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JOB TITLE: Health Officer
JOB LOCATION:Abuja, Nigeria
JOB DETAILS:
- Under the general guidance of the Health Manager -Immunization and oversight from the Chief of Health and HIV and in close collaboration with the Chief of SBC section, chief Gender & Development Manager.
- The incumbent will be part of the HPV introduction TWG at national/state levels to support the effective and efficient routinization of the vaccine, technical support is required to facilitate strategic planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of the process.
- Meaningful youth engagement of young people, the incumbent shall support the development of communication messages, taking into consideration their ideas and aspirations, identify key/relevant influencers and gatekeepers, platforms, modalities of service delivery, and what and how to integrate additional youth-friendly services.
Responsibilities
- Support the States to integrate adolescent girl-centered approaches for the planning of demand-generation activities for the routinization of HPV to the selected states through UNICEF Field Offices.
- Support the state communication and social mobilization teams to produce and implement an evidence-based, integrated Adolescent, demand generation and mobilization plan for the NVI, assist the state Health team for polio social mobilization innovation.
- Support the state ACSM (Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization) working group for the HPV routinization and polio campaign to support the development of adolescent-friendly social media messages as well as polio social mobilization messages.
- Support identification and coordination of state-level and LGA-level stakeholders (education, women affairs, NGOs, faith-based, youth, etc.) for community engagement, mobilization, mapping of adolescent-friendly platforms, networks, and enumeration of eligible girls in and out of school.
- Support the LGA team to Identify facilities and map catchment areas for facility-led community outreaches (hub and spoke model)
- Support the Design and implementation of a knowledge management plan for innovative documentation and reporting of every stage of the campaign – including dashboards, infographics, human interest stories, etc.
- Provide technical assistance to the State Communication/Social Mobilization Technical Working Groups on updating the weekly dashboard.
- Provide updates to NTWG, UNICEF Field, and Country Offices by completing daily and weekly updates through the Field Offices and providing any other updates on request.
- Attend communication/social mobilization meetings and workshops as directed by supervisors, HPV TWG, Polio EOC and as required by the state teams.
Deliverables:
The incumbent will:
- Submit a work plan at the beginning of each month to the supervisor including the plans for activities and travel if there are any.
- Compile a state micro plan for adolescent mobilization and the advocacy communication and social mobilization plan for the HPV routinization and polio campaigns.
- Map the state-level and LGA-level stakeholders (education, women affairs, NGOs, faith-based, youth, etc) for community engagement, mobilization, mapping of adolescent-friendly platforms, networks, and enumeration of eligible girls in and out of school.
- Develop innovative IEC materials for the mobilization of Adolescent and Young People (AYP) platforms and community engagement.
- Provide an update on the pre-introduction, introduction, and post-introduction processes and decision-making for the smooth introduction of the HPV vaccine o the field office and the country office.
- Identify and map AYP/AYP-friendly social media influencers for an intensive AYP-friendly campaign.
- Develop training materials for AYP-friendly platforms, state managers, LGA managers, and stakeholders towards community mobilization and demand generation for HPV vaccines.
Requirements
- A university degree in one of the following fields is required: public health/nutrition, pediatric health, family health, health research, global/international health, health policy and/or management, environmental health sciences, biostatistics, socio-medical, health education, epidemiology, or another relevant technical field.
- A minimum of two years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas is required: public health/nutrition planning and management, maternal and neonatal health care, or health emergency/humanitarian preparedness
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of the major Nigeria local Languages is of added value
- Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
- Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency
How to apply
to apply for the ongoing United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) job opening, visit Application Portal to submit your application
Deadline: September 30, 2024
Job Features
Job Category | NGO / Community Services |