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  • Posted: Mar 17, 2017
    Deadline: Mar 27, 2017
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    Senior Project Officer

    S/he will provide technical oversight and capacity building to program officers and health care workers in supported sites to assure delivery of quality, relevant and quantifiable paediatric and adolescent services.

    Responsibilities for the Senior Project Officer Job

    • Achievement of pediatric and adolescent targets set by EGPAF and donors
    • Coordinate of the development of weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual pediatric work plans.
    • Support standardizing quality by taking lead in continuous quality improvement, tracking key performance indicators and strategies to determine progress and innovations across sites
    • Optimize Identification and linkage of HIV-positive pediatric and adolescents to HIV care and treatment services.
    • Identify potential needs for pediatric and adolescent technical assistance through participation in site assessments, visits, trainings, clinical mentorship, case reviews in all pediatric and adolescent specific clinics.
    • Support and monitor implementation and progress of HTS coverage, ART initiation, OI management, viral load suppression, and retention and cohort outcomes for children living with HIV.
    • Ensure continuous Quality Improvement (QI) for the children and adolescent program by systematic review of routine data, conducting data driven mentorship, and participating in Quality of Care (QoC) assessments.
    • Provide continuous mentorship and supportive supervision of HCW to ensure provision of quality pediatric and adolescent care package.
    • Facilitate age specific adolescent peer support groups at the facility level as well as pediatric care givers PSSGs.
    • Ensure engagement and retention in care of HIV-infected children and adolescents by participating in facility retention activities (adolescent peer education, focused group discussions, support groups, case management).
    • Support implementation of pediatric and adolescent differentiated care model at supported sites.
    • Sensitize health care healthcare workers (HCWs) on the adolescent package of care (APOC).
    • Support the care and treatment program officers in their routine weekly site supportive supervision along with sub county HMT members to ensure quality service delivery.
    • Work closely with the Strategic Information to ensure all facilities are provided with their pediatric and adolescent HIV targets and dash boards, and through the project officers ensure that these are updated on a monthly basis.
    • Take lead in writing and presenting progress reports on Turkana Timiza90 HIV pediatric and adolescent care and treatment to PM, STAT or donors as need arises.
    • Will be a member of Project Management Team.
    • Participate in the various relevant TWGs at the county and national levels.
    • Work with other stakeholders to develop standard operating procedures in matters related to pediatric and adolescent HIV Prevention, Care and treatment.
    • Work closely with the PMTCT program to support HEI and HIV infected infant management as per the national guidelines.

    Senior Project Officer Job Qualifications

    • Medical Officer registered by KMPDB clinical medicine with 3 years of continuous HIV program implementation or a diploma in Clinical medicine with 5 years of continuous HIV program implementation.
    • Master in Public Health will be and added advantage.
    • At least two years’ experience in implementing pediatric and adolescent HIV programs.
    • Significant and up to date knowledge of the current ART, PMTCT, TB/HIV, HTS guidelines, standards, tools and best practices.
    • Knowledge of behavioral and psychosocial issues among children, adolescents, caregivers and their assessment
    • Skills in establishing rapport with children and adolescents.
    • Knowledge of PEPFAR Program and NASCOP reporting requirements including familiarity with the data collection and reporting tools used by NASCOP
    • Ability to work with limited supervision
    • Excellent communication, interpersonal, report writing and analytical skills
    • Dedicated team player with ability and experience to work in a multidisciplinary team
    • Excellent communication skills
    • Ability to supervise and train others as well as establish partnerships.

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    Technical Advisor

    Reporting to the Project Manager, the Retention, Adherence and Community Linkages Technical Advisor is responsible for providing overall leadership, coordination and management for the implementation of high quality HIV psychosocial services across five EGPAF supported sub-counties in Turkana County.

    S/he will act as a resource for the Timiza 90 project on all matters pertaining to demand creation, community-facility referral and linkage, ART adherence and client retention in HIV service and promote the attainment of 90% viral suppression.

    Responsibilities for the Technical Advisor Job

    • Provide overall technical leadership, capacity building and day to day management of the adherence and community liaison team of program officers within the project.
    • Will work in close collaboration with program officers and other project Technical advisors to ensure that client effectively navigate within the services network and are not lost to follow up
    • Will ensure that clients receive high quality adherence counseling, client messaging and tracking, case management and retention in care.
    • Will engage with EGPAF supported health facilities to provide oversight and support in ensuring that client receive relevant HIV care and treatment services including psychosocial care, information and education
      Will collaborate with regional and EGPAF national technical teams to develop strategies, guidelines, SOPs, patient educational materials for implementing ART adherence and psychosocial support in accordance with the MOH national guidelines.
    • Will keep abreast of emerging data concerning referrals, community facility linkage and retention in care and will provide guidance and advice to program officers and MOH staff
    • Design and develop high quality patient-focused demand creation, adherence and retention activities at all EGPAF supported sites.
    • Regularly review, develop and disseminate SOPs for ART adherence support and monitoring activities are undertaken at the EGPAF supported sites and links with the Care and Treatment technical team to facilitate facility-community linkages to ensure clients remain on the various therapies and are retained on care
    • Identify best practices, document, recommend, implement and disseminate effective and innovative approaches to adherence, client retention, defaulter tracing, community – facility linkage and stigma reduction at each supported site.
    • Represent EGPAF in donor discussions and other relevant meetings
    • Make summary reports to higher administrative levels along with recommendations to improve program performance.

    Technical Advisor Job Qualifications

    • Master’s degree in counselling psychology, Social sciences; Community development, or equivalent. S/he should have five (5) years project management experience working in adherence, counseling and psychosocial support and community linkages in HIV care and treatment/PMTCT.
    • Required competencies, skills and experience
    • Familiarity with the Kenya Health system including MOH and NASCOP HIV program implementation and documentation.
    • Possess adequate facilitation, mentoring and counseling skills.
    • Familiarity with HIV community programs and facility retention programs including peer education.
    • Candidates should possess good organization skills, written/verbal communication skills and capable of working in a team.
    • Up to date knowledge of general HIV management is a pre-requisite
    • Experience in managing a large, diverse and dynamic team of health professionals providing integrated HIV Testing , care and treatment services
    • Experience in establishing and sustaining working relationships with the Ministry of Health at County, sub-County and health providers at site level
    • Proficient Computer skills (Ms Word, Ms Excel, Ms Power Point)

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