Reports: Technical Manager
Location: Any of the district offices

Institutional Background
The African Network for the Care of Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (ANECCA) is a network of clinicians and social scientists with a mission to improve the quality of health care services for women, children, adolescents, young adults, and their families in Africa. ANECCA is a registered NGO in Uganda with strong collaboration with the Ministry of Health, District Local Government, and other related institutions.
ANECCA is implementing the USAID Local Partner Health Services – Karamoja Activity, purposely to Support the public health sector to increase the availability, accessibility and utilization of quality integrated HIV and TB services in the Karamoja-region in Eastern Uganda. We are thus seeking applications for qualified individuals for the position of Health Informatics Officer to be based at the Moroto office.

Position summary:
The officer will provide technical guidance and support the designing, implementing, supervision and monitoring of appropriate SBCC and facility-community linkages interventions, within the strategic framework of the LPHS – Karamoja. She/he will provide support supervision to the linkage facilitators at the facilities.
S/he will provide leadership for Social Behavioral Change, Communication, and community support to USAID LPHS – Karamoja project. S/he will support the operation and field teams in responding to HIV/AIDS and TB issues to create synergies between demand creation and services that are centered on adoption of healthy behaviors by communities and target population or groups.

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Designing and implementing appropriate Community – Facility linkage interventions, for the overall implementation of the LPHS – Karamoja Project
• Providing technical assistance to the health facility teams to strengthen community facility linkages aimed at improving patient adherence, retention, self-management, and psychosocial services
• Supervising and monitoring the performance of the based Community structures in collaboration with the District Health management team
• Coordinating periodic reviews of community linkage activities with involvement of all key stakeholders including; District Health teams, linkage coordinators, facilitators, health workers and KP/PP support groups
• Coordinating and supporting linkage facilitators and other psychosocial support groups to execute their roles and responsibilities by participating in HIV interventions activities in the community and health facilities.
• Strengthening the performance management and capacity building mechanism for community structures and resource persons, site-based staff to implement the LPHS – Karamoja project.
• Documenting best practices for community engagement, linkages and HIV prevention at community level
• Developing service delivery strategies for accessing hard to reach populations including identification of opportunities to integrate health services with non-health sectors
• In collaboration with the Monitoring and Evaluation team pre-review and validate data collected for accuracy; before it is shared for input into the reporting system.

Qualifications and job specifications:
• A Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences; or Community Development; or Community Health or Nursing.
• A minimum of 5 years’ work experience implementing and coordinating donor funded programs at district and sub-national levels.
• At least 3 years’ capacity building experience for individuals, groups or NGOs in Health service delivery
• Ability to network and interrelate with government facilities/departments, NGO and other stakeholders when providing technical assistance to the beneficiaries.

All interested persons are requested to apply by sending detailed applications with most recent resumes and references to Esther Namwase email:

enamwase@anecca.org