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 role will be responsible for supporting the sex work programme through implementing community-based HIV biomedical and social interventions among sex workers under the National Sex Work Programme. Leading implementation of sex worker demand creation and information education and counselling. The Outreach Worker will be responsible for the following duties:
Microplanner Recruitment, Support and Supervision.
• Identify and recruit Senior Microplanners, 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
• Attend all trainings/meetings to train community workers in relevant sex work programme aspects
• Monitor and supervise microplanning data collection, IPC data collection
• Help establish, monitor, and supervise self -help groups
• Help mentor outreach worker interns.
Community Outreach Activities
• Reaching out regularly with STI/HIV preventive packages for sex orkers at identified sites with the assistance of Microplanners
• Conducting regular visits and meetings with sex workers to enhance access to STI/HIV services.
• Validation of hotspots maps
• Providing information and educating sex workers 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 Sex workers.
• Regularly distributing condoms and demonstrating condom
• Conduction Adherence Sisters Training Programme
• Carrying out weekend and night outreach activities.
Stakeholder engagement
• Programmatic mapping (stakeholder mapping)
• Network with stakeholders
• Attending stakeholders’ meetings
• Representing CeSHHAR at Site/District level meetings
• Conducting community entry in all new sites/hotspots
• Keeping an updated directory of partners for referrals and layering of services
Programme Reporting and Documentation
• Report writing (Monthly, Quarterly and Annually) programme reports
• Microplanning and SHG supervision reports
• Familiarization and adhering to Programme SOPs including MoUs
Data Entry
• Assisting Microplanners in entering microplanning data into the database (Tracking data, Risk Assessment, Mapping, Hotspot Diary and IPC)
• Entering weekly condom data
• Daily capturing of the link log
• Entering ASTP data
• Capturing Community mobilization meetings data.
• Help clinicians with capturing Self-test data
Other Duties
• Support and mentor Junior Outreach Workers and Senior Microplanners
• Support and mentor outreach interns
• Performing other tasks related to the programme as assigned by the supervisor whenever required.
Qualifications and Experience
A degree in Social Sciences or any related field. Counselling diploma and experience in HIV/AIDS counselling will be an added advantage. 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. Current and valid certificate in Good Clinical Practice and Ethics is an advantage. Experience working with vulnerable populations (Key populations) will be an added advantage. Demonstrated effective verbal and written communications. Good knowledge on use of Microsoft word, excel and power point. Good interpersonal communication skills and having high respect for confidentiality. Work experience in Non-Governmental Organizations or Civil Society Organization in HIV/AIDS related programmes will be an advantage. Expected to work outside of normal office hours as required.
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 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.
