Technical Advisor at Elizabeth Glaser

Reporting to the Project Manager, the Retention, Adherence and Community Linkages Technical Advisor is responsible for providing overall leadership, coordination and management for the implementation of high quality HIV psychosocial services across five EGPAF supported sub-counties in Turkana County.

S/he will act as a resource for the Timiza 90 project on all matters pertaining to demand creation, community-facility referral and linkage, ART adherence and client retention in HIV service and promote the attainment of 90% viral suppression.

Responsibilities for the Technical Advisor Job

• Provide overall technical leadership, capacity building and day to day management of the adherence and community liaison team of program officers within the project.
• Will work in close collaboration with program officers and other project Technical advisors to ensure that client effectively navigate within the services network and are not lost to follow up
• Will ensure that clients receive high quality adherence counseling, client messaging and tracking, case management and retention in care.
• Will engage with EGPAF supported health facilities to provide oversight and support in ensuring that client receive relevant HIV care and treatment services including psychosocial care, information and education
  Will collaborate with regional and EGPAF national technical teams to develop strategies, guidelines, SOPs, patient educational materials for implementing ART adherence and psychosocial support in accordance with the MOH national guidelines.
• Will keep abreast of emerging data concerning referrals, community facility linkage and retention in care and will provide guidance and advice to program officers and MOH staff
• Design and develop high quality patient-focused demand creation, adherence and retention activities at all EGPAF supported sites.
• Regularly review, develop and disseminate SOPs for ART adherence support and monitoring activities are undertaken at the EGPAF supported sites and links with the Care and Treatment technical team to facilitate facility-community linkages to ensure clients remain on the various therapies and are retained on care
• Identify best practices, document, recommend, implement and disseminate effective and innovative approaches to adherence, client retention, defaulter tracing, community – facility linkage and stigma reduction at each supported site.
• Represent EGPAF in donor discussions and other relevant meetings
• Make summary reports to higher administrative levels along with recommendations to improve program performance.

Technical Advisor Job Qualifications

• Master’s degree in counselling psychology, Social sciences; Community development, or equivalent. S/he should have five (5) years project management experience working in adherence, counseling and psychosocial support and community linkages in HIV care and treatment/PMTCT.
• Required competencies, skills and experience
• Familiarity with the Kenya Health system including MOH and NASCOP HIV program implementation and documentation.
• Possess adequate facilitation, mentoring and counseling skills.
• Familiarity with HIV community programs and facility retention programs including peer education.
• Candidates should possess good organization skills, written/verbal communication skills and capable of working in a team.
• Up to date knowledge of general HIV management is a pre-requisite
• Experience in managing a large, diverse and dynamic team of health professionals providing integrated HIV Testing , care and treatment services
• Experience in establishing and sustaining working relationships with the Ministry of Health at County, sub-County and health providers at site level
• Proficient Computer skills (Ms Word, Ms Excel, Ms Power Point)