Summary
Date Posted: Monday, January 24, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
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.
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.

Detailed duties:
• Represent ELCT and coordinate with the CSOs in regarding HIV and health related activities at project areas
• conduct coordination meetings with SCOs in implementation area to support shared confidentiality, facilitate case conferencing, improve the bidirectional referral system, and ensure HIV positive beneficiaries receive needed services
• Ensure implementation of Childhood Development (ECD) corners including regular monitoring and supportive supervision at project areas
• Support CSOs to support Community Case Workers (CCWs) to work with high pediatric volume CTCs to trace HIV positive OVC who miss appointments, enroll them into to Project, and link them back to CTCs.
• Work with other stakeholders to roll out a supplemental HIV curriculum to CCWs and ensure CCWs provide appropriate support to HIV positive OVC and caregivers in project areas
• Provide technical support to CSOs to 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 groups.
• Support the roll out of evidence-based curriculums relating to HIV prevention (e.g. No Means No World, Coaching Boys Into Men, Steppingstone, Furaha Lifelong Parenting (Sinovuyo), Sexual Reproductive Health Education, Care for Child Development, etc.)
• Participate in quarterly partners 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 level.
• Work with the M&E officer (s) to ensure all bi-directional referral data are accurate and produced weekly and data are used for decision-making
• 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 level.
• Provide continuous supportive supervision to partners to ensure provision of health-related services and referrals and linkages to beneficiaries.
• Submit timely updates to the zonal Manager for inclusion in the quarterly, semiannual, and annual reports at zonal level.
• Document lessons learned and best practices for experience sharing and replication at zonal level.

Required qualification:
• Bachelor degree Public health, nursing or medicine
• 5+ years of experience in similar position with an organization in public health implementing OVC programming.
• Experience in implementation of community programs in health/HIV
• Experienced with PEPFAR 3.0 funded project in Tanzania
• Experience implementing program and donor regulations, systems, and procedures


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Email your application letter and resume with names of current three references and their contact information before the Application Deadline.
Applications should be sent by email only to the addresses below and should note the position title in the Subject Line:
The 3 Referees: These must include your current employer (if employed), your peer or immediate supervisor, and A same rank colleague or subordinate who can make a honest recommendation or reference for you.
All application should be sent to:
Secretary General
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania
P.O. Box 3033
Arusha, Tanzania.
Email: elcthq@elct.or.tz 

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