Summary
Date Posted: Friday, June 09 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Overview:
URC is seeking an experienced District-Based Integrated Program Officer for Acholi (Nwoya district), for the USAID Uganda Health Activity (UHA), a five-year program. The purpose of UHA is to support the Government of Uganda’s (GOU’s) efforts to increase the survival and well-being of vulnerable populations and improve overall health system resilience in seven priority regions. The program will strengthen the quality and availability of MNCH, FP/RH, nutrition, and facility-level WASH services as well as health systems at the regional-, district-, facility-, and community-levels.

Responsibilities:
The District-Based Integrated Program Officer is responsible for the project’s clinical liaison person at each the assigned districts within in the UHA project scope. He/she will be embedded within the assigned project DHO offices.

Specific responsibilities include the following:
• Take Support the HIV clinic teams to provide HIV services as per the national guidelines.
• Provide technical support to the TB and Mother Baby care points in providing HIV care and treatment services.
• Support the integration of quality improvement approaches into health services delivery at the health facilities within the districts.
• Provide technical support to HIV prevention services within the supported districts including HIV Counselling and Testing, Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision and PMTCT services
• Work with the entire HIV service delivery team to ensure functional linkages within the health facilities
• Closely support the project M&E team, and individual project staff in ensuring reporting of health facility results on a quarterly and monthly basis (hospital performance reviews)
• Develop a procedure to monitor the redistribution of laboratory and pharmaceutical items
• Support the test and treat strategies for both Malaria and HIV
• Coordination and Monitoring of Laboratory Hub Performance
• To always ensure lab hubs function efficiently.
• Liaise with the health unit Laboratory In Charges and the project laboratory team to ensure laboratory equipment are maintained and repaired per schedule
• Support the Hub Coordinator in Laboratory hub rider scheduling, and ensuring the back rider is engaged when needed (e.g. to cover leave, or when motorbike under repair, etc.)
• Support the Hub Coordinator in ensuring the hub motorbike is maintained and the repair schedules are adhered to, to minimize down-time (in liaison with UHA Logistic/Fleet staff) as due
• Coordinate and plan for the Bi-annual laboratory hub review meetings in liaison with the project laboratory team.

Qualifications:
Required Experience and Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine (MBChB). A Master’s degree in a health-related field is an added advantage.
• 2 years professional experience working in Public Health Systems.
• Experience with USAID and/or other donor projects is an added advantage
• Desired Experience & Qualifications
• Demonstrable excellent writing, organizational, coordination and communication skills
• Proven ability to set priorities, multi-task, and work collaboratively as well as independently
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Desired Experience and Qualifications
• Previous experience working with URC and USAID is an added advantage.




Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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