LGA Polio Consultant (Kaduna, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara) At Solina Group: The LGA Consultant will provide technical assistance on Solina’s POBR project to the Local Government Primary Health Care Department in the selected priority LGAs with planning, coordination, and implementation of quality polio campaigns as well as data management support to LGA teams, partners and other stakeholders.
Technical Responsibilities
a. Planning and coordination, ensuring the following:
• The use of special intervention SOP for implementing quality campaigns in security compromised areas
• Engage with all LGA actors and partners (WHO, UNICEF, AFENET etc) to implement campaigns in security-compromised areas
• Collaborate with traditional institutions at the LGA level to ensure the participation of traditional leaders in the planning and implementation of campaigns across security-compromised LGAs
• Support the LGA team to track preparedness for campaigns using the special intervention activity tracker to ensure optimal state of preparedness at the LGA level.
• Work with the LGA and partners to ensure proper update of the Master List of Settlements (MLoS) with geo-coordinates, accessibility, and habitation status, to inform microplanning at LGA level
• Support the LGA teams to ensure campaign micro plans and budgets are developed on time and review them for completeness, coherence, and accuracy.
• Collaborate with the Secretaries of the Emirates to select teams for implementation in the LGA.
• Provide meeting facilitation support to assigned LGA team pre and during campaign implementation to review deliverables. This will be done at the LGA Primary Health Care Board/Agency (PHCMB/A) or at other appropriate locations
• Work with other partners to develop and rollout context-appropriate interventions in assigned LGA(s). It is expected that the consultant, where necessary in the highest security compromised and volatile areas, work with the military to partner on effective approaches to vaccinate all children. In less volatile areas, the consultant is to assist the LGA in collaborating with local security outfits such as cJTF, vigilantes, hunters etc. to provide escort services to vaccination teams during campaigns
How to apply
Interested applicant may wish to apply via the link below:
with the subject ‘LGA Consultant Location’ e.g. LGA Consultant Zamfara. Only Candidates who meet the selection criteria will be contacted
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