Doctors with Africa Jobs in Uganda : Project Officer – Linkages and Referrals

Company: DOctors With Africa CUAMM
Location: Mutukula, Central Region, Uganda
State: UG
Job type: Full-Time
Job category: Healthcare Job

Founded in 1950, Doctors with Africa CUAMM was the first non-governmental organization focused on healthcare to be recognized by the Italian government. It is now the country’s leading organization working to protect and improve the wellbeing and health of vulnerable communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.

About USAID RHITES-N Project:

RHITES-N, Lango will contribute to improving key population- based national health indicators; build the capacity of the Ugandan government to carry out a sustainable and locally- driven response to the HIV epidemic, while also improving TB, malaria, nutrition, MNCH+A, and WASH outcomes. JSI will work with Ugandan stakeholders to design and implement health system strengthening strategies to scale up high-impact, evidence-based interventions at the national, sub-regional, district, and community levels. Interventions will include VMMC, virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, antiretroviral therapy, and condom education and distribution. JSI will focus where the greatest impact can be realized, with a priority on hard-to-reach and high-HIV-prevalence locations.

Job Summary: The Project officer – Linkages and referrals will map, assess capacity, build capacity of community facility linkage structures and processes in place.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Work with DHT and Community Development Office to strengthen community based structures that will create demand for health and nutrition service, strengthen client appointment and tracking systems at the supported health facilities; support the functionality of CHEWS, VHTs, MNCH Peer Mothers, Adolescent champions, Male action groups and Family support groups within the supported districts
Support the successful implementation of the community referral system including the use of transport vouchers, Motorcycles and Vehicle ambulances; strengthen the use of quality improvement approaches in the referral and linkage system and other community activities;
Participate in Coordination Meetings and related forums with other NGOs, CBOs implementing community actions at district level. With DHT and Facility in charges, support planning for and implementation of integrated outreaches at district level.
Work closely with the DHT, train and Mentor health workers on Ministry of Health tools and processes for linkages and referrals and support DHOs and District biostatistician to ensure that all data on community interventions are properly and timely reported on monthly basis and the same is accurately and timely fed into District Health Information System (DHIS2)
Ensure proper documentation of work done achievements realized, lessons learnt, and best practice throughout the program implementation. S/he will report to Senior Advisor– Linkages and Referrals.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

The applicant for the USAID RHITES-N Project officer – Linkages and referrals job must hold a Bachelor’s degree in sociology, social work and social administration, community development, community health, development studies or related courses.
Postgraduate qualification in Public Health, Sociology or Community Health would be an added advantage.
At least three years of experience in HIV/TB/MNH/Malaria/Nutrition related community work with government institution or NGOs involved in community work.
Excellent communication skills and strong inter- personal skills.
Fluency in written and spoken English and a working knowledge of Luo.
Ability to work in a multi- disciplinary team with frequent travel to the field.
Have solid computer skills.
Knowledge of the relevant Uganda national health policies, strategies and structures.

All applicants should send an application Letter, Personal File Form, Download Here and updated CV to uganda@cuamm.org with the subject – “Application Referral & Linkages Officer Sep 2018”. Email should have only the 3 attachments (Application Letter, CV and Personal file form). Please do not fill the personal file form online, download it, fill and send as attachment with other documents.

Deadline: 30^th September 2018 by 5:00 pm