Job Title: Integrated Health Services Delivery Advisor – Family Health – Acholi Sub-region
Organisation: Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC)
Duty Station: Gulu, Uganda
About Organisation:
The Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC) is an indigenous medical organization that was established in 1991 as a limited liability not-for-profit Joint-venture between the Uganda Ministry of Health (MoH), Ministry of Defense and Makerere University Medical School (now Makerere University College of Health Sciences). JCRC is located on plot 101 Lubowa Hill Off Entebbe Road P.O. Box 10005 Kampala.
Project summary:
The LPHS North and Southwest Activity, implemented by the Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC), seeks to strengthen district-based, integrated, and high-quality HIV/AIDS and TB services across nine districts in the Acholi subregion. The overall goal is to enhance the availability, accessibility, and utilization of comprehensive HIV and TB services.
Job Summary: The Integrated Health Services Delivery Advisor – Family Health will provide technical leadership to strengthen integrated family health services across LPHS North & Southwest-supported districts and health facilities in Acholi subregion. This role will focus on improving service delivery for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH), Malaria, and other core primary health services.
The Advisor will work closely with the Ministry of Health, district health teams, facility staff, and community structures to enhance the quality of care, service integration, and uptake of essential family health and malaria interventions.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Program management
- Provide technical direction for integrating MNCH, malaria, HIV, and other primary health services within supported facilities and communities.
- Support dissemination, interpretation, and application of national family health and malaria guidelines, standards, and protocols.
- Participate in the development of activity work plans, progress reviews and reports.
Capacity Building & Quality Improvement
- Mentor and coach health workers on MNCH and malaria management, including diagnostic and treatment protocols and malaria in pregnancy (MIP).
- Strengthen provider competence in clinical care, documentation, respectful maternity care.
- Guide facilities in applying Quality Improvement (QI) approaches to enhance service performance and integration.
Systems Strengthening & Coordination
- Collaborate with District Health Teams and facility leadership to enhance referral pathways, service efficiency, commodity availability, and data quality.
- Strengthen linkages between facilities and community health structures (VHTs/CHWs) to promote early malaria detection, follow-up of pregnant women, and uptake of family health services.
- Foster and maintain effective working relationships with MOH departments, other implementing partners, and district stakeholders.
Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
- Work with MEL teams to monitor and interpret performance indicators related to MNCH, malaria, and integrated service delivery.
- Promote use of data for evidence-based planning, decision-making, and performance improvement.
- Document technical achievements, innovations, and lessons learned for scale-up across supported areas.
- Contribute technical content for donor and MOH reports.
- Any other duties assigned by the supervisor.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Medicine, Nursing or other relevant health discipline.
- Master’s degree in Public Health, Medicine or a related field is an added advantage.
- Minimum of seven (7) years of experience in family health programming.
- Experience in technical assistance, facility-level capacity building, and health systems strengthening.
- Strong understanding of Uganda’s MOH systems, MNCH and malaria guidelines and policies.
- Experience working with donor-funded programs, preferably with USG mechanisms.
- Strong technical skills in family health and malaria programming
- Excellent mentorship, coaching, facilitation, and clinical capacity-strengthening skills.
- Strong analytical, reporting, and data-use abilities.
- Effective communication, teamwork, and stakeholder engagement competencies.
- Ability to travel frequently to supported districts and health facilities.
How to Apply:
All applications must be addressed to; The Head Human Resource at Joint Clinical Research Centre, Plot 101 Lubowa Campus off Entebbe Road, P.O Box 10005, Kampala-Uganda. Email: [email protected]
Strictly two documents combined in one PDF are required (Application letter and CV not exceeding 6 pages) Please include the Position title in the Email Subject line.
Deadline: 19th December 2025
Note: JCRC is an equal opportunity employer. Any attempts to influence the recruitment process will lead to automatic disqualification.
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Level of Education: bachelor degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 84