Posted on: Mon 12-02-2024

Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organizations specializing in the comprehensive prevention, control, and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable and underprivileged populations. We increasingly find our work on malaria can be effectively integrated with other similar public health interventions for greater impact and therefore expanded our remit to include child health and neglected tropical disease interventions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Field Assistant

Location: Abuja

Job Schedule: Temporary, Full Time

Job Purpose

• The LGA Field Assistant supports the implementation of SMC activities at LGA, health facilities, and household levels.
• He/she is responsible for planning, implementation, reporting, and coordination with local government representatives and community-level stakeholders.  

Scope of work

• The role of the LGA Field Assistant assist in the quality implementation of the delivery of SMC services at the community level by HFW/supervisors and CHWs through the timely delivery of SMC commodities and supplies and documentation of program activities.
• He/she interacts with the LGA management team, keeps them updated on the program progress, and ensures high-quality SMC implementation.

Key Working Relationships

• The LGA Field Assistant reports to the Program/Field Officer on the implementation of SMC activities.
• S/he gives feedback to the line manager in the form of basic documentation and the M&E Officer in the form of data entry for administrative coverage and supply chain management.
• S/he will also support the Finance Officer in getting account details of distribution personnel for payment.

Key Accountabilities

Programme Implementation, treatment tracking, and management (70%):

• Support implementation of SMC activities at the health LGA level, including timely implementation of route plan, planning meetings, commodity distributions and monitoring to avoid any stock out, Community mobilization activities, supervision, monitoring, and reporting.
• Ensure accountability of received commodities and supplies through tracking consumption levels and review of reconciliation reports
• Provide administrative support to training events field partners (Supervisors, HFW, CHWs, and community mobilizers).
• Track program targets and timely implement the planned activities to ensure the program meets targets and review reports from LGAs and HFW for accuracy and completeness before submission.
• Ensure implementation of activities is in line with the laid down protocols, by continuously monitoring and escalating issues detected to the line manager for mitigation  
• Maintain a good relationship and work jointly with – Public Health Officers and other partners to undertake home visits, and meetings and to ensure the health of LGA’s ownership.

Reporting & data quality control (10%):

• Review distributors’ tally sheet, making corrections where necessary and entering the data on the relevant data-capturing platform
• Assist the ME Officer on the data quality queries and ensure identified issues are rectified in time.
• Ensure submission of other reports to keep the line manager and State Project Manager abreast with the project implementation at the LGA level.

Coordination and representation (10%):

• Ensure planning and coordination meetings are conducted as planned at LGA and community levels.
• Attend data validation meetings at the LGA level and as directed by the line manager

Administrative and other duties (10%):

• Ensure the development of individual and team action plans to ensure role complementarities in achieving the set treatment target.
• Participate in the follow-up of supplies consumption.
• Provide information for the overall planning of stock levels, making sure that they are sufficient for the operations at SMC sites
• Ensure that all HF release physical inventory of all SMC commodities supplied at the end of each cycle.
• Any other duties as required by the line manager

Qualifications and Experience

Essential:

• Clinical Officer, Nurse, Science, Social Science, or Public Health qualification at minimum diploma level
• At least two years of field experience in a related field
• Fluency in English, Hausa, and/or other local languages is required
• Experience working in drug/commodity supply management, M&E, and logistics
• Ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences including LGA staff, HFW, and community leaders
• Experience in conducting quality supportive supervision and data use
• A broad range of experience including logistics, training, and capacity-building ability
• Experience in supporting teams
• Experience working at LGA level  

Work-based skills:

• Good planning and organisational skills
• Basic computer skills particularly Microsoft Office
• Flexible, ability to work both as an individual and as a team member under stress in what can be a harsh environment
• Nigerian citizen (legal requirement)

Salary

Competitive

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should:

Click here to apply online

Note

• Due to the nature of this role we will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and the role might be filled and closed before the closing date. Early applications are encouraged.
• This is a fixed-term contract for 10 months.

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