HEALTH TECHNICAL OFFICER (2 Posts)

1. POSITION: HEALTH TECHNICAL OFFICER (2 Posts)

Job Title:                      Health Technical Officer Officers (2 posts – one staff for each Team)

Reporting to:               Project Manager

Locations:                    Kilolo DC, and Iringa DC

Position Summary:

The overall objective of this position is to contribute towards strategic service delivery to OVCs and their caregivers, address critical barriers to service access, uptake, and adherence to scale up impact service delivery, advance progress towards 95-95-95 goals and improve health and social outcomes among OVC and their families.

The job holder will ensure sound and vibrant bi-directional referral and linkage system, improved case identification, linkages to ART and Viral Load suppression among Children and Adolescents Living with HIV/AIDS.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Represent AWG and coordinate with the Council Health Management Team regarding HIV and health related activities at Councils Team
• Hold monthly coordination meetings with Care & Treatment Centers (CTC) in implementation area to support shared confidentiality, facilitate case conferencing, improve the bi-directional referral system, and ensure HIV positive beneficiaries receive needed services at Councils Team
• Support Early Childhood Development (ECD) corners at targeted health facilities, including regular monitoring and supportive supervision at Councils Team
• Support the facilities to have an updated enrollment register at the facility that demonstrate the cascade of enrollment of CLHIV at the CTC at Councils Team
• Support Community Case Workers (CCWs) to work with high pediatric volume CTCs to trace HIV positive OVC who miss appointments, enroll them into USAID KIZAZI HODARI SOTHERN PROJECT Project, and link them back to
• Support CCWs to conduct HIV risk assessments for OVC during case management; refer and link at risk OVC to HIV Testing and Counseling (HTC).
• Schedule quarterly Sexual Reproductive Health Education outreaches to Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW), DREAMS Girls in school and organize HTC outreaches for adolescents with high-risk behaviors at Councils Team
• Work with Health Facility Implementing Partners to roll out a supplemental HIV curriculum to CCWs and ensure CCWs provide appropriate support to HIV positive OVC and caregivers.
• Support CCWs to strengthen the capacity of caregivers to support HIV positive OVC and ensure CCWs refer HIV positive OVC and caregivers to PLHIV support
• Support the establishment of a bi-directional referral system to monitor beneficiaries through the HIV continuum of care as well as service completion for other health and social
• Monitor implementation, bottlenecks, performance metrics of the bi-directional referral system; pro-actively offer solutions, conduct quality improvement activities, and implement adjustments to improve referral
• Participate in quarterly council level quality improvement meetings with relevant bi-directional referral system stakeholders; ensure actions from the meetings are implemented and the bi-directional referral system is improved at Councils Team
• Work with the M&E officer to ensure all bi-directional referral data are accurate and produced weekly; use data for decision-making at Councils Team
• Lead the development of a service directory for health, nutrition, and HIV services in implementation area; update the directory at least once a year at Councils Team
• Support CCWs to conduct nutrition activities, including nutrition assessments, counseling, and linkage to other nutrition service providers at Councils Team
• Provide continuous supportive supervision to CCWs to ensure provision of health-related services and referrals and linkages to
• Submit timely updates to the Program Manager for inclusion in the quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports at Councils Team
• Document lessons learned and best practices for experience sharing and replication at Councils Team
• Perform any other relevant duties as assigned by the Project

Minimum required Qualifications, Experience and Skills Education:

• MUST be Diploma holder in Clinical Medicine or
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in medicine or nursing will be an added

Skills:

• Good understanding of Government of Tanzania health
• Strong M&E skills and experience in strategic
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in Swahili and English including excellent training skills in working with adult learners, particularly at the community
• Able and willing to work flexible hours as needed without constantly or close supervision
• Demonstrate leadership and team building
• Diplomacy and negotiation skills that demonstrate ability to collaborate coordinate with a range of stakeholders and complex

Experience:

• At least two (2) years’ experiences in a field position with an organization in public health or OVC Experience in implementation of community programs in health/HIV, MNCH, TB/Malaria etc., is preferred.
• Experienced with PEPFAR 0 funded project in Tanzania.
• Experience implementing program and donor regulations, systems, and
• Experience in an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) approach in development and social

How to apply:

All applications letters should attach with detailed curriculum vitae, photocopies of certificates, testimonials, transcripts and names of three referees and day time telephone number for confidential contact should be sent NOT LATER than 04^th October 2024, interested candidates should send through this email [email protected] Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

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