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Centre for Health Solutions - Kenya (CHS) is a local, not-for-profit organisation. We understand the local context, make use of local expertise and strategic partnerships to ensure we implement evidence-informed solutions and interventions to address existing and emerging public health concerns.
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Overall Job Function
Reporting to the Senior Program Officer, this role is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day planning and implementation of PMTCT activities across CHS-supported facilities in collaboration with the Ministry of Health
Key Responsibilities
- Providing day-to-day technical support and supervision of the county PMTCT program as per the national guidelines
- Assist with training of health care workers using the national PMTCT curriculum
- Strengthening referrals and linkages between PMTCT activities and the CCC
- Oversee follow-up care of PMTCT clients and HIV exposed infants in CHS supported facilities
- Assisting with implementation of the Monitoring and Evaluation systems for PMTCT
- Participate in county PMTCT meetings
Person Specification
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing or an equivalent
- Trainer of Trainers in PMTCT and Early Infant Diagnosis
- More than three years’ experience in the implementation of PMTCT activities
- Experience in training and mentorship of health care workers in PMTCT
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Overall Job Function
Responsible for providing technical support in the planning, implementation and evaluation of adherence support activities required for HIV prevention, care and treatment services within CHS supported facilities in coordination with the Ministry of Health.
Key Responsibilities
- Overseeing planning, initiation and implementation of the CHS Adherence Psychosocial Support minimum package at CHS supported facilities.
- Participating in the development of APSC tools to be used for documentation and as job aids in health facilities.
- Identifying training needs, planning, facilitating, and taking part in training of health care workers and other stakeholders on adherence and psychosocial support and PwP using national training curricula.
- Supporting planning, implementation and evaluation of defaulter identification and tracking systems at supported health facilities.
- Ensuring meaningful involvement of peer educators and mentor mothers in APSC activities.
- In liaison with the Ministry of Health, participate in activities that lead to strengthened linkages between the health facility and the community.
- Providing technical assistance to health care workers and other stakeholders in implementation of the CHS community support model.
- Providing technical assistance in psychosocial activities targeting health care workers living with HIV.
- Supporting planning, implementation and evaluation of Prevention with Positives (PwP) activities at health facilities.
- Implementing evidence-based techniques and strategies to ensure quality programming in adherence and psychosocial and prevention activities under direction from the APSC Advisor.
- Identifying, documenting and sharing key lessons learnt on adherence and psychosocial support from health facilities and the community.
Person Specification
- Degree in Social Sciences or equivalent
- Minimum of three years working experience
- Familiarity with the Kenyan health system
- Familiarity with HIV community programs including peer education.
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Overall Job Function
Responsible for coordinating all field-related M&E activities and provide constant feedback to both the technical and project teams including health care workers across CHS-supported health facilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a link between CHS and CHMTs on all health data related issues.
- Provide technical support to CHS-supported health facilities in collection, collation, analysis and reporting of health information to relevant stakeholders using national reporting systems.
- Contribute in the review and/or development of monitoring and evaluation tools and systems that are responsive to data needs.
- Organise and/or participate in M&E related capacity building activities targeting CHS staff; health facility staff; and other stakeholders.
- Work closely with other CHS staff and stakeholders to strengthen systems for monitoring patient outcomes; monitoring quality of care; tracing patients who default; data quality assurance; and data collection, collation, analysis and dissemination.
- Provide expertise in developing and/or review of indicators for monitoring and evaluation of program performance.
- Ensure timely and proper implementation of the Ministry of Health’s monitoring and evaluation guidelines including roll out of new tools across all CHS-supported facilities.
- Strengthen data utilisation for decision making at facility and county level.
- Participate in research studies that may be undertaken by CHS or any of her collaborating partners.
- Provide technical lead in quarterly data feedback to county health management teams and health facilities.
- Participate in joint quarterly support supervision of health facilities by CHMTs and CHS.
- Provide advice to Ministry of Health through participation in relevant technical working groups.
- Document best M&E practices and disseminate the same to relevant stakeholders.
- Provide lead in timely collection, cleaning and reporting of quarterly and other routine data to donors and other stakeholders.
- Respond to ad hoc requests for collection and analysis of data when need arises.
- Participate in regional and national stakeholder’s forums or conferences on health and give presentations during these meetings.
Person Specification
- A Bachelor’s degree in public health, biostatistics, statistics, monitoring and evaluation, social sciences or an equivalent academic qualification from a recognised institution.
