Reports: Technical Manager
Location: Any of the district offices

Institutional Background
The African Network for the Care of Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (ANECCA) is a network of clinicians and social scientists with a mission to improve the quality of health care services for women, children, adolescents, young adults, and their families in Africa. ANECCA is a registered NGO in Uganda with strong collaboration with the Ministry of Health, District Local Government, and other related institutions.
ANECCA is implementing the USAID Local Partner Health Services – Karamoja Activity, purposely to Support the public health sector to increase the availability, accessibility and utilization of quality integrated HIV and TB services in the Karamoja-region in Eastern Uganda. We are thus seeking applications for qualified individuals for the position of Health Informatics Officer to be based at the Moroto office.

Position summary:
The officer will provide technical guidance and support the designing, implementing, supervision and monitoring of appropriate SBCC and facility-community linkages interventions, within the strategic framework of the LPHS – Karamoja. She/he will provide support supervision to the linkage facilitators at the facilities.
S/he will provide leadership for Social Behavioral Change, Communication, and community support to USAID LPHS – Karamoja project. S/he will support the operation and field teams in responding to HIV/AIDS and TB issues to create synergies between demand creation and services that are centered on adoption of healthy behaviors by communities and target population or groups.

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Designing and implementing appropriate Community – Facility linkage interventions, for the overall implementation of the LPHS – Karamoja Project
• Providing technical assistance to the health facility teams to strengthen community facility linkages aimed at improving patient adherence, retention, self-management, and psychosocial services
• Supervising and monitoring the performance of the based Community structures in collaboration with the District Health management team
• Coordinating periodic reviews of community linkage activities with involvement of all key stakeholders including; District Health teams, linkage coordinators, facilitators, health workers and KP/PP support groups
• Coordinating and supporting linkage facilitators and other psychosocial support groups to execute their roles and responsibilities by participating in HIV interventions activities in the community and health facilities.
• Strengthening the performance management and capacity building mechanism for community structures and resource persons, site-based staff to implement the LPHS – Karamoja project.
• Documenting best practices for community engagement, linkages and HIV prevention at community level
• Developing service delivery strategies for accessing hard to reach populations including identification of opportunities to integrate health services with non-health sectors
• In collaboration with the Monitoring and Evaluation team pre-review and validate data collected for accuracy; before it is shared for input into the reporting system.

Qualifications and job specifications:
• A Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences; or Community Development; or Community Health or Nursing.
• A minimum of 5 years’ work experience implementing and coordinating donor funded programs at district and sub-national levels.
• At least 3 years’ capacity building experience for individuals, groups or NGOs in Health service delivery
• Ability to network and interrelate with government facilities/departments, NGO and other stakeholders when providing technical assistance to the beneficiaries.