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• Training of Health Workers and Village Health teams in MNC services
• 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 humanitarian principles at all times
  during the implementation of the project
• Participate in the development of ICCM Work
  planning

• Work closely with the M&E Specialist to
  collect and analyse
  complete programmatic data in a timely fashion and send it to the SURM
  Project Director
• Through the M&E provide regular progress,
  trip and monthly reports to the line manager in a timely manner and ensure
  that all the reports are filed
• Work closely with the SURM M&E Specialist and SURM Project Director
  in the monitoring and evaluation of project activities
• Support the effective field implementation of
  three 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

• 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 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 Senior 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

• Maintain regular communication with the Project
  Director and Field Offices, compiling weekly work plan updates from the field
• Provide monthly progress/activity reports to
  the M&E Officer for compilation and submission to the Project Director
• 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
• Monthly report submission
• Carry out additional duties as assigned by the
  Project Director or Malaria Consortium Uganda senior management

• The
  applicant for the Malaria Consortium Service Delivery Specialist job
  opportunity should hold a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Public
  Health, Community Health or equivalent
• Extensive experience in public health projects
• 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 community-based health care delivery
• Experience in capacity building/ transferring
  of skills
• Experience in working closely with local
  government and partner organisation
• Experience in developing work plans and
  activity budgets and in following work plans with minimal supervision
• Ability to work independently
• 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
• A post graduate degree/diploma in Clinical
  Medicine or Public Health or an equivalent
• Experience in using participatory adult
  learning techniques
• Competency in statistical analysis software packages (STATA, SPSS,
  Epi Data)
• Excellent communication skills, with strong
  leadership skills and a supportive management style
• Excellent diplomacy and stakeholder liaison
  skills, and experience in working in partnerships to deliver programmes
• Previous
  experience in capacity building/ transferring of skills is desirable

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