Vacancy title:
4 Community Linkages Officers

Jobs at:
Mayanja Memorial Hospital Foundation ( MMHF )

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, 10th November 2017 at 5:00pm EAT

Duty Station:
Uganda

Job details:
Mayanja Memorial Hospital Foundation (MMHF) is a Ugandan National Nongovernmental organization with over 14 years‘ experience in community based health interventions in mid-western and western Uganda. MMHF is seeking to recruit for the following vacancies for the USAID Regional Health integration to Enhance Services in South Western Uganda Project that aims at increasing the availability, accessibility and quality of integrated health services including; HIV and TB prevention, Care and treatment, maternal, neonatal, and child health services, family planning, nutrition assessment and counselling and support, malaria prevention and treatment, and other primary health care services.

Job Title: 4 Community Linkages Officers

Job Summary
The Community Linkages Officer will provide technical support to the district health teams, community development office and other related community structures in the areas of linking the community and facilities in the regional integrated health program (HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, nutrition, family planning, and maternal, neonatal and child health care). This position will ensure the technical and methodological soundness of activities implemented by CSOs, VHTs and other community resource persons that are part of the project implementation.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Liaise with community development, health department and other players to ensure that community structures are coordinated, harmonized and streamlined for effective delivery of the health integration to enhance services project
• Co-ordinates monthly meetings among community and health facility staff to review performance of uptake of services by clients referred from community.
• Provide technical assistance to health workers, Linkage facilitators, VHTs and partners on comprehensive integrated technical support related to referral and linkages and service provision within the community.
•  Work closely with District Health Educators and Community Development Office to strengthen community based structures that will create demand for HIV/AIDS care, treatment, Nutrition, SMC, MNCH, malaria and PMTCT and TB/HIV services;
• Work with DBTs, Technical Advisors and sub-partners to effectively integrate service delivery especially for Family planning, MNCH, HIV and TB into the community structures at the community level.
• Organize and facilitate periodic reviews of community HIV/AIDS, MNHI SRH/FP, Malaria and Nutrition activities at the health center level.
• Coordinate and support linkage facilitators and other psychosocial support groups including family support groups to efficiently and effectively execute their roles and responsibilities in the community and health facilities.
•  Coordinates capacity building and mentorship of community level structures in various project technical areas in liaison with program technical teams, district community and health departments.
• Work with other DET members and Technical Advisers to successfully integrate MNCH, SRH, FP, HIV, nutrition, and water/sanitation interventions with the delivery of other health services at the community level.
• Strengthen client appointment and tracking systems at the supported health facilities.
•  Strengthen documentation of referrals and linkages for different services within the integrated project to ensure a continuum of care and response.
• Participate in district level planning and implementation with the DMHT and stakeholders; provide information and feedback from field level observations to facilitate follow up actions by the district.
• Work with the advisors to adopt the use of quality improvement approaches in referral and linkage system and other community activities
• In collaboration with the Monitoring and Evaluation team ensure that data collected is accurate and valid and captures process and outcome indicators.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in either Social Sciences, Community Development, Community Health or Nursing.
• A postgraduate qualification in either Public Health, Sociology or Community Health would be an added advantage
• A minimum of 3 years’ in community work with experience gained through sewing within a government institution or NGO
• At least 3 years’ experience training community health workers and/or CBOs in MNCH, FP, Nutrition, Malaria, HIV and TB interventions.
•  Skills in at least two or more of the following technical areas: strengthening service delivery programs, supporting referrals and linkages between and among communities and health facilities;
• Excellent written and verbal communication or interpersonal skills is a must.
• Ability and willingness to travel within the supported districts in Western Uganda
• Must be fluent in applicable local Languages and English. Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team with frequent travel to the field

Job application procedure
interested and suitably qualified candidates should send their Cover letter, CV (with 3 professional referees) and Copies of Certified Academic Credentials to:

The Executive Director
Mayanja Memorial Hospital Foundation
Plot 11 Circular Road, Booma
P.O. Box, 920, Mbarara

Or send applications to: info@mayanjaamhf.org 
Submission Deadline: Friday, 10th November 2017 at 5:00pm EAT

Only short listed candidates will be contacted, Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification. MMHF is an equal employment organization and does not charge any fee at any stage of recruitment.