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• Provide
  technical leadership and support to the district health unit service
  delivery teams for the PMTCT
• Have
  the overall responsibility for increasing demand, access to and
  availability of quality PMTCT services in the RHITES–N Acholi project
  supported sites and communities.
• Work
  with the community linkages teams to oversee eMTCT activities including
  pregnant women mapping to improve first ANC, fourth ANC, and skilled birth
  attendance.
• Together
  with appropriate MOH teams, carry out an evaluation of strengths and gaps
  within current PMTCT services at RHITES-N Acholi supported facilities,
  including technical capacity issues
• Work
  closely with facility teams/managers, other stakeholders and MOH to
  rationally plan for and implement activities to build onto the strengths
  and address the gaps to ensure delivery of quality PMTCT services.
• Ensure
  smooth and functional integration of RHITES-N Acholi supported PMTCT
  service delivery and capacity building activities within the health
  facility systems
• Forge
  and manage partnerships with key project partners and MOH to appropriately
  and innovatively support the district health and facility managers and
  service delivery teams to implement the Uganda PMTCT/EID service scale up
  strategy within facilities supported by the project. Specific tasks under
  this will include, but not limited to:
• Closely
  coordinate with the Ministry of Health to roll out implementation of the
  new
• PMTCT
  care and treatment guidelines to RHITES-N, Acholi supported facilities, as
  per the MOH strategy.
• Plan
  for and implement MOH-developed technical and quality improvement
  trainings, utilization of MOH data tools and job aids to facilitate
  successful implementation.
• Implement
  follow-on support supervision, mentoring and coaching to enhance service
  provider application of skills to service delivery.
• Ensure
  functional linkages and referrals/counter-referrals between RHITES-N,
  Acholi supported facilities, other facilities supported by other partners,
  community-based services and the private sector.
• With
  the RHITES-N, Acholi MEL Director and MOH relevant team, develop and
  implement an activity documentation, monitoring and progress reporting
  framework that addresses requirements of the MOH, USAID and RHITES-N,
  Acholi activity.
• Work
  closely with laboratory technical team to oversee EID, CD4, and VL
  services are provided in supported units, ensuring timely collection, and
  return of samples.
• Make
  regular task-specific progress reports to the RHITES-N, Acholi Chief of
  Party and MoH, as necessary.
• Participate
  in regular RHITES-N, Acholi meetings with partners, MOH and USAID, as
  scheduled.
• Perform
  other duties as assigned by the RHITES-N, Acholi leadership.

• The
  applicants for the USAID Project Technical Advisor – PMTCT career
  opportunity must hold a Degree in Medicine or public health with at least
  4 years’ experience in technically leading/Advising large scale PMTCT
  programs in Uganda.
• Two
  years of working with districts and health facilities to improve their
  PMTCT programs.
• Two
  years’ experience of providing technical support to PMTCT programs
• Previous
  experience of working in northern Uganda
• A
  good working knowledge of the guidelines for PMTCT.
• Ability
  and willingness to travel within the supported districts for 50% of the
  time.
• Experience
  of working with diverse groups of stakeholders such as government, NGOs,
  and private-sector partners.
• Ability
  to organize, analyze, interpret and program performance data.

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