Infection Prevention Officer (IPO) at MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all. Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centered care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too. We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Infection Prevention Officer (IPO)

Location: Enugu
Employment Type: Full-time

Objectives

• The Infection Prevention Officer at MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices plays a crucial role in maintaining a clean and safe environment for reproductive health services.
• This role involves ensuring the tidiness and cleanliness of the office, client care areas, and medical equipment, as well as proper waste management.
• The Infection Prevention Officer also supports the clinical team in delivering infection prevention training, sterilizing instruments, and assisting with administrative tasks.

Overall Responsibilities
Your responsibilities as an Infection Prevention Officer shall include.

• Keeping the entire office, its surroundings, client care areas, and all used medical equipment tidy, neat, and clean always.
• Encourage a commitment to accommodating clients' special needs such as flexibility in working hours, strict privacy, and confidentiality to generate demand for MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices services.
• Ensure proper management and disposal of both general and medical waste.
• Assist the clinical team in providing approved services trained on infection prevention.
• Assist with maintaining medical stock/ drug inventory and ordering register.
• Ensure all clinical Instruments are washed, sterilised, and stored properly.
• Ensure all the drapes are properly washed and stored.
• Run errands including banking of daily income for the teams when appropriate.
• Promote and maintain a welcoming, friendly, professional, and efficient atmosphere towards all clients at all times.
• Carry out any other lawful duties assigned by the outreach Team Leader.
• Assist with administrative work within limits when necessary.
• Conducts monthly or bi-monthly supportive supervision, coaching, and mentoring of all trained providers based on needs.

Required Qualifications

• Must have at least basic education to be able to read and write English.
• Organization, initiative, tidiness, and courtesy.
• English and local languages
• Capacity to work as a team member.
• At least 2 years’ experience working in a similar role {Essential}
• Experience of working in a clinical environment {Essential}
• Excellent provider of client- interaction skill {Essential}
• Good written and verbal communication skill {Desirable}
• Articulate and analytical with attention to detail {Essential).

Application Closing Date
17th April, 2026.

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

Note

• Choose the location of the job as indicated on the form
• There are no relocation allowances available for this position.
• This role is open until filled, and we will be conducting Interviews on a rolling basis even while the advertisement is still active.
• MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices provides equal opportunity in employment and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, sex, colour, religion, age, marital status, or disability.
• MSI Nigeria is committedtosafeguarding children and vulnerable adults and operates a zero tolerance approachtoabuse, exploitation, and harassment on any kind.
• Children by Choice, not Chance.