Technical Officer Non-profit Jobs - Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

Organization: Management

Sciences for Health (MSH)

Reports to: Technical

Advisor, Gender/OVC/ PLVIV

Duty Station: Mbale, Uganda

Job ID: 13-9168

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is a nonprofit international

health organization composed of nearly 2500 people from more than 74

nationalities working in over 50 countries. Our mission is to save lives and

improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing

the gap between knowledge and action in public health. Together with our

partners, we are helping managers and leaders in developing countries to create

stronger management systems that improve health services for the greatest

health impact.

Job Summary: The Technical

Officer will support stronger networking at district level in a collaborative

partnership with the District Health Advisors and Mentorship Managers in the

project supported districts. The Specialist will strengthen the project’s

community networking within districts, focusing on supporting the project’s

collaboration with the district health office (DHO) and district health team

(DHT) and PLHIV groups. The Specialist will also focus on strengthening

networks between HFs and communities in a selected number of higher volume

sub-counties.

• Support Hospitals, HCIVs and some high
  
  volume HCIIIs to establish CDDPs in liaison with PLHIV groups’ leaders to
  
  ensure stable clients are served at CDDPs to decongest facilities.


• Work closely with the Government district
  
  PLHIV coordinator and sub-county PLHIV coordinators to identity and
  
  mobilize a cadre of PLHIV network peer leaders who should be oriented to
  
  manage and facilitate active and functional  PLHIVs groups at  parish levels.


• Support PLHIV network peer leaders to
  
  conduct and document monthly support visits to the members of their PLHIV
  
  network and CDDPs.


• Actively facilitate a close working
  
  relationship between the PLHIV network peer leaders and HF staff,
  
  especially mentor mothers and case managers that the project has deployed
  
  in the HFs.


• Support the PLHIV network peer leaders to
  
  promote and link their network members to HFs services, as well as
  
  conducting community tracing of PLHIV who have missed their appointments,
  
  and the promoting and tracking of the HIV testing status of partners and
  
  family members of PLHIV members of the network, which could include
  
  facilitating HF testing para-professionals to conduct household testing of
  
  partner/family members


• Offer technical assistance to focal
  
  persons for OVC, and post GBV services, including appropriately screening,
  
  identifying and providing services to them that are linked to community
  
  resources.


• Work closely with the sub-county Community
  
  Development Officer to map out community resources, such as FBOs, CBOs,
  
  NGOs, other groups and development programs, and private sector
  
  institutions, leading to an up to date inventory of community referral
  
  network.


• Actively participate in the development,
  
  review, and dissemination of protocols, SOPs, tools and documentation
  
  templates for key client linkages.


• Prepare and submit monthly, quarterly and regular
  
  reports to the supervisor on progress of all activities conducted during
  
  the reporting period.


• Document best practices for enhancement of
  
  project performance and visibility


• Perform any other duties as directed by
  
  the supervising Technical Advisor as may be appropriate to the position.

• The ideal candidate for the Management
  
  Sciences for Health (MSH) Technical Officer job opportunity should
  
  preferably hold a Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, Social Works
  
  or equivalent from a recognized Institution


• At least three years of previous
  
  experience working in the field of HIV, Gender and OVC or related
  
  programming area


• Previous experience in networking with
  
  district health office and health centers


• Broad knowledge of TB or HIV or infectious
  
  diseases programming.


• Excellent written and oral communication
  
  skills, especially in terms of reporting


• Computer literate with minimum basic
  
  package of Word processing, spreadsheets and power-point presentations


• Knowledge of one of the native languages
  
  of Eastern Uganda is an added advantage


• Flexible and able to work in a field based
  
  environment


• Willing and able to travel to the field by
  
  motorcycle 100% of the time


• Ability to work in a multicultural
  
  environment


• Team player and ability to take initiative


• Ability to keep confidentiality especially
  
  in dealing with people living with HIV

All suitably qualified and interested candidates who wish to join the

Management Sciences for Health in the aforementioned capacity are encouraged to

Apply Online by clicking on the link below.