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Jhpiego, an Affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, is a global leader in improving healthcare services for women and their families.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Technical Officer, PrEP

Location: Taraba
Position Reports To: State Team Lead

  Overview

  • The Technical Officer-PrEP will serve as the State focal person to scale up oral PrEP services at the state, LGA, and Site levels.
  • The incumbent will provide technical assistance and support to the state, LGA, and facilities and will also work closely with State leadership of the STL, Prevention Officer and technically with the PrEP-CECAP Advisor in Country office..

Responsibilities
The Technical Officer (PrEP) will:

  • Demonstrate experience providing capacity building assistance at Facility, Community and State levels.
  • Demonstrate in-depth understanding of SMOH organizational structure and the Nigerian healthcare system.
  • Increase the awareness of PrEP to high-risk individuals in the Facility and community.
  • Develop and expand capacity of Healthcare Workers on PrEP.
  • Provide basic linkage-to-care and patient navigation for individuals seeking PrEP as a part of combination prevention Strategies.
  • Organize, promote and facilitate Quality Improvements (QI) on PrEP activities and research.
  • Work with individuals to assess needs, develop care plans and coordinate PrEP-related services through advocacy, education, support, empowerment and coaching.
  • Collect and evaluate reports from clients to ensure access to PrEP and follow-through with service provision.
  • Ensure the Mentoring and distribution of PrEP- IEC materials.
  • Develop and distribute a survey tool for use in HIV Testing to identify those at high risk for HIV and more likely to benefit from PrEP.
  • Liaise with State Supply chain unit to ensure PrEP Stock availability and re-distribution with demands and Saturation.
  • Promote and participate in related community and health events/outreaches as needed.
  • Develop close working relationships with State, Facility and Community leadership to ensure coordination of PrEP services.
  • Liaise with RISE supported CSOs in improving demand in PrEP Services
  • Perform any other duties assigned

Required Qualifications

  • First Degree in Medical or Nursing Sciences (MPH or Related Advanced degree will be an added advantage.)
  • 3-5 years of professional experience in an integrated HIV Care and treatment, PMTCT, Prevention Programming.
  • Experience in the health sector and knowledge of HIV programming strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience training clinical or community-based healthcare workers on PrEP and other HIV prevention areas.
  • Demonstrated coaching skills, with an ability to inspire, influence and motivate teams
  • Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written, including presentations
  • Experience in similar role will be an added advantage.
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills; able to develop strong relationships across functions, abilities and work levels.
  • Familiarity with MOH and USAID’s administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems, PEPFAR experience highly preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Experience working in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform.
  • Experience in Prevention, Care and Treatment Service, preferably in an NGO setting.
  • Expertise in research to practice—identifying and adapting best practices to specific project contexts
  • Excellent verbal, written interpersonal and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadline, and intense pressure to perform.
  • With strong results-oriented and decision-making skills.
  • Problem solving ability. Quick learner with practical, precise approach.
  • Good team leader.
  • Good initiative and can work unsupervised.
  • Knowledge of geography.
  • Good communication skills.
  • Attention to detail. Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 suite.
  • Respectful, accountable, honest.

Application Closing Date
1st September, 2021.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their updated CV to: [email protected] using “ Technical Officer PrEP” as the subject of the email.

Note

  • CV and Cover Letter as ONE SINGLE WORD document
  • The title/subject of your email and application should be the position you are applying for.
  • Candidates that do not comply with the application instruction will be disqualified.
  • We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found.
  • Only shortlisted candidates will receive an invitation for an interview
  • Any successful candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.
  • There will be travel requirements and opportunities both within Nigeria.
  • JHU is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Responding to the Changing Needs of Women and Families Worldwide

Since its founding in 1974, Jhpiego has been innovating to save the lives of women and families worldwide. From the first day, Jhpiego has been asking the question: How can we make lifesaving services available and accessible to the people who need them—all over the world?

