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Job Overview
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Date PostedNovember 25, 2024
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Location
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Expiration dateDecember 15, 2024
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Experience5 Years
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GenderBoth
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QualificationBachelor Degree
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OrganizationSolthis
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Required LanguagesEnglish, Krio
Job Description
| JOB DESCRIPTION | Updated | 20/11/24 | |
| Pages | 4 |
| Position holder | |
| Job Title | AHD counsellor IMPAACT4HIV |
| Work location | Freetown, Sierra Leone (with regular missions in Western Urban and Rural Areas) |
| Classification |
| Link | Line Manager: IMPAACT4HIV Project Coordinator Sierra Leone
Functional technical referent: HQ Technical Referent IMPAACT4HIV (Medical Advisor) |
| Framing | Line management: N/A
Functional: N/A |
| Overall mission | Reporting to the Project Coordinator, the AHD counsellor is responsible for the quality and implementation of project activities aimed at improving the supply of HIV Advanced Disease (AHD) services in Sierra Leone. S/He monitors activities on site and works closely with implementing partners. S/He identifies the capacity-building needs of partners and ensures that project activities are integrated and appropriated into the activity packages of the structures supported. S/He will play an active role in the project’s monitoring and evaluation/operational research component while working closely with the MEAL officer |
IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING OF THE PROJECT
1- Implementation of activities
- Plans and implements activities in line with Solthis standards, working closely with partners in health structures, national coordination bodies, resource persons in the Solthis Sierra Leone team and at head office, and external service providers.
- Provides expertise in the areas covered by the position (coordinating the participatory diagnosis and monitoring process, improving the quality of AHD services and the organization of care, psychosocial support, mobilizing People Living with HIV (PLHIV)/Support groups through Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and improving the care relationship.
- Builds the capacity of healthcare staff through training and mentorship.
Facilitates training sessions for health care workers and raising awareness among healthcare teams about the challenges of AHD
Provides mentorship and supervision of healthcare teams, provide formative supervision in health centres in the intervention zone, at least once a month in each health care centres, in order to support healthcare professionals in improving the advanced HIV diseases program services (protocols adequately followed, data correctly collected, stock management, etc.) Support to the AHD consultant in his/her clinical mentoring activities
Promotion of a gender approach and respect for patients’ rights in care.
- Contributes in strengthening proper stock management of AHD products at site level
- Participates in coordination meetings and national consultation frameworks related to project themes.
- Strengthens the link with the communities: for effective service integration
Builds the capacity of PLHIVs/Support groups from CSOs and Community Health Workers (CHWs) through training and formative supervision.
Improves defaulter tracing and outcome
Supports the development and follow up of social support package to AHD patients
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- Participate in regular workshops to present results to health structures and health authorities in intervention areas.
- Implementation of operational research activities
- Support the project coordinator in following up the ethical authorization procedures/protocols
- Participates in the initial and ongoing training for research investigators at targeted sites (caregivers, associations, etc.).
- Contribute in ensuring the availability of all research inputs.
- Contribute in supporting and supervising the informed consent and inclusion procedures, collection of demographic data, clinical and biological information, various questionnaires, the performance of biological examinations, and the follow-up of participants.
- Contribute to communicating research results to national authorities and partners
- Contributes to national and international scientific communication
- Monitoring & Evaluation
- Contributes to the development of the project’s M&E plan.
- Contributes to the deployment of mobile data collection tools necessary for the performance monitoring and efficiency of the project’s M&E systems.
- Contributes to monthly data collection and analysis of logical framework indicators.
- Contributes to the critical analysis of project results and indicators.
- Contributes to the drafting of various capitalization documents related to the activities for which he/she is responsible.
- Participates in internal SOLTHIS meetings.
- Participates in coordination meetings and national consultation frameworks relating to project themes.
- Participates in internal and external project evaluations.
- Reporting
- Produces regular reports on activities for which he/she is responsible and submits them to the project coordinator, in accordance with defined procedures and rhythms.
- Communicates major discrepancies between forecast and actual indicators to the project coordinator.
- Contributes to the critical analysis of project results.
