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Required Qualifications and Experience
Prior experience (3 years +) working on health service delivery; experience in immunization service delivery preferred.
Bachelor’s degree in relevant area.
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with local health facility officials and staff.
Experience providing supportive supervision and mentoring at field level.
Ability to coordinate with multiple person teams.
Ability to document project activities, synthesize information to share with respective project staff members, and prepare structured field reports and summaries.
Strong interpersonal and public communication skills.
Willingness to travel within Kebbi State as required by project activities.
Responsibilities
Coordinate and oversee project activities in one LGA, serving as the main point person/ relationship manager for the LGA immunization team and working closely with LGA PHC coordinator, M&E officers, and community structures to ensure local ownership and accountability.
Deliver high-quality training to MITs to enable them to deliver community-based routine immunization services, including integrated service delivery approaches, refresher mentoring during implementation, and on-the-job mentoring based on identified gaps.
In collaboration with the health facility, develop a supportive supervision schedule for the LGA.
Conduct supportive supervision of MITs, ensuring effective service delivery, community engagement, and accurate reporting to the respective health facility using national RI supportive supervision tools, structured checklists, and agreed supervision plans for the LGA.
Provide technical assistance to support health facilities to develop or update microplans., including supporting outreach planning, session optimization, defaulter tracking, and alignment with community-based service delivery strategies.
Work closely with Health Facility staff to facilitate effective communication, data sharing, and working relationships between Health Facility staff, MITs, target communities, follow-up of missed children, documentation of refusals, and community feedback.
Maintain excellent relationships with LGA immunization team, health facility staff, and PATH’s local partner(s), and support coordination with other implementing partners and government-led RI activities to promote integration and avoid duplication.
Work closely with project MEL and ACSM officers to facilitate their interactions with MITs, supporting data validation exercises, use of routine data for decision-making, and community engagement activities.
Consolidate information and updates from the MITs and share with the Senior Field Officer, MEL officers, and ACSM officers to ensure ongoing communication and coordination, including structured weekly and monthly field updates highlighting implementation progress, challenges, and corrective actions.
Ensure accurate record keeping and reporting of project activities, particularly supervision visit logs, training reports, outreach summaries, vaccine stock monitoring updates, and community engagement documentation
Review data on MIT operations and project activities in collaboration with the MEL officers and adapt MIT activities and supportive supervision plans as appropriate, ensuring tracking performance against targets and supporting follow-up actions for underperforming areas.
Provide information on how well the MITs are working, challenges they meet and possible solutions, drawing on routine field observations, supervision findings, and community feedback.
Monitor vaccine and supplies stocks and work with the State Program Manager to support timely redistribution or replenishment where needed.
Document immunization refusals, reasons, and mitigation plans
Connect ACSM officers with community leaders and influencers to address hesitancy and misinformation.
Any other duties assigned by the Senior Field officer.
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