Dr. Theodore M. King, an early innovator and champion for women’s health, was the moving force behind the founding of Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1970s, King recognized the need to make physicians, nurses and administrators from developing countries aware of reproductive health breakthroughs, such as laparoscopy (a procedure used to inspect internal reproductive organs for infertility or to provide contraception by closing off the fallopian tubes) and modern contraceptives. Originally known as the Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics, the organization was funded through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Under King’s leadership, as a founder, trustee and later president of Jhpiego for 14 years, the organization conducted a steady stream of programs throughout the developing world.

How Did We Get from There to Here?

Early on, Jhpiego established itself as a leader in reproductive health training. Beginning in 1974, Jhpiego held training sessions on family planning/reproductive health for doctors and nurses in the USA In 1979, Jhpiego started its first in-country training programs in Tunisia, Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria, Thailand and the Philippines. From 1987 through 2004, Jhpiego conducted three global Training in Reproductive Health Projects, funded by USAID. Beginning in 1993, Jhpiego published learning materials on long-acting family planning methods.

Over the years—to respond more effectively to the needs of individual countries—Jhpiego became increasingly field-based and established its first field office in Kenya in 1993. Today, Jhpiego has field offices in more than 30 countries worldwide. Similarly, Jhpiego’s programming areas have expanded to meet changing needs in the field. In addition to family planning and reproductive health, Jhpiego now has expertise in maternal and child health, infection prevention and control, HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases.

Jhpiego’s work has also expanded to address reproductive health policy and guidelines and to support health systems strengthening. For example, in 1996 in Brazil, Jhpiego launched a performance and quality improvement approach, now known as Standards-Based Management and Recognition (SBM-R), which has since been implemented in 30 countries. SBM-R empowers health workers and facilities to improve the performance and quality of their services by providing them with the tools and methods they need to make decisions, solve problems and innovate at the local level.

Innovations in Training Methods and Technologies

In 1986, Jhpiego pioneered a competency-based training (CBT) approach that emphasizes learning by doing. CBT focuses on how the participant performs and promotes the trainer’s ability to encourage learning. Jhpiego also introduced the use of anatomic models for “humanistic training.” To minimize risk to clients, learners first practice on models until they achieve competency. In 1995, a clinical training skills manual—the cornerstone of Jhpiego’s training approach—was published. Using a systematic “training of trainers” approach, Jhpiego has created a global network of qualified physician, nurse and midwife trainers.

As early as 1984, Jhpiego collaborated with the University of the West Indies to deliver reproductive health courses, via satellite, to six islands in the Caribbean. In 1987, Jhpiego sponsored a global meeting on reproductive health education and technology with the World Health Organization (WHO) and introduced computer-assisted instruction to simulate clinical situations in several of its US-based courses. In 1995, ReproLine, an online source for reproductive health information, was launched. Today, Jhpiego continues to explore new learning technologies: mobile phones in Afghanistan, a computer-based learning management system in Ethiopia, computer-based training in Ghana, a distance learning program in Zambia.

Practical Solutions for Low-Resource Settings

Since the 1992 publication of its international reference standard Infection Prevention for Family Planning Service Programs, Jhpiego has been at the forefront in promoting evidence-based practices that can protect health care professionals, staff and clients from potentially life-threatening infections. To this end, Jhpiego has tested and introduced practical, low-cost infection prevention procedures that can be implemented effectively in settings with limited resources.

In developing countries, cervical cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths among women. In 1995, Jhpiego began research with the University of Zimbabwe to find a low-cost alternative to the Pap test that could make cervical cancer prevention a reality in low-resource settings. Based on the results of this research, Jhpiego helped form the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention in 1999 and received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its cervical cancer program. Since that time, Jhpiego has developed and piloted the single visit approach in which women are screened and treated during the same visit.

In 1995, Jhpiego began addressing HIV/AIDS and its integration with family planning services. Six years later, Jhpiego began work in HIV voluntary counseling and testing with a USAID-funded project in Jamaica. In 2002, Jhpiego received its first funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for work in HIV/AIDS and, the following year, developed a global learning package on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV—with CDC, WHO and university partners—to enable global scale-up. Also in 2003, Jhpiego began work on male circumcision for HIV prevention in Zambia. In 2008, Jhpiego developed a global learning package on male circumcision for HIV prevention with WHO and UNAIDS.

