Job Title:
DREAMS Officer
Reporting to:
Program Manager
Location:
Iringa MC
Position Summary
The DREAMS (Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe) Officer will be responsible for implementing programs that address the vulnerabilities of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). The primary goal is to reduce the risk of HIV infections through education, mentorship, and health service delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Program Implementation:
- Lead the implementation of DREAMS initiatives, focusing on health education and HIV prevention for AGYW.
- Coordination with Health Facilities:
- Coordinate with health facilities to organize HIV Testing and Counselling (HTC) services.
- Referrals Facilitation:
- Facilitate bi-directional referrals for AGYW to access health and social services.
- Community Engagement:
- Engage communities in awareness campaigns that focus on reducing HIV transmission among young women.
- Documentation & Reporting:
- Document program progress and contribute to quarterly and annual reports.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education:
- Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Community Development, or related fields.
- Experience:
- Experience in HIV prevention, especially programs targeting adolescent girls and young women.
- Skills:
- Strong skills in community engagement and program implementation.
Job Title:
Economic Strengthening and Livelihood Officers (1 post)
Reporting to:
Program Manager
Locations:
Iringa MC, Kilolo DC, and Iringa DC
Position Summary
The Economic Strengthening Officer (ESO) is a crucial role within each Councils Team implementing the USAID KIZAZI HODARI SOUTHERN PROJECT in Tanzania. The overall objective is to support at-risk Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) and OVC Caregivers in participating in Economic Strengthening (ES) activities. The position holder will specifically strive to integrate evidence-based financial literacy modules to empower AGYW and OVC Caregivers to establish and sustain viable Income Generating Activities (IGAs) at the Councils Team level.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Supervision & Support:
- Directly supervise and provide technical support to Livelihood Volunteers (KFs) and Independent Livelihood Volunteers (KFs) in their Councils Team.
- Provide consistent monitoring, coaching, and mentorship support to Livelihood Volunteers (KFs) in their council to ensure mastery of skills for graduation into Independent Livelihood Volunteers (KFs).
- Recruitment & Training:
- Recruit and train KFs in the CMGS model.
- Oversee KFs to establish and support new and inherited Community Microfinance Groups (CMGs) at the Councils Team level.
- Facilitation & Participation:
- Ensure KFs facilitate Community Microfinance Groups (CMGs).
- Achieve 60% participation of project-enrolled caregivers, destitute household members with lower savings levels, and interest join the CMGs.
- Community Resource Mobilization:
- Ensure CMGs establish Community Resource Mobilization Committees (CRMC) to map community resources for social purposes.
- Mapping & Curriculum Rollout:
- Conduct overarching mapping of economic strengthening service providers in implementation areas at the Councils Team.
- Roll out a Household Financial Literacy and Money Management curriculum to KFs and ensure quality implementation for CMG members.
- Market Assessments & Networking:
- Lead market assessments and create business networks and learning and sharing cohorts within industry types at the Councils Team.
- Training & Relationship Building:
- Train KFs to implement a self-assessment tool with mature groups.
- Establish relationships with pro-poor financial institutions.
- Supervision & Quality Assurance:
- Provide continuous supportive supervision to KFs to ensure quality economic strengthening programming through the Instruction, Modelling, Rehearsing, and Feedback (IMRF) approach.
- Reporting & Documentation:
- Submit timely economic strengthening and youth updates to the Program Manager for inclusion in quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports.
- Document Economic Strengthening-specific lessons learned and best practices for experience sharing and replication.
- Additional Duties:
- Perform any other relevant duties as assigned by the Project.
Minimum Required Qualifications, Experience, and Skills
Education:
- Required:
- Diploma in Business Administration, Economics, Community Development, Community Economic Development (CED), or Social Work.
- Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in the above-mentioned fields.
Skills:
- Strong Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) skills and experience in strategic information.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in Swahili and English, including excellent training skills for working with adult learners, particularly at the community level.
- Ability and willingness to work flexible hours as needed without constant or close supervision.
- Demonstrated leadership and team-building abilities.
- Diplomacy and negotiation skills with the ability to collaborate and coordinate with a range of stakeholders and navigate complex situations.
Experience:
- At least two (2) years of experience in a field position with an organization in public health or OVC.
- Experience in establishing, forming, and supporting community groups and IGAs is preferred.