- At least three years experience in monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS care and treatment, PMTCT, TB/HIV and HTC programs in Kenya
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Overall Job Function
Reporting to the Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, this role will be responsible for helping the project technical team in definitions, data collection and data analysis as well as ensure updates on donor reporting indicators and summarizing project data for the consumption of project staff and other stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare regular high quality presentations of summarized program data for Tegemeza Plus project staff and other stakeholders.
- Support development and implementation of Tegemeza Plus project M&E plans, ensuring that the data collection, collation and analysis are clearly spelt out and understood by all stakeholders.
- Regular updates on donor reporting indicators and help project technical team in definitions, data collection and data analysis.
- Contribute to project evaluation, in particular, manage collection of data at baseline and subsequent stages of project evaluation.
- Work with project teams to create data analysis plans including writing or editing SOPs and guidelines for data analysis.
- Contribute to development of inferential statistical analysis of Tegemeza Plus data for publications and presentation to various audiences as need arises.
- Assist all relevant stakeholders to make use of data to aid informed decision-making by availing datasets and analyses.
- Provide technical assistance, training and guidance to both program team and Ministry of Health staff in data management and analysis.
Persons Specifications
- Advanced Statistics Degree (minimum Master’s) in Statistics, Mathematics or Epidemiology
- At least five years experience in analysis of Public health data preferably HIV/AIDS, TB, maternal and reproductive health data
- Strong data analysis skills including knowledge of statistical software such as SPSS, SAS or STATA
- Ability to model and interpret data
- Experience and application of DHIS2, EMR and DATIM reporting system.
- Good writing and communication skills
- Advanced skills in graphic presentation of data
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Overall Job Function
Reporting to the Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, this role will be responsible for timely collection of data; validation and ensuring that CHS supported sites have accurate and timely data. This person will coordinate the Monitoring and Evaluation Officers as well as Data Officers to ensure that accurate data is collected and validated at facility level.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate the timely collection, validation, reporting and presentation of donor and program utilisation data.
- Support the cascade of reporting HIV program data from facilities to the National M&E system (DHIS).
- Coordinate County M&E stakeholder activities that include data review meetings and TWGs to evaluate and disseminate the performance of CHS supported activities.
- Conduct regular site visits to ensure all elements of the data system are being utilised effectively, assessing and identifying breakdowns and areas that require clarification and/or improvement.
- Review and update tools and guidelines for site mentorship assessments including M&E tools checklists, ART retention tracking tool, and ensure all the tools are congruent with the M&E plans.
- Report M&E updates and activities to HIV service providers, Program Officers, Sub County Health Management teams and any other relevant stakeholders.
- Coordinate M&E/Data activities for HIV care and treatment, testing and counselling, Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT), and community engagement.
- Provide any other technical support M&E as required.
Person Specifications
- Master’s degree or equivalent in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Public Health, or related discipline
- At least five years professional experience in M&E systems especially in HIV Program Monitoring and Evaluations
- Strong Data Management and analysis Skills
- Strong Supervisory and Management Skills
- Excellent analytical and information management skills, with advanced proficiency in DHIS and DATIM reporting systems
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Overall Job Function
Responsible for providing technical support for developing a centralized computer-based record keeping/HMIS system to manage facility/patient information from CHS-supported facilities, as well as ensure high integrity of data all facility.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, installation and usage of the data management systems.
- Ensure mentorship of CHS staff and facility staff on the use of the systems for efficient data collection and management.
- Provide oversight for successful data management including support for computer application/database development that will ensure management, organisation, storage and easy access to information from care and treatment sites supported by CHS.
- Support collection and aggregation of datasets, cleaning and data entry.
- Track and manage the flow of facility level/patient and other data to and from CHS-supported facilities.
- Ensure completeness, accuracy and consistency of the data so that it meets standards of quality expected for reporting.
- Provide oversight in data quality audits according to SOPs.
- Monitor the performance of the databases and suggest improvement of its tools and services effectiveness.
Person Specifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer studies, statistics, epidemiology or mathematics
- At least five years relevant experience and advance skills in Ms Access application development and programming skills; EpiInfo, SPSS; Data quality assurance; Ms Office
- Familiarity with database management system and principles
- Familiarity with data coding of SOP and coding dictionaries
- Excellent data management and computer programming skills using Visual Basic/SQL
- Working knowledge of DATIM and PEPFAR reporting systems
- Ability to work effectively in a busy, high pressure team environment
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Overall Job Function
Reporting to the Program Director, Tegemeza Plus, the Quality Improvement Advisor will closely work with the project technical staff and the rest of the project implementation team to support teams to effectively implement, document and report quality improvement (QI) activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Building capacity for QI coaching at project supported sites by closely working with the project QI teams to plan for and implement activities aimed at institutionalising the use of QI methods to improve service delivery and client outcomes through training, on-site coaching and support supervision.
