Program Officer AT Pathfinder International Lagos, NG

 

Job description

Pathfinder International is a global leader in sexual and reproductive health. We place reproductive health care at the center of all that we do—believing that it is not only a fundamental human right, but also critical for expanding life opportunities for women, families, communities, and nations, and paving the way for transformations in environmental stewardship, decreases in population pressures, and innovations in poverty reduction. Pathfinder provides women, men, and adolescents with a range of quality health services—from contraception and maternal care to HIV prevention as well as AIDS care and treatment.

Global Fund project will support comprehensive HIV services in areas, namely Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART), Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programming, HIV Counseling and Testing (HCT), and Integration of HIV and TB with Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services.

Program Overview Pathfinder International, as Sub-Recipient (SR) has signed a grant for the period ending December 2017 with the Principal Recipient (PR), Family Health International (FHI360) funded by the Global Fund. Pathfinder will support comprehensive HIV services in areas, namely Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART), Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programming, HIV Counseling and Testing (HCT), and Integration of HIV and TB with Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services in Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi, Jigawa, Katsina and Gombe States.The Program Officer provides programmatic support to the Ass. Director, GF_HIV

Position Purpose Key Responsibilities

• Assisting the Ass. Director, GF-HIV in monitoring and liaising with state teams in planning, designing and implementing interventions
• Assist to create a timeline or schedules to ensure that the timeline is met
• Liaise with procurement committee on commodities for approval ensuring material needs for procurement. Subsequently follow up with vendors on all supplies awarded, ensuring adherence to specifications, quality and delivery timelines
• Collate reports coming in from states’ managers and processing them appropriately before onward submission to Project Coordinator.
• Maintain proper filing system for program documents
• Document unit’s meetings and circulate to all relevant persons
• Maintain the daily operations of the office
• Assist in project contractual agreements
• Maintain contacts and liaise with other partners and government agencies as directed by the Project Coordinator
• Collate timesheets of project staff from the field

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in science or related field. Post graduate degree is an added advantage.
• At least 3-4 years knowledge of experience working on a multidisciplinary HIV project team

• Ability to travel (50%) to core Northern states.
• Good oral and /written communication skills and ability to effectively communicate to listening audience.
• Fluency in both written and spoken English in addition to Hausa language required.