Job Purpose:
She/he will be the project’s liaison person in one of the 12 supported districts and Jinja City within the East central region. S/he will be embedded within the District Health Management Team (DHMT), through the DHO’s office.
Specific duties and responsibilities:
• To work as a liaison person between the project and the district leadership to ensure project activities are well planned, coordinated and implemented in harmony with the district priorities and operations to achieve the intended objectives.
• Participate in making work plans, drawing activity schedules, raising activity requests, supervision of activities and report writing.
• Always seek to understand and work with the district and project relevant staff to lay strategies to achieve prevailing project priorities.
• Lead, guide, and mentor the project team seconded to the district and health facilities for proper and harmonized implementation of the planned activities with the district.
• Provide technical support to the district and health facility teams across the key HIV and TB technical areas including targeted HIV testing and case finding, Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC), Elimination of mother to child transmission (EMTCT), Pre exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), key and priority population services, Gender based violence (GBV) and strengthen delivery of quality HIV and TB care and treatment services.
• Support the integration of quality improvement approaches into health services delivery at the district and health facilities within the districts.
• Closely work with the Cluster M&E Officer to ensure that weekly, monthly, and quarterly results are reported as per project reporting guidelines, including ensuring quality of HIV and TB data.
• Lead in routine assessment and identification of capacity building and service delivery needs for ensuring quality services across the continuum of the HIV and TB response.
• Support Supply chain technical teams, district, and facility teams in the appropriate management of commodities for supporting service delivery along the HIV and TB continuum of care.
• Support the design and rollout of community level interventions for HIV and TB geared at addressing health determinants at individual, household, and community level.
• Support and monitor the acquisition, inventory keeping, proper use and maintenance of equipment and other property provided by the project to the district and health facilities.
• Organize regular and timely performance reviews at district and health facility levels as per work plan.
• Ensure appropriate use of project financial and other resources, preventing wastage and abuse.
• Work with the district leadership to coordinate with other implementing partners to avoid duplication and omissions for maximum benefit from the available resources.
Key Personal Competencies:
• Bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery (MBChB), bachelor’s in public health. A master’s degree in a health-related field is an added advantage.
• 3 years professional experience working in Public Health Systems.
• Experience with USAID and/or other donor projects is an added advantage.
• Demonstrable excellent writing, organizational, coordination and communication skills.
• Proven ability to set priorities, multi-task, and work collaboratively as well as independently.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
Job application procedure
All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply by clearly stating the position applied for in the Subject line.
Combine all your application documentation i.e. cover letter, CV & academic documents into one PDF with names/contact details of three referees including the immediate Supervisor and Head of Human Resources, addressed to:
The Human Resources Manager,
Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP).
Email: recruitment@mjap.mak.ac.ug
NOT later than Tuesday December 5th, 2023, at 4:30 pm.
Consider your application unsuccessful if you don’t hear from us by December 22nd, 2023.
Offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references including but not limited to appropriate background checks, criminal records, and previous employment findings of fraud, corruption, sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.
By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
Please ensure that your attachments do not exceed 25 MB. We do appreciate your interest to work with MJAP. However, we regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 2 weeks after the submission deadline.
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