Public Health Implementation Officer

About this role

Helium Health seeks a Public Health Implementation Officer to coordinate and oversee health programme implementation in Kano state. The role involves managing field activities, stakeholder engagement, and monitoring towards meeting targets and deliverables. It requires coordinating with facilities, community health workers, and partners, tracking milestones, and escalating risks. The position focuses on user recruitment and activation, field team coordination, facility onboarding, and government and stakeholder liaison. It is suitable for someone with public health or related qualifications and experience in programme implementation within Nigeria. Helium Health operates a SaaS EMR/HMIS platform for healthcare providers, payers, and patients in emerging markets.

What you would do

• Coordinate state-level implementation of programme activities in line with workplans, timelines, targets and quality standards.
• Translate programme plans into weekly and monthly state-level actions.
• Coordinate implementation across facilities, community health workers, and field partners.
• Track milestones and escalate delays, risks and operational challenges.
• Manage state-level sensitisation, training, recruitment drives, facility engagement, stakeholder meetings and programme reviews.
• Lead user recruitment and activation strategies across facilities and communities.
• Oversee facility-based recruitment, CHW outreach, community activation, referrals and partner-led recruitment.
• Set and monitor recruitment targets for field personnel and facilities; onboard eligible women onto the digital platform.
• Coordinate and supervise CHWs and field staff; review field activity reports and provide guidance.
• Build and maintain relationships with public and private facilities; support onboarding and adoption of digital tools.

What they are asking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Nursing, Community Health, Health Sciences, Social Sciences or related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant public health programme implementation or field operations experience.
• Experience coordinating field-based health programmes with facilities, CHWs, government stakeholders or community organisations.
• Experience supervising field teams and managing targets.
• Strong understanding of community engagement and field-level monitoring.
• Experience with maternal and reproductive health programmes is an advantage.
• Experience with digital health or technology-enabled healthcare interventions is an advantage.
• Strong reporting, documentation and data-quality skills; ability to interpret programme data for decisions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills; strong organisational ability to coordinate multiple activities.
• Willingness to travel regularly within Kano State; resident in Kano State; fluency in English; knowledge of local languages is an advantage.

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