Junