Knowledge, Skills & Competences
• Experience working with health financing and/or understanding of supply chain management issues and challenges in Uganda.
• Familiarity with HIV/AIDS and TB PEPFAR indicators and quantitative and qualitative data to monitor overall project performance.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to interact professionally with diverse people, clients, and consultants.
• Ability to build capacity and enhance collaboration between governmental and nongovernmental partners and other project implementers.
• Strong coordination and organizational skills and ability to assess priorities and manage a variety of activities in a time-sensitive manner and meet deadlines with attention to detail and quality.
• Strong communication, reporting, and writing skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound judgment and decisions and offer innovative solutions
• Strong relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally. Strategic in how you approach each relationship.
• Good presentation and facilitation skills
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions and results-oriented

Responsibilities
• Lead capacity assessments, and review of existing information and data along the HSS Building
• Blocks, identify gaps and support development, implementation of capacity building plans for RRH, DHTs, district hospitals to achieve a strong and sustained decentralized HIV and TB response
• Build the capacity of RRH as training and mentorship hubs for DHTs and district hospitals and support development and implementation of cascade plans to peripheral health facilities within the region
• Provide technical support to RRH in planning, coordination and development of regional HIV/AIDS strategic plans, develop dissemination plans and cascade the same support to districts
• Strengthen CQI structures at regional, district and health facilities and work with to train and mentor them for implementation of effective and targeted CQI efforts for improved learning and adaptation
• Facilitate RRH to conduct supportive supervision and mentorship to the districts and cascade down to facilities and ensure reports are shared and actions tracked to close service delivery gaps
• Assist in increasing capacity of RRH in performance monitoring and promoting use of data for decision making and cascade down capacity to districts and lower-level health facilities
• Build capacity for decentralized HIV service delivery and strengthen community led monitoring of service delivery with a strong people-centered approach
• Train and through accompaniment, mentor and coach District Health Team (DHT) to coordinate and oversee supply chain management including utilization of electronic logistics management information systems
• Support DHTs, RRH and district hospitals proper and timely quantification and ordering of essential medicines, ARVs, TB and laboratory commodities
• Train and mentor RRH and district hospitals to support lower-level facilities to improve inventory management, stock and order fulfillment monitoring/tracking and use of available logistics system.

Qualifications
• Master’s Degree in public health, epidemiology, health economics, public policy, or a related field.

Details of experience
• 10+ years of relevant experience in coordinating, managing, and providing HSS technical assistance to large, complex facility and/or community-based health projects focusing on HIV/AIDS, TB, or related, for US Government-funded projects preferred.
• At least five (5) years of first-hand experience in strengthening health services, health provider training and capacity building, performance improvement, or supervision in a developing country, preferably Uganda.