Position: PMTCT Specialist (1)
Reports To: Technical Advisor Care and treatment
Supervises: PMTCT Officers
Duty station: Jinja

Job Summary:
The PMTCT Specialist will provide strategic planning and technical leadership for PMTCT programming to USAID LPHS-EC project teams, as well as the district local governments and their structures. The position holder will also build and effectively manage PMTCT partnerships at various levels and teams including the Ministry of Health, Development, and Implementing Partner Networks, as well as within and across the region.

Roles and Responsibilities
1. Closely working with supervisor, other program, and district teams, to lead the design, implementation, and continuous evaluation of PMTCT interventions.
2. Lead efforts for and participate in hands-on PMTCT skills building activities for districts, healthcare facility and community managers and service delivery teams through onsite training, support supervision, mentoring and coaching.
3. Closely work with and support project Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning team, district, and site teams on a continuous basis to identify PMTCT site-level record gaps and put in place and institutionalize corrective actions.
4. Closely work with and optimally leverage efforts from the MOH, regional and district PMTCT/MNCH teams to build and sustain healthcare facility level capacity for delivery of quality PMTCT services across the continuum of services.
5. Support implementation and utilization of the PMTCT audit tools to scale in all ART sites.
6. Fully participate in development of project workplans as well as writing reports and presenting performance results as when and where needed.
7. Effectively and actively participate in the MOH PMTCT technical working group activities and other related national level fora, including providing effective representation of the project.
8. Supervise other project teams as designated.

Key personnel competencies
• Diploma in Clinical Medicine, and additional training and experience in eMTCT/Pediatric/HIV/AIDS clinical management and programming.
• Additional graduate training (i.e. MPH) will be of added advantage.
• At least 5 years’ experience working with eMTCT, care and treatment clinical service delivery support programs.
• Knowledge in clinical eMTCT programming, including the current national guidelines for HIV prevention, care and treatment and TB management in eMTCT settings.
• Experience in training and mentoring other healthcare workers.
• Experience is leading other project teams to achieve desired project goals.
Position: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Officer (1)
Reports To: Technical Advisor HIV Prevention
Duty station: Busia District.

Job Summary:
Diagnose, treat, and prevent mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders among People living with, affected and at high risk of HIV infection. Provide screening for mental health.
illness and offer appropriate counselling. Roles and responsibilities
1. Support facilities and communities to integrate Mental health assessment and management.
2. Popularize a web-based depression self-assessment tool (avid18) among clients and health workers.
3. Provide technical assistance to project teams and the district health workers/Community structures to strengthen mental health integration into HIV programming.
4. She/he will offer tele-health counselling to clients outside the area of placement to reach more in need.
5. Coordinate and conduct periodic stakeholder/DIC HIV prevention meetings aimed at promoting collaboration, learning and adaptation (CLA) among stakeholders on mental health integration.
6. S/he will support facilities and communities to assess mental health among the clients and get appropriate support.
7. Take lead on mentorship and implementation of The Akena’s Visual Depression Inventory (AVIDI-18) both audio/video versions for KPs, PLHIVs at DIC and facilities.
8. Analyze the filled forms and offer appropriate support.
Qualifications, job requirements and Competencies
• A diploma in Psychiatric medicine, Psychiatric Nursing or Clinical Psychology.
• Training in public health, or related field will be of added advantage.
• A minimum of 3 years’ relevant working experience in health settings providing psychosocial support services.
• Experience of working with MOH, District and Community Health structures in HIV.
• Excellent communication skills to manage a wide range of relationships with colleagues, and patients and their families.
• Emotional resilience, a calm temperament, and the ability to work well under pressure.
• Teamwork and the capacity to work with multidisciplinary teams.
• Problem-solving and diagnostic skills
• Non-Judgmental of gender orientation.

Position: District Data Officer (1).
Reports to: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
Supervises: Data Clerks
Duty station: Any of LPHS-EC implementing districts.

Job Summary:
The District Data Officer (DDO) will work closely with the District Biostatistician to ensure that patient’s records are captured accurately and HMIS reports are compiled and submitted in the DHIS2 and all donor-reporting systems. Under the supervision of the M&E Specialist, the Data officer will coordinate project M&E activities at District level.

