Project Officer-PMTCT at Elizabeth Glaser

Job Purpose

To provide technical and logistical support to implementing CBO staff and the Home Visiting Teams within the AIDSFree Project that seeks to support improved health and social outcomes for pregnant adolescents, adolescent mothers and their infants. Specifically, to support early uptake of antenatal care (ANC), of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) for girls who need these services, support adherence to anti-retroviral therapy (ART), and retention in care of mother-baby pairs until the infant is 24 months. The project will work with Home Visiting Teams comprising of two adult (1 female and 1 male) household facilitators, 1 mentor, and their supervisors. These teams will implement a household-centered approach, using a case management model, to deliver services and ensure complete referrals and linkages to health and social services for pregnant adolescent girls, adolescent mothers and their infants.

Job Summary

Under the guidance of the Project Manager, the Project Officer will work to ensure achievement of project deliverables within two sub-counties in Kisumu and Homa Bay respectively. The project officer will liaise with the two CBOs (Make Me Smile and Kagwa CBO) in the planning, coordination, and organizing of community mobilization of pregnant adolescent and adolescent mothers. The project officer will directly supervise the community mobilization teams through the 8 HVT Supervisors. He/she will be required to further the EGPAF Project’s agenda of improving quality of integrated HIV services through continuous quality improvement, data quality assessments, technical assistance and capacity building to AIDSFree staff, staff of the implementing CBOs-Make Me Smile and Kagwa CBO, Home Visiting Teams, Health Care Workers and relevant stakeholders Kisumu and Homa Bay Counties. He will provide oversight to M&E and data management components within the AIDSFree Project and at the health facility and community levels.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance in the implementation of the Home Visiting Program and strategies to ensure quality programming by the CBO staff and Home Visiting Teams.
• Develop and implement detailed implementation plan jointly with the CBO staff and Home Visiting Teams.
• Work with CBO staff and Home Visiting team to map out community resources for linkage and referrals.
• Work closely with the Ministry of Education and the school principals to support the implementation of the school school health policy and the school re-admission policy.
• Collaborate with the Ministry of Education and MoH at the sub-County level and other stakeholders to support project implementation
• Promote and strengthen the social protection and Do No Harm Standard Procedures.
• Identify, document and share key lessons learnt during the program lifespan
• Ensure regular, complete, accurate, timely and quality monitoring reports from CBO staff and HVT supervisors.
• Provide timely feedback to the Project, County, Sub-county and facilities for decision making
• Represent the EGPAF/AIDSFree at Sub-County Stakeholder and Technical Working Group meetings
• Support development and utilization of M&E tools that enhance management and storage of information to ensure integrity, quality and availability.

Qualification & Experience

• Degree in Social Sciences or other equivalent degree
• Must have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in behaviour change communication/health promotion, social protection/child protection, adolescent/youth sexual reproductive health programming or PMTCT Programming. .
• S/he should have experience in community participation and consultative-type projects.
• Experience in community system strengthening will be an advantage.
• Experience with USG and PEPFAR reporting is desirable