Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Tanzania Health Promotion Support (THPS) is an indigenous NGO established under nongovernmental organization act No 24 of 2002 in 2011. THPS works in partnership with the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Community Development Gender Elderly and Special Groups; Regional Administration and Local Governments (PORALG), Ministry of Health in Zanzibar and Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) with a goal of ensuring accessible high-quality health care services to all Tanzanians; through strengthening of health systems for quality health services.
THPS, is implementing a five (5) years AFYA HATUA (Sustain Treatment, Enrolment and HIV Prevention-STEP) project funded by CDC/PEPFAR. Through AFYA HATUA, THPS delivers client centered, comprehensive facility and community-based HIV prevention, care, and treatment services for general, key and vulnerable populations in Pwani, Kigoma and Shinyanga regions, and contributes to the country's epidemic control. Based on the Government of Tanzania's (GOT) National Multisectoral Strategic Framework (NMSF) IV, Health Sector HIV Strategic Plan (HSHSP) IV, and PEPFAR COP21 priorities, AFYA HATUA extends best practices and lessons learned from THPS's 10+ years of implementing HIV programs in Tanzania. THPS is partnering with all LGAs in the 3 regions, faith-based health facilities, and community-based, key population (KP)-led organizations to achieve the project goals.
THPS therefore is seeking competent, experienced, dynamic and qualified candidates to fill the positions listed below.
Position title: Maternal, Pediatric, PMTCT/EID and Adolescent Technical Advisor
Dar es salaam with 60% field travel
Overall job summary: To provide technical support and oversee implementation of prevention/elimination of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) and ensure the program achieves its goals in supported regions. Specifically, S/He will be responsible for design, planning and coordination of PMTCT activities including early infant diagnosis (EID). As Tanzania embarks on elimination of mother to child transmission (EMTCT) through life long antiretroviral therapy to pregnant and lactating women.
As pediatric and adolescent's technical advisor, will oversee implementation of pediatric HIV activities to ensure program is reaching program target including on early infant diagnosis (EID), pediatric HIV testing and identification, linkage to treatment, retention and ensure pediatric are virally suppressed. As part of maternal component, s/he will provide support on cervical cancer prevention program (CECAP) services implementation in supported regions and facilities. Specifically, S/He will be responsible for design, planning and coordination of CECAP activities including screening of all eligible women attending CTC services for cervical cancer, ensure all screened positive for cervical cancers are receiving right treatment.
S/He will provide technical guidance to THPS PMTCT/Pediatric/CECAP program and field officers in ensuring national guidelines, standards and protocols are followed across supported health facilities. The successful candidate will also represent THPS in national TWG meetings addressing PMTCT/Pediatric/CECAP and adolescents related issues.

