Clinical Advisor US CDC Project Jobs – Uganda Prisons Service
Job Title: Clinical Advisor
Organisation: Uganda Prisons Service
Funding Source: United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Principal Investigator
About US:
The Uganda Prisons Service has received support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide comprehensive HIV/AIDS, STI and TB services to prisoners and staff of the Prisons Service. The project that spans the period 1st April, 2015 to 31st March, 2020 is being implemented by the Department of Prisons Health Services.
Job Summary: The Clinical Advisor will provide clinical expertise, advice, leadership, and support to the Prisons Service in the consistent delivery of a high quality, client-focused HIV/AIDS services that match the needs of the prisons population and provides value for money.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensures that the national HIV/AIDS policies are aligned with prisons environment to meet cooperative agreement objectives.
- Provides technical and clinical guidance, leadership and support to regional clinics on HIV/AIDS management.
- Coordinates the work schedule and reports.
- Ensures that human resource capacity needs are available and functional.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold an MB Ch B. or its equivalent from a recognized University/Institution.
- Must be registered with the Medical and Dental Practitioners’ Council.
- At least five years of experience with comprehensive knowledge of Health Service delivery in places of detention and working with armed forces
- Demonstrable knowledge of HIV/AIDS programming will be an added advantage.
- Leadership and management skills in healthcare.
- Planning, organizing and coordinating.
- Communicating effectively.
- Concern for quality and standards.
- Ethics and integrity.
- Public relations and customer care.
- The Clinical Advisor must be a dynamic and highly self-motivated person with the ability to work under pressure and meet tight reporting deadlines and will be required to travel frequently and spend 60% of the time in the field.
How to Apply:
All qualified candidates should submit their applications together with the curriculum vitae and contacts of two referees to the following address:
Commissioner General of Prisons
Uganda Prisons Service
Plot 3 Siad Barre Road
Century Building
P.O. Box 7182
Kampala. Uganda
Deadline: 16th March 2018
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