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Job Title:    SBCC and Community Officer  

Organisation: African Network for the Care of Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (ANECCA)

Duty Station:   Uganda

Reports to: Technical Manager

About US:

The African Network for the Care of Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (ANECCA) is a network of clinicians and social scientists across Africa working to improve the quality of health care services for women, children, adolescents, young adults, and their families in Africa by strengthening the RMNCAHN platform. ANECCA is a registered NGO in Uganda with strong collaboration with the Ministry of Health and other institutions.

Job Summary: The SBCC and Community Officer will provide technical guidance and support the designing, implementing, supervision and monitoring of appropriate SBCC and facility-community linkages interventions, within the strategic framework of the LPHS – Karamoja. She/he will provide support supervision to the linkage facilitators at the facilities. S/he will provide leadership for Social Behavioral Change, Communication, and community support to USAID LPHS – Karamoja project. S/he will support the operation and field teams in responding to HIV/AIDS and TB issues to create synergies between demand creation and services that are centered on adoption of healthy behaviors by communities and target population or groups.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Designing and implementing appropriate Community – Facility linkage interventions, for the overall implementation of the LPHS – Karamoja Project
• Providing technical assistance to the health facility teams to strengthen community-facility linkages aimed at improving patient adherence, retention, self-management, and psychosocial services
• Supervising and monitoring the performance of the based Community structures in collaboration with the District Health management team
• Coordinating periodic reviews of community linkage activities with involvement of all key stakeholders including; District Health teams, linkage coordinators, facilitators, health workers and KP/PP support groups
• Coordinating and supporting linkage facilitators and other psychosocial support groups to execute their roles and responsibilities by participating in HIV interventions activities in the community and health facilities.
• Strengthening the performance management and capacity building mechanism for community structures and resource persons, site-based staff to implement the LPHS – Karamoja project.
• Documenting best practices for community engagement, linkages and HIV prevention at community level
• Developing service delivery strategies for accessing hard to reach populations including identification of opportunities to integrate health services with non-health sectors
• In collaboration with the Monitoring and Evaluation team pre-review and validate data collected for accuracy; before it is shared for input into the reporting system.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences; or Community Development; or Community Health or Nursing.
• A minimum of five years of work experience implementing and coordinating donor funded programs at district and sub-national levels.
• Three years of capacity building experience for individuals, groups or NGOs in Health service delivery
• Ability to network and interrelate with government facilities/departments, NGO and other stakeholders when providing technical assistance to the beneficiaries.

How to Apply:

All interested persons are requested to apply by sending detailed applications with the most recent resumes and references to Esther Namwase email: enamwase@anecca.org

Deadline: 9th December 2021 by 5:00 pm

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