- Support needs-based quality improvement capacity building for community-based HIV counselling and testing while supporting them in providing leadership to improvement initiatives.
- Work with health facilities to apply QI approaches to routine facility practices to bridge performance gaps.
- Support the Ministry of Health to establish systems for continuous learning and implementation of continuous QI methods as well as the spread of successful innovations throughout the health sector.
- Work with the Ministry of Health to improve the competency and capability of health workers by strengthening quality training programs, including advocacy for quality improvement within core curricula for health providers.
- Assist the Ministry of Health in improving performance of health care providers by applying evidence-based innovations and continuous monitoring techniques including proficiency testing and point of care CD4.
- Convene and conduct quality improvement performance review meetings and other fora needed to achieve project objectives.
- Assist with the design and oversight of learning sessions to facilitate the scale up of improvements.
- Work with the Ministry of Health to establish a performance monitoring system for tracking priority QI indicators across collaborating sites to show improvement in HCT processes and care outcomes.
- Actively participate in compilation and submission of periodic performance and progress reports.
- Work with the Ministry of Health and implementing partners in identifying and communicating best practices in improvement of healthcare delivery through newsletters, training and coaching sessions, publication and research.
- Document QI efforts and develop QI tools as necessary.
- Guide initiation and implementation of the collaborative improvement effort in the region.
Person Specification
- BS/BA in Public Health or related field and five to seven years’ experience in the public health sector (Nursing Degree preferred)
- At least five years’ experience working with government health facilities in the area of quality improvement
- Demonstrable knowledge and skills in implementation of QI interventions in the context of developing countries and management of QI data and databases
- Experience in knowledge management, specifically in the area of public health/ health care
- Good facilitation and writing skills
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Overall Job Function
Reporting to the Prevention Advisor, the GBV Coordinator has the overall responsibility for leading, coordinating and overseeing GBV activities in the projects. In addition, the GBV coordinator has the responsibility to oversee the capacity building efforts of the County GBV prevention and response. This position will also have the responsibility of overseeing case management and overall technical support related to GBV prevention and response activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical support, supervision and guidance to GBV-related activities (including case management, psychosocial support to women, girls and men, emotional support groups, information dissemination, risk mitigation activities and community mobilisation).
- Develop comprehensive and tailored technical capacity building plans for County/facility GBV staff, as well as local and implementing partners based on respective needs and ensuring quality services in coordination with the CHS staff responsible for the overall partnership development.
- Develop training packages tailored to the capacity and needs of counties: training package on GBV; assessment, identification and referral of protection cases; delivery of Psychological First Aid (PFA); dissemination of key protection messages and information on available services.
- Technically supervise GBV/Implementation Officers on GBV prevention and response.
- Assist the implementation teams in the assurance of donor compliance, including appropriate and timely spending of grants to achieve project goals, grants reporting contributions, use and distribution of supplies and resources.
- Prepare proposals to secure follow on or expansion funding for the GBV program as per identified needs and in line with the Protection strategy.
- Participate in gathering evidence to be used in GBV cases in conjunction with relevant bodies, and arms of government including but not limited to the Police, the Courts, hospitals, FIDA among other stakeholders to ensure quick resolutions of the cases.
- Work closely with the Prevention Unit to develop and implement ethical and safe monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, including qualitative tools and GBVIMS analysis.
- Represent CHS before relevant donors, as well as at national and county levels on GBV programming and GBV-related issues.
Person Specification
- Must have University degree or higher education relevant to social work, women’s studies or other relevant fields
- At least three years of proven experience in implementation of GBV programming; Thorough understanding of GBVIMS rollout and training
- Experience implementing GBV response and prevention programs; Experience in implementing GBV projects through local partners and providing direct technical support to local organizations
- Demonstrated experience in dealing with GBV cases and ensuring justice through collection of evidence and litigation cycle to conclusion
- Significant knowledge of Law as regards GBV, as well as HIV program implementation
- Strong program/technical and budget management skills and solid experience with planning, reporting, monitoring and evaluation skills.
