Senior Programme Officer, Preventive and Curative Programme at The National Syndemic Diseases Control Council (NSDCC)

Job Purpose

• Provide technical support and capacity building for health promotion, the prevention, control, and management of Syndemic diseases; and to support the strengthening of primary health care systems in the country, initiating development, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and review of the programmes Policies, Strategies and guidelines. The role is also responsible for implementing prudent management of grant budgets.

Key Responsibilities/ Duties / Tasks

• Supporting relevant technical program leads to coordinate and implement relevant policies, strategies and guidelines at all levels of administration and service provision;
• Participating in developing analytical and technical reports, including assessments and studies in support to strategic planning efforts at the regional and national level;
• Documenting findings and key lessons for improved accountability and quality reporting;
• Updating reporting tools and systems;
• Collating data and studies relevant to programmatic needs and trends;
• Participating in developing structures and promoting interventions that ensure privacy, non-discrimination, and non-stigmatization of the infected and affected;
• In collaboration with other departments, supporting the development and implementation of sector specific workplace policies; including for both the formal and informal sectors; and
• Raising awareness and improving knowledge to create an impactful response to strategic diseases among communities.

Job Competencies (Knowledge, Experience and Attributes / Skills).
Academic qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in any of the following fields: Public Health, Health Economics, Epidemiology, Medicine, Social Sciences, Business Administration, Public Administration, or related disciplines from a recognized institution.

Professional Qualifications / Membership to professional bodies

• Be a member of a relevant professional body.
• Supervisory course from a recognized institution.

Previous relevant work experience required.

• At least four (4) years relevant working experience.