Health medicine Jobs at Arusha International Conference Centre (AICC), ASUTA, International Training and Education Center for Health (l-TECH), Barrick and ICAP

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5 Assistant Nursing Officer II

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• To provide general nursing care to all patients;
• To provide medications and injections as prescribed by the doctor;
• To monitor patient progress and identifies any changes in status and acting on those changes to insure patient comfort and safety;
• To provide frequent patient evaluations including monitoring vital signs and perform essential procedures;
• To assist doctors during treatment and ward rounds; and
• To perform any other duties relevant to the scope of work that may be assigned by the supervisor.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Holder of Certificate in Nursing, Midwifery or equivalent qualifications from recognized institutions and registered with Tanzania Nurses and Midwives Council.


JOB DETAILS:
Job Details
General Responsibilities:
• Supervise EpiC Project’s biomedical prevention portfolio, collaborating with the RHMT/CHMTs, Implementing partners and other key stakeholders
• As Biomedical Officer support the Program Manager in establishing and working closely with RHMT/CHMTs and other government and non-governmental partners to advance HIV biomedical prevention for KVP in the Regions
• Mentor and supervise Healthcare providers, community counselors, R/CHMTs to address their attitudes and beliefs towards KVPs, as well as improve the capacity of providers and R/CHMTs to deliver core and expanded packages of KVP services
• Supervise the implementation of various biomedical interventions including HIV Self-Testing, PrEP provision and community-based HIV Testing and Counseling
• Ensure the implementation of EpiC project is aligned with national policies, standards and guidelines on KVP HIV programming
• Supervise the operationalization of the National Guidelines for Comprehensive Package of HIV Interventions for KVPs
• Provide Mentorship and support supervision as necessary for activities in Region
• Work with Strategic Information team to ensure quality and verified data for the comprehensive biomedical package offered by EpiC Project in the Region
• Promote and support the documentation of project best practices,success stories and lessons learned among

Coordination Roles:
• With support from the Project Manager, RMO & DMO’s office, to ensure the availability of government biomedical providers and none government registered providers for the provision of biomedical services at the community level.
• Assist in organizing training/orientation to biomedical providers to be engaged USAID EpiC project activities and maintain the list of Service Providers working with the project.
• Liaise with DACC, MMO, RMO and DMO’s office to obtain commodities, supplies and government M&E Tools for Biomedical services.
• Supervise biomedical providers and ensure monthly planned activities are implemented and all Service Providers are reaching the targeted beneficiaries on time and with fidelity.
• Provide technical support and mentorship to biomedical team to ensure set standards are met as per the government guidelines and project SOPs.
• Ensure the follow up of index testing is properly administered and linkages are made.
• Daily follow up on cases Linkage management of the tracked beneficiaries that received an outcome, Reconcile and compile data into the councils tracking register and the Index registers and maintain it on weekly basis
• Jointly work with facility implementing partners at the council level to develop a sound Bi- directional referral network.
• Ensure all service providers properly fill all required National and Project M&E tools and timely submission of service reports appropriately, including monthly summary reports to the catchment health facilities.
• Ensure council service providers are reporting their daily performance through WhatsApp groups and other agreed channels.
• Ensure a timely preparation of weekly and monthly update and project reports on biomedical services progress to targets.
• Collaborating with project manager to ensure smooth implementations of project activities.
• And other work as directed by Project Manager.

Education and Experience
• A bachelor’s degree in Medicine or Public Health or related field with at least 2 years’ HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment work experience (especially within the context of direct service delivery, or quality assurance/quality management. Improve retention of PLHIV on ART Additional attributes
• Relevant experience with PEPFAR-funded programs and current program strategy
• Experience in quality management and continuous improvement
• Ability to perform basic data analysis and use of computer applications Proactive, resourceful, results-oriented, can-do attitude


JOB DETAILS:
Position Summary
• Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Mentor is the technical and implementation lead for Continuous Quality Improvement program activities based in one of the 2 target regions: Shinyanga and Kigoma.
• He/she is also responsible for implementation progress, timeliness of activities, overall quality, accuracy, and reporting of regional activities. She/he will provide technical support to strengthen Quality improvement for HIV care and treatment services offered at the regional, district, health facilities. The CQI Mentor will focus on providing technical support to target supported sites to use standardized national/international acceptable CQI approaches to improve HIV care and treatment services at health facilities and communities. He/she will build the capacity of the sites to collect and use quality HIV care and treatment data for decision making, using a CQI tools. He/She is responsible ensuring consistent, high quality routine data collection, analysis, and presentation needed to improve activity implementation and to meet I- TECH’s commitment to funders and external stakeholders. S/he
• CQI mentor will be responsible for supporting the development and implementation of SOPs and other tools related to HIV adult treatment, retention, PEP, and PrEP across all program regions and facilities. The CQI mentor will participates in MOH TWGs, represent l-TECH at the region of support and communicates regularly with relevant counterparts. S/he mentors and facilitates in-service trainings incorporating Ql methodologies as a key approach to achieve program outcomes and uses data to drive decision-making. S/he leads and coordinates HIV CQI-related activities including facility preparation, remediation plans and approaches, and re-assessments, when required. In addition to providing technical guidance regarding HIV adult treatment, retention, and PEP/PrEP. CQI Mentors will work closely with CQI and Evaluation
• Technical Lead, other Country Office program team members, external partners and HQ Team on a daily basis.
• This position is in Kigoma and Shinyanga, Tanzania, with up to 60% domestic travel and may include early morning or evening calls to work with colleagues across multiple time zones, including Seattle (USA).

