Zonal Officer - TB 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: Zonal Officer - TB

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• The Zonal Officer- TB is a key position reporting to the Project Coordinator- TB and has the responsibility to support programmatic activities of CBOs in assigned states.

Specific Roles

• Oversee the activities of the CSOs working within the communities to increase awareness and TB case detection.
• Tracking the activities of the state Adhoc staff
• Review CBO report & conduct regular visits to CSOs to monitor progress
• Liaise with community stakeholders & trained TB workers involved in active case search and community MDR-TB management
• Collate data generated by the CSOs for decision-making & future project directives.
• Work with the State TB program and LGA TB Supervisors, to facilitate the implementation of high quality Program for community TB care activities.
• Assists in the formulation of recommendation for improving implementation performance, achievement of targets and the design of policies and programmes
• Document lessons learnt from community TB activities for enhancement and /or re-strategizing of future programs
• Produce monthly, quarterly & annual reports
• Participate in the development of national documents and guidelines
• Review reports of CBOs and provide feedback
• Attend Zonal Review meetings
• Perform any other tasks as may be directed by the TB Coordinator

Qualifications

• MBBS or a Degree in Social Science and a Master’s degree in Public Health or related field with significant previous working experience on Global Fund community implementation component.
• Also has minimum of 6 years’ experience in the TB epidemiology, active case finding and MDR-TB management in communities with excellent skills in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability and willingness to travel widely in Nigeria and demonstrated experience in community based program implementation.

Application Closing Date
11th January, 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

• 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.
• Candidates must provide functional e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of their referees.
• Eligible female applicants are encouraged to apply. ARFH has a Child Safeguarding policy in place and is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).