Project Assistant -HIV at Catholic Medical Mission Board - CMMB

Duties and responsibilities  

 Specifically, the Project Assistant will work closely with the Project Officer and M&E Officer to perform the following  tasks: 

Project Management:  

• Participate in planning of project activities and set high quality performance targets, ensuring adherence to  technical standards, best practices, and donor guidelines. 
• Review and track progress of 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 the indicators being tracked by the project.  
• Ensure a working environment of mutual trust, respect and care with other staff, encouraging effective  teamwork with staff members and partners. 
• Identification, recruitment and retention of beneficiaries  

Budget and Financial Management: 

• Ensure that project activities comply with CMMB financial guidelines, policies, procedures and regulations. • In collaboration with the finance teams and supporting the project officers, ensure timely payments of  project beneficiaries and provide liquidation reports. 
• Participate in the preparation of annual project budgets, quarterly and monthly budgets. Monitoring, Accountability, Evaluation and Learning:  
• Use appropriate project management tools to plan, review and track project progress on project  implementation. 
• Promote innovative/effective methods towards achievement of project objectives.  
• Support documentation processes of project success stories, best practices, lessons learnt and other  project innovations and learnings. 
• Supervise and mentor the peer educators, community adolescent treatment supporters, CHVs and  community advisory boards towards creating and enabling environment for PLHIVs and the AGYWs • Support implementation of community-based project activities to ensure adherence to set quality standards. 
• Monitor the performance of peer educators, community adolescent treatment supporters, CHVs and community advisory boards and continuously mentor them as needed. 
• Work with the Project and M&E Officers to prepare donor project narrative reports, collect monthly and  quarterly performance data, as well as other reports needed/required. 
• Regularly organize and coordinate meetings with key stakeholders on project progress and challenges.  Partnership:  
• Engage stakeholders at all stages of the project cycle for their insights on the appropriateness of project approaches and interventions. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences, Community Health or related field. 
• At least three -year experience in community health work within a public health focused Non-Governmental  Organization. 
• Experience working with HIV care and treatment interventions 
• Understanding of the 90 90 90 HIV management cascade 
• Impressive Community mobilization experience  
• Extensive understanding of Community Health Strategy and working with the various structures under the  Community Health Strategy. 
• Experience in the implementation of Global Fund HIV grants is an added advantage 
• Communication skills, computer literacy (MS Word, Excel, Power-point) 
• Excellent report writing skills