Internship at FHI 360 in Nigeria. The intern will provide technical expertise at the health facility and community levels to accelerate the achievement of the goal of the SHARP TO 2 Activity in Bayelsa, Edo, and Lagos states, Nigeria.

SHARP TO 2 is a comprehensive TB/HIV project aimed at improving the quality and effectiveness of high impact, evidence-based HIV/AIDS interventions to meet Nigeria’s state and LGA specific goals and objectives. The project supports focused, data-driven efforts to precise target limited resources to bridge the remaining LGA-specific gaps to the 95-95-95 goals and achieve epidemic control. Specific strategies include adaptive, dynamic, catalytic, capable, and responsive leadership approaches to accelerate response towards the attainment of the 95-95-95 targets

Key Responsibilities

The intern will

• Work under the direction of the senior technical advisor to implement community and health facility level strategies to achieve set goals.
• Collate daily data, review technical strategies and implementation approaches against laid out plans as well as use trends in performance data to provide technical support to project staff and frontline workers.
• Fill templates to track progress and participate in daily situation room meetings with project staff, and other interns to ensure progress towards set goals.
• Collaborate and engage with stakeholders including state ministries of health and IP staff and community stakeholders when required.
• Provide technical and adaptive management support to HIV program managers and frontline providers on data use, transparency, mutual accountability, and implementation fidelity.
• Support the scale-up of proven and evidence-based technical strategies including differentiated service delivery models that will contribute to achieving the project’s purpose.
• Represent the SHARP TO 2 project to stakeholders. Also, conduct orientation for frontline workers or generate content.
• Draft reports as well as perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Candidates on this Internship at FHI 360 in Nigeria will  have

• Bachelor’s Degree in social sciences, Statistics, Pharmacy, MBBS, Public health or related field with at least a year experience in any field.
• Computer literate and able to use Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• A good interpersonal relationship and able to use the internet and emails.
• Experience with large complex organizations preferred.

FHI 360

FHI 360 (formerly Family Health International) is a non-profitable humanitarian organization with headquarter in North Carolina. Since its establishment in 1971, it has been serving more than 70 countries to upgrade health standards. Basically, this organization works to prevent several infectious and chronic diseases. However, it has been fighting to prevent HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis, etc since its first day of operation.