Position Number: MUWRP/02/11/2022
Position Title: Community Outreach officer (1) Position
Position Location: Mukono General Hospital.
Contract Tenure: 6 months with a possibility of extension subject to availability of funding.

Position summary:
To promote meaningful and mutually beneficial community participation in MUWRP-Mukono based Research.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• Establish and maintain close collaborative links with study communities through meetings with key stakeholders and study participants and working closely with project leaders on providing feedback to stake holders.
• Conduct meetings with peer leaders of study participants to guide organization’s operations with the study population
Develop, implement and evaluate volunteer recruitment strategies and outreach efforts to increase awareness of, and enrolment into clinical research studies
• Facilitate enrolment of research volunteers into the study.
• Administer questionnaires to research volunteers
• Conduct health education to Research Participants
• Work with the research team to monitor and follow up of study participants for study compliance
• Identify and bring to the attention of the research team, key barriers to research participant recruitment
• Conduct behavioral oriented counseling on psycho social issues for research participants
Conduct home visits for the research volunteers if needed.
• Take part in organizing project’s events and commemoration of the HIV international days
• Engage in public relation activities within and out of the organization
• Facilitate CAB functions.

Required Education and Knowledge and experience:
• At least a higher Diploma in Adult and community education, social science, Journalism, Mass communication or related field.
• Sound knowledge of how to engage communities in research and understanding factors that facilitate community participation.
Experience in Health communication, and stakeholder engagement.
• Use of media technology, preparing IEC materials.
• Ability to work outside regular work hours.
• Experience working in a research environment and recruiting of diverse study population is an added advantage

Supervisory Controls:
The candidate will report to the Community Outreach Coordinator.
Physical ability: The ability to travel within the work site and field stations.