State Facilitator, SBC - Polio at Nina Jojer Limited in Sokoto

Position Overview

• In 2020, Nigeria was proclaimed Wild Polio Virus (WPV)-free for possessing gone without any WPV cases for over four years.
• However, Nigeria is experiencing outbreaks of Circulating Variant Poliovirus type 2 (cVPV2) due to low Standard procedure Immunization coverage and population immunity.
• In 2018, Nigeria skilled a key outbreak top to about 34 cases.
• To interrupt the cVPV2, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) in partnership with associates possesses ensured the entire organizing, execution, and supervising of the Polio eradication programme in 19 northern states and a few Southern states where the spread was documented. As of 2018, the number of cases reduced to 18, however, about 4.3 million children in Nigeria are still unimmunized (18%, MICS/NICS 2021).
• Standard procedure Immunization effectiveness in Nigeria possesses remained suboptimal for over 10 years, with only one in five (20%) children aged 12-24 months fully vaccinated according to the national immunization timetable in Nigeria (NDHS 2024). Community-related mobilization is a critical part in Standard procedure Immunization and Supplementary Immunization marketing for Polio vaccination and other vaccines.
• The UNICEF established Voluntary assistant Group Mobilizers (VCM) network is one of the efficient and productive group systems assisting 11 elevated-risk states in Northern Nigeria, operating closely with group participants, caregivers, and wider networks to advance vaccination. These voluntary assistants arrange group dialogues, and compound sessions, track newborns and children under five years for polio and standard procedure immunization and refer pregnant women to Health Facilities for Antenatal Care.
• The network also plays a vital function in progressing consolidation as they assist Nigeria other sectors which includes nutrition and child protection, with the potentials to do more.
• The network is monitored by a team of Facilitators at the LGA and State levels for quality dispatch of program interventions.
• The relation of State and LGA Facilitators possess been instrumental in optimizing public involvement and mobilizing assist for the interruption of cVPV2 in the states, supporting to reduction in cases over the final year, with Zamfara state successfully interrupting the virus.
• The Facilitators assist standard procedure supervising of the programme, through helpful oversight, on the position mentoring and strengthen capacity of the network in participatory facilitation, recordkeeping and status updates competencies.
• They also assist rapid survey execution to produce additional data, national level evaluate, organizing, and skills development events for VCM network members.
• The State Facilitators will be located in the State with regular trips to the LGA, wards, and settlements, offering general monitoring of the LGA facilitators in addition to the VCM systems in the allocated cluster of LGAs.
• Organize and oversee Polio/RI and other sectoral SBC initiatives at the cluster level.
• The candidate will oversee the day- to-day execution of initiatives across UNICEF-helped execution sites.
• He/ She will also oversee the day-to-day activities of the LGAF and Voluntary assistant Group Mobilizers (VCM) network, particularly concentrating on making sure quality execution and status updates.
• The State facilitator will play a prominent position in supervising and status updates on the evolving humanitarian circumstance inside the state and LGAs, empowering UNICEF and associates to adjust and take action promptly and accordingly to the evolving condition.
• In the circumstance of rising insecurity with the site delivers a means for programme supervising to guarantee the servicing & maintenance of the quality of execution and business continuity according to national and international procedures in addition to an self-sufficient layer of responsibility.

Outputs:

• Carry out and record every month synchronization sessions with the SBC Expert/Officer to evaluate ongoing duty, offer shared response, and confirm key recordkeeping and visibility materials.
• Send a thorough every month work strategy and commute strategy by the 1st week of each month.
• Send every month premium quality documentation of initiatives, results, purpose documentation, and minutes of sessions, etc. Head / engage fully in work collaboratively synchronization sessions at the State (eg ACSM, RCCE, SOMTEC, etc).
• Formulate and/or modify evidence-based State and LGA-specific ACSM Strategies for applicable Polio Supplementary Immunization Initiatives (SIAs).
• Send one premium quality documentation after each SIA using the offered template, combining intervention description and key community-related mobilization indicators from applicable data resources.
• Modify every month dashboard and distribute quarterly evaluation of facilitators.
• Modify LGA, Ward and Group level staff list before each marketing.

Qualifications Education:

Academic qualification in Community-related Sciences, information exchange, Community health, Group Nutrition, Social advancement, or associated technical site.

Language:

Fluency in English; expertise in the local language of the responsibility station is an asset.

Work expertise:

• A minimum of 3 - 5 years of progressively in charge specialist work expertise at the State/ LGA level in programme organizing, management, supervising, and assessment in immunization programs.
• Expertise in community-related mobilization, support, and information exchange in health- associated programs, which includes polio eradication marketing, development/skills development, and team building.
• Robust participatory facilitation and interpersonal verbal abilities Ongoing expertise in development concerns, plans in addition to programming rules and standardized processes in international development teamwork.