About US:

University Research Co., LLC (URC) was founded in 1965 as a global company dedicated to improving the quality of health care, social services, and health education worldwide. With a non-profit affiliate, the Center for Human Services (CHS), URC manages projects in over 45 countries, including the United States. University Research Co., LLC (URC) offers a range of technical assistance to strengthen health and social systems and service quality by empowering communities and health workers to identify and scale up locally appropriate solutions to critical problems.

About USAID Project:

 With the RHITES-N Acholi Project (Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Northern Uganda – Acholi), USAID will continue its support of the Government of Uganda’s (GOU) efforts to improve access to and use of health services in the country’s post-conflict northern region. RHITES-N Acholi Project activities will build on USAID investments and national advances to increase access to and use of high-quality integrated services that accelerate the ability and capacity to respond to the specific health needs of residents in the Acholi sub-region, leveraging the URC-ASSIST project successes.

Job Summary:

The Key and Priority Population (KP/PP) Officer will support the implementation of KP/PP services in the RHITES-N, Acholi region. S/he will be responsible for the KP/PP targets and will provide technical support including mentorship and supervision of KP led CSOs, Peer Navigators and district frontline health workers in both technical aspects of KP_PREV, KP_MAT and KP_TX New and GBV_PREV in professional health care delivery.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure provision of quality services for KP/PP populations in line with National and PEPFAR protocols and guidelines
• Collaboratively work with the Prevention Advisor, District Technical Coordinators, and District/Health Facility KP focal persons to develop, weekly, monthly and quarterly KP/PP work plans and budgets in the districts.
• Conduct routine mentorship and continuous quality improvement activities to improve KP/PP services within the district, health facilities and participate in quality assurance/Quality Control for services in project-supported facilities in the cluster area.
• Coordinate technical support supervision and mentorship visits on KP/PP prevention and clinical cascade, for health facilities to strengthen KP services.
• Scale up integration of health services such as; GBV, FP, ANC, TB and STI testing, at health facility and community levels.
• Work with the District Health Teams (DHT), health facilities and KP CSOs to facilitate the provision and access to HIV prevention services for KP/PP in the districts.
• Coordinate modular training/refreshers of health providers, KP/PP Peer navigators (with practical component) in PrEP, HIVST, TB, GBV management, HIV care and treatment etc.
• Conduct hotspot mapping and compile best practices and harmonize approaches into a comprehensive KP service package that can be owned and implemented at KP sites.
• Support existing community organizations, civil society activities, local culture group activities and professional organizations that can be used to support and build capacity of community structures in delivering KP services.
• Spearhead KP peer deployments to supervise a hotspot for tracking and monitoring KPs to promote retention and adherence to PrEP and ART.
• Pilot KP social network meetings, information sharing using mobile apps to ensure continuum of care and accuracy of data
• Engage KP Peers to provide HIV prevention information and promote HIV testing as a routine service in all hotspots as well as advocating for sex worker HIV testing and counseling.
• Support KP peers to create demand for safer sex interventions, PrEP, assisted partner notification (APN) in hotspots, facilities as well as utilization of GBV care by actively screening and referring cases for management.
• Work with M& E officers to support health facilities monitor weekly, monthly and quarterly KP reports.
• Generate monthly KP cascades for both prevention and treatment, QI initiatives report and include in monthly reports.
• Work with the Supply chain officers to ensure constant supply of HIV testing kits, STI drugs, lubricants, ARVs, condoms and other health consumables for both mothers and HIV infected infants.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in any health related fields or social sciences;
• Experience in HIV programming specifically in running HIV prevention programs targeting key and priority populations for at least 3 years.
• Ability to function in a leadership capacity, independently and in team settings
• Conceptual thinker with excellent organizational skills, time management skills and attention to detail
• Strong oral and written English communication skills
• Computer literacy with standard business software (including Word, Excel and Power Point)
• Willingness to travel within the country 25% of his/her work time.
• Desired Qualifications:
• Training in Counselling and psychosocial support will be an added advantage
• Experience working with a range of central and local government officials and government health facilities
• Experience with U.S. Government-funded programs

Please note: Only candidates who are eligible to work in Uganda for an indefinite period without a need for sponsorship will be considered for this position.

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Deadline: 8 June 2020