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Work closely with health sub-district records officers and district HMIS focal persons and Biostatisticians to quantify the HMIS and non-HMIS tools needed to ensure sustained data collection at the health facility.
• Engage with the records assistants and data clerks to ensure that best practices of medical records storage and management are implemented.
• Work with data clerks to ensure all source documents especially ART registers are regularly updated at all ART sites.
• Ensure that HIV care data captured on patient forms during patient visits is transcribed to pre-ART and ART registers and updated in the Uganda EMR on time in the district of allocation.
• Review, provide feedback (flagging errors, outliers) from data submitted by Data clerks and ensure corrective action is affected.
• Ensure all required data (in HIBIRD, ODK, SURGE, additional indicators etc.) is collected and entered in the pre-designed systems for project performance measurement.
• Work closely with the facility records officers to mentor and coach other health workers on appropriate use of HMIS data collection tools for data capture including ensuring timely update of HMIS tools.
• Conduct technical supervision visits to sites where data clerks are allocated to ensure conformity to M&E standards.
• Work closely with District Biostatistician to conduct monthly data cleaning for District specific data.
• Work closely with data clerks, to receive feedback on HMIS and M&E logistical needs (HMIS tools, files, internet etc.).
• Prepare and ensure data displays (including annual targets) of facility data are displayed at health facilities routinely in the district.
• Work with records officers and data clerks to ensure proper filing and file retrieval during patient care and updated patient records in Uganda EMR (this is at the site of allocation).
• Working with the District Biostatistician, ensure that confidentiality of data collected and stored is always maintained in proper filling and archival systems in supported sites in the district.
• Ensure that the entered Uganda EMR data are backed up regularly and the data are well protected and provide a monthly Uganda EMR status to the M&E Specialist.
• Ensure Uganda EMR is used for clinic patient management using appointment lists, line lists for patient management and reporting.
• Ensure safety of all equipment in the data rooms (applies to sites where allocated).
• Perform basic routine data analysis on data from HMIS data to inform MJAP District-based teams on the progress of interventions at the supported District and share with the M&E Specialist.
• Performance of data entry and aggregation duties assigned by the M&E Specialist.
• Perform any other related duties assigned by the supervisors.
• Perform other related duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications, job requirements and competencies:
• A Bachelors’ degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Business statistics, and Quantitative Economics.
• A certificate in data management or Analysis is an added advantage.
• At least 2 years’ experience in data management in health setting
• Familiarity with use of Microsoft Excel, ODK, DHIS2, HIBRID, Uganda EMR.
• Working knowledge of Health Management Information System (HMIS).

Job title: Counsellors (3)
Reports to: District Linkage Officer
Supervises: Community Health Workers.

Job Summary:
To provide comprehensive HIV counselling and psychosocial support to clients, their families, Community members and to mobilize and support communities to respond to the HIV epidemic.
Specific duties and responsibilities:
1. Provide Quality and Comprehensive Counselling Services to Clients, their partners and other family members (Pre-test, Post-test, Adherence support, Intensive Adherence Counselling).
2. Conduct assessment of Patients for HTS and provide necessary psychosocial care.
3. Participate in the process of empowering patients with skills for self-reliance and making appropriate succession plans.
4. Refer & link Clients to appropriate medical and psychosocial support.
5. Conduct CMEs at the facility and community based on the assessed training needs.
6. Provide technical support to facility and community volunteers on HIV/AIDS and TB awareness and document success stories.
7. Conduct health education talks on HIV prevention and other HIV related issues.
8. Conduct home visits to clients/patients and their family members.
9. Offer Index client counselling & testing to house members of facility clients she/he is attached too.
10. Support linkage Volunteers in linking clients to appropriate Health & Social Services.
11. Counsel and initiate PrEP to HIV high risk populations at facilities and the communities served.
12. Document key outputs in the relevant MOH data capture tools.
13. Compile weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports for the facilities supported on key HIV/AIDS and TB indicators.
14. Participate in facility and program meetings as may be scheduled by the supervisor.

Minimum Qqualifications, and Job requirements.
• Diploma in Nursing, Counselling from a recognized institution.
• At least 1 years’ experience in HIV counseling in a busy clinical setting.
• Mentorship, Counseling, and Communication skills.
• Must be willing to travel and provide care services at selected health facilities and outreaches.
• Willingness to work and live in rural areas is required.
• Special knowledge in the management of adverse events following circumcision and its related complication.
• Confidentiality, team player and ability to empathize.
• Ability to communicate in the language dialects used in East Central region (Lusoga, Lugweri, Swahili, Samia, Luganda).

