LGA Facilitators

Responsibilities:

• Consult and coordinate with the Nutrition manager to assess the community's needs  
• Direct and supervise ward service providers and voluntary health promoters 
• Instruct individuals, families, and other groups on topics such as health promotion and nutrition, health education, disease prevention, and childbirth, and develop health improvement programs 
• Refer the sick for treatment 
• Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records 
• Monitor all aspects of the ANRiN intervention, including grievances redress and waste management at the LGA level 
• Monitor, record, and report complaints and changes in community perception of intervention, its acceptability or otherwise 
• Order, interpret, and evaluate the ANRiN intervention to identify and map areas of poor coverage for intervention 
• Prepare communities for verification of services provided by the ANRiN project and the need to keep their service record information safe for inspection and verification.

Requirements:

• Health professional with post basic nursing/midwife/ community health officer (CHO) qualification or graduate  of sciences or a health-related field, management, or social sciences  
• Minimum of 2 to 3 years of experience working with communities in development work with other partners, NGOs, or government 
• Must speak English and Hausa and can work proficiently in both languages 
• Computer skills to conduct basic functions of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel) and familiar with e-mail and video conference software (e.g, Teams, Zoom, Google Meet)  
• Resident in Katsina State or willing to relocate (at own cost)  
• Willing to work for 1-year in one of the following LGAs Bakaori, Batsari, Charanchi, DanMusa, Dandume, Danja, Dutsinma, Faskari, Funtua, Kafur, Kankara, Kurfi, Malumfashim Matazu, Musawa, Rimi, Sabuwa, Sandamu 
• Available for onboarding by mid-December (to be done onsite) 
• Available for on-site project take-off in January 2023 after the contract has been signed Preferred  
• Already a local resident in one of the LGA selected for at least 5 years
  

Note: We are committed to improving diversity in the workspace and work to ensure that our team is supportive of our employees. We strongly encourage applications from women.