- Contributes to the drafting of internal monthly reports according to the template defined upstream.
- Contributes to the preparation of quarterly reviews of annual programs and proposes any necessary reprogramming of projects.
- Contributes to the drafting of reports in accordance with the procedures and rhythms defined by the project sponsor.
CAPITALIZATION AND COMMUNICATION
- Participates in national project steering committees.
- Participates in operational project communications (visibility, dissemination of results, closure, etc.).
- Contributes to the documentation and dissemination of project lessons learned.
- • Ensures that all documents relating to activities under his/her responsibility are archived on SharePoint.
- Contributes to the implementation of the project transition plan.
- Contributes to the implementation of the project’s knowledge transfer plan.
ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL MONITORING
- Contributes to the budgetary management of activities under his/her responsibility.
- Reports any information that may have an impact on the project budget at project meetings.
- Ensures compliance with SOLTHIS and donor administrative and financial procedures within the project team
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- Contributes to the application of the fraud and abuse prevention and management procedure.
SAFETY
- Contributes to the proper application of security rules implemented on the mission.
- Informs the IMPAACT4HIV Project Coordinator of any political/social/humanitarian issues that may have an impact on the mission’s security management.
COMPETENCIES/SKILLS REQUIRED
| Education and
experience |
• Hold a Bachelor degree in nursing or midwifery from recognized institution.
• At least 3 years’ experience clinical experience working in health facilities, and more specifically in a HIV unit. ⇨ Good knowledge of HIV context in Sierra Leone in general, and in particular experience managing HIV patients’ care and support, including but not limited to linkage to antiretroviral treatment, short-course therapy with enhanced prophylaxis and treatment of opportunistic infections, etc. ⇨ Previous experience working for international NGO is a plus ⇨ Experience in collaborating with various institutional partners, including MOH programs; CSOs working on HIV and strengthening of PLHIV’ CSOs |
| Skills and resources required to perform the function | KNOWLEDGE:
• Familiarity with project management and with the norms, policies and procedures of Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health and international standards, i.e WHO, UNAIDS, etc. in terms of HIV in general and AHD in particular. • Knowledge of the project management cycle in the field of health projects, particularly in the field of HIV. • Knowledge of training and mentorship. • Writing and synthesis skills. • Fluency in English SKILLS: • Ability to organize and lead technical workshops and training sessions, and are committed to transmitting high quality knowledge. • Ability to provide formative supervision (tutoring and coaching) for care professionals. • Ability to care for people living with advanced HIV • Ability to work effectively with the hierarchy, and readily adapt to changing work demands. • Flexibility and adaptability, allowing proper stress management • Strengthening of PLHIV CSOs • Teamwork • Analysis, synthesis and writing KNOW HOW TO BE: • A good listener and teacher • Good interpersonal skills, good communication skills, diplomacy • Team spirit • Ability to work in partnership and network • Adaptability • Critical thinking skills • Autonomy |
| Relations
and aim of relationships |
Internal | ⇨ Relations with the country office team (all departments).
⇨ Relations with M&E HQs team members |
| External | Supports the below relations under supervision of Project Coordinator as the Lead; ⇨ IMPAACT4HIV consortium (Aurum Institute, PATA, MAA, DNDi). ⇨ Ministry of Health, National AIDS Secretariat, National AIDS Control Program, DHMTs and Health facilities
⇨ Technical and financial partners (PEPFAR, Global Fund, UN agencies and international NGOs). ⇨ Donor (UNITAID). ⇨ Civil society organizations and INGOs. |
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| This non-contractual document is subject to change according to the needs of the department. SOLTHIS reserves the right to assign additional or complementary tasks to the employee, in accordance with his/her duties and qualifications, without this leading to an increase in remuneration or a modification of the employment contract. |
HOW TO APPLY?
Application: CV, cover letter, and 3 professional references (of which one is the current/latest managers)
To be sent to recruitment.sierra-leone@solthis.org with the subject “AHD Counselor–First Name LAST NAME“.
Application deadline: 15/12/2024
Procedures: Please note only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis and vacancies will be closed when filled. Early applications are therefore encouraged. Any application submitted after this deadline will not be considered
