TB / HIV Specialist at Association for Reproductive and Family Health

Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) is a leading Non-Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organization established in 1989 by two eminent and reputable Nigerians who are the most prominent advocates of Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) and Family Planning (FP) programming in Nigeria. ARFH, a Nigerian fully indigenous, Non- Governmental, and Not-for-Profit organization had implemented projects across the 36+1 states of Nigeria on cross cutting programs including Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health plus Nutrition Investment Case (RMNCAH+N), Family Planning (FP), Global fund grants on HIV, TB and Malaria as Prime & Sub recipient, USAID grants on Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) among others.

ARFH since inception consistently contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of rural poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged populations. ARFH has been at the fore-front of Health & community system strengthening, Human resource for health development in Nigeria, supporting the Government of Nigeria to advocate and domesticate health policies into implementation e.g. its task-shifting and task sharing policy through capacity building for all cadres of health care providers including Physicians, Nurse midwives, and CHEWs.

ARFH has its headquarter in Ibadan and operational offices in Abuja, Lagos, and collaborate with State Ministry of Health across the 36 states plus FCT. Our mission is to initiate, promote and implement in partnership with other organizations, developmental, HIV & AIDS, TB, SRH, and family planning program and interventions for young people and adults through capacity building, technical assistance, operations research, and evaluation to improve the quality of life in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: TB / HIV Specialist

Location: Minna, Niger
Employment Type: Full-time

Description 

• Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) is one of the leading Nigerian Non-Governmental Organizations implementing programs for improving Reproductive Health and Family planning (RH/FP), Care and Treatment of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria etc.
• We offer professional opportunities for career advancement, good working environment and competitive remuneration. ARFH is in consortium partnership with the Centre for Clinical Care and Clinical Research as Prime to implement the Accelerating Control of the HIV Epidemic in Nigeria (ACE) Cluster 4 Project in Kwara and Niger States. ACE is a 5-year project with overarching goal of achieving HIV epidemic control in Nigeria.

Job Overview

• Work with State TB Programme for effective implementation of TB/HIV Collaborative activities as documented in the National Guideline
• The TB/HIV Specialist will work to ensure continuous TB screening during the ART and PMTCT clinic and other service delivery points where programs have contact with clients with the aim of increasing the TB/HIV coinfection notification rate.
• Optimize routine screening of TB in PLHIV
• Intensify TB infection control measures across project facilities
• Mentor Health Care Workers to Scale up uptake of IPT
• Implement innovative strategies to increase awareness of TB/HIV co-infection among people Living with HIV and prevent transmission of TB among PLHIV
• Identify TB presumptive cases and provide support for sample collection and referral for GeneXpert Testing.
• Support the TB/HIV Advisor to deploy innovative strategies to ensure optimal TB diagnosis across all the GeneXpert sites in both Kwara and Niger States
• Will lead the Community TB workers to intensify contact tracing for all newly identified cases to reduce community spread.
• S/he will ensure Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment (TPT) is administered to PLHIV to protect them from the likelihood of coming down with TB.
• Support TB DOT Clinics in proper documentation of TB Presumptive Cases and ensure those who are confirmed for TB among PLHIV are placed on TB Treatment
• Ensure all new and relapsed TB Cases in DOT clinics have documented HIV Status
• Support the TB DOT Clinics to optimize HTS among the presumptive TB cases

Key Responsibilities

• Strengthen the Referral System for Sputum Transportation
• Ensure all program documentation meets donor requirements and audit inspection standards, and is submitted to donors in a timely fashion;
• Contribute to HIV/AIDS & TB strategy implementation and operational planning, and for cross-cutting priorities;
• Coordinate the design and implementation of components related to tuberculosis programs and TB/HIV collaborative activities.
• Provide technical assistance in tuberculosis and TBHIV management capacity building to field officers
• Work in close collaboration with the Care and Treatment Unit in the implementation of integrated HIV, TB and other medical services at the facility level
• Assist in the provision of programmatic assistance to CBOs on issues of management and control of tuberculosis and HIV activities in communities of intervention.
• Contribute to development of lessons learned from programs and projects related to tuberculosis and TBHIV collaboration and apply these lessons to modify existing program and improve the design of new programs.
• Assist in strengthening a system of reporting on program progress against stated objectives and monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
• Contribute to the development of program strategies, subproject documents, work plans and budgets.

Qualifications Required

• MBBS with a Master’s Degree in Public Health.
• 4-6 years’ progressive experience in TB/HIV Care and treatment
• Expertise and experience in infectious diseases such as Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS
• Experience applying a gender perspective to disease specific programming desirable
• Knowledge of and familiarity with key international TB initiatives and organizations desirable
• Demonstrated flexibility and openness in responding to changing work priorities and environment
• Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated analytical, leadership and organizational skills
• Proven ability and Emotional intelligence to work and collaborate with individuals and teams in different cultural settings, and at all levels
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Ability to adhere strictly to ARFH and project policies and guidelines.

Application Closing Date
7th March, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
And
Also send a comprehensive Curriculum Vitae and Cover Letter in only one attachment (MS Word document) explaining suitability for the job, to: [email protected] using the job title as the subject of the mail.

Note

• Please indicate the title of post applied for in the subject line of the email.
• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
• Applicants are advised to provide their functional emails/mobile phone numbers on the application letter as well as three professional referees including their functional e-mail addresses and telephone numbers.
• Eligible female applicants are encouraged to apply. ARFH has a Child Safeguarding policy in place and is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).