- Experience with PEPFAR-funded projects in Tanzania.
- Experience implementing program and donor regulations, systems, and procedures.
- Experience with an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) approach in development and social projects.
Job Title:
Case Management Officer (2 posts – one staff for each Team)
Reporting to:
Program Manager
Line Manage:
Community Case Workers (CCWs)
Locations:
Iringa DC and Kilolo DC
Position Summary
The overall purpose of the Case Management Officer (CMO) position is to provide strategic leadership and management of the National Integrated Case Management System (NICMS) function at AWG and Councils Team levels. The job holder will ensure high-quality case management services are offered to OVC caregivers and children and adolescents living with HIV at the Councils Team level.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Leadership & Supervision:
- Oversee Case Worker Coordinators and provide overall leadership for case management activities at Councils Team.
- Share direct supervision responsibilities of Community Case Workers (CCWs), Lead Case Workers (LCWs), and Community Health Workers (CHWs) with Case Management.
- Ensure that Case Management Coordinators provide continuous mentoring and support to CCWs; directly conduct supportive supervision to Case Management Coordinators.
- Policy & Procedure Adherence:
- Disseminate and ensure adherence to case management, child protection, referral and linkages, parenting, and M&E guidance, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and other job-aids that facilitate holistic case management at the household/community level.
- Ensure that all CCWs are oriented to the Child Protection Policy and Code of Conduct; take all cases of child abuse seriously and follow national protocols to ensure timely intervention.
- Service Delivery:
- Ensure that case management services delivered address the holistic needs of OVC and caregivers, including health, nutrition, education, protection, livelihoods, and psycho-social well-being.
- Conduct quality step-down trainings to Case Management Coordinators and CCWs at Councils Team.
- Regularly monitor case management activities and use the information to improve case management quality and implementation at Councils Team.
- Ensure CCWs complete required case management forms and that a case filing system is developed and maintained.
- Partnerships & Community Engagement:
- Work in partnership with local government authorities as appropriate, including but not limited to District Executive Directors (DEDs), Council Health Management Teams (CHMTs), District Social Welfare Officers (DSWOs), and Ward-level officials.
- Create community linkages for broader community engagement of youth and caregivers in case management, child protection, parenting, etc.
- Map existing community cadres (Community Health Workers, Home-Based Care Workers, Para-Social Workers, etc.) in communities and assist government officials in recruiting and selecting CCWs for the National Integrated Case Management System (NICMS).
- Coordinate with local structures including health facilities and NPA-VAWC Committees at Councils Team.
- Training & Development:
- Train CCWs on the NICMS and ensure they are equipped to handle case management effectively.
- Lead the development of a service directory for social services (in coordination with the Health and HIV Services Officer) in implementation areas; update the directory at least once per quarter at Councils Team.
- Documentation & Reporting:
- Submit timely updates to the Program Manager for inclusion in the quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports.
- Document specific case management lessons learned and best practices for experience sharing and replication.
- Additional Duties:
- Perform any other relevant duties as assigned by the Project.
Minimum Required Qualifications, Experience, and Skills
Education:
- Required:
- Diploma in Social Work or Public Health.
- Diploma in Community Development, Community Economic Development (CED) may be considered.
- Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in the above-mentioned fields.
Skills:
- Strong Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) skills and experience in strategic information.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in Swahili and English, including excellent training skills for working with adult learners, particularly at the community level.
- Ability and willingness to work flexible hours as needed without constant or close supervision.
- Demonstrated leadership and team-building abilities.
- Diplomacy and negotiation skills with the ability to collaborate and coordinate with a range of stakeholders and navigate complex situations.
Experience:
- At least two (2) years of experience in a field position with an organization in public health or OVC.
- Experience in Home-Based Care (HBC), National Integrated Case Management Systems (NICMS), PEPFAR OVC/MVC differentiated care services is preferred.
- Experience with PEPFAR-funded projects in Tanzania.
- Experience implementing program and donor regulations, systems, and procedures.
- Experience with an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) approach in development and social projects.
Job Title:
Health Technical Officer (2 posts – one staff for each Team)
Reporting to:
Project Manager
Locations:
Kilolo DC and Iringa DC
Position Summary
The overall objective of this position is to contribute towards strategic service delivery to OVCs and their caregivers, address critical barriers to service access, uptake, and adherence to scale up impact service delivery, advance progress towards the 95-95-95 goals, and improve health and social outcomes among OVC and their families.