Key Responsibilities
Technical Assistance, Collaboration, and Support (45%)
• Implement project activities in collaboration with Ministry of Health (MOH), R/CHMT, Tanzania Health Promotion Support (THPS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other Implementing Partners Provide strategic advice and support RHMT and CHMT in planning and implement Quality Improvement interventions at target regions and health facilities, and present implementation challenges/gaps that need practice change at regional levels.
• Lead regional operationalization of facility CQI plans, CQI targets that are based on the government and PEPFAR priorities in Tanzania
• Lead the implementation of CQI collaboratives in the respective region and support coordination of activities with the other target regions
• Build capacity to target health facilities to implement CQI initiatives to improve HIV care and treatment services: lead trainings, orientations, provide on-site mentoring, and coaching to all levels
• Support the development and implementation of distance learning ECHO sessions
• Work efficiently with the entire clinical team at the facilities for efficient and quality ART services delivery
• Represent the project in the Regional Ql technical working group and provide technical support in the revision and or development of HIV CQI guidelines /operation manuals
• Support R/CHMTs to develop CQI skills and integrate CQI into the CCHPs budgets
• Work with the l-TECH team in Dar es Salaam to design and implement any other activities related to the program

Develop, adapt and/or revise program tools CQI Data Collection and Monitoring (30%)
• Support facilities to collect monthly reports for CQI dashboard provide guidance and recommendations related to tracked indicators and outcomes, and implementation of PDSA cycles and share them with RHMT and CHMT for health services improvement
• Assist sites in data utilization and seeks creative and innovative ways of capturing and presenting data and help the site to understand flow charts and process analysis for system improvement and quality health care provision.
• Work with l-TECH’s Senior M&E Advisor and Data Manager and Analyst to implement course corrections or redesign strategies and interventions to ensure consistently high- quality data related to all community- and facility-based services
• Provide technical support for onsite accurate data utilization for test-of-change (TOC) and timely dissemination and adaptation of best practices.
• Oversee and supervise onsite use of existing data /dashboards including monthly DATIM, CQI dashboard, quarterly reports etc. to identify gaps and support the sites teams to implement CQI activities accordingly.
• Oversee the whole cascade of CQI activities at the sites and communities’ levels, monitor progress, conduct test-of-change each quarter and report results in quarterly review meetings.
• Supervise and monitor converting the paper-based government run charts into electronic databases and report progress and gaps

Project Management (10%)
• Support Planning, organizing, and implementation of high-quality project activities in a timely and on-budget manner
• Proactively collaborate with the l-TECH Dar es Salaam and HQ office,MOH, THPS, CDC, and other stakeholders to implement project activities
• Support development of annual project work plan and M&E plans with other program staff in Country and HQ
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge regarding Differentiated HIV care,Continuous Quality Improvement, Comprehensive Management of HIV and AIDS, Task sharing and routine Cryptococcal infection screening and treatment among People Living with HIV approaches worldwide and inTanzania and ensure project activities’ relevance in light of the strategic direction communicated by MOH, CDC, and other stakeholders /donors.

Reporting (15%)
• Maintain thorough documentation of activities and deliverables
• In collaboration with the l-TECH Dar es Salaam office and HQ, write program report to funders with data and lessons learned from implementation of regional activities.
• Respond to ad-hoc reporting requests from l-TECH headquarters
• Collaborate with l-TECH staff to frame, document and disseminate lessons across the I- TECH portfolio

Other duties as assigned (5%)
Perform other professional duties as assigned by the l-TECH Tanzania Country Representative.

Required Qualifications
Master’s Degree or higher in Clinical Medicine, public health, Nursing, or other related fields, or a bachelor’s with at least 5 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, preferably in the field of training and education
• Extensive knowledge of CQI, DSDMs, ART, PMTCT, TB/HIV, and other HIV treatment approaches Tanzania or other East and/or Sub-Saharan African countries.
• Extensive clinical experience in CQI, ART, DSDMs TB/HIV, HIV related training, comprehensive supportive supervision and mentoring
• Experience working with Quality improvement projects
• Knowledge of monitoring and assessment techniques and procedures
• Ability to translate data into visual outputs (graphs, charts, diagrams, tables, etc.)
• Demonstrated clear and concise writing and communications skills.
• Fluency in English and Swahili
• Ability to live in the region of provided support and to travel in the region

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in PEPFAR or other US government-funded programs is an advantage