Outreach Worker
Ngo & Social Services Jobs
- CeSHHAR Zimbabwe
- Expires 09 Apr 2026
- Beitbridge
- 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, National AIDS Council, 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
Supporting the programme through implementing community-based HIV biomedical and social interventions among high-risk. Leading implementation of high-risk populations demand creation and information education and counselling. The incumbent 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 high risk populations 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 high-risk populations at identified sites with the assistance of Microplanners.
• Conducting regular visits to hotspots to enhance access to STI/HIV services.
• Validation of hotspots maps
• Providing information and educating high risk populations 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 high-risk population.
• 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 and 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 Science or its equivalent and or a community cadre with five years’ experience as a Junior Outreach worker in lieu of qualifications
• At least 1 year post - graduate relevant working experience.
• Experience in the NGO sector will be an added advantage.
• Demonstrable experience and interest in community outreach work,
• Ability to do community mobilization,
• Create rapport with personnel from implementing partners
• Ability to work independently but within a team framework
How to Apply
TO APPLY
Step 1: Click here to fill in the form
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.co.zw. Indicate the position you are applying for in the subject line. Candidates previously employed by CeSHHAR are encouraged to apply.
Please note: Applications will be reviewed and shortlisted on a rolling basis. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
CeSHHAR Zimbabwe is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of sex, nationality, 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.
