Summary
Date Posted: Friday, July 15, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
To develop national guidelines for the implementation of community DSD for all subpopulations of mother-infant pairs [PMTCT mothers], children and adolescents LHIV

Key Responsibilities:
• Collate and synthesize content from the consultation meetings for mother-infant pairs [ PMTCT mothers], caregivers of HIV Exposed infants [HEIs] and CLHIV, adolescents LHIV and the key technical stakeholders.
• In close collaboration with MoH, plan and lead the writing, validation, and dissemination for the community DSD guidelines of children and adolescents LHIV.
• Main Tasks:
• Facilitate two separate consultation meetings: One for caregivers of HIV exposed Infants [HEIs], children and adolescents living with HIV (CALHIV) and another for adolescents and young people LHIV to document the learnings and ideas suggested by the caregivers, mother-infant pairs and adolescents and young people LHIV
• Facilitate a consultation workshop with key technical stakeholders and document good/promising implementation practices for optimal community DSD, mother-infant pairs [ PMTCT mothers], caregivers of HIV Exposed infants [HEIs] and CLHIV, adolescents LHIV
• Facilitate and provide technical leadership to a small core team in a workshop to develop the first draft of the DSD guidelines for children, mother-infant pairs and adolescents using the collated draft from the consultation meetings held with caregivers, adolescents, and young people LHIV and technical officers
• Facilitate the validation of community DSD implementation guidelines for children, mother-infant pairs, and adolescents.
• Revise the draft DSD guidelines in liaison with a dedicated smaller core group to incorporate revisions from the validation meeting and this group will finalize the DSD guidelines for children, mother-infant pairs, and adolescents. This group will also finalize the operationalization plan.
• Facilitate the national dissemination of the guidelines targeting all key stakeholders represented. These include: MOH, MOES, MOGLSD, ADPs, IP technical officers, PLHIV networks, and DHO representatives. The national dissemination workshop will be held in Kampala in the last week of August 2022

Education
• Advanced university degree in public health, social/political sciences or another relevant field
• Work Experience
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional work experience at national and international level in implementation of differentiated service delivery models, health research and analysis in the area of HIV, primary health care, community health programming
• Extensive experience producing timely and high-quality reports for UN systems
• Knowledge of the Uganda health system or experience working in Uganda is an advantage

Key Competencies
• Excellent analytical, communication, advocacy and research skills.
• Computer literacy, especially MS Office programmes, is required.
• Fluency in English
• Knowledge of the Uganda context is preferred.
• Understanding of local institutional, policy and legal frameworks is preferred
• Ensured adherence to MOH guidelines and SOPs related to COVID-19 prevention and control

Conditions:
• Consultant is responsible for providing his/her own work materials – computer, software, etc.
• All remuneration must be within the contract agreement and against the agreed deliverables
• No contract may commence unless the contract is signed by both UNICEF and the consultant or Contractor.
• No contract may commence unless the consultant provides a certificate of completion of a mandatory course on “prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse”. A certificate to be submitted with the signed contract should have been obtained in the last three months.
• Consultants will be required to sign the health statement for consultants/Individual contractor prior to taking up the assignment, and to document that they have appropriate health insurance, if applicable.
• The Form 'Designation, change or revocation of beneficiary' has to be completed by the consultant before the commencement of travel.
• Clearance from DHR required for former UNICEF staff.
• Clearance from the Government required for civil servants.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
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