Vacancy title:
Director Community Linkages and Demand Generation

Jobs at:
Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation ( EGPAF )

Deadline of this Job:
February 13th 2017

Duty Station:
Uganda

Job details:
The USAID Regional Health integration To Enhance Services in South West Uganda project aims at increasing utilization of health services, by strengthening systems, improving quality of services, increasing availability of, access to and demand for quality services. It is an integrated health project focusing on comprehensive TB and HIV/AIDS, Family Planning (FP), malaria, nutrition, and maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) services, youth and adolescent health, gender and SGBV, community and demand generation in 15 districts in the South-West Uganda,

Director Community Linkages and Demand Generation
Duty Station: Mbarara

Reporting Relations: The Director Community Linkages and Demand Generation reports to the Technical Director.

Job Summary
The primary responsibility of this position is to provide oversight, technical leadership and guidance to the sub-planners and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to ensure the technical soundness of the community linkages and demand creation strategies; and coordinates with other technical teams to ensure continuum of care and integration of health service delivery within the community structures and ensure that critical services tor HIV/AIDS and TB prevention, care and treatment, ii/INCH, FP, Malaria and Nutrition are interconnected through strong referral networks and linkages as well as overseeing the demand generation processes for integrated health/services in the i5 districts of South Western Uganda. Si he will spearhead the development of strategies and technical leadership in integrating gender into health integrated program, and applying the principles for gender-responsive programming in addressing gender inequalities encountered across the health program. S/he will supervise a team of professionals including the Demand creation Advisor, Community Linkages Advisor, Gender and SGBV Advisor.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences or health related discipline. Must hold a Master's degree in Public Health or Project Management, have at least 8 years‘ experience working in public health field, should be with experience in working with community health-intervention programs in integrating gender into health programs, Experience in working on community-health referral models. Evidence oi having established and managed an effective referral network. Experience in working on behavior change communication programs. Training experience and partnership building with HIV/AIDS service providers Familiarity with PEPFAR and USAID reporting requirements.

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Job application procedure
The Senior Human Resources Manager
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF)
Plot 18A Kyadondo Road, Nakasero
P.O. Box 21127
Kampala, Uganda
Application should be sent to: UgandaRecruitment@pedaids.org.
Deadline for submission of applications is February 13th 2017.
NO HAND DELIVERED APPLlCATl0NS WILL BE ACCEPTED.