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Overall Job Function
Reporting to the Program Director, Tegemeza Plus, he/she will work closely with county and sub-county teams, relevant health care providers, project staff and other partners to ensure commodity security and effective management of ART & TB commodities at all levels of the health care system through strengthening pharmaceutical management, supply chain management, pharmaceutical management information systems and building capacity of providers to improve the quality of pharmaceutical services provided to clients.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical support to NASCOP and NTLD-Program in the design and implementation of supply chain management interventions for TB and HIV commodities such as commodity security, forecasting, quantification, procurement planning, order management planning, distribution, Logistics Management Information System (LMIS), quality assurance among others.
- Provide technical leadership and support to develop and implement strategies for strengthening commodity security and building supply chain management systems, pharmaceutical management, and capacities at county, sub-county and facility level.
- Support county commodity security committees in coordination, management, distribution and stock monitoring of TB & HIV commodities.
- Organise and conduct trainings on pharmaceutical management and supply chain management for health care workers at all levels as required, including development of training materials and curricula in line with the national policies and guidelines.
- On site mentoring and on-job-trainings for pharmacy staff in commodity management, inventory management, pharmaceutical care, ordering and reporting of drugs, pharmacovigilance, storage, dispensing of drugs among others.
- Support facilities to develop site specific SOPs for commodity management and inventory management of TB drugs, ARVs and drugs for the management of opportunistic infections.
- Conduct training of project staff on supply chain management; strengthen logistics management information systems for pharmaceutical commodities at implementing health facilities, pharmaceutical management and commodity management.
- Support facilities to monitor early warning indicators for HIV drug resistance.
- Monitor the supply chain to ensure continuous and timely availability of ART commodities across all implementing sites.
- Assist counties and sub-county teams, and providers in implementation of quality assurance practices, pharmacovigilance, monitoring of adverse events/reactions and capacity building of providers.
- Design and conduct pharmaceutical quality data review audits as required.
- In collaboration with the M&E team, generate reports to donors on project progress, outputs and results.
- Develop and implement a data-driven framework to monitor and support supply chain improvements.
Job Specification
- A Master’s degree in Public Health, Health Systems or its equivalent will be an added advantage
- BSc Pharmacy
- A minimum of five years working experience in development programs with significant technical assistance experience in public health programs; HIV/AIDS program experience preferred
- Working experience in a donor funded public health program is an added advantage
- Knowledge and experience in the design, implementation and management of the supply chain system
- Knowledge of Ministry of Health systems
- Proficiency in Ms Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to develop and maintain good relationships with staff and partners
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Overall Job Function
Reporting to the CEO, The Director of Programs will be leading the implementation and management of CHS Programs according to the CHS Program strategy; Ensuring effective and efficient management and coordination of the program team. In collaboration with the CEO and the Corporate Leadership Team (CLT), developing new orientation and innovative ways to ensure the best programming according to Donor requirements. Convener and lead of the Program Leadership Team (PLT).
Key Responsibilities
Program Management
- Develop strategies to ensure that projects achieve targets such as the 90-90-90 targets in close collaboration with Program Directors
- Convene regular thematic projects conference events to institutionalize cross-project learning
- Coordinate opportunities to for cross learning and harmonization of project implementation approaches in the regions
- Coordinate the development of periodic project donor reports at quarterly, semi-annual and annual basis
- Continuously monitor the achievements of each project against set targets and forecast and support implementation of any corrective actions
- Coordinate the development of annual continuation applications for each project
- Participate in periodic donor review meetings and site visits such as SIMS and support the implementation of recommendations for continuous improvement
- Represent the organization at national level meetings and technical working groups and leverage partnerships for program improvement
- Develop and sustain cordial relationships with county departments of health
- Plan, coordinate and follow up the donor requirements provided in the program portfolio
- Regular review of program donor reports including through DATIM
- Participate in the development, implementation and review of the organization’s strategic plan
- Ensure that the overall and specific objectives agreed on with donors are achieved.
- Support the development and drafting of new projects.
- Identify new partnership, develop and implement staff and partners’ capacity building plans.
- Support and provide regular feedback to program directors, technical teams, consultants and seconded staff in the implementation of their activities/tasks.
- Ensure compliance with CHS Policies and guidelines, ensure standard operation procedures and criteria are in place before launching of activities.
- Supervise, train, guide, support, monitor and evaluate the existing staff in charge of the program activities.
- Follow up and monitor projects’ budgets, including partner budgets.
