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• Work closely with community development,
  health department and other players to ensure that community structures
  are coordinated, harmonized and streamlined for effective delivery of the
  health integration to enhance services project
• Coordinates monthly meetings among community
  and health facility staff to review performance of uptake of services by
  clients referred from community to facility and facility to community.
• Take lead in the strengthening the existing
  referral network model that facilitates linkages between different service
  delivery points to create an orchestra of interlinked community to
  facility health care service delivery in the project area
• Offer timely technical direction and support to
  health workers, Linkage facilitators, VHTs and partners on comprehensive
  integrated technical support related to referral and linkages and service
  provision within the community.
• Work in liaison with District Health
  Educators and Community Development Office to strengthen community based
  structures that will create demand for HIV/AIDS care, treatment, Nutrition,
  SMC, MNCH, malaria and PMTCT and TB/HIV services; and also act as a major
  platform for referrals and linkages to enhance access to these services.
• Work with District based teams (DBTs),
  Technical Advisors and sub-partners to effectively integrate service
  delivery especially for Family planning, MNCH, HIV and TB into the
  community structures at the community level.
• Organize and facilitate periodic reviews of
  community HIV/AIDS, MNH/SRH/FP, Malaria and Nutrition activities at the
  health center level, as well as linkages to care, with the involvement of
  VHTs, community representatives, health center staff and members of the
  DHMT
• Coordinate and support linkage facilitators
  and other psychosocial support groups including family support groups to
  efficiently and effectively execute their roles and responsibilities in
  the community and health facilities.
• Oversees the capacity building and mentorship
  of community level structures in various project technical areas in
  liaison with program technical teams, district community and health
  departments.
• Work in liaison with other DBT members and
  Technical Advisors to successfully integrate MNCH, SRH, FP, HIV,
  nutrition, and water/sanitation interventions with the delivery of other
  health services at the community level.
• Significantly contribute to the development
  of project annual and quarterly work plans and budgets and ensure that the
  community mobilization and linkages component is well represented.
• Strengthen client appointment and tracking
  systems at the supported health facilities to actively identify missed
  appointments and institute timely client follow up mechanisms for enhanced
  continuum of care.
• Provides technical guidance during the
  development of district USAID/RHITES- SW annual and quarterly work plan
  and participates in the planning and budgeting activities, especially in
  regard to health integrated services at facility and community level.
• Strengthen documentation of referrals and
  linkages for different sen/ices within the integrated project to ensure a
  continuum of care and response.
• Actively participate in district level
  planning and implementation with the DMHT and stakeholders; provide
  information and feedback from field level observations to facilitate follow
  up actions by the district
• Regularly track the status of the previously
  mapped community groups and deliberately update other players benefiting
  from the services of these groups directly or through referrals
• Document best practices at community level
  and within the referral and linkage system in form of case studies,
  success stories and abstracts; and share at designated forums at district
  level, project and national level.
• Work in liaison with the QI advisors to adopt
  the use of quality improvement approaches in referral and  linkage system and other community
  activities with an aim of strengthening continuum of care.
• Work closely with the Monitoring and
  Evaluation team ensure that data collected is accurate and valid and
  captures process and outcome indicators.
• Prepare and ensure timely submission of
  quality technical reports according .to defined reporting schedules.

• The ideal candidates for the Community
  Linkages Officer Jobs should at least hold a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences or
  Community Development or Community Health or Nursing.
• Possession of a post graduate in Public
  Health, Sociology or Community Health would be an added advantage
• At least three years’ experience in community
  work with experience gained through
• serving within a government institution or
  NGO with proven ability to coordinate activities of different stakeholders
  at district and or sub national level.
• Three years’
  experience training community health workers and/or CBOs in MNCH, FP,
  Nutrition, Malaria, HIV and TB interventions
• Previous experience building capacity at
  individual and organizational levels;
• Skills in at least two or more of the
  following technical areas: Strengthening service delivery programs,
  supporting referrals and linkages between and among communities and health
  facilities; performance and quality improvement, psychosocial support, and
  integrating health service delivery into community structures.
• Proven ability to coach, mentor and develop
  technical capacity in national programs and technical staff
• Excellent written and verbal communication or
  interpersonal skills is a must.
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to
  support a cross section of frontline health workers
• Proven ability and willingness to travel
  within the supported districts in western Uganda
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
  with frequent travel to the field
• The applicant must be fluent in applicable
  local Languages i.e. Runyankole and English.

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