Job Title: HIV Clinical Linkages Specialist
Organisation: Youth Alive Uganda
Duty Station: Uganda
About US:
Youth Alive Uganda is the leader in innovative children, adolescents and youth integrated development programming since 1993. Youth Alive Uganda is a registered youth led and children/youth focused NGO that implements children and youth integrated development programs across the country in four thematic areas; Health, Livelihood, Education, Human rights and skills Development and Mentorship.
Job Summary: The HIV Clinical Linkages Specialist will support strengthening of HIV Case Management implementation, with a focus on health facility/community linkage aspects across the 12 districts implementing the USAID OVC North West Activity. S/he will spearhead collaboration, coordination and building relationships with clinical partners and service providers to improve bi-directional referrals and integrated service delivery across the HIV cascade including HIV/GBV/VAC reduction and response services including uptake in ART, and improved adherence and viral load suppression for OVC and AGYW. The Advisor will bring clinical and community expertise supporting ART adherence, viral load suppression and resilience for OVC and AGYW.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support technical design, training, mentorship of USAID OVC Northwest Activity technical tea and close critical gaps across the HIV cascade to bolster Index Testing, ART linkage, retention, adherence, VLM, VLS outcomes for HEI, C/ALHIV and families living with HIV
- Support and strengthen staff capacity to build strong, functional partnership with clinic partners across the 12 project districts
- Support training and mentorship of project technical teams and staff on effective service delivery to children, adolescents and caregivers living with HIV (C/ALHIV) and other key populations
- Develop and/or recommend training materials, conduct supportive supervision and administer job aids for community structures delivering service and case management support to C/ALHIV families
- Support scale up of Caregivers engagement model layered on Peer Support Groups for C/ALHIV
- Support staff to build strong relationships with District Health Officers and other relevant stakeholders
- Participate in national level meetings with MOH and other relevant ministries related to policy and programming for C/ALHIV to keep USAID OVC North West Activity abreast of policy shifts related to HIV and feed lessons learned into policy discussions
- Support staff to troubleshoot referral and coordination bottlenecks between clinics and communities
- Review and address performance gaps related to HIV outcomes for C/ALHIV with the project technical teams and staff
- Support quarterly and annual report writing and other strategic documentation
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold an advanced Degree in: health, social work and social administration
- At least five years of experience working with children/adolescents living with HIV in clinic and community settings
- Experience with bi-directional clinical referrals/HIV service provider linkages for vulnerable populations
- Understanding of MOH HIV policies and programming for HEI/C/ALHIV
- Good data analytical skills and use of data for decision making
- Excellent writing and report writing skills
- Good communication skills and ability to communicate in the local and national languages.
- Computer skills with expertise in PowerPoint, Word, Excel.
How to Apply:
All interested candidates should send their application letters (a page) and resumes (Max, 3 pages) in a SINGLE PDF DOCUMENT to careers@youthaliveuganda.org The subject of the email should contain; Job title, name of candidate and duty station.
NB: No academic papers required at this stage. Hand-delivered applications will not be considered.
Deadline: 21st October 2022