Local Government ANRiN Coordinator 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: Local Government ANRiN Coordinator

Job ID: sfh-59537
Locations: Kaduna North, Kaduna South, Chikun, Kajuru, Kachia, Zagon Kataf, Kaura, Jema’a, Sanga , Kagarko, Jaba, Ikara - Kaduna
Job type: Part-time
Category: Program

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

• B.Sc/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.

Application Closing Date
5th January, 2024.