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AJIRA TANZANIA 2019 / NAFASI ZA KAZI 2019
PROGRAM: The USAID Boresha Afya Project- Southern Zone
REPORTS TO: Gender & Youth Manager
STATION: Dar es Salaam
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Project Description:
USAID
Boresha Afya – Southern Zone is a five-year project that aims to
support the Government of Tanzania (GoT) in increasing access to high
quality, comprehensive and integrated health services, with a primary
focus on HIV/AIDS, maternal, neonatal, child and reproductive health,
malaria and nutrition outcomes. USAID Boresha Afya – Southern Zone
covers geographic areas with high disease burden in Tanzania, namely
Iringa, Njombe, Morogoro, Lindi, Mtwara and Ruvuma.
Job summary
The
Youth Advisor will function as part of HIV and SRH service team to
provide technical leadership in implementation of HIV and SRH services
to adolescents and youth for the USAID Boresha Afya Southern Zone
program.
The
Youth Advisor will be reporting to the Gender & Youth Manager.
She/he will be supporting USAID Boresha Afya Southern Zone program staff
and council staffs in planning, implementation and monitoring and
evaluation of adolescent and youth HIV and SRH activities including
integration of adolescent friendly health services.
Responsibilities:
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Take a leadership role in planning and implementation HIV and
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) services and other
integrated services (HIV, FP, TB, MCH, post GBV care) in Regions and
councils under USAID Boresha Afya Southern Zone supported regions
•
Work with the Gender & Youth manager to identify high adolescents
volume CTC sites to be supported under USAID Boresha Afya Soutrher Zone.
•
Develop, disseminate and orient various partners on SOPs of various
interventions related to ASRH/HIV for USAID Boresha Afya Southern Zone
•
Plan and cordinate capacity building activities including trainings,
mentorship and orientations on ASRHunder USAID Boresha Afya Southern
Zone
•
Advocate for integration of Adolescent Friendly Health Services (AFHS)
in in CCHPs and other collaborative partners programs for
sustainability.
•
Promote community mobilization to meanginful engage relevant
stakeholders (Caretakers, Service Providers, CHWs, CBHSPs and
Adolescents living with HIV) to improve ART adherence and retention for
viral suppression among ALHIV.
•
Work with the DRCHCOs to identify trained health care workers on ASRH
to conduct ASRH and gender education outreach sessions in schools and
out schools based teen clubs managed by USAID Boresha Afya Southern
Zone.
• Work with CSOs to support HIV positive children and adolescents to access group based psycho-social support.
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Provide technical assistance to R/CHMTs, CSOs and other USAID Southern
Zone consortium partners in establishing and supporting ASRH teen clubs
established by the program.
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Ensure availability of existing national policies, guidelines,
strategies, protocols and SOPs related to HIV and RCH services for
pediatrics, adolescent to all scale up councils under USAID Boresha Afya
Southern Zone.
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Work with Gender & Youth Manager and the Regional Gender &
Youth Program Officers in the USAID Boresha Afya supported regions to
identify quarterly priority activities to increase the uptake of ASRH
services among adolescents and youth
Support Monitoring of Adolescents HIV and ASRH activities
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Work with M&E department to develop and adopt tools for tracking
the implementation of community based HIV and ASRH activities under
USAID Boresha Afya Southern Zone
•
Work with M&E team to ensure analysis of monthly and Quarterly HIV
and ASRH cascade, disseminate and promote use of data in implementation
of activities to the project team.
•
Work with Senior Project Manager- ECD to provide technical support to
R/CHMTs, CSOs and CCWs in implementation of ASRH activities through
mentorship and supportive supervision
•
Provide performance feedback to sites, Health Care Workers and the
Regional teams offices under USAID Boresha Afya Southern Zone to improve
adolescents and youth quality of services and care
Documentation and Reporting of ASRH activities
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Assist the Gender & Youth Manager in preparing project program
workplan, quarterly and annual reports that inform actual implementation
and progress on adolescent and youth SRH/HIV interventions of USAID
Boresha Afya Southern Zone.
• Work with Regional Gender & Youth Program Officers to review and share monthly, Quarterly activities report
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Document and share lessons learnt and best practices in ASRH activities
implementation supported by the USAID Boresha Afya Southern Zone
• Perform any other duties as assigned by supervisor
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Qualifications:
• The incumbent candidate s/he is expected to have a university degree (BA, BSc) in a related, relevant field (e.g. public health, international development, social sciences, anthropology, or a related field), and a Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in providing technical assistance in areas related Adolescent and youth sexual reproductive health. Experience working for international agencies and USAID-funded health programs is preferred.
• Experience in service integration, provider and supervisor training and follow-up, referral systems, and development of client-responsive static and mobile/outreach services;
• Experience designing and implementing Sexuality, youth friendly and gender transformative programming.
• Experience networking with organizations and leading a participatory process with local organizations to identify needs and solutions
• Experience facilitating youth and gender transformative workshops
• Experience developing and leading assessments in relation to gender, sexuality and youth friendly programs
• Excellent interpersonal skills (e.g., active listening, cultural competence, responsiveness).
• Fluency in Kiswahili and English is required.
• Ability to travel approximately 30% of his/her time to supervise and support field activities
To Apply:
Please visit the careers page at www.engenderhealth.org or click the link at the end of this advert to submit you details online by 17th March 2019.
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