Vacancy at the Management Sciences for Health (MSH) for Lead Consultant - PHDP Training ( Kebbi)

Employment Nigeria 01-Dec-2015 KEBBI , Consultancy

The MSH’s LMS Program is a global five-year USAID funded Cooperative Agreement designed to develop leadership and management skills at all levels of health care organizations and programs to effectively address change and improve health outcomes in the areas of family planning, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, infectious disease and maternal and child health. In Nigeria, the LMS Program is implementing the Prevention organizational systems AIDS Care and Treatment Project (LMS ProACT) which is a PEPFAR funded associate award whose goal is to build the capacity of Nigeria’s public, private and community sectors for sustainable HIV/AIDS and TB prevention, control, care and treatment. The ProACT is a follow on to the AIDS Care and treatment (ACT) project which ended in August 2009. In addition to the previous focus on AIDS Care and Treatment, ProACT also focus on Prevention and Organizational Systems Strengthening.

The ProACT project currently supports 5 state governments of Niger, Kwara, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara to operate a total of 41 comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and treatment centers that have enrolled about 28,551 clients into treatment and about 13,018 on care.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Lead Consultant - PHDP Training

Objectives

To develop the skills of select MSH ProACT supported health facility staff and grantee CSO staff in Sokoto and Zamfara states to implement quality PHDP intervention in a manner that will improve PLHIV clients’ retention in ART and care
To strengthen service providers capability to support facility-community linkages and referrals
To build the skills of select service providers in documenting PHDP services to PLHIV
To build the capacity of select service providers to identify and address structural, socio-economic and other factors which hinder PLHIV from accessing ART and care services
To build the capacity of select service providers in mainstreaming gender into HIV/AIDS response - to identify and address harmful gender norms and gender based violence

Approach:

One lead consultant will be engaged to facilitate this training, supported by 2 MSH PHDP technical staff.
Two days pre training meeting with the lead consultant will hold in Abuja to review curriculum, draw up the schedule, etc on 26th and 27th November, 2015.
Power point presentations, didactic methods, group works, experience sharing, role plays, hands on practical sessions and other participatory learning approaches will be utilized in the conduct of the training.

Specific Responsibilities
Deliverables:

Training report containing recommendations and approaches to improve PLHIV retention in treatment and care
Training curriculum (power point slides)
Simple indicators/ tools to track facility/ community PHDP interventions
Recommendations for mainstreaming gender into comprehensive PHDP services

Level of Effort and Timing:

The lead facilitator will be engaged for a period of nine days - 2 days pre training meeting in Abuja, 5 days training in Kwara state, 2 days report writing (between the 26th of November and 8th December, 2015).

Qualifications
Expertise Required:

Minimum of first Degree or its' equivalent in Health related or Social Sciences disciplines
Knowledgeable in USAID funded programming
Prior experience working with PLWHIVA
Excellent English language competency - oral and written
Computer literate
Prior experience in USAID requirements for mainstreaming gender into comprehensive HIV and AIDS response

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Vacancy at the Management Sciences for Health (MSH) for Lead Consultant - PHDP Training ( Kebbi)

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