Job Description

• Oversee the daily functioning of assigned Oral Rehydration Points ORPs while ensuring compliance with national cholera treatment protocols and uninterrupted service delivery.
• Assess and manage patients with acute watery diarrhoea/cholera, administer ORS for mild cases, stabilize patients, and promptly refer moderate and severe cases to Cholera Treatment Centres CTCs.
• Enforce IPC measures, including hand hygiene, proper PPE use, environmental cleaning, safe waste management, and prompt reporting of IPC concerns.
• Conduct health education on cholera prevention, hygiene, sanitation, safe water practices, early treatment seeking, and strengthen community referral systems.
• Monitor and maintain adequate stocks of ORS, Zinc, PPE, medicines, and consumables through proper inventory management, storage, and timely replenishment.
• Keep accurate patient and referral records, submit regular reports, support disease surveillance, monitor ORP performance, and collaborate with health authorities and humanitarian partners.
• Adhere to organizational policies, including safeguarding and PSEAH standards, report safeguarding concerns, and ensure accountability to affected populations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing B.NSc., Public Health, or a related health discipline, with valid professional registration where applicable.
• Additional training in cholera case management, IDSR, Infection Prevention and Control IPC, or emergency health is an added advantage.
• Minimum of three 3 years' experience in humanitarian or public health programmes, including cholera outbreak response, emergency health, or communicable disease control.
• Previous experience working in Oral Rehydration Points ORPs, Cholera Treatment Units CTUs, Cholera Treatment Centres CTCs, or with NGOs/international humanitarian organizations is desirable.
• Strong clinical assessment, patient management, organizational, reporting, communication, and supervisory skills, with knowledge of cholera treatment protocols and IPC standards.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Fluency in English; knowledge of Hausa and Kanuri is an added advantage
• The position is based in Maiduguri and requires frequent travel to project sites, as well as availability to work weekends, public holidays, and extended hours during outbreak response.