LGA Coordinator Job at The Management Sciences for Health

The Management Sciences for Health (MSH), a global health nonprofit organization, uses proven approaches developed over 40 years to help leaders, health managers, and communities in developing nations build stronger health systems for greater health impact. We work to save lives by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: LGA Coordinator

Job Identification: R2726
Job Locations: Adamawa
Job Schedule: Full time

Overview

• The LGA Coordinator will provide direct oversight and effective coordination of all mass campaign activities in the assigned LGA during the implementation of the ITN mass campaign, providing regular feedback to the Campaign Implementation Team.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate vendor activities in the LGA
• Provide operations and finance related operational support in the LGA.
• Support the ITN campaign team in providing monitoring and supervision of campaign activities in the LGA.
• Responsible for preliminary review and collation of documentation required for activities in the campaign states before they are forwarded to MSH GF Malaria office in Yola, Adamawa State
• Provide real time support and monitoring information on the use of android devices during household mobilization/ITN distribution activities
• Coordinate device and inventory management within the assigned LGA

Coordination and Oversight:

• The LGA Coordinator will ensure LGAs are implementing the campaign in accordance with the National Operational Manual and MSH guidelines.
• S/he will supervise personnel recruitment, support the LGA in advocacy to stakeholders, ensure trainings are carried out accordingly and support the training as required, support monitoring and supervision of all campaign activities, support personnel data changes on the ICT4D platform.
• S/he will ensure review meetings are held at the LGA level, export LGA HH mobilization/ITN distribution coverage data from the ICT4D platform and discuss during review meeting, with a view to escalating issues that cannot be resolved at the LGA to the state campaign team for intervention and quick resolution.

Operations:

• The LGA Coordinator is expected to collate the digital and paper attendance sheet and verify names on the attendance sheets. This entails line by line verification and conduct spot checks for paper attendance, and populate the information from the support documents in a required excel template
• The LGA Coordinator will verify the account details of campaign personnel using standard methodology. S/he will be responsible for preliminary onsite review of information/data in the field before documents are sent to MSH office, Yola, Adamawa State.
• The LGA Coordinator will collate other support documents that are necessary for payment (such as copies of waybills etc). S/he will be the link between MSH and the LGA personnel. S/He will send payment schedule to the State Team, for further confirmation and revert to participants with issues that need follow-up
• The LGA Coordinator will be responsible for distribution of campaign materials (training and implementation) for their respective LGAs and timely delivery to the LGA team. S/he will be responsible for liaising with food vendors for each LGAs to ensure timely delivery of the food, the right quantity based on agreement with the vendor and to report issues with regards to the feeding if any.

ICT4D:

• The LGA Coordinator will ensure effective compliance with the CAT strategy process and provide the required technical guidance to ward supervisors, household mobilizers/ITN distribution teams on the use of the android devices, solar chargers and the Red Rose application
• LGA Coordinator will ensure distribution (and subsequent retrieval) of ICT4D tools to identified cluster supervisors, household mobilizers/ITN distribution teams; and update the inventory as necessary. S/he will update device distribution inventory database upon retrieval of devices from cluster supervisors, household mobilizers/ITN distribution teams
• S/he will ensure submission and signing of device security, safety and management document by cluster supervisors, household mobilizers/ITN distribution teams before collection of ICT4D tools and will also provide and deliver buffer devices in a case of theft, loss or damage to ICT4D equipment assigned to campaign personnel for an activity. S/he will ensure completion of device incidence report forms where necessary and provide real time field evaluation report on the use of the devices to designated ICT4D focal supervisor
• Any other duty as assigned by the campaign team.

Qualifications

• First Degree (or HND) in a relevant field
• A minimum of 3 years of relevant post-graduation experience
• Work-related experience in a health/public health organization
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, internet navigation and Outlook
• Previous experience in ITN mass campaigns will be an advantage
• Previous experience in the use of electronic data monitoring systems will be an advantage
• MUST own a laptop.
• Previous training on the use of mobile technology for health development
• Previous experience working with Federal and/or State Ministry of Health
• A proven ability to work as part of a team and independently
• Ability to work under stressful conditions and to remain flexible and calm under pressure
• Training and supervision skills are required.