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Jhpiego, an Affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, is a global leader in improving healthcare services for women and their families.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:Job Title: Technical Officer, PrEPLocation: Taraba Position Reports To: State Team Lead
  Overview
  • The Technical Officer-PrEP will serve as the State focal person to scale up oral PrEP services at the state, LGA, and Site levels.
  • The incumbent will provide technical assistance and support to the state, LGA, and facilities and will also work closely with State leadership of the STL, Prevention Officer and technically with the PrEP-CECAP Advisor in Country office..
Responsibilities The Technical Officer (PrEP) will:
  • Demonstrate experience providing capacity building assistance at Facility, Community and State levels.
  • Demonstrate in-depth understanding of SMOH organizational structure and the Nigerian healthcare system.
  • Increase the awareness of PrEP to high-risk individuals in the Facility and community.
  • Develop and expand capacity of Healthcare Workers on PrEP.
  • Provide basic linkage-to-care and patient navigation for individuals seeking PrEP as a part of combination prevention Strategies.
  • Organize, promote and facilitate Quality Improvements (QI) on PrEP activities and research.
  • Work with individuals to assess needs, develop care plans and coordinate PrEP-related services through advocacy, education, support, empowerment and coaching.
  • Collect and evaluate reports from clients to ensure access to PrEP and follow-through with service provision.
  • Ensure the Mentoring and distribution of PrEP- IEC materials.
  • Develop and distribute a survey tool for use in HIV Testing to identify those at high risk for HIV and more likely to benefit from PrEP.
  • Liaise with State Supply chain unit to ensure PrEP Stock availability and re-distribution with demands and Saturation.
  • Promote and participate in related community and health events/outreaches as needed.
  • Develop close working relationships with State, Facility and Community leadership to ensure coordination of PrEP services.
  • Liaise with RISE supported CSOs in improving demand in PrEP Services
  • Perform any other duties assigned
Required Qualifications
  • First Degree in Medical or Nursing Sciences (MPH or Related Advanced degree will be an added advantage.)
  • 3-5 years of professional experience in an integrated HIV Care and treatment, PMTCT, Prevention Programming.
  • Experience in the health sector and knowledge of HIV programming strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience training clinical or community-based healthcare workers on PrEP and other HIV prevention areas.
  • Demonstrated coaching skills, with an ability to inspire, influence and motivate teams
  • Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written, including presentations
  • Experience in similar role will be an added advantage.
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills; able to develop strong relationships across functions, abilities and work levels.
  • Familiarity with MOH and USAID’s administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems, PEPFAR experience highly preferred.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
  • Experience working in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform.
  • Experience in Prevention, Care and Treatment Service, preferably in an NGO setting.
  • Expertise in research to practice—identifying and adapting best practices to specific project contexts
  • Excellent verbal, written interpersonal and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadline, and intense pressure to perform.
  • With strong results-oriented and decision-making skills.
  • Problem solving ability. Quick learner with practical, precise approach.
  • Good team leader.
  • Good initiative and can work unsupervised.
  • Knowledge of geography.
  • Good communication skills.
  • Attention to detail. Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 suite.
  • Respectful, accountable, honest.
Application Closing Date 1st September, 2021.

Method of Application Interested and qualified candidates should send their updated CV to: [email protected] using “ Technical Officer PrEP" as the subject of the email.

Note

  • CV and Cover Letter as ONE SINGLE WORD document
  • The title/subject of your email and application should be the position you are applying for.
  • Candidates that do not comply with the application instruction will be disqualified.
  • We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found.
  • Only shortlisted candidates will receive an invitation for an interview
  • Any successful candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.
  • There will be travel requirements and opportunities both within Nigeria.
  • JHU is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
 2021-09-02

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