Community Systems Strengthening Officer NGO Jobs – Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation -Uganda (Baylor-Uganda)

Job Title:   Community Systems Strengthening Officer

Organisation: Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation -Uganda (Baylor-Uganda)

Duty Station: Uganda

About US:

Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation -Uganda (Baylor-Uganda) is an indigenous not-for-profit child health and development organisation affiliated to the Baylor College of Medicine International Paediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI), a Network of paediatric HIV/AIDS care and treatment Children’s Clinical Centres of Excellence and international program offices in 11 countries across Africa and Eastern Europe.

Job Summary: The Community Systems Strengthening Officer will strengthen community systems at cluster level, ensure retention of clients in HIV care, provide psychosocial support at facility level, work with the district structures to implement programs for teenage mothers.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Work with the cluster teams to develop annual and quarterly cluster work plans and budgets for implementation of community health activities and ensure integration of community-facility framework activities in the health facility sub-grant work plans and budgets, in line with Baylor-Uganda Financial Guidelines and regional Community Plan
• Support and develop the capacity of CBO’s, PLHIV forums and District Health teams to implement the community facility framework and ensure that HF-CBO interface meetings are held on a monthly basis.
• Support the CSOs/CBOS to implement HIV/AIDS/TB results-based financing programs and monitor progress in line with agreed upon targets and indicators.
• Ensure community cluster activities are implemented and all documentation is updated in time; use of CSO follow up tools and provide onsite technical support.
• Support the implementation of OVC activities including HIV prevention activities for AGYW.
• Work with the district and sub-county structures to map stakeholders working on teen health (education, health, community), identify teenage mothers and support service provision of adolescent-girl centred approaches.
• Identify and continuously update the project team on emerging issues in OVC programming, alignment to national strategic plans and policy directions as well as on compliance to the child protection and child safe guarding policies.
• Ensure timely reporting and submission of all implementation activity reports on key project performance indicators to key stakeholders including the district and supervisors.
• In collaboration with the health facilities and CSOs, develop and monitor implementation of strategies to track clients who miss appointments and those who are lost-to-follow-up (LTFU) and strengthen existing patient tracking mechanisms in order to improve retention of clients in HIV/TB care in all facilities.
• Work with the care and treatment team to support the HFs and CBOs to increase uptake of Community Differentiated Service Delivery (DSD) approaches, including CCLAD and CDDP, among patients in HIV and TB care.
• Work with the Community M&E Officers to ensure timely tracking and reporting of key performance indicators.
• Work with stakeholders to evaluate the community interventions in line with Baylor Uganda policies.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a Bachelors’ degree in Humanities (Development Studies, Community Psychology/Community Development, Social Sciences, Social Work and Social Administration) and any related discipline from a recognized institution of learning.
• Three years of experience working community programs for HIV and TB services with focus on improving retention of clients in HIV care and HIV prevention among AGYW.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested applicants should apply online at the link below

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Note:

• Applications should include a cover letter, CV, daytime telephone contact, three traceable professional references and certified UNEB certificates as well as certified University Transcripts
• You must have at least a credit 6 in MATHEMATICS and ENGLISH at Ordinary Level (UCE). Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview. Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Deadline: 12^th October 2022