Community Health Specialist at Tenwek Hospital

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Overseeing all HIV Prevention and Health - HIV testing services, Teen mothers program, Maternal Child Health, Rheumatic Heart Diseases program, Pelvic Floor Disorder and None Communicable diseases Programs
• Supervise staff and provide spiritual leadership
• Ensure that staff under his/her supervision generate target work plans that will help program realize set goals
• Ensure that all staff have daily activity work schedule /time schedules
• Ensure proper recording of all field activities.
• Assist program manager in formulating project budget
• Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from department meetings
• Regularly meet with program manager to update and plan
• Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project/activity.
• Providing administrative support as needed.
• Facilitate and promote team work
• Facilitate staff on development approaches
• Make Requisitions and monitor project finance for planned activities.
• To do any other duty assigned

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills for the positions.

• Degree in Global Health, Public Health, Development Studies, Nutrition or Theology.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience with regards to designing, planning, implementation, supervising and reporting on integrated development projects, both at community level and facilities such as schools and health facilities and households.
• Must be a results-oriented person who can handle a heavy workload as well as multiple organizational, donor and MOH demands.
• Experience in in working and collaborating with communities, County Governments and Government Ministries.
• Excellent computer skills, including proficiency in MS Office and Microsoft Outlook
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.