Deadline: 22 November, 2021

Location: Sokoto, Nigeria

Plan International is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Officer.

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

Responsibilities

• Support the assessment of health facilities in line with minimum standards and work with stakeholders and partners to ensure the health facilities meet the standards
• Support the development and implementation of all SRH and mental health training activities on the project, ensuring the highest quality of standard
• Support the implementation of an age and gender responsive community and health facility rollout and referral process
• Support health facilities to be adolescent friendly and gender responsive
• Contribute to project research and support monitoring and evaluation processes
• Provide support in the development of curricula, advocacy and community mobilisation strategies, including information, education and communication (IEC) materials and radio messages
• Regularly utilise project level data, to track progress against planned service delivery outputs and outcomes, and manage performance using results-based management (RBM) methodologies
• Provide regular updates to supervisor and other project team members
• In collaboration with partners, identify success stories and share with programme management
• Support the technical report-writing under the supervision of the programme manager
• Work with community-based structures for successful implementation of community outreach services
• Support regular advocacies to local stakeholders
• Support the establishment and maintenance of good working relationship with the relevant state actors, local government authorities and other stakeholders
• Carry out any other task as assigned by supervisor

Requirements

• Two years, minimum, of experience in providing support to health and SRH projects in Nigeria, preferably in northern Nigeria
• Degree in Medicine or a health-related field
• Experience in SRH and mental health programming will be a plus
• Experience in utilising adolescent peer education methodologies and comprehensive sexuality education in communities will be a plus
• Demonstrated knowledge and background in community mobilisation and engagement on SRH
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills, collaboration experience, creativity and willingness to innovate
• Experience in drafting project report and monitoring project progress
• Excellent written and spoken English language skills
• Knowledge of Hausa preferred

To apply and for more information, click here.

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