Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, September 21 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
SHDEPHA+ is an acronym for Service, Health, and Development for People living with HIV/AIDS. It is a national non-governmental organization, registered on 21 November 1994 with registration number SO 8216. SHDEPHA+ originated from the initiatives of fifteen people living with HIV/AIDS whose goal was to create a network and to mobilize resources to help people living with HIV/AIDS and to fight the spread of the disease. Although originally focusing on people living with HIV/AIDS, over the years SHDEPHA+ has expanded beyond HIV/AIDS and related issues to other development interventions and now covers both infected and affected by HIV/AIDs around 8 Regions of Tanzania Mainland.

SHDEPHA+ in partnership with FHI360 is implementing a project named Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) in Arusha and Shinyanga Regions. USAID-Epic Project is a global project funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project is dedicated to achieve and maintain HIV epidemic control. The project provides strategic technical assistance (TA) and direct service delivery (DSD) to break through barriers to 95-95-95 UNAIDS goals and promote self-reliant management of national HIV programs by improving HIV case-finding, prevention, and treatment programming.

SHDEPHA+ is extending its interventions to the new Districts in Shinyanga Region – Shinyanga DC and MC and it is currently seeking to employee staff to fill the position for the Councils as follows;

Position Description:
Data Officers will Provide technical support and oversight to the implementation of community-based activities for all details obtained from targeted population in the district, including the details and data from community-based HIV testing and counseling (CBHTC), pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), HIV self-testing (HIVST), linkage to care, family planning (FP), services for gender-based violence (GBV) victims, and sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening. Data officer should be able to analyze and translate all indicators performance and track the project trend will Work closely with data manager and all other technical staffs for making sure that each data from all project interventions is entered in all project systems.

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Enter data, run output reports from data bases and cross-check with data sources to make sure that data are accurate.
• Enter data, run output reports from data bases and cross-check with data sources to make sure that data are accurate.
• Assist the data manager in keeping records of all the forms collected from field activities file completed forms in organized manner Enter data, run output reports from data bases and cross-check with data sources to make sure that data are accurate.
• Ensure all data are routinely entered into the data base and updated
• Ensuring data quality through reviewing of all data collection forms submitted to the office by field officers and other data collectors particularly, health unit’s staff, CHWs and identifying the errors and working with data collectors to ensure that the errors are timely addressed.
• Ensuring data and field level are collected according to EpiC guidelines, well kept at all levels, analyzed and results shared with data manager.
• Conducting data verification and periodic data audits to ensure data quality at all times

Required Qualifications:
• Diploma in Information Technology
• Training in Monitoring and Evaluation, community mobilization, counseling is of added advantage
• Experience in HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment Programming.
• Community health experiences and capacities.
• Ability of Community Health Work, Health Committees (villages Health committees, Ward Development committees, Health facilities committees) etc
• Ability to build relationship at community levels.
• Able to work with Health staff at different district council levels
• Proficiency in writing and speaking English
• Able to timely collect, verification, compilation and data analysis as required by the EpiC.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision



Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Associate Degree

Job application procedure
SHDEPHA+ is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of Age, race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factors.
All applications are to be lodged through email: recruitmentskahamashdepha@gmail.com 
All candidates are required to mention the ‘Position Title’ on the subject line of the e-mail.
All applicants MUST attach cover letter and their updated Curriculum Vitae with certified copies of academic certificates as supporting documents to their applications.
All applications should be submitted not later than 12:00 HRS on Tuesday, 25th September 2023.
For more information, kindly visit our website: www.shdephakahama.org 



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