LGA Ad-Hoc Staff at the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria (IHVN)

The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) is a leading and reputable non-governmental organization addressing infectious and non-infectious diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and cancer through the provision of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, capacity building, research, and care and support services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: LGA Ad-Hoc Staff

Location: Ondo

Job Description

• The Institute of Human Virology (IHVN) is in partnership with local and international organizations and the different tiers of the government of Nigeria at the national, state, and local levels.
• The Institute aims to provide quality health services, capacity building, and research in West Africa and beyond.
• The Immunization Plus and Malaria Progress by Accelerating Coverage and Transforming Services (IMPACT) project is a World Bank performance-based financing project in Nigeria that targets children under five and women as primary beneficiaries.
• The IMPACT project was developed in support of the commitment of the Government of Nigeria to improve its Human Capital to reduce under-five Mortality by half by 2030: from 132 to 79 per 1,000 births in 2030 (World Bank, 2020).

Position Overview

• Support high-quality data recording and reporting into documentation tools.
• Check and maintain the intensified malaria case management process at clustered facilities using the hub-and-spoke model.
• Perform malaria diagnosis using Rapid Diagnostic test kits (RDTs) and do necessary referral/network coordination.
• Support the Community Mobilization team in coordinating, collecting, and reviewing community intervention data.
• Collate and review data from facilities in his/her assigned clustered facilities using data capturing tools and electronic data collection systems (ODK).
• Routine visits to assigned facilities and communities within his/her cluster to ensure quality malaria diagnosis, treatment, and prevention services when necessary.
• Support referral linkage coordination, ensuring seamless integration between communities and facilities regarding referrals to ensure no patient loss (100% linkage rate to facilities).
• Support malaria commodity tracking and reporting at supported health facilities to avoid stock out of drugs and other malaria commodities.
• Collate weekly site reports, routinely verify reports generated against source documents, and report challenges to the IHVN supervising officer where necessary.
• Regularly support the updating of all NMEP documentation tools in the LGA.
• Ensure daily update is made into NMEP recording registers.
• Assist LGA M&E and Malaria program officers in monthly data collation and reporting.
• Support with data retrieval, collation, and review from different SDPs and interventions in the LGA.

Education and Experience

• Minimum of HND / Bachelor’s Degree inHealth Informatics, Public Health, Nursing, Health Sciences or Community Health, Social Sciences, Biological Sciences or related fields.

Required Competency:

• Knowledge of the State/LGA is highly essential.

Safeguarding (PSEAH):

• As an organization, IHVN takes the issue of Protection against Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH) seriously, because safeguarding the people we interface with in all our programmatic work is of the utmost importance to us.
• IHVN only recruits’ representatives who are suited and abides to the strict responsibility of SEAH.
• By applying to this role, you are agreeing to IHVN carrying out a background check on you with respect to SEAH records and you also confirm that not before or after being hired will you breach the IHVN policy on SEAH.

Application Closing Date
3rd January, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should send their Application Letter and detailed Curriculum Vitae in Microsoft Word format to "The Assistant Director, Human Resources" via: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.