Role Title: Laboratory Program Officer (1)
Reports To: Laboratory Specialist
Supervises: None
Duty Station: Bugiri Cluster

Job Summary: Support provision of laboratory services under the USAID Local Partner Health Services East Central. Working in collaboration with the MoH CPHL/UNHLS and the districts, the post holder will support the Laboratory Specialist to coordinate trainings, mentorships, and support supervision to strengthen the capacity of laboratory staff in the EC region to provide quality Viral Load (VL) and TB laboratory services.
Specific duties and responsibilities.
• Support planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the laboratory activities within the EC region.
• Support the Laboratory Specialist in the coordination and supervision of laboratory services in liaison with the district laboratory focal persons.
• Support implementation of Laboratory Management Quality Systems in the supported laboratories.
• Support monitoring and improvement of TB laboratory services including GeneXpert reporting, ZN and TB LAM.
• Support monitoring and improvement of VL testing, HPV testing and advanced HIV disease screening at the supported laboratories
• Support functionality and improvement of laboratory hub services in liaison with the hub staff and the partners within the region.
• Mentor and coach laboratory staff in the supported health facilities.
• Support the establishment and strengthening of efforts to implement Bio-risk management systems at supported health facilities.
• Support and strengthen the laboratory supply chain system of supported districts alongside the district health teams.
• Support and strengthen External Quality Assurance and Internal Quality Assurance across all supported districts.

Minimum qualifications, and Job requirements.
• Bachelor’s degree in biomedical laboratory technology or its equivalent.
• At least 3 years’ post-qualification experience of laboratory work, with at least two years supporting strengthening of laboratory quality management systems.
• Registration with the Allied Health Professional Council.
• Relevant post graduate training will be an added advantage.
• Demonstrated ability in supporting public health laboratories systems for the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of HIV/AIDS and TB services.
• Self-motivated, able to work under minimum supervision.
• Ability to execute multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Training, facilitation, coaching and mentorship skills.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent understanding of quality management systems
Job title: Hub Riders (16)
Reports to: District Program Officer
Supervises: None
Duty station: Any of project implementing districts.

Job Summary:
• To support transportation of laboratory specimens and test results from and to designated health facilities served by the project supported Laboratory hubs.
Specific duties and responsibilities.
• Support transportation of laboratory specimens and test results for Viral Load, EID, TB GeneXpert, CD4, CBC, Chemistry, and histopathology tests, including samples/test results from/to health facilities served by the hubs, within the recommended specimen age and turn around time (TAT).
• Support electronic tracking of laboratory samples and test results from lower health facilities through the hubs, using a mobile Application software (ResTrack).
• Maintain proper records for motorcycle mileage and submit monthly fuel accountabilities through the hub coordinator to the USAID-LPHS-EC project Administration Officer.
• Ensure regular maintenance of the Laboratory hub motorcycle in liaison with local service providers (garages) and ensure proper use and safe custody of the hub motorcycle in compliance with MoH/NHLDS hub operational guidelines.
• Support redistribution of essential laboratory commodities within district, and other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

Minimum qualifications, and Job requirements.
• Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) or its equivalent. UACE or higher qualifications will be an added advantage.
• Possession of a valid riding permit at the time of recruitment is mandatory.
• Experience in motorcycle riding, and knowledge of motorcycle maintenance.
• Good knowledge of road Safety and traffic regulations.
• The person should possess good knowledge and skills for proper handling and transportation of infectious and hazardous substances.
• Previous experience with PEPFAR funded programs.
• Good people skills and ability to work under minimal supervision.
Job title: Back-up Hub Riders (10)
Reports to: District Program Officer
Supervises: None
Duty station: Any of project implementing districts.

Job Summary:
• The Back-up Hub Rider will be called-up to support transportation of laboratory specimens and test results from and to designated health facilities served by the project supported Laboratory hubs as and when required.
Specific duties and responsibilities.
• Support transportation of laboratory specimens and test results for Viral Load, EID, TB GeneXpert, CD4, CBC, Chemistry, and histopathology tests, including samples/test results from/to health facilities served by the hubs, within the recommended specimen age and defined Turn Around Time (TAT).
• Support electronic tracking of Laboratory samples and test results from lower health facilities through the hubs, using a mobile Application software (ResTrack).
• Maintain proper records for motorcycle mileage and submit monthly fuel accountabilities through the hub coordinator to the USAID-LPHS-EC project Administration Officer.
• Ensure regular maintenance of the Laboratory hub motorcycle in liaison with local service providers (garages) and ensure proper use and safe custody of the hub motorcycle in compliance with MoH/NHLDS hub operational guidelines.
• Support redistribution of essential laboratory commodities within district, and other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.
Minimum qualifications, and Job requirements.
• The position requires a person with at least Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) or its equivalent. UACE or higher qualifications will be an added advantage.
• Possession of a valid riding permit at the time of recruitment is mandatory.
• Experience in motorcycle riding, and knowledge of motorcycle maintenance.
• Good knowledge of road Safety and traffic regulations.
• The person should possess good knowledge and skills for proper handling and transportation of infectious and hazardous substances.
• Previous experience with PEPFAR funded programs.
• Good people skills and ability to work under minimal supervision.