The Ugandan Jobline

• Training of Health Workers and Village Health
  teams in malaria interventions
• Support the district to conduct Community
  Mobilization and education activities
• Supervision of diagnostic and treatment
  services and community implementation of fever management
• Support the implementation of the communication
  strategy for ICCM at community and district level through drama, IEC,
  dialogues, Radio talk shows
• Work Closely with the technical, financial,
  operations and M&E team to provide support to the relevant District
  and Health Sub district personnel for the following
• Supervision and support of VHTs implementing
  ICCM
• Collection of data from VHTs on a monthly basis
• Conduct regular routine assessments and
  supervision visits to programme related sites and activities
• Adhere to all procedures and policies of
  Malaria consortium
• Adhere to humanitarian principles at all times
  during the implementation of the project
• Carry out any other duties in support of the
  wider Malaria Consortium Uganda Programme as assigned by the Regional
  Coordinator
• Participate in the development of ICCM Work
  planning
• Monthly report Submission

• Work closely with the M&E Officer to
  collect and analyse complete programmatic data in a timely fashion and
  send it to the M&E Specialist
• Provide regular progress, trip and monthly
  reports in a timely manner and ensure that all the reports are sent to the Regional Coordinator
• Work closely with the M&E Officer and the
  Regional Coordinator in the monitoring and evaluation of project
  activities
• Support the effective field implementation of
  any operational research studies, ensuring data collection quality
• Support the collection of routine health data
  from Village Health Team members, health facilities and district health
  teams
• Support the conduct of surveys as required

• Maintain regular communication with the Regional Coordinator and compile
  weekly work plan updates from the field
• Provide monthly progress/activity reports to
  the M&E Officer for compilation and submission to the Regional
  Coordinator and M&E Specialist
• Support the M&E Officer to ensure that all relevant project documentation
  is disseminated to the district health teams
• Actively participate in relevant meetings,
  presenting project results and experiences as required

• Develop effective and collaborative
  relationships with all
  project partners, including the district health teams, implementing
  partners and network of CSOs
• Ensure that complementary approaches are
  established with other Malaria Consortium projects with similar
  geographical locations or technical approaches
• Ensure
  effective coordination with and capacity building support to the MoH/CHD
  and NMCP at the district and community levels

• Provide effective support to all donor visits
  relating to both project planning, delivery and review, and for the
  purposes of donor fundraising and marketing
• Capture and document field activities, case
  studies and experience from the field during the course of routine work

• Represent the project on the Management Team,
  ensuring efficient operations on the field level and that any field
  managerial issues are followed up in a timely way
• Actively participate as a member of the Malaria
  Consortium Uganda technical
  team
• Adhere to all Malaria Consortium Uganda
  policies and procedures
• Adhere to internationally recognised
  humanitarian and development principles at all times during the
  implementation of the project
• Carry
  out additional duties as assigned by the Regional Coordinator or Malaria
  Consortium Uganda senior management

• The
  applicant for the Malaria Consortium Technical Officer job opportunity
  should hold a Degree in Nursing or Diploma in Clinical Medicine or a degree in
  public health, social
  sciences
• Five years’ experience implementing malaria and
  child survival and maternal programs
• Experience in training and mentorship of health
  care workers on malaria and child survival especially new-born care
  program areas
• Previous work with development agencies, NGOs.
• Previous
  experience in the planning and implementation of communicable disease
  control/malaria control interventions, behaviour change communication
  initiatives/health education, health worker trainings and supportive
  supervision of health
  workers
• Experience in capacity building/ transferring
  of skills in MNC services.
• Experience in working closely with local
  government
• Experience in developing work plans and
  activity budgets and in following work plans with minimal supervision
• Thorough understanding of both preventive and
  curative aspects of malaria control
• Familiarity with the strategies and guidelines
  of the Uganda National Malaria Control Programme
• Experience in training of health supervisors
• Previous community mobilization experience.
• Strong writing and organizational skills for
  writing case studies, documenting lessons learnt and reporting on program
  results.
• Experience in using participatory adult
  learning techniques
• Competency in computer applications (word,
  excel, power point)
• Excellent communication skills, with strong
  leadership skills and a supportive management style
• Experience in capacity building/ transferring
  of skills

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