Zonal Tuberculosis Officers at Deloitte Nigeria

Deloitte is the largest private professional services network in the world. Everyday, approximately 286,200 professionals in more than 150 countries demonstrate their commitment to making an impact that matters. Our West Africa practice serves multinationals, large national enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises and the public sector across Nigeria and Ghana.

In Nigeria, Deloitte is one of the leading professional services firms, specializing in providing Audit, Tax, Consulting, Risk Advisory and Financial Advisory services. We serve clients in a variety of industries from financial services, consumer, telecommunications, media & technology, energy resources & Industrial and government and public services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Zonal Tuberculosis Officer

Location: Northern, Nigeria
Job Type: Contract

Details

• Exciting growth opportunity exist for Public Health Professionals at the Program Management Unit (PMU) of the National Tuberculosis & Leprosy Control Programme (NTBLCP) for implementation of the Global Fund’s grant and interventions in Nigeria. As part of the PMU, you will be a change agent and a strategic enabler applying your expertise to manage a project that impacts millions of lives while helping to put an end to Tuberculosis in Nigeria.

Description

• Support the state in planning and implementation of all planned activities particularly activities related to case finding (e.g. active case finding in the community, TB screening in OPD sites; intensify TB case findings among PLHIV, intensify TB case finding in health facilities; active case findings among high risk groups)
• Support the states technical in ensuring the set objectives are achieved.
• Supervise and Monitor states in their zones and ensure timely implementation of the grant activities.
• Provide TA for implementation of PMDT at community level and support enrollment to reduce the number of patients on waiting list for MDR patients.
• Provide on the job training/ mentoring for state and LGA programme managers to enhance their capacity in planning, implementing and monitoring of programme activities.
• Facilitate timely and complete collection, collation, analysis of state epidemiological data.
• Facilitate timely submission of state data and reports to the National Programme and the GF.
• Support provision of feed-back and dissemination of state epidemiological data and reports to key stakeholders.
• Facilitate on site data verification and data quality assurance at state and LGA levels.
• Report quarterly activity implementation and provide plans for the next quarter.
• Conduct strategic advocacy to LGAs in the state with aim of mobilizing resources for TB/ HIV control efforts.
• In collaboration with the Finance Officers, ensure that the State Offices/ Sub-Recipients are complying with the terms of the MOUs/ grant agreements including facilitating timely retirement of advances.

Requirements

• Medical Doctor with Masters’ level study in Public Health or Social Sciences.
• Minimum of 5 work years’ experience in public health.
• Experience in TB programme implementation is a necessary requirement.
• Experience in management and supervisory capability
• Experience in working with donor funded projects and a knowledge of policies and processes of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an added advantage.
• Good understanding of budgets, financial processes and financial reporting and compliance with donor requirements.

Benefits
Attractive.

Application Closing Date
7th November, 2019.

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

Note: All applications must be completed and duly acknowledged via mail as this validates success of submission.