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Job Title:   Community Led Monitoring Officer

Organisation: Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation -Uganda (Baylor-Uganda)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: M&E Coordinator

About Organisation:

Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation -Uganda (Baylor-Uganda) is an indigenous not-for-profit child health and development organisation affiliated to the Baylor College of Medicine International Paediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI), a Network of paediatric HIV/AIDS care and treatment Children’s Clinical Centres of Excellence and international program offices in 11 countries across Africa and Eastern Europe.

Job Summary: The Community Led Monitoring Officer will be responsible for Supporting, training and monitoring CBOs/service users to collect, collate, analyse data about health service delivery at selected Health facilities in a district and use this data to provide feedback at different layers like the community itself, the health facility team and the district leadership among others with the aim of advocating for improvements in service delivery in Malaria, Tuberculosis, HIV among others.

Community Based Organisations / service users will collect accurate, robust and rigorous qualitative and quantitative data that include observational data, client exit interview, focus group discussions and get the perspectives of both healthcare users as well as healthcare providers.

Using the data collected, CLM officers will support CBO/service users to engage with primary healthcare facility staff, clinic committees and other key stakeholders in order to advocate for improved service delivery and track progress in service delivery.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinating and overseeing the CLM initiative at health service delivery sites.
• Managing relationships, partnerships, policy, and advocacy efforts within the context of CLM and health service delivery.
• Monitoring and evaluating CLM activities in the project under his/her portfolio.
• Facilitating CLM knowledge management and sharing.
• Monitor the implementation of the activities by the CBOs/CLM monitors and provide technical guidance to them as required.
• Coordinate the preparation of reports in a timely manner.
• Contribute to the preparation of relevant meetings and ensure that recommendations are addressed.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree: Statistics, Quantitative Economics, Development Studies, Social Sciences or Public Health.
• Other certificates, diplomas in M&E, Project Planning & Management will be an added advantage.
• Two years of related work experience
• Experience in community data collection /Research is of added advantage
• Demonstrable experience in organising, advocacy and/or mobilisation at a community level;
• Knowledge and experience in participation in health-related programs-HIV, TB, Malaria
• Appreciation and substantial knowledge in community engagement, human rights, gender consideration and programming
• Comfortable working with or willingness to learn to use new technologies and data bases;
• Self-motivated and able to work without direct supervision
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Able & willing to travel frequently within the region and at times across the country;
• Fluency in the local language in a region will be an added advantage.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested applicants should apply online at the link below.

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Note:

• Applications should include a cover letter, CV, daytime telephone contact, three traceable professional references and certified UNEB certificates as well as certified University Transcripts
• You must have at least a credit 6 in MATHEMATICS and ENGLISH at Ordinary Level (UCE).
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview. Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Deadline: 25th June 2024

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