State Technical Officer

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, Health Sciences, or related disciplines is required.
  
• Minimum of 6 years of work experience in project support, ideally in the field of malaria, maternal and child health, or infectious disease programs for an NGO.
  
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in malaria, maternal and child health, or infectious disease programs.
  
• Experience supporting health facility service delivery improvement.
  
• Experience conducting supportive supervision and capacity building of health workers.
  
• MEAL skills and experience.
  

• Provide technical support for malaria implementation across supported LGAs and health facilities as outlined in the detailed implementation plan in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices.
  
• Support the implementation of interventions related to malaria case management (IMNCI services, malaria in pregnancy (IPTp), malaria vaccine readiness and integration into routine immunization).
  
• Participate in integrated supportive supervision visits to health facilities and provide on-the-job coaching to health workers.
  
• Support facility readiness assessments and health system strengthening initiatives.
  
• Support in the development and distribution of job aids, guidelines, and standard operating procedures.
  
• Support capacity strengthening of health workers on malaria diagnosis, treatment, and adherence to national guidelines.
  
• Participate in quality-of-care assessments and test positivity rate monitoring.
  
• Support coordination with state and LGA health teams to strengthen service delivery.
  
• Contribute to program monitoring, reporting, and documentation of lessons learned.
  
• Support implementation of targeted mentorship for underperforming facilities.
  
• Collaborate with partners to improve commodity management and service integration.