Specific Roles and Responsibilities:
• Provide technical support to pediatric HIV/CECAP and PMTCT field officers and regional teams in the planning, initiation and implementation of pediatric HIV, CECAP and PMTCT /EID services.
• Work with regional teams to strengthen the capacity of regional and council health management team (R/CHMTs) for delivery of quality pediatric HIV, CECAP and PMTCT /EID and adolescents services.
• Lead in development of pediatric HIV, CECAP, PMTCT /EID and adolescents standard operating procedures (SOPs), targeted continuous medical education (CME) packages and other relevant materials for improving and advancing pediatric HIV, CECAP, PMTCT/EID and adolescents services in supported regions.
• Work with field officers and health providers at facilities to design and implement innovative strategies for improving the quality of early infant HIV diagnosis in collaboration with the R/CHMTs and Hospital Management Teams (HMTs).
• Oversee capacity building; supportive supervision, mentoring, and formal training activities of pediatric HIV, CECAP, PMTCT /EID and adolescents' interventions in supported regions.
• Work with the monitoring and evaluation team in monthly analysis and reporting of PMTCT program data and recommend innovations for addressing identified gaps. . Work close with field staff and ME team to ensure pediatric HIV, CECAP, PMTCT /EID and adolescents' data are triangulated with all source documents prior to reporting to ensure data quality.
• Coordinate with regional and district teams to ensure all HIV exposed infants have graduated with their HIV final status documented in the CTC2 database.
• Oversee correct PMTCT/EID and CECAP data entry into national reporting system (DHIS2) PMTCT by field officers and health providers.
• Oversee quality dried blood spot (DBS) samples taking by RCH staff to avoid rejections
• Provide onsite mentorship on CECAP and PMTCT documentation according to national guidelines and standard operating procedures
• Work as part of the multi-disciplinary technical team to provide technical guidance to the THPS regional teams in planning program activities, ensuring close linkages between PMTCT, EID, TB/HIV and pediatric HIV and AIDS services. Collaborate with Moh other partners to ensure the functionality of support services including availability of adequate stocks of supplies for pediatric HIV, CECAP, PMTCT /EID and improve on turnaround time (TAT) for HIV results of exposed infants.
• Provide support to health providers in addressing challenges arising from management of clinical cases.
• Lead the development of pediatric and adolescent HIV standard operating procedures (SOPs), targeted continuous medical education (CME) packages and other relevant materials for improving and advancing pediatric and adolescent HIV services.
• Provide technical support to THPS field teams in the planning, initiation and implementation of pediatric and adolescent HIV services to reach 95-95-95.
• Lead the design and implementation of innovative strategies and service delivery models for improving the quality of pediatric and adolescent HIV services including index testing, multimonths drug dispensing for eligible clients, TB prevention treatment.
• Oversee the design and roll-out of a package of HIV prevention, care and treatment services reaching adolescents and youth ages 10-24 years and children below 10 years including health service demand creation activities, HIV testing and counselling, linkage to care, referral for family planning, creation of safe spaces and expanded access to adolescent-friendly health services; and GBV screening.
• Ensure that project strategies and activities addressing youth are evidence-based and in line with state-of-the-art, globally recognized best practices; and aligned with GoT, and PEPFAR standards, protocols and guidelines.
• Ensure that the project engages youth in all stages to promote youth leadership and ensure that youth perspectives are taken into consideration.
• Promote integration across a range of services for adolescents and youth a holistic, familycentered approach to improving their wellbeing.
• Ensure all youth-focused strategies are gender-sensitive and promote equitable programming.
• Identify capacity building needs; targeted supportive supervision, mentoring, and modular training activities for pediatric and adolescent HIV interventions,
• Develop and/or contribute to technical briefs, reports, guidelines and other materials.
• Collaborate with Adherence and Psychosocial support and retention TA to ensure all adolescents are enrolled into adolescent clubs.
• Work with the M&E team in monthly analysis and reporting of pediatric and adolescent HIV service program data and recommend innovations for addressing identified gaps.
• Coordinate clinical advisors to ensure pediatric and adolescent HIV activities are standardized and contribute to increased identification, enrollment and retention in care and treatment.
• Ensure pediatric and adolescent data are triangulated with source documents before reporting to ensure data quality.
• Working as part of the multi-disciplinary technical team to provide technical guidance to the regional teams in planning program activities, ensuring close linkages between pediatric and adolescent HIV services and other program areas including CECAP, PMTCT, EID and TB/HIV.
• Work closely with MoH and other partners to ensure the functional supply chain for pediatric drug formulations and other supplies to ensure uninterrupted services.
• Perform any other activities as may be assigned

Required Skills, knowledge & Experience:
• Medical Degree is mandatory; Masters of Public Health or a post graduate training in internal medicine or infectious training will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of five years' experience working with HIV/AIDS Care and treatment programs as Maternal, Pediatric, PMTCT/EID and Adolescent Technical Personnel.
• Proven interpersonal skills in working effectively as a member of a team and independently.
• Ability to deal effectively and diplomatically with multiple government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, faith-based organizations, and the private sector
• Strong planning and management skills
• Ability to work independently with strong problem-solving skills
• Computer literacy and proven verbal and written communication skills including a demonstrated ability to write technical documents and give state-of-the-art presentations
• Willingness to travel in AH supported regions up to 60% of the time building capacity of facility base HCW, RHMT, CHMT and THPS sub granted
• Fluency in English and Swahili

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Interested applicants should send their application cover letter one page maximum and CV four pages maximum to recruitment@thps.or.tz  by September 18, 2022 with a subject line of 'Position' Maternal, Pediatric, PMTCT/EID and Adolescent Technical Advisor". Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. Please do not attach any certificates when submitting online.
THPS is an equal opportunity employer; women, people living with HIV/AIDS and people living with disability are encouraged to apply



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