Reporting
- Provide regular updates to the CEO as requested on the programme’s progress, challenges and other programme-related issues
- Provide inputs to CHS reporting requirements as requested by the CEO
- With the team, prepare the donor reports and submit them to the CEO for approval before submission
- Ensure reports related to needs’ assessments, feasibility studies and other program-related reports are completed on time, well written and presented
Monitoring & Evaluation
- Ensure continuous monitoring of projects implemented by CHS, County and National [artners
- Facilitate the evaluation of the program interventions in line with donor requirements
Person Specification
- MBCHB
- Master’s Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Internal Medicine or related field
- At least 8 years of relevant professional programing experience with an international organization or Local organization supporting PEPFAR funded HIV programs
- At least five years in a managerial position (strong managerial skills required).
- Experience working in multiple contexts.
- Extensive practical experience working with all steps of the project cycle management (needs assessments, proposal writing and development, implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluating, close-out).
- Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to establish effective and team and external relation
- Excellent English language skills, both written and spoken are essential, and working knowledge of Kiswahili.
Desired Competencies
- Striving for excellence: Focus on achieving results while ensuring an efficient process
- Collaborating: Involve relevant parties and encourage feedback
- Taking the lead: Take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation
- Communicating: Listen and speak effectively and honestly
- Demonstrating integrity: Act in line with the CHS our vision and values
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Overall Job Function
Reporting to the Director of Programmes, this role oversees the implementation of HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment activities supported by CHS under the PEPFAR funded Tegemeza Plus Project in Central Kenya. Specifically, he/she will be responsible for planning, coordinating and providing strong leadership to a team of implementers.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee effective implementation of the Tegemeza Plus project as per organisation and donor guidelines.
- Ensure that all project activities are sensitive and responsive to changes in national and donor requirements.
- Ensure that the project is well balanced, documented and implemented in an effective manner.
- Oversee project monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
- Oversee timely submission of project reports as agreed with the donor and other stakeholders.
- Provide support to the business development team during proposal development and contract negotiations.
- Oversee the establishment and management of relationships with partners and stakeholders in the region.
- Ensure appropriate representation of CHS in alliances and networks within the region.
- Coordinate donor/stakeholder and corporate leadership team visits to the region.
- Coordinate CHS collaboration with networks, government agencies, and other organisations in order to share information, experiences and influence them and/or build capacity.
- Ensure achievement of organisation and donor targets through the team.
- Act as the lead of the project technical team ensuring compliance and synchrony of work in the region.
- Oversee the operations team in the region.
- Supervise direct reports and ensure the delivery of work in the region.
- Oversee the fleet in the region.
- Oversee operations team in the region.
- In liaison with the Finance and Administration department, oversee acquisition of offices in the region.
Job Specification
- Master’s in Public Health or Health Systems Management/Adult Physician/Paediatrician
- Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBchB)
- Registered by the Doctors’ and Pharmacies Board
- Eight years and above experience in public health; at least five in HIV/AIDS programs
- Four years’ experience leading teams at a senior management level
- Demonstrated in depth understanding of programming issues in public health at organisational, county and national level
- Have practical experience in donor reporting, designing, setting up and coordination of monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment systems
- Proven ability to prioritise in a demanding environment, multiple accountabilities and to tight deadlines
- Experience dealing with multiple stakeholders, government agencies, counties and the donor community
- Experience working with PEPFAR, CDC or USAID desirable
- Have a working knowledge of the region
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Overall Job Function
Reporting to the Program Manager, the Data Manager will develop and design, implement and manage a functional database for real time data collection. Additionally, he/she is responsible for offering strategic direction and leadership on Monitoring and Evaluation of project activities to ensure transparency and accountability and lead data management processes to monitor the project’s performance.
Key Responsibilities
- In consultation with TB REACH and the National TB Program team, develop a database user requirement document.
- Develop, design, implement and maintain a program database for capturing program-specific real time data.
- Conduct data collection and entry into the database within stipulated schedules. Conduct data collation, aggregation, validation and analysis of program data.
- Conduct routine data quality assessments for program data and develop action oriented work plan to address arising data quality gaps.
- Lead results reporting to the program and donor by providing written documentation on M&E activities and indicator results for progress and annual reports, as appropriate.
- Oversee the implementation and maintain a Performance Monitoring Plan for the project to capture project performance and results, including routine service delivery data reporting, baseline and end-line assessments, and all monitoring for process and outcome evaluations
- Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and forge partnerships with stakeholders and represent the programs M&E activities in public forums through meetings, conferences, and presentations.
- Work with project and financial staff to prepare and track progress of project and activity budgets
- Conduct targeted evaluations and operations research, including design, data collection, management and analysis if need arises.
