Clinical Services Advisor at Society for Family Health (SFH)

Job Profile

• Integrated Child Health and Social Service Award (ICHSSA 3) project currently being implemented in Northern Nigeria to improve the quality of life of HIV/AIDs positive children by leveraging on OVC/Social Service to strengthen the HIV continuum of care in a family-community–facility service delivery interface.
• The Clinical Services Advisor will develop and support strategies and innovations for active case findings particularly the "well children".

The successful candidate will perform the following functions:

• Develop and support strategies and innovations for active case findings particularly the “well children.”
• Develop and promote strategies that support retention of CLHIV/PLHIV in care and attainment of viral suppression.
• Promote greater collaboration of facility-community and referral mechanism of facility-facility to increase quality of care among CLHIV and PLHIV.
• Identify and implement appropriate facility- and community-based strategies to address gender based violence prevention and OVC service delivery gaps.

Qualifications / Experience

• A Degree in Medical Field.
• Candidate must possess at least 5 years’ cognate experience, which must include at least 3years in Programming for OVC, and Sub granting to CBOs.
• Develop and promote strategies that support retention of CLHIV/PLHIV in care and attainment of viral suppression.
• Promote greater collaboration of facility-community and referral mechanism of facility-facility to increase quality of care among CLHIV and PLHIV.
• Identify and implement appropriate facility- and community-based strategies to address gender-based violence prevention and OVC service delivery gaps.
• Demonstrated knowledge of policy and programs serving vulnerable adolescent and young women at high risk of HIV infection.
• Hands-on experience with PEPFAR project management processes and application of PEPFAR technical and administrative guidelines.
• Familiarity with Nigeria’s institutional, policy and programming context for HIV clinical and community services, including knowledge of the social welfare and health sectors in Nigeria.
• Demonstrated ability to engage government and represent OVC priorities and issues as they relate to children and adolescent living with or at high risk of HIV.

Skills and Competencies:

• Accuracy and timeliness in all areas of responsibility.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with team, colleagues, partners’, and stakeholders.
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
• Honest, encourages openness and transparency, demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

Compensation & Benefits
The compensation package for these positions is very attractive and designed to attract, motivate and retain talented young professionals.