Master Trainer at Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria

Breakthrough ACTION ignites collective action and encourages people to adopt healthier behavior – from using modern contraceptive methods and sleeping under bed nets to being tested for HIV and preventing the spread of zoonotic diseases – by forging, testing, and scaling up new and hybrid approaches to social and behavior change.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Master Trainer

Location: Ebonyi

Background

Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria (BA-N) is a USAID funded project with John Hopkins Centre for Communications Programs (CCP) as the lead consortium partner. It is multi-partner project with governments and other USAID partners to support Social Behaviour Change (SBC) and demand creation on priority FP/RH, Malaria and MNCH+N health behaviours in Eleven (11) states and FCT across Nigeria.
In collaboration with the SMOH, SPHCDA, LGAs, Communities and other implementing partners in Ebonyi State, Breakthrough ACTION–Nigeria will support the state to use an integrated social behaviour change (I-SBC) approach towards achieving desired improvements in health outcomes targeted at individual, household and community levels.
To achieve this Breakthrough ACTION is looking for qualified candidates to serve as master trainers in Ebonyi State. The trainers will participate in a 1-Week Training-of-Trainers (TOT) on Integrated Social Behaviour Change (I-SBC), which they will step down in various LGAs in these states over a certain period.

Scope of Work:

Participate in a 1-week Training-of-Trainers (TOT)
Facilitate a 10-day training for community volunteers, supervisors and community actions groups in assigned state and LGAs.
Build the capacity of training participants to use community dialogue framework for community volunteers
Build the capacity of participants on referrals and data tools
Ensure that participants demonstrate enough knowledge, skills and competence necessary to conduct interpersonal communication (IPC), community health dialogues, compound meetings and other community-level activities in their wards.
Draft and submit a training report required at the end of the training.

Education, Experience & Certifications

Qualification in Nursing, Public Health, Community Health, Social Sciences, Communication or related field
Prior experience facilitating training for community resource persons e.g. VCMs, CORPS, CBHVs, CVs e.t.c
Prior experience with MNCH or RH/FP demand generation activities, projects or programs
Good technical knowledge on MNCH, Family Planning or Malaria within the context of southern Nigeria
Fluency in local language with good understanding and appropriate context
Resident in the state applied for and able to work in the state and any LGA
Excellent facilitation, communication and oral presentation skills
Self-motivated and ability to work as part of a team
Strong analytical, communication, computer and problem-solving skills
Availability for 4 – 6 weeks to participate in Training-of-Trainers (ToT) and facilitate step-down training
Ability to travel for Training-of-Trainers (TOT) if required
Willingness to step down training in any assigned LGA within the applied state.