Person Specification
- Preferably at least five years of professional experience in data management of health projects
- Demonstrable experience in serving a similar scope in a local or similar setting
- A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Statistics or Health Informatics. A Master’s degree is highly preferred
- Proficiency in working with statistical packages such Epi Info, STATA, SPSS etc.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and designing databases is required
- Highly motivated, willing to learn, good team work, and able to work under high pressure and within limited time frames
- The position may require local travel.
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Reporting to the Project Manager, the field coordinator will be involved in the planning and execution of the project, providing on-site mentoring, implementation and monitoring of the Finding the Children Project at intervention facilities. The field coordinator will also serve as the project monitor.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the development, implementation and routine monitoring of the project workplan.
- Provide technical and administrative day to day support and oversight for project sites.
- Conduct and coordinate health care worker on-job trainings, through conventional methods, and through online technologies such as YouTube and ECHO
- Identify and provide support for implementation challenges in the course of project implementation.
- Support the mentorship for HCWs within the maternal and child health clinics to institutionalize TB screening among all children visiting these clinics.
- Provide and sensitize MNCH health care workers on the childhood TB diagnostic algorithms.
- Support the strengthening of contact tracing for all adults who are bacteriologically confirmed to identify the targeted children for intervention.
- Develop a framework to support facilitation for transport, radiology services and Nasopharyngeal aspiration for eligible children.
- Scale up the use of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy for identified children under 5 with contacts to bacteriologically confirmed TB.
- Provide feedback to the project team on field implementation.
- Identify best practices identified in the course of project implementation, and support documentation for dissemination.
- Support development, distribution and proper filling and updating of required monitoring and evaluation
Person Specification
- A degree or diploma in nursing, clinical medicine, public health, or equivalent health related field
- Demonstration of experience in health systems strengthening will be an added advantage
- Minimum of three years working experience in development programs with significant TA experience in public health or TB program experience preferred
- Working experience in donor-funded public health program is an added advantage
- Ability to work well with others and to develop and maintain relationships with project staff, donors, sub-contractors and other partners
- Ability to identify problems, design interventions and oversee their implementation
- Must demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills in both English and Kiswahili.
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Overall Job Function
This role oversees the implementation of a TB REACH funded project -Finding the children: Paediatric TB in Kenya. The Program Manager will be responsible for providing management and technical support to ensure implementation of the Finding the Children project including MER activities in supported counties. Specifically, he/she is responsible for planning, coordinating and providing strong leadership to the project team.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee effective implementation for the TB REACH Finding the Children project as per organisation and donor guidelines.
- Oversee project monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
- Support the development, and ensure the implementation and routine monitoring of the programmatic annual work plan in collaboration with the team.
- Oversee timely submission of project reports as agreed with the donor and other stakeholders.
- Ensure achievement of organisation and donor targets through the team
- Supervise direct reports and ensure delivery of work in the region
- To review analysed quarterly facility programmatic reports and provide feedback to the relevant stakeholders.
- To contribute to budget preparations as well as to monthly, quarterly and semi-annual reports in a timely and accurate manner.
- Play a lead role in capacity building activities such as didactic trainings, CMEs and other innovative training modalities to Ministry of Health staff in supported facilities.
- Oversee the establishment and management of relationships with Ministry, Counties and Health Facilities, partners and stakeholders in the counties of operation.
- Assist with the conceptualisation and design and conduct of operational research.
- Document the project achievements including publications.
- Additional responsibilities as may be assigned by the supervisor.
Person Specification
- A degree in nursing, clinical medicine, public health, or equivalent health related field. A Master’s degree is an added advantage
- At least five years’ experience in implementing a health program
- Experience in paediatric tuberculosis programming is an added advantage
- Ability to identify problems, design interventions and oversee their implementation
- Ability to work well with others and develop and maintain relationships with project staff other partners, including ability to supervise staff
- Ability to use Word and PowerPoint to develop presentations and Excel for moderately complex spread sheets
- Excellent writing and oral communication skills
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Overall Job Function
Responsible for coordinating all M&E field-related activities and provide constant feedback to both the technical and program teams including health care workers in health facilities
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a link between CHS and CHMTs on all health data related issues.
- Provide technical support to CHS-supported health facilities in collection, collation, analysis and reporting of health information to relevant stakeholders using national reporting systems.
- Contribute in the review and/or development of monitoring and evaluation tools and systems that are responsive to data needs.
- Organise and/or participate in M&E related capacity building activities targeting CHS staff; health facility staff; and other stakeholders.
- Work closely with other CHS staff and stakeholders to strengthen systems for monitoring patient outcomes; monitoring quality of care; tracing patients who default; data quality assurance; and data collection, collation, analysis and dissemination.