The job holder will ensure a sound and vibrant bi-directional referral and linkage system, improved case identification, and linkages to ART and Viral Load suppression among Children and Adolescents Living with HIV/AIDS.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Coordination & Representation:
- Represent AWG and coordinate with the Council Health Management Team regarding HIV and health-related activities at Councils Team.
- Hold monthly coordination meetings with Care & Treatment Centers (CTC) in the implementation area to support shared confidentiality, facilitate case conferencing, improve the bi-directional referral system, and ensure HIV-positive beneficiaries receive needed services at Councils Team.
- Support & Supervision:
- Support Early Childhood Development (ECD) corners at targeted health facilities, including regular monitoring and supportive supervision at Councils Team.
- Support facilities to maintain an updated enrollment register that demonstrates the cascade of enrollment of CLHIV at the CTC at Councils Team.
- Support Community Case Workers (CCWs) to work with high pediatric volume CTCs to trace HIV-positive OVC who miss appointments, enroll them into the USAID KIZAZI HODARI SOUTHERN PROJECT, and link them back to services.
- Support CCWs to conduct HIV risk assessments for OVC during case management; refer and link at-risk OVC to HIV Testing and Counseling (HTC).
- Program Implementation:
- Schedule quarterly Sexual Reproductive Health Education outreaches to Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW), DREAMS Girls in school, and organize HTC outreaches for adolescents with high-risk behaviors at Councils Team.
- Work with Health Facility Implementing Partners to roll out a supplemental HIV curriculum to CCWs and ensure CCWs provide appropriate support to HIV-positive OVC and caregivers.
- Support CCWs to strengthen the capacity of caregivers to support HIV-positive OVC and ensure CCWs refer HIV-positive OVC and caregivers to PLHIV support.
- Referral System Management:
- Support the establishment of a bi-directional referral system to monitor beneficiaries through the HIV continuum of care as well as service completion for other health and social services.
- Monitor implementation, identify bottlenecks, assess performance metrics of the bi-directional referral system; proactively offer solutions, conduct quality improvement activities, and implement adjustments to improve referrals.
- Participate in quarterly council-level quality improvement meetings with relevant bi-directional referral system stakeholders; ensure actions from the meetings are implemented and the bi-directional referral system is improved at Councils Team.
- Data Management & Reporting:
- Work with the M&E officer to ensure all bi-directional referral data are accurate and produced weekly; use data for decision-making at Councils Team.
- Lead the development of a service directory for health, nutrition, and HIV services in the implementation area; update the directory at least once a year at Councils Team.
- Support CCWs to conduct nutrition activities, including nutrition assessments, counseling, and linkage to other nutrition service providers at Councils Team.
- Provide continuous supportive supervision to CCWs to ensure the provision of health-related services and referrals and linkages to appropriate services.
- Submit timely updates to the Program Manager for inclusion in quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports at Councils Team.
- Document lessons learned and best practices for experience sharing and replication at Councils Team.
- Additional Duties:
- Perform any other relevant duties as assigned by the Project.
Minimum Required Qualifications, Experience, and Skills
Education:
- Required:
- Diploma in Clinical Medicine.
- Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Medicine or Nursing.
Skills:
- Good understanding of Government of Tanzania health systems.
- Strong Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) skills and experience in strategic information.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in Swahili and English, including excellent training skills for working with adult learners, particularly at the community level.
- Ability and willingness to work flexible hours as needed without constant or close supervision.
- Demonstrated leadership and team-building abilities.
- Diplomacy and negotiation skills with the ability to collaborate and coordinate with a range of stakeholders and navigate complex situations.
Experience:
- At least two (2) years of experience in a field position with an organization in public health or OVC.
- Experience in the implementation of community programs in health/HIV, MNCH, TB/Malaria, etc., is preferred.
- Experience with PEPFAR-funded projects in Tanzania.
- Experience implementing program and donor regulations, systems, and procedures.
- Experience with an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) approach in development and social projects.
How to Apply
All application letters should be attached with a detailed curriculum vitae, photocopies of certificates, testimonials, transcripts, and the names of three referees. Include a daytime telephone number for confidential contact. Applications should be sent no later than 4th October 2024 to:
Email: afyawomengroup@awg.or.tz
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
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