Position: Field Officer, Mpigi
Location: Mpigi with regular travel to villages in nearby districts
Summary
The Field Officer will work with HAC staff and partners (majorly Govt. Health Facilities and rural communities) to conduct community organizing activities, expand work to new villages and Districts where need be, collect relevant data, and network with relevant officials.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities
The Field Officer, Mpigi district will:
• Make and maintain contacts with health workers, district health officials, and district officials
• Make and maintain contacts with leaders of targeted villages and community groups within those villages
• Organize community groups in villages that do not have community groups with the capacity to manage the project
• Conduct meetings to explain the project and prepare community groups to mobilize and organize mobile clinics/outreaches
• Organize village meetings with health workers when health workers and community groups are ready to start clinics/outreaches
• Report on conditions on the ground to relevant offices.
• Attend fieldwork or training events when requested by the Directors
• Submit field reports and weekly plans, including allowance requested, to the Program Manager at least 48 hours in advance of when response and transport allowance is required. Allowances for future activities cannot be given unless the field reports have been submitted for completed activities.
• Assist the Field Coordinator in compiling monthly reports
• Collect data forms from health centers and field sites when requested
• Attend monthly staff meetings and make presentations about their work.
• Take photographs of HAC work when possible.

Background & Qualifications
Required
• Diploma
• Strong writing skills in English
• Verbal proficiency in Luganda
• Computer skills: proficiency in Microsoft Word and email and some experience using Excel

Preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health or Social Sciences related field
• Experience working in the public health sector, community engagements, and mobilization.
• Experience using Google Drive products, Kobo, or other project management software

Additional Qualities
• Experience or willingness to travel and work in remote, rural locations
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with others
• Self-driven and able to work in new, unstructured environments
• Strong problem-solving abilities
• Highly organized
• Attention to detail
• Experience in riding a motorcycle with a valid riding permit

Compensation
This position is designed as a full-time (40 hours/week) position. Compensation is 700,000 shillings per month before taxes. Field travel expenses will be paid for by Health Access Connect.

Background
The mission of Health Access Connect is to link remote communities to healthcare. HAC currently pursues this mission through three programs:
1. Medicycles: We use microfinance Boda Bodas to bring Ugandan government health workers to set up one-day mobile clinics in remote villages. In those clinics, health workers give HIV testing, antiretroviral treatment, immunizations, perinatal services, family planning, and many other services available in rural health centers.
2. Technical Advising: We collaborate with Africa Resource Centre (ARC) and the Uganda Ministry of Health to teach and empower PEPFAR implementing partner (IP) organizations to implement alternative drug distribution point models in an effort to a) improve a) antiretroviral therapy (ART) and general treatment health service provision and b) decongest health facilities.
3. Treat & Teach: We improve access to family planning in the communities of Masaka, Kalangala, and Lwengo districts by a) providing low-density high-frequency certificate training to health workers, b) setting up outreach clinics in remote communities, c) generating demand by collaborating with community health workers (VHTs), and d) reducing commodity stock-outs by providing buffer stocks and improving commodity tracking at partner health facilities.