- Provide expertise in developing and/or review of indicators for monitoring and evaluation of project performance.
- Ensure timely and proper implementation of the Ministry of Health’s monitoring and evaluation guidelines including roll out of new tools across all CHS-supported facilities.
- Strengthen data utilisation for decision making at facility and county level.
- Participate in research studies that may be undertaken by CHS or any of her collaborating partners.
- Provide technical lead in quarterly data feedback to county health management teams and health facilities.
- Participate in joint quarterly support supervision of health facilities by CHMTs and CHS.
- Provide advice to MOH through participation in relevant technical working groups.
- Document best M&E practices and disseminate the same to relevant stakeholders.
- Provide lead in timely collection, cleaning and reporting of quarterly and other routine data to donors and other stakeholders.
- Respond to ad hoc requests for collection and analysis of data when need arises.
- Participate in regional and national stakeholder forums or conferences on health and give presentations during these meetings.
Person Specification
- A Bachelor’s degree in public health, biostatistics, statistics, monitoring and evaluation, social sciences or an equivalent academic qualification from a recognised institution
- At least three years experience in monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS care and treatment, PMTCT, TB/HIV and HTC programs in Kenya.
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Overall Job Function
Reporting to the Senior Program Officer, this role is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day planning and implementation of PMTCT activities within CHS supported facilities in collaboration with the Ministry of Health.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing day-to-day technical support and supervision of the county PMTCT program as per the national guidelines.
- Assist with training of health care workers using the national PMTCT curriculum.
- Strengthening referrals and linkages between PMTCT activities and the CCC.
- Oversee follow-up care of PMTCT clients and HIV exposed infants in CHS supported facilities.
- Assisting with implementation of the Monitoring and Evaluation systems for PMTCT.
- Participate in county PMTCT meetings.
Person Specification
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing or an equivalent
- Trainer of Trainers in PMTCT and Early Infant Diagnosis
- More than three years’ experience in the implementation of PMTCT activities
- Experience in training and mentorship of health care workers in PMTCT
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Overall Job Function
Responsible for providing technical support in the planning, implementation and evaluation of adherence support activities required for HIV prevention, care and treatment services within CHS supported facilities in coordination with the Ministry of Health (MoH).
Key Responsibilities
- Overseeing planning, initiation and implementation of the CHS Adherence Psychosocial Support minimum package at CHS-supported facilities.
- Participating in the development of APSC tools to be used for documentation and as job aids in health facilities.
- Identifying training needs, planning, facilitating, and taking part in training of health care workers and other stakeholders on adherence and psychosocial support and PwP using national training curricula.
- Supporting planning, implementation and evaluation of defaulter identification and tracking systems at supported health facilities.
- Ensuring meaningful involvement of peer educators and mentor mothers in APSC activities.
- In liaison with the Ministry of Health, participate in activities that lead to strengthened linkages between the health facility and the community.
- Providing technical assistance to health care workers and other stakeholders in the implementation of the CHS community support model.
- Providing technical assistance in psychosocial activities targeting health care workers living with HIV.
- Supporting planning, implementation and evaluation of Prevention with Positives (PwP) activities at facilities.
- Implementing evidence-based techniques and strategies to ensure quality programming in adherence and psychosocial and prevention activities under direction from the APSC Advisor.
- Identifying, documenting and sharing key lessons learnt on adherence and psychosocial support from health facilities and the community.
Person Specification
- Degree in Social Sciences or equivalent
- Minimum of three years working experience
- Familiarity with the Kenyan health system
- Familiarity with HIV community programs including peer education
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Overall Job Function
Reporting to the Senior Program Officer, the HTS officer will strengthen the implementation of HIV testing services (HTS) across CHS-supported health facilities in collaboration with county, Sub County and hospital management teams.
Key Responsibilities
- To oversee the planning and implementation of HIV Testing and Counselling strategies at selected CHS-supported facilities.
- To ensure the Provider-initiated HIV Testing and Counselling is offered at all service points (inpatient, outpatient and clinics) at selected facilities.
- To oversee planning and implementation of high yield community HTS strategies in selected catchment areas.
- To provide training, mentorship and supervision of HIV Testing services to the HTS providers at the selected facilities.
- To oversee the planning and implementation of HIV testing services for families and sexual partners/contacts of people living with HIV (Family and Partner Testing and Counselling [FPTC]) at selected CHS supported facilities.
- To implement strategies for referrals and linkages of newly diagnosed HIV infected clients between HTS points and the HIV clinics (CCC), at selected health facilities.
