Summary
Date Posted: Monday, August 05 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Program Background:
CHAI Uganda has worked with the government over the past 15 years to increase access to lifesaving commodities including diagnostics, treatments and other biological products that target women and children. CHAI provides technical assistance to the government counterparts through data analytics to inform forecasting, quantification, procurement planning/kit design, commodity pipeline monitoring and delivery of commodities to the last mile, strengthens policy and financing mechanisms for essential maternal and child health commodities and biological products, accelerates introduction of key newer products and improve and uptake of existing commodities and influences and promotes healthier markets for maternal and child health commodities through private sector supplier engagements ( importers, distributors, health care providers and regulatory agencies). CHAI prioritizes commodities that are critical for reduction of maternal and child health morbidity and mortality including childhood vaccinations, commodities for diarrhea, Pneumonia and Family planning (FP), commodities for infectious diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis as well as those for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) including Hypertension, Diabetes, Sickle cell disease, and Cancer.

CHAI Uganda NCD Program
The burden of NCDs continues to rise both globally and nationally. In Uganda, NCDs and injuries account for about 41% of deaths, with NCDs alone responsible for 35% and injuries for 6%. The CHAI Uganda NCD program primarily addresses four major diseases: cancer, sickle cell disease, hypertension, and diabetes. This role mainly focuses on providing support for diabetes and hypertension. CHAI will collaborate with the Uganda Ministry of Health and other partners to enhance and accelerate the country's response to prevent and control these NCDs including supporting fundraising and improving efficiencies to improve access to services and commodities for NCDs.

CHAI is seeking a highly motivated and resourceful individual to support CHAI’s country efforts in improving access to Diabetes and Hypertension services. Reporting to the Senior Associate NCDs, the Program Officer will provide program support to deliver the ambitious program objectives. He/she will be responsible for providing technical and operational support for specific projects, overseeing execution and assuming responsibility for high-quality delivery. The program officer is expected to be a self-starter, knowledgeable, fast learner, meticulous, resourceful and agile to be successful and effective in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities
Program Implementation:
• Support CHAI internal Diabetes and Hypertension project planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting progress to all key stakeholders.
• Lead compilation of a program events calendar or key activities e.g. trainings, report submissions, etc.
• Support partner coordination including meetings and action tracking
• Support effective documentation key learning and outputs within the program.

People Management
• Support independent consultants and program team to optimally deliver national and subnational program activities as the need arises
• Promote effective communication and collaboration within the team to ensure well-coordinated activity execution

Relationship Management
• Support writing of programmatic reports, PowerPoints, briefing notes and related learnings’ sharing with the NCD Program and partners.
• Build and maintain emerging relevant program relations as may arise from time to time.

Financial Management
• Support program activity budget planning, budget tracking, and budget reporting.
• Support with the preparation and initiation of financial requests.

Problem Solving
• Assist in identifying sensitive issues and program risks
• Extract NCD testing and treatment data from assigned databases, webportals and run robust data analytics to inform national level programming and grant reporting
• Analyze and draw conclusions from data.
• Design approaches to collect data and improve processes.
• Lead in development of innovative approaches and tools as well as documentation and dissemination of best practices.
• Any other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Competences
• Responsible for the execution of small-sized, often lower complexity project(s) (has little ambiguity, risk, moving parts, budgetary constraints or stakeholders), or contributes towards larger more complex projects.
• Performs quantitative and qualitative analytical tasks with limited errors and high-quality outputs.
• Performs routine tasks independently.
• Gathers, reviews, and validates data/information.
• Ensures process integrity by identifying and helping to resolve service quality and efficiency issues.
• Provides information to relevant internal stakeholders within a defined program area/function.

Qualifications and skills required:
• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, business, public health, or related field
• At least 2 – 3 years of working experience in a demanding result driven environment
• High emotional intelligence, patience and thoughtfulness even in high pressure, stressful situations
• Strong process management skills, high level of organization and good attention to detail
• Excellent analytic skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office suite –Excel, Powerpoint and Word
• A flexible, entrepreneurial and output focused mindset, with strong self-motivation
• Ability to independently develop, push forward, and execute a coherent programmatic strategy amidst substantial ambiguity and changing circumstances
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Exceptional time management, with an ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines

Advantages
• Experience working and communicating with government officials at the national and subnational level



Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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