Job Description
Job Description
CeSHHAR Zimbabwe is an organisation that specialises in population health research and programming, including on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. CeSHHAR has an extensive national, regional, and international academic and community partnership network. CeSHHAR has a diverse range of funders which include the Wellcome Trust, the Gates Foundation, UK Medical Research Council, Templeton World Charity Foundation, Global Fund for AIDS TB and Malaria. We partner very closely with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK). CeSHHAR is implementing a National Key Population programme on behalf of National AIDS Council and Ministry of Health and Child Care in all 10 provinces in Zimbabwe.The Regional Coordinator is responsible for implementation of the Key Populations programme and leading outreach and community mobilisation for Key Populations in all static and mobile sites in the assigned region. They support the pilot of the integration of the Key Populations programme to the public sector.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Lead Programme planning and budgeting for the key populations programme and subsequent review and monitoring of implementation according to the M & E plan within their region and feeding into the overall national programme
• Participate in the formulation, review and update of departmental strategic plan in liaison with the Program Director
• Identifying and responding to emerging community issues in HIV/AIDS awareness and linkage to care through the development of innovative outreach, health education and promotion, and community capacity building and development within the programme
• Maintaining a strong relationship with funding partners and stakeholders in the region with good communication and liaison efforts including attending monthly, quarterly and adhoc meetings as called for by funding partners
• Conducting expenditure tracking to identify budget variances, identify savings and priorities use of savings
• Reviewing and maintaining a calendar of outreach activities at district and provincial level, including community and partner events, meetings and forums and other communication opportunities ensuring adequate representation in these spaces
• Planning trainings and workshops and ensuring they are conducted according to manuals and guidelines with proceedings documented.
• Participate and support the Program Director in resource mobilization, proposal development and alignment of project implementation according to funder regulations
• Overseeing implementation of community empowerment and mobilisation activities and self-help groups or safety networks in in their respective geographies
• Lead the implementation of the PACE/ research related interventions in their regions, including STI-PEP, strengthening of the Friendship bench, use of HIV prevention animations and VimbAI
• Oversee human-in-the-loop (HITL) functions for the already developed VimbAI capabilities, including data labelling, review, quality control and oversight
• Oversee demand creation and public engagement of VimbAI
• Lead the mapping process to identify facilities to pilot the integration of the Key Populations programme in the public sector in Gweru
• Maintaining up-to-date and complete register/database of all peer educators and micro-planners within the programme
• Ensuring all peer educators and micro-planners are paid on time for documented performance
• Monitoring community-based activities, identifying gaps in meeting health and communication needs and developing proposals for addressing these on an ongoing basis
• Overseeing outreach activities within the assigned project sites in liaison with site leaders and other coordinators
• Organising and supervising training, motivation and support of peer educators and micro-planners
• Working with the outreach and community mobilisation teams to ensure they achieve their respective targets (daily, monthly, quarterly and annually) and providing tailored support to sites struggling to reach their targets
• Establish monthly meetings between sites and the head office to ensure that lessons learned are quickly cascaded across sites
• Holding monthly progress analysis meeting with outreach staff and providing timely constructive feedback to improve the quality of field activities, analysis of gaps and follow-ups
• Conducting quarterly meetings with peer educators and micro-planners to identify challenges and trouble shoot these as they arise
• Overseeing the development, translation and distribution of outreach material
• Nurturing new and old relationships with collaborative partners
• Ensuring that referrals and follow ups are done in collaboration with public health facilities, other service providers and partners, government departments and that these are properly documented
• Establishing and maintaining contacts (linkages) with all levels of the National AIDS Council, Ministry of Health and Child Care and other partners to leverage resources
• Overseeing the holding of planned and ad-hoc stakeholder meetings in all districts of operation and ensuring that Memorandum of Understanding are renewed on time and kept up to date
• Lead stakeholder engagement to ensure visibility and comprehensive stakeholder buy-in from project inception, implementation, monitoring, reporting and eventual close-out
• Contributing to the key populations programme’s capacity to document, disseminate and learn from its work
• Reporting to funders on programme indicators and progress and ensuring all reports are submitted as per contracted deadlines
• Preparing weekly and monthly narrative programme reports
• Documenting success stories and case studies systematically
• Developing and maintaining the data bank and photo gallery of the programme’s activities
• Disseminating findings on programme progress to various stakeholders at community, national, regional and international levels
• Contribute to the development and review of program instruments, including training manuals and data collection tools
Qualifications and Experience
• A BSc/BA in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Social Work
An MSc in Social work, Public Health or a related discipline will be an added advantage
• At least 3 years’ experience coordinating HIV or health related programmes regionally with some experience at national level;
• Experience with meeting donor reporting requirements including GFATM, Gates Foundation
• Experience in capacity building initiatives, training and facilitation
• Experience working with vulnerable and key populations
• Knowledge of the HIV landscape in Zimbabwe including good knowledge of partners
• Experience in successfully implementing quality assurance, monitoring, evaluation and learning
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to represent CeSHHAR at national, regional and international fora
• Ability to handle conflict within groups and communities
• Fluency in written and spoken English, Shona and/or Ndebele
How to Apply
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Step 2: If you are interested in the above position, please email your CV and application cover letter addressed to Human Resources and send to [email protected] . Indicate the position you are applying for in the subject line. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
CeSHHAR Zimbabwe is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, sexual orientation, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply.
The successful candidate will undergo relevant background checks and will be required to commit in writing to comply with the CeSHHAR Zimbabwe safeguarding guidelines.