Summary
Date Posted: Friday, May 27, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Title: HIV and Social Protection Director
Reports to: OVC Advisor
Program/Project: USAID/ICYD
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Background
The Bantwana Initiative of World Education, Inc. is a recognized leader in delivering integrated comprehensive interventions to improve HIV outcomes and the quality of life for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and families affected by HIV and poverty. WEI/Bantwana builds the capacity of communities, civil society and governments to coordinate and deliver integrated comprehensive services for vulnerable children and families while strengthening structures and service delivery across the HIV continuum of care.
The USAID Integrated Child and Youth Development Activity (USAID ICYD Activity) aims to improve learning outcomes, close pediatric HIV gaps, and ensure that children and youth have the opportunity to lead resilient, healthy and productive lives. As the OVC lead, WEI/Bantwana delivers targeted technical assistance to local OVC partners to improve access, service delivery and treatment outcomes across the 95 95 95 HIV continuum of care at scale.
Integrated services are delivered within a clinic-community network and case management approach to 245,000 children and adolescents through seven local partners across 44 districts in Uganda.
Applicants must be based and have a valid work permit to work in Uganda. Qualified applicants should submit their CV and supporting materials to BantwanaICYD@ug.worlded.org  with the position you are applying for in the subject line.

Job Summary
The Director position is a high level, senior position that sits at the nexus of integrated HIV and OVC programming. This position will drive and support the OVC program technical leads to deliver targeted TA to local partners to improve clinical outcomes across the HIV, TB and EID 95 95 95 cascade, with a focus on addressing pediatric HIV treatment gaps.
With the OVC Senior Advisor and senior technical team, the Director will support upskilling the community OVC workforce to understand and monitor clinical benchmarks at community level, develop and coordinate strong, functional partnerships with regional referral hospitals and ART clinics, support local partners to present at weekly MOH pediatric treatment meetings on efforts to address non suppression and other treatment outcomes, present bi weekly to USAID colleagues, and support integrated systems strengthening work at district and national levels to improve integrated service delivery
This senior position requires a strong understanding and ability to use data to drive programming and transfer knowledge to local partner technical teams, working hand in hand with the M&E/Strategic Information team to ensure high data quality and high quality service delivery. Applicants should also bring budget management skills, and be able to support costed work planning exercises at a senior level.
The position requires a sophisticated understanding of and experience with PEPFAR/USAID donor relations. Preferred candidates will be known and valued by USAID and the Ministry of Health at national and district levels, and care deeply about quality service provision. Applicants with knowledge of social work framework and principles, PEPFAR graduation-mbased case management and/or and social work training is highly desired. This position will have the following

Responsibilities:
Key Result Areas: Specific Responsibilities and Duties:
Specific Responsibilities and Duties
• Oversee delivery of TA package delivered to local partners and downstream structures by the USAID ICYD Activity technical team
• Support and strengthen partner capacity to build strong, functional partnership with clinic partners across the ICYD OVC Activity zones
• Support and co design strategies to strengthen the knowledge, skillsets of the community OVC workforce to support treatment outcomes and better articulate the value of the social welfare skill set in supporting HIV outcomes and resilience.
• Deepen use of HIV data and proven strategies by technical and partner teams to analyze gaps in adherence, viral load suppression and tailor intervention strategies and rapid course corrections.
• Support training and mentorship of USAID ICYD Activity technical teams and partners on effective approaches to integrate HIV- and GBV- skills and strategies to improve treatment outcomes and resilience.
• Support development of structured and coordinated coaching and mentoring supervision by technical leads for local partner OVC teams and downstream structures
• Represent ICYD in national level meetings with MOH and other relevant ministries
• Support quarterly and annual report writing and other strategic documentation

Qualifications
• Advanced Degree in: health, social work and social administration
• At least ten years of experience working with children/adolescents living with HIV in clinic and community settings
• Demonstrated high level experience working with USAID and MOH on HIV- related policy and programming
• Demonstrated experience delivering targeted technical support coaching and mentoring to technical staff
• Demonstrated understanding of MOH HIV policies and programming for HEI/C/ALHIV
• Excellent data analysis and presentation skills
• Excellent writing skills
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate in the local and national languages.
• Excellent computer skills with expertise in PowerPoint, Word, Excel.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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