Junior Outreach Worker (Makoni)
Ngo & Social Services Jobs
- CeSHHAR Zimbabwe
- Expires 15 Oct 2025
- Rusape
- Full Time
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, Gates Foundation, United States NIH, UK Medical Research Council, European Commission, Templeton World Charity Foundation, and Global Fund for AIDS TB and Malaria. We partner very closely with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK), Zimbabwe's Ministry of Health and Child Care and international and regional centres of research excellence to evaluate national programmes and determine the impact, uptake, and cost effectiveness of novel reproductive health interventions.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Junior Outreach Worker will work under the direct supervision of the Site Outreach Lead. The Junior Outreach Worker will be responsible for the following duties:
Microplanner Recruitment, Support and Supervision.
• Identify and recruit Microplanners and other community cadres.
• Supervision of Community Mobilization Meetings in the community and Health education at site.
• Hold monthly meetings with Microplanners to feedback on programme issues
• Assist with hotspot Mapping
• Assist with trainings/meetings to train community workers in relevant KP programme aspects
• Monitor and supervise microplanning data collection, IPC data collection
• Help establish, monitor, and supervise self -help groups
• Help mentor site-based Interns.
Community Outreach Activities
• Reaching out regularly with STI/HIV preventive packages for key populations at identified sites with the assistance of Microplanners
• Validation of hotspots maps
• Providing information and educating key populations persons on the risk of STI/HIV transmission and prevention, testing services and its benefits, and treatment services
• Routinely encouraging, facilitating, and following up for regular STI/HIV testing among key populations.
• Regularly distributing condoms and demonstrating condom and lubricants use
• Conduct Adherence Sisters Training Programme
• Assisting in retaining key populations in care.
• Carrying out weekend and night outreach activities.
Stakeholder engagement
• Programmatic mapping (stakeholder mapping)
• Network with stakeholders
• Attending stakeholders’ meetings
• Representing CeSHHAR at meetings
Programme Reporting and Documentation
• Report writing
• Microplanning and SHG supervision reports
• Familiarization and adhering to Programme SOPs including MoUs
Data Entry
• Assisting Outreach workers in programme data entry
• Assisting Microplanners in entering microplanning data into the database (Tracking data, Risk Assessment, Mapping, Hotspot Diary and IPC)
Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications and Experience
Must be a former or current Microplanner. Should be a member of the Key Populations. Demonstrable experience and interest in community outreach work, ability to do community mobilization, create rapport with personnel from collaborating or associate institutions and work independently but within a team framework. Demonstrated effective verbal and written communications. Willing to learn new skills. Good interpersonal communication skills and having high respect for confidentiality. Expected to work outside of normal office hours as required.
Or hand deliver to the Following
Makoni
NAC District AIDS Coordinator
207 Gopal Ave,
Rusape
Mr S Banguza - District AIDS Coordinator
or
Sakubva Clinic
Sakubva Clinic Health Centre, Box 910 Paulington, Sakubva Mutare
9 Robert Mugabe Road
How to Apply
Step 1: Click Apply button below
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 vacancies@ceshhar.org . Indicate the position you are applying for in the subject line. Candidates previously employed by CeSHHAR are encouraged to apply.
Only shortlisted candidates 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.
