Community Health Officer at Catholic Medical Mission Board - CMMB

• Under the leadership of the CHAMPS Project Manager, the Community Health Officer will ensure community-based and facility based - delivery of RMNCH services in CHAMPS through effective coordination and function of the community health volunteer system whilst inter-phasing with the link health facilities. As such, he/she will directly oversee the work of CHVs and the CHEWs while actively engaging and providing technical support to community health committees. The successful candidate will also directly provide technical support to health care providers and the facility management committees. For this critical synergistic function, he/she will ensure that routine health data feedback forums with county and sub county Health Management teams and members of community leadership are conducted. 

Responsibilities

• Program quality and capacity building
• Provide support for the implementation of maternal and child health activities in the health facilities supported by the program
• Provide support in the design, implementation and follow up of routine monitoring and supervision plan in liaison with the CHMTs; including joint monitoring plans and mentoring plans and ensure action points are followed and actioned.
• Support and coordinate technical trainings, mentorship, and CMEs to health care providers to fill identified skill gaps for provision of quality services
• Ensure Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement measures in maternal and child health
• Support the dissemination and use of policies, tools, and strategies to improve access to maternal and child health interventions
• Support and coordinate integrated outreaches to ensure that communities in hard-to-reach areas have access to essential RMNCH services.
• Participate actively in project and CMMB’s meetings, planning and review activities, providing enhanced insight into community health programming.

Project Management

• Participate in the planning of project activities and set high quality performance targets while ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices, and donor guidelines.
• Review and track progress on project implementation and utilization of project resources, using participatory processes to overcome implementation obstacles.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation related to project monitoring and implementation, including up-to-date performance data on CHAMPS indicators.
• Ensure a working environment of mutual trust, respect, and care with other staff, encouraging effective teamwork with staff members and partners.
• Support community-based program activities to ensure quality management, supervision, and mentorship of CHVs in their MNCH work at community level
• Promote innovative/effective methods to achieve project strategic objectives.
• Budget and Financial Management
• Ensure that program activities comply with CMMB financial guidelines, policies, procedures and regulations.
• In collaboration with the finance teams and supporting the program officers, ensure timely payments of participants and provide liquidation reports as per the guidelines.
• Participate in the preparation of annual project budgets, quarterly and monthly budgets.
• Participate in monthly budget tracking activities

Monitoring, Accountability, Evaluation and Learning

• Use appropriate project management tools to plan, review and track project progress on project implementation as well as on the utilization of project resources.
• Participate in the CHAMPS Program review meetings to monitor progress of program implementation.
• Prepare short success stories and briefs on innovation/best practices and project learnings.
• Monitor CHV system performance including effective household visitation, coverage of MNCH services at household, service quality, on-time CHV data reporting, data quality, data analysis, and monthly data dissemination within the program as well as with MoH
• Ensure that all project documentations are well organized and easy to access.
• Work with the M&E Officer to prepare the required donor project narrative reports, collect weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance data, as well as other reports needed/required by the donor and CMMB.
• Collaborate closely with other CHAMPS project officers to ensure activities are harmonized, integrated, and multisectoral as much as possible.
• Ensure systems are put in place to ensure maternal and child health information required to monitor progress and impact are implemented
• Participate in monthly program-finance budget tracking meetings
• Contribute to the documentation and dissemination of project findings and lessons learned through the production of high-quality materials and their effective dissemination to key stakeholders.

Partnerships

• Regularly organize and coordinate meetings with key stakeholders on project progress and challenges.
• Engage partners at all stages of the project cycle for their insights on the appropriateness of program approaches and interventions.
• Work closely with partners to ensure timely and quality advanced tracking and liquidation per CMMB guidelines.

Qualifications

• You have a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Communication or Health.
• You have at least 4 years’ hands-on experience in community health program implementation
• You have excellent coordination and networking skills including liaison with stakeholders
• Your analytical and writing skills are very good
• You have experience working with an NGO
• You have experience working with Microsoft Word, Excel and have data analysis software skills
• Knowledge of the local county context strongly preferred
• You are comfortable working for a faith-based organization.
• You believe in CMMB, where we’re going, and what we can do together to achieve Healthier Lives Worldwide.