Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, August 27, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Afya Mzuri is a Zambian local non-governmental health organization founded in 2003 with the ambition to be recognized as Zambia’s leading local expert in behaviour change, community empowerment and knowledge management. Its mission is to contribute to the national health response through empowering people and communities to adopt healthy behaviours through innovative and participatory approaches.
Afya Mzuri has an extensive background in behaviour change interventions, working in both urban and peri-urban settings to address health risks focusing on Gender, Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) and HIV Prevention since 2003. Afya Mzuri’s participatory approach aims at including target key populations including (but not limited to) adolescent girls and boys, young women and youths and inadequately serviced population.
Afya Mzuri’s service provision has expanded in recent years to focus on all aspects of health and wellbeing – specifically Tuberculosis (TB), malaria, maternal newborn & child health, nutrition, reproductive health, and lifestyle diseases.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit on a number of positions on the 5 years approved sub-award on TB Local Organization Network (TBLON) project under USAID Cooperative Agreement working with Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ). The project aims at strengthening public health responses and improving community awareness on TB in Southern Province of Zambia.
1. Community Mobilization Advisor (Project Lead) .

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Provide technical support and expertise to CIRDZ’s country-level TB/HIV activities; analyze performance on TB/HIV indicators in the area of operation. Assess Ministry of Health TB/HIV interventions against project deliverables and targets to ensure that national TB/HIV policies and clinical guidance is adhered.
• Provide leadership to the team, build capacity, and coordinate roles within a strong technical project team by providing technical assistance in engagement and mobilization of community to ensure delivery of high-quality accessible TB services.
• Support the design and implementation of local solutions to increase drug-sensitive and drug-resistant cases as well as lost to follow cases, especially among vulnerable populations such as PLHIV, women, children, and miners and traders.
• Making referrals and follow ups (documenting) on clients being referred to further services
• Ensure that monitoring and evaluation related data is timely obtained and reported.
• Work with local technical experts to ensure: increased understanding of TB; increased demand for services; and increased participation in effective service delivery by relevant groups.
• Supervise the TB/HIV treatment, care and support teams and programmes or plan, organize and evaluate existing medical activities for TB patients, and be a link to CIRDZ researchers.
• Work in close collaboration with key service delivery personnel at health facilities to support the increased knowledge of, demand for, and utilization of TB services through more networking and technical working groups.
• Work with the community structures to build capacity of local communities’ health workers team or CBVs to take a lead in TB prevention, treatment, and care and support services delivery, including documentation and reporting of community TB care activities.
• Provide support in communities to implement clear, innovative approaches and models for implementing DOTS that build on existing community based programs and/or leverage resources from other stakeholders to ensure adequate coverage of innovative tools to strengthen diagnostic and treatment capacity in project intervention areas;
• In addition, perform any other duties as may be assigned.

Job Skills: Not Specified

Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience;
• Degree in Social work/ Development studies/ Environmental health services or equivalent academic degree, or Degree in Public Health is an added advantage.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in health services provision.
• Experience in and understanding of TB control is required.
• Ability to conduct trainings and build capacity in community engagement, TB control, including demonstrated DOTS and TB case-finding, diagnosis, and treatment.
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and maintain schedules for deliverables with excellent attention to details.
• High interpersonal skills to facilitate relations with government institutions and local partners;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
• Excellent report writing skills and strong computer skills including familiarity with Microsoft office programs;
• Excellent organizational, planning, negotiating and problem-solving skills;
• Familiarity working with international organizations is preferred.

Job Education Requirements: Degree in Social work

Job Experience Requirements: Minimum 3-5 years

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Applicants should submit a covering one paged letter detailing how their skills, qualifications and experience match the minimum requirements outlined above, together with a CV (maximum 3 pages) and the full contact details of at least 3 professional referees, one of which should include current employer, where applicable and the expected salary.
The closing date for applications is Monday 31 August 2020. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please submit applications by addressing to the Executive Director, Afya Mzuri, Lusaka, indicating the position applied for in the subject to both email addresses: afyamzurijobs2020@gmail.com  and enquiries@afyamzuri.org.zm
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