- To implement internal and external quality assurance measures for HIV testing services, at selected health facilities.
- To improve documentation and reporting of HTS activities at facility level for program evaluation and planning.
Person Specification
- A diploma or degree (preferred) in nursing, clinical medicine, public health, community health, sociology, or equivalent health related field.
- At least two years’ experience in implementing a HIV program, preferably HIV testing services
- Training in HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment including HIV Testing
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office packages for report writing and presentation
- Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to work well with others and to develop and maintain relationships
- Ability to identify problems, design interventions and oversee their implementation
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in both English and Kiswahili
- Ability to train and mentor others
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Overall Job Function
A key member of CHS program staff involved in the planning and execution of HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment services. Specifically, the Program Officer is responsible for on-site mentoring and implementation of Prevention, Care and Treatment activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical advice and support to health workers (doctors, clinical officers, nurses, counsellors, laboratory and pharmacy staff) in all aspects of planning and implementation of HIV services (care and treatment, TB/HIV, HIV testing and counselling) to ensure that patients receive the full complement of prevention, treatment and care in accordance to GoK/MoH and other applicable standards
- Build the skills and knowledge of targeted clinical staff on HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment through thematic trainings (off-site and on the job), mentorship, case reviews, CMEs.
- To provide on-going supervision of CHS-supported HIV prevention, care and treatment activities in assigned sites including scheduled joint supportive supervision with County and Sub-County level Ministry of Health staff.
- To assist in project monitoring and evaluation and reporting through national HMIS tools and other tools in use by CHS and its funding partners.
- Routinely monitor program quality through QI approaches as well as elements of operations research including identification and documentation of best practices to ensure high quality HIV/AIDS service provision.
- Timely preparation and submission of activity budgets, work plans, reports and other technical papers.
- To assist in monitoring sub agreements.
Person Specification
- A minimum of diploma in clinical medicine and surgery from a recognized institution.
- Training in HIV/AIDS, TB comprehensive care and support
- Good knowledge of practical delivery of HIV/AIDS clinical care and ART including patient centred management and family support
- Excellent management abilities within multi-disciplinary team, support, training and mentoring
- Good use of MS Office packages and office automation solutions.
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Overall Job Function
Reporting to the Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, this position shall be responsible for Implementation of solutions that will lead to real-time data collection, submission and sharing.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy and support Electronic Medical Records Systems.
- Design reporting and program monitoring dashboards.
- Start-up and implement computerization in new sites identified by the M&E Advisor.
- Support in extraction and aggregation of data for project progress monitoring and reporting through DATIM and DHIS.
- Design, develop and implement web-based and mobile health solutions to facilitate real time data transmission and report sharing.
- Design, development, deployment and support of electronic systems for patient monitoring, as well as aggregate database for project monitoring and reporting to the Ministry of Health and donors.
- Implementation of solutions that will lead to real-time data collection, submission and sharing.
- Hardware and network setup and maintenance.
- Write programming scripts to perform automated data accuracy checks and generate reports of any identified inconsistencies.
Person Specification
- At least Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or Information Technology
- Experience in the design, programming and administration of transactional databases (MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
- Experience in the Windows Server and Linux Server Administration
- Experience in networking & hardware maintenance
- Experience in designing, developing, implementing and maintaining knowledge management systems that facilitate data use for decision making
- Demonstrable experience in development and implementation of web and m-health based solutions
- Experience in Electronic Medical Records development, implementation and support
- Experience in programming skills in PHP, JavaScript CSS, XML, net (C#, ASP)
- Working knowledge of DATIM & PEPFAR reporting systems Ability to work effectively in a busy, high pressure team environment
- Ability to prioritize workload and demonstrate outcomes on strict deadlines
- Strong oral and written communications skills
Required Competencies, Skills and Experience
- Working knowledge of USG funded programs and reporting requirements
- Documented evidence of HIV/AIDS laboratory training as part on continuing professional development
- Dedicated team player with excellent interpersonal, communication, report writing and analytical skills
- Takes initiative and able to work without supervision in a dynamic multi-cultural environment
- Proficiency in relevant computer packages for generating and analysing reports
- Ability to exhibit professionalism and high ethical standards
- High level of integrity
Method of Application
Interested applicants are invited to email their applications and detailed CV with contact details of three referees to vacancies@chskenya.org clearly indicating the reference number and position title in the subject line by 5.00PM Wednesday, April 5, 2017.
Centre for Health Solutions-Kenya is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews. Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
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