4 Technical Officer International Non-profit Jobs – Malaria Consortium
Job Title: Technical Officer (4 Job Placements)
Organization: Malaria Consortium
Duty Station: Uganda
Salary: USD 15,037 gross per annum
Reports to: Regional Coordinator
About US:
Malaria Consortium is the world’s leading not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria Consortium works with communities, government and non-government agencies, academic institutions, and local and international organisations, to ensure good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing technical support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities for evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning. Malaria Consortium works to improve not only the health of the individual, but also the capacity of national health systems, which helps relieve poverty and support improved economic prosperity.
About Project:
Malaria Consortium Uganda has received funding from DFID/UNICEF to implement the Strengthening Uganda’s Response to Malaria (SURM) project which will focus on reducing the impact of the leading causes of U5M morbidity and mortality in 16 districts in Northern Uganda. The project will address lagging maternal and neonatal mortality through a combination of iCCM and selected maternal and neonatal care interventions. The project is implemented with UNICEF and spans a five-year period (April 2018-March 2023) in 16 districts in the Northern region of Uganda.
Job Summary: The Technical Officer will provide technical and implementation support to all SURM project activities in districts in the Northern region. The role involves ensuring the technical quality of all activities in support of the project’s overall goal and theory of change, through regular liaison with and supervision from the Kampala-based SURM Project Director. Provides ongoing technical support to the Ministry of Health (MoH)/ National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), district health teams and other partners and stakeholders as relevant to the project scope and in accordance with its approach to understanding and influencing positive change in health.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Manage the implementation of Malaria project activities in the project districts (56%)
- Training of Health Workers and Village Health teams in malaria interventions
- Support the district to conduct Community Mobilization and education activities
- Supervision of diagnostic and treatment services and community implementation of fever management
- Support the implementation of the communication strategy for ICCM at community and district level through drama, IEC, dialogues, Radio talk shows
- Work Closely with the technical, financial, operations and M&E team to provide support to the relevant District and Health Sub district personnel for the following
- Supervision and support of VHTs implementing ICCM
- Collection of data from VHTs on a monthly basis
- Conduct regular routine assessments and supervision visits to programme related sites and activities
- Adhere to all procedures and policies of Malaria consortium
- Adhere to humanitarian principles at all times during the implementation of the project
- Carry out any other duties in support of the wider Malaria Consortium Uganda Programme as assigned by the Regional Coordinator
- Participate in the development of ICCM Work planning
- Monthly report Submission
Monitoring and Evaluation (20%)
- Work closely with the M&E Officer to collect and analyse complete programmatic data in a timely fashion and send it to the M&E Specialist
- Provide regular progress, trip and monthly reports in a timely manner and ensure that all the reports are sent to the Regional Coordinator
- Work closely with the M&E Officer and the Regional Coordinator in the monitoring and evaluation of project activities
- Support the effective field implementation of any operational research studies, ensuring data collection quality
- Support the collection of routine health data from Village Health Team members, health facilities and district health teams
- Support the conduct of surveys as required
Reporting (7%)
- Maintain regular communication with the Regional Coordinator and compile weekly work plan updates from the field
- Provide monthly progress/activity reports to the M&E Officer for compilation and submission to the Regional Coordinator and M&E Specialist
- Support the M&E Officer to ensure that all relevant project documentation is disseminated to the district health teams
- Actively participate in relevant meetings, presenting project results and experiences as required
Partnerships (6%)
- Develop effective and collaborative relationships with all project partners, including the district health teams, implementing partners and network of CSOs
- Ensure that complementary approaches are established with other Malaria Consortium projects with similar geographical locations or technical approaches
- Ensure effective coordination with and capacity building support to the MoH/CHD and NMCP at the district and community levels
Communications (2%)
- Provide effective support to all donor visits relating to both project planning, delivery and review, and for the purposes of donor fundraising and marketing
- Capture and document field activities, case studies and experience from the field during the course of routine work
Other (9%)
- Represent the project on the Management Team, ensuring efficient operations on the field level and that any field managerial issues are followed up in a timely way
- Actively participate as a member of the Malaria Consortium Uganda technical team
- Adhere to all Malaria Consortium Uganda policies and procedures
- Adhere to internationally recognised humanitarian and development principles at all times during the implementation of the project
- Carry out additional duties as assigned by the Regional Coordinator or Malaria Consortium Uganda senior management
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Malaria Consortium Technical Officer job opportunity should hold a Degree in Nursing or Diploma in Clinical Medicine or a degree in public health, social sciences
- Five years’ experience implementing malaria and child survival and maternal programs
- Experience in training and mentorship of health care workers on malaria and child survival especially new-born care program areas
- Previous work with development agencies, NGOs.
- Previous experience in the planning and implementation of communicable disease control/malaria control interventions, behaviour change communication initiatives/health education, health worker trainings and supportive supervision of health workers
- Experience in capacity building/ transferring of skills in MNC services.
- Experience in working closely with local government
- Experience in developing work plans and activity budgets and in following work plans with minimal supervision
- Thorough understanding of both preventive and curative aspects of malaria control
- Familiarity with the strategies and guidelines of the Uganda National Malaria Control Programme
- Experience in training of health supervisors
- Previous community mobilization experience.
- Strong writing and organizational skills for writing case studies, documenting lessons learnt and reporting on program results.
- Experience in using participatory adult learning techniques
- Competency in computer applications (word, excel, power point)
- Excellent communication skills, with strong leadership skills and a supportive management style
- Experience in capacity building/ transferring of skills
How to Apply:
All interested applicants are encouraged to apply online at the web link below.
Deadline: 27th April 2018
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