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Job Title:  Child Development Officer – Health (CDO-Health) No Experience Jobs

Organisation: Christian Fellowship Ministries Uganda Limited

Duty Station: Busia, Uganda

About the Company:

Christian Fellowship Ministries Uganda Limited is a Faith based organization working with children in partnership with Compassion International. The ministry operates child and Youth development centers in many districts within the eastem part of Uganda.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as an advocate for children and their caregivers who live in poverty and are not able to speak out for themselves
• Implements the day- to-day running of the project health activities for the achievement of physical development outcomes.
• Initiates generation of the annual health work plan and coordinates its implementation with emphasis on prevention of diseases among the beneficiaries.
• Coordinates health screening for project children and Child Survival Program mothers.
• Coordinates medical care and distribution of provisions to the identified beneficiaries such as children and caregivers.
• Ensures proper documentation and record keeping of all health-related issues for the beneficiaries with utmost confidentiality.
• Responsible for the physical, cognitive and economic development of the sponsored children.
• Plans and coordinates health related trainings, information, education and communication (IEC) to the project management, caregivers and children.
• Acts as consultant on all health issues that affect children and the community by using his or her experience and expertise to challenge, motivate, sensitize and equip the church on ways of preventing diseases, immunization of children, celebration of health days as well as dealing with epidemics.
• Current project staff serving as COOS are encouraged to apply for the Project Director position through their overseers.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Must be a mature Born Again Christian with a sound testimony.
• Must have a professional background in; nursing, primary healthcare, community health, clinical medicine, social work administration.
• Minimum qualification will be a diploma or its equivalent.
• Must have good interpersonal skills.
• Experience and current knowledge of HIV/ AIDS intervention will be an added Advantage.
• Formal training in counselling and child
• Good written communication skills and strong verbal communication skills.
• Age: 22-35

How to Apply:

Post your applications to the umbrella Leader P.0 Box 2675, Mbale or Email your application and supporting documents as a single file using the following address: To: paulwoniaye770@gmail.com Cc: mangenigerald2@gmail.com. Place the Job title of the post you are applying for in the Subject Line e.g. Application for the post of Project Director Etc.

Deadline:  17th September 2024 by 5:00pm. Applications sent after that time will not be considered. A recommendation from your church pastor is a mandatory requirement.

NB: We appreciate all of you for your interest to serve with us but we wish to inform you that only shorlisted candidate will be contacted for further engagement

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