Interns, Malaria Program, REACH Malaria

The Organization for Innovation in Public Health (OIPH, PATH’s local affiliate in Nigeria) seeks to hire Program Interns to support the Nigeria project team for the USG-funded Reaching every at-risk community and household with malaria services (REACH Malaria) global contract. 

REACH Malaria aims to provide implementation support services and technical assistance to countries to accelerate progress in comprehensive delivery of facility and community-based  malaria services, including malaria case management, prevention of malaria in pregnancy (MiP), seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) as applicable, health systems strengthening, data collection and use for service delivery, and other malaria prevention interventions.   

In order to build and increase local capacity to support malaria elimination strategies and approaches, the REACH project will be engaging Program Interns with the responsibilities and roles below:

Responsibilities

Section A: Program Delivery Unit:

• Provide direct support and assistance to the Project technical team in the day-to-day performance of their technical roles across the REACH MALARIA project.

• To support technical operations in documentation, collation, reporting, analysis, and use of data for strategic decision-making on malaria interventions.

• Participate and be involved in malaria program planning and implementation across the state.

• Perform basic research and collation of written materials necessary for training and workshop

• Manage schedules and take minutes of meetings as well as develop an agenda for such meetings and ensure the distribution of the minutes.

• Contribute to the preparation of project reports, documentation of good practices, and technical publications.

• Support the timely collation of retirements' supporting documents from State offices and tracking of status of accomplishment of deliverables.

• Perform other official duties as may be assigned by supervisor.

Section B: Malaria SME Unit

• In collaboration with the M& E unit, support the surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation, and track malaria performance indicators.

• Support field and facility visits and participate in data review meetings across health facilities.

• Support the review of data entries and running of data quality checks.

• Contribute to the routine analysis of data and provision of feedback to sub-national levels

• Support the development and ongoing update of malaria dashboards in the REACH MALARIA Office

• Support monitoring visits to states, LGAs, and health facilities visits

• Perform other official duties as may be assigned by the supervisor

• Support the timely collation of retirements' supporting documents from State offices and tracking of the status of accomplishment of deliverables.

Qualifications

• A degree in Health Sciences, Biological Sciences, Statistics, Epidemiology, Public Health, or a related field, with evidence of NYSC completion, discharge, or exemption.

• Basic knowledge and some experience working in either public or private health facilities.

• Prior experience with international organizations will be considered an added advantage.

• Strong organizational skills with a high level of attention to detail.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Word and Excel.

• Fluency in written and spoken English.