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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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