SHDEPHA+
DISTRICT BIOMEDICAL SERVICES FIELD COORDINATOR
SHDEPHA+ is an acronym for Service, Health, and Development for People living with HIV/AIDS. It is a national non-governmental organization, registered on 21 November 1994 with registration number SO 8216. SHDEPHA+ originated from the initiatives of fifteen people living with HIV/AIDS whose goal was to create a network and to mobilize resources to help people living with HIV/AIDS and to fight the spread of the disease. Although originally focusing on people living with HIV/AIDS, over the years SHDEPHA+ has expanded beyond HIV/AIDS and related issues to other development interventions and now covers both infected and affected by HIV/AIDs around 8 Regions of Tanzania Mainland.
SHDEPHA+ in partnership with FHI360 is implementing a project named Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) in Arusha and Shinyanga Regions. USAID-Epic Project is a global project funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project is dedicated to achieve and maintain HIV epidemic control. The project provides strategic technical assistance (TA) and direct service delivery (DSD) to break through barriers to 95-95-95 UNAIDS goals and promote self-reliant management of national HIV programs by improving HIV case-finding, prevention, and treatment programming.
SHDEPHA+ is extending its interventions to the new Districts in Shinyanga Region – Shinyanga DC and MC and it is currently seeking to employee staff to fill the position for the Councils as follows;
DISTRICT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OFFICERs (2)
LOCATION: SHINYANGA REGION
CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months (renewable)
Position Overview:
The District Community Engagement Officer will assist the Assistant/Project Manager and work closely with biomedical and CHMT in ensuring the overall success of the project and will be responsible for day-to-day outreach activities and act as the linkages between beneficiaries and the service project intended to deliver. ensuring that the Community activities (SBCC, structural and Case management) are conducted according to the National and project standard operating procedures and that beneficiaries receive quality services; s/he will also play a crucial role in supervising and building the capacity of Peer Educators, Peer Navigator and mobilizers for effective and efficient implementation of activities during outreach for HTS provision. S/he will be managing all community activities through conducting progress review meetings on monthly basis with all peers and health care providers.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Focal lead for the outreach and coordinated delivery of EPIC Project by supervising peers’ educators/Mobilizers and Navigators to facilitate implementation of comprehensive HIV service provision (HTS, PrEP, HIVST, TB, GBV) in line with Project results framework and annual costed Programme work plans.
- Ensure The project is delivered to high technical standards by providing training, coaching and mentorship to the peer educators/Peer navigators and Mobilizers on facilitation skills, HIV Prevention and GBV.
- Direct management support to peers’ (Navigators, Mobilizers and peer educators) to create demand and roll-out of social behavior communication (SBC) educations and supporting effective Programme cycle management.
- Support establishment of the case management teams,
- Support dentification and mapping of hotspots, linkages to care, treatment, and support referrals to GBV, TB, STI and other biomedical services.
- Engagement and partnership with the Regional administration and local government, providing leadership support to strategic positioning and delivery of EpiC project services in local government planning and implementation processes.
- Data collection and verification for informing project M&E processes, including ensuring an efficient and high standard of reporting daily, weekly and monthly.
- Demonstrate due diligence in the management of project budget management, including adherence to SHDEPHA+ finances policies and procedures and endeavoring to achieve value for money and high transparency and accountability for Programme resources.
- Collecting and reporting project short term results/impact and lesson learnt through success story documentation and obstruct developments
- Key responsibility to ensure that all reasonable measures are taken to ensure child protection across all operational aspects of the EPIC project.
- Prepare monthly and weekly route plans for the project to reach the targeted population. Prepare document experiences, briefs, and success stories.
- Report to the Programme Manager on strategic performance objectives that are developed and signed off on annual basis and also assist with wider organizational activities as and when required.
- Responsible for community ART Groups management
JOB APPLICATION PROCEDURE
SHDEPHA+ is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of Age, race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factors.
All applications are to be lodged through email: [email protected]
All candidates are required to mention the ‘Position Title’ on the subject line of the e-mail.
All applicants MUST attach cover letter and their updated Curriculum Vitae with certified copies of academic certificates as supporting documents to their applications.
All applications should be submitted not later than 12:00 HRS on Tuesday, 25th September 2023.
For more information, kindly visit our website: www.shdephakahama.org
