
• Ensure last mile distribution of adequate supply of commodities as well as relevant procedural equipment including overall support and management of intervention facilities.
• Ensure availability of data reporting/collection and management procedures and guidelines/protocols are strictly followed of all Adolescent health services across intervention communities using nationally approved tool.
• Ensure the availability, maintain, and comply with clinical governance guidelines, manuals, IEC and job aids, with strong referral linkages of service utilization in place and reporting incidents as if relate to short-term and long-acting reversible birth-spacing methods as set by the government of Nigeria.
• Plan and implement LGA/community/ facility level supportive supervision, quality audit, ISS, coaching and mentoring of the field team identifying & addressing training needs/ gaps of volunteers, IPCAs, CBOs/CSOs, CHIPs.
• Ensure that a high level of communication is maintained with field team members including other ANRiN units of implementation.
• Conduct monthly/quarterly review meetings with the CHW/service provider and Mentors at the PHC  with the state team to provide DQA & QTA scores & general performance of the LGA.
• Ensure the development of budget and work plan for Adolescent Health Services from 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.
• Plan & support the CHW/service providers to conduct monthly outreaches to the hard to reach.
• Ensure all assigned CHW/service providers are competent to provide full range of short-term and long-acting reversible birth-spacing methods.
• Must collate and maintain relevant data base at the LGA level of training register, competency data base, clinical incident, QTA scores to use same to develop the Training Needs Assessment.
• Establish partnership with implementing partners, CSOs and other stakeholders involved in Adolescent SRH programming, monitoring, to Forster support to LGA in bridging identified gaps.
• Coordinate advocacy and sensitization programmes targeted at relevant gatekeepers and community stakeholders to create an enabling environment for programme implementation among the target adolescent girls in the LGAs.
• Prepare and share monthly/quarterly/biannual report.

Qualifications/Experience

• Minimum of 4 years cognate/ relevant experience.
• Working experience in ICT related function will be an advantage.
• Registered Nurse/Midwife, Senior Community Health Officer/CHO
• High competency in family Planning/SRH services, Adolescent Health & Nutrition services
• Experience in community mobilization and data management.
• Experience working with service providers and client level data.
• Experience in using DHIS2, MS Excel

Skills and Competencies required:

• Ability to participate and guide demand creation activities.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Ability to initiate and maintain positive working relationships.
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.

Application Closing Date
5th January, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• All applications will be treated in confidence. Interested persons without the minimum requirements need not apply. 
• We thank prospective applicants for their interest in working with SFH, however only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• SFH is an equal opportunity employer and women are encouraged to apply. 
• Persons resident in the States where the roles are situated are also encouraged to apply accordingly.