Program Officer USAID RHITES Job Careers – Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF)

Job Title:       Program Officer
Organization: Elizabeth
Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF)
Project Name: USAID Regional
Health Integration to Enhance Health Services in the South West Uganda Project
(RHITES)
Duty Station: Mbarara,
Uganda
Reports to: DBT Manager
About US:
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) seeks to end
pediatric HIV/AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment
programs. We are a global leader in the fight against pediatric HIV and AIDS,
working in 15 countries and at 7,000 sites around the world to prevent the
transmission of HIV to children, and to help those already infected. Today,
because of the highly successful work of the Foundation and its partners over
the last 25 years, pediatric AIDS has been virtually eliminated in the United States
and new infections in children have declined by 58% worldwide. EGPAF Uganda
Country program is currently implementing a number of projects in partnership
with various donors.
About USAID RHITES Project:
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) implements the
USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Health Services in the South West
Uganda Project (RHITES) whose aim is to increase the availability,
accessibility and quality of integrated health services including HIV and TB
prevention, care and treatment; maternal, neonatal and child health services;
family planning; nutrition assessment, counseling support; malaria prevention
and treatment and other primary care services. The project is implemented in 15
districts in the South-West Uganda.
Job Summary: The Program
Officer will lead the planning and implementation of the integrated health
program activities in the districts of support. She/he will coordinate with a
team of Technical Advisors to ensure that all technical guidance is incorporated
into the district work plans to increase the availability, accessibility, and
quality of integrated health services including HIV prevention, care, and
treatment, TB, maternal, neonatal and child health, family planning, and other
primary care services. The incumbent will work closely with the District Health
Department to adequately plan, timely implement and effectively monitor the
execution of the project activities while ensuring adherence to available MOH
set standards; and incorporating lessons learnt over time to improve systems
and process for enhanced service delivery.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:  
  • Offers technical guidance and lead the
    implementation process of the integrated health program in the supported
    districts assigned.
  • Improves the quality of and access to
    MNCH, Family Planning, HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, and Nutrition services in
    project-supported sites by adopting and institutionalizing quality
    improvement and Site Improvement and Systems Monitoring (SIMS) approaches
  • Assists in setting up and running special
    clinical services and track progress at individual sites through site
    visits and district reports, in collaboration with MOH and the EGPAF
    program team.
  • Coordinates and participates in capacity
    building of district and site teams through organizing and conducting
    mentoring and coaching; CMEs and occasionally formal trainings.
  • Offers technical guidance to the district
    teams for annual and quarterly work plan development
  • Manages project finances and other
    resources related to implementation of activities in the assigned district
    in line with the Foundation finance guidelines.
  • Prepare monthly, quarterly, semi-annual
    and annual programmatic district performance reports and their submission
    in stipulated deadlines
  • Strengthens the quality of health services
    and data through supportive supervision and monitoring visit to the
    supported health facilities.
  • Actively participate in process of data
    auditing and verification to assure internal consistency and validity of
    project activity monitoring data reported by all districts, through
    quarterly data verification and auditing visits.
  • Routinely facilitate the interpretation
    and use of M&E data, through the quarterly district level and facility
    level review meetings between the project, the district health team and
    health care workers; guide the identification of performance gaps and
    development of remedial actions.
  • Assists in identifying, documenting,
    disseminating and scaling up best practices in Malaria, MNCH, Family
    Planning, Nutrition, HIV prevention, PMTCT and C&T
  • Coordinates with the district health
    departmental leadership and other relevant implementing partners in the
    districts of support to ensure smooth implementation of project
    activities.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
  • The applicant for the USAID Project Program
    Officer job placement should hold a medical degree and/or a master’s
    degree in Public Health
  • A minimum of five years of professional
    experience working in HIV/AIDS prevention, care & treatment, MNCH,
    Family Planning, Nutrition and malaria programs.
  • Hands-on knowledge and skills in
    designing, planning, implementing and monitoring Malaria, MNCH, PMTCT,
    clinical care and Pediatric care programs.
  • Broad knowledge and understanding of the
    quality improvement framework of MOH and quality improvement principles
  • Good knowledge of the decentralized health
    system and community structures
  • Practical experience in managing ART and
    MNCH services at district levels.
  • Sound understanding of current issues and
    developments in the field of Malaria, MNCH and HIV/AIDS.
  • Strong skills in teamwork and networking.
  • Excellent verbal communication and writing
    skills.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to send
their applications to this address;
The Senior Human Resource Manage, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS
Foundation (EGPAF), Plot 18A Kyadondo Road, Nakasero, P.O. Box 21127, Kampala,
Uganda
E-mail to:
UgandaRecruitment@pedaids.org
Deadline: 13th February 2017
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