Public Health Implementation Officer - Oyo

Job title : Public Health Implementation Officer - Oyo

We are looking to hire a Public Health implementation officer to coordinate implementation within Kano state to oversee field activities and stakeholder engagement, monitor performance, and ensure programme targets and deliverables are achieved.

Responsibilities
State-Level Project Implementation:

• Coordinate implementation of programme activities within the state in line with approved workplans, timelines, targets, and quality standards.
• Translate programme plans and milestones into weekly and monthly state-level implementation activities.
• Coordinate implementation across participating healthcare facilities, communities, community health workers, and other field partners.
• Track state-level milestones and proactively identify and escalate implementation delays, risks, and operational challenges.
• Coordinate state-level activities including sensitisation, training, recruitment drives, facility engagement, stakeholder meetings, and programme reviews.

User Recruitment and Activation:

• Implement the state's user recruitment and activation strategy across participating facilities and communities.
• Coordinate facility-based recruitment, CHW outreach, community activation drives, referrals, and partner-led recruitment activities.
• Set and monitor recruitment targets for field personnel and participating facilities in line with programme targets.
• Support field teams to identify eligible women and onboard them onto the digital platform.
• Monitor recruitment and activation data to ensure reported users are appropriately onboarded and meet programme requirements.
• Identify underperforming locations or recruitment channels and implement corrective actions with the project team.

Field Team and CHW Coordination:

• Coordinate and supervise CHWs and other field personnel supporting programme implementation within the state.
• Assign activities and performance targets and monitor delivery against agreed expectations.
• Conduct regular field-team check-ins and provide implementation guidance and problem-solving support.
• Ensure field personnel have the training, information, materials, and operational support required to carry out their responsibilities.
• Review and validate field activity reports and supporting documentation.

Health Facility Coordination:

• Build and maintain effective working relationships with participating public and private healthcare facilities.
• Coordinate facility onboarding and implementation of programme activities within participating facilities.
• Work with facility focal persons and recruitment stewards to support user recruitment, risk assessment, sensitisation, and adoption of the programme's digital tools.
• Monitor facility participation and address or escalate implementation challenges.
• Coordinate facility-level capacity-building and ongoing implementation support.

Government and Stakeholder Engagement:

• Serve as the day-to-day programme liaison with relevant state-level government stakeholders, under the direction of the programme leadership team.
• Maintain effective working relationships with the State Ministry of Health, participating facilities, community stakeholders, and implementation partners.
• Support state kickoff meetings, advocacy engagements, dashboard reviews, programme reviews, and other stakeholder meetings.
• Document agreed actions from stakeholder engagements and ensure appropriate follow-up.
• Represent the programme at approved state-level meetings and engagements as required.

Training and Implementation Support:

• Coordinate orientation and capacity-building activities for CHWs, facility personnel, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Support field personnel and participating facilities in effectively using the programme's digital tools.
• Identify recurring operational or user challenges and escalate technical issues to the appropriate central team.
• Gather structured feedback from users, healthcare facilities, and field personnel to support continuous improvement.

Monitoring, Data Quality and Reporting:

• Track state performance against programme indicators, recruitment targets, facility targets, and implementation milestones.
• Maintain accurate records of recruitment, facility participation, field activities, training, stakeholder engagement, and other programme activities.
• Review field data for completeness, accuracy, and consistency and ensure identified discrepancies are resolved.
• Prepare and submit timely weekly and monthly implementation reports.
• Use programme dashboards and other monitoring tools to identify performance gaps and support corrective action.
• Document implementation lessons, challenges, beneficiary feedback, and relevant success stories.

Logistics and Resource Management:

• Coordinate logistics for field activities, community activation drives, training, facility visits, and stakeholder engagements.
• Ensure appropriate use and accountability for programme resources and materials assigned to the state.
• Maintain accurate documentation of materials distributed, field activities, and other required implementation records.
• Coordinate field schedules to support efficient use of programme resources.

Quality, Safeguarding and Compliance:

• Ensure state-level implementation complies with approved programme protocols, organizational policies, data-protection requirements, and relevant ethical and regulatory requirements.

• Ensure appropriate confidentiality and handling of participant and programme information.
• Ensure recruitment and community-engagement activities are conducted respectfully and in accordance with approved programme procedures.
• Identify and promptly escalate quality, safeguarding, or compliance concerns.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Nursing, Community Health, Health Sciences, Social Sciences, or a related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in public health programme implementation, community health, field operations, healthcare delivery, or a related area.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating field-based health programmes and working with healthcare facilities, CHWs, government stakeholders, or community-based organisations.
• Experience supervising or coordinating field teams and managing implementation and performance targets.
• Strong understanding of community engagement, health programme implementation, and field-level monitoring.
• Experience with maternal and reproductive health programmes is an advantage.
• Experience working with digital health or technology-enabled healthcare interventions is an advantage.
• Strong reporting, documentation, data-quality, and basic analytical skills.
• Ability to interpret programme data and use performance information to guide implementation decisions.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to coordinate multiple activities and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Ability and willingness to travel regularly within the assigned state.
• Fluency in English and proficiency in relevant local languages is an advantage.
• Resident in the Oyo state.

Benefits

• This role offers a competitive pay and other benefits and perks.