Number of positions: One
Duty Station: Rakai & Lyantonde
Reports to: Field Coordinator
Organisation: Health Access Connect, https://healthaccessconnect.org
Application Deadline: 11th April 2024
Job Summary
The Maintenance 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.
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Summary
The Maintenance 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.
Background
The mission of Health Access Connect is to link remote communities to healthcare. HAC currently pursues this mission through three programs:
- Medicycles: We help remote communities to bring government health workers and their medicines to their villages on a monthly bases. In these outreach clinics health workers give HIV testing, anti-retroviral treatment, immunizations, perinatal services, family planning, and many other services available in rural health centres.
- 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.
- Treat & Teach: We improves access to family planning in the communities of Masaka and Kalangala 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.
- Digitalization of the Health Commodities Supply Chain: In partnership with Signalytic, we are improving the stock visibility in selected Health Facilities in Masaka District Local Government and City. This is a push from the Ministry of Health that will see a move to paperless ordering of Health Facility commodities overtime.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
The Maintenance Officer will:
- Ensure regular continuity of Outreach sites.
- Make and maintain contacts with health workers, district health officials, and district officials.
- Make and maintain contacts with leaders of targeted villages, VHTs and community groups within those villages.
- 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 when and where need arises .
- Report on conditions on the ground to the Coordinator and other relevant staff members.
- Attend meetings, field work or trainings as and when requested by the Employer.
- Submit field reports and weekly plans, including advance requests, at least 48 hours in advance of when response and transport allowance are required. Allowances for future activities cannot be given unless the field reports have been submitted for completed activities.
- Assist Field Coordinator in compiling monthly reports.
- Support data collection from health Facilities and field sites routinely and on special request .
- Keep in close communication with the Field Coordinator about what is happening in the Field.
- Take photographs of HAC work when possible, Collect feedback surveys and testimonials and submit them to responsible departmental head
Background & Qualifications
Required
- A diploma in Public Health, Social Sciences or any other related field.
- A minimum of 2 years in a related field.
- Strong writing skills in English
- Verbal proficiency in either Luganda and Lunyakole
- Computer skills: proficiency in Microsoft Word and email and some experience using Excel
- Ability to ride a motorcycle with a Valid Riding License
Preferred
- Experience working in the public health sector, community engagements and mobilization.
- Experience using Google Drive products and 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
