Job Opportunities at Maryland Global Initiatives Corporation (MGIC)

Overall Job Function: Early Infant Male Circumcision officer will be responsible for the integration and implementation of neonatal MC services at UMB-supported health facilities in Migori County.

The officer will work in close collaboration with the VMMC advisor, program mobilizers and Communication team, VMMC surgical and Data teams.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as a liaison person to the VMMC advisor, the facility service delivery staff, the clients and the Ministry of Health in EIMC implementation.
• Ensure efficient management of day-to-day County EIMC operational activities of the program in order to deliver targets in time and within budgets
• Ensure that the EIMC supplies and commodities are constantly available in the facilities
• Ensure the program technical and logistical systems/procedures are in place, maintained and adhered to so that all support functions are carried out effectively and efficiently
• Work together with CHMTs and HMTs in ensuring uninterrupted provision of EIMC services at the facilities
• Strengthen health systems to support roll out of EIMC including training, facility readiness, and supervision and supply systems
• Oversee implementation of quality assurance systems for EIMC through the Sub County and County focal persons
• Liaise with the mobilization team to implement demand creation strategies that ensure constant client flow for EIMC teams
• Ensure EIMC guidelines and protocols are well followed by the facility EIMC teams
• Prepare monthly EIMC service delivery budget, monthly summary operations report and quarterly comprehensive operations report for the sub county.
• Ensure maximum integration of EIMC services into the MNCH services in UMB supported health facilities within the County
• Any other duty assigned by the supervisor

Professional Education, Experience and Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Clinical Medicine or Nursing
• At least three years’ experience conducting VMMC Surgeries
• Trained and certified as VMMC surgeon
• At least three years’ experience coordinating VMMC Program activities
• Knowledge of EIMC implementation strategies

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Overall Job Function: The VMMC Technical Advisor will provide technical leadership, management and supervision of all VMMC activities in UMB -supported facilities under the PACT-TIMIZA project.

Primary Responsibilities

• Oversee the planning and implementation of VMMC program in Migori County
• Provide programmatic and technical oversight for the implementation of VMMC activities
• Supervise staff involved in implementation of the VMMC program
• Coordinate procurement of VMMC equipment and consumables
• Provide relevant VMMC training to health care providers along with supportive supervision, and/or mentoring as necessary to ensure high quality service provision
• Lead annual work planning and prepare quarterly reports for the program
• Coordinate closely with the demand creation team to put together weekly, monthly, and quarterly plans for day-to-day and campaign activities that ensure a balance of supply and demand to meet targets.
• Ensure sufficient post-training supervision to ensure providers are competent in the VMMC procedure
• Represent UMB in meetings organized by the donor or MoH, technical working groups, and in professional circles through meetings, conferences and presentations.
• Document best practices on VMMC for lay and technical audiences
• To perform any other duties as assigned by the Program Director

• Medical (MBCHB ) or Master’s degree in a clinical discipline (Nursing, Clinical Medicine, Public Health)
• At least five years’ experience in HIV and AIDS prevention, care and treatment programs, with a particular focus on VMMC preferred
• Experience conducting or supervising VMMC procedures
• Experience designing and/or implementing training programs for VMMC
• Knowledge of key VMMC quality-assured, evidenced-based best practices, trends and new devices
• Experience with donor-funded health projects
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills

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Purpose: The purpose of this job is to continuously implement and monitor the VMMC program quality assurance activities to ensure compliance to the national system.

Primary responsibilities

• Develop, review and ensure compliance to the internal QA/QC tools and checklist
• Prepare and operationalize surgical staff training needs assessment and advises the management accordingly
• Plan and conduct relevant surgical trainings and mentorship to the MoH clinical staff according to the national and county training requirements
• Facilitate and co-coordinate sub county VMMC steering committee meetings, county QA meetings, quarterly joint CHMTs QA assessment and supervisions of the VMMC sites
• Coordinates monthly CME activities for the VMMC program at the sites
• Ensure MC guidelines are available at the sites and monitors compliance by the surgical teams
• Prepares regular QA/QC feedback reports, work plans and strategies to eliminate adverse events
• Any other duty assigned by the supervisor

• Undergraduate degree in relevant discipline and at least four years of work experience in VMMC programs and/or as a quality improvement coordinator or similar role OR
• Graduate degree in relevant discipline and work experience as a technical advisor, program manager or similar role
• At least two years of experience working in Migori County.
• Knowledge of QA/QC tools for health service delivery programs particularly VMMC in Kenya.
• Demonstrated expertise in quality assurance and quality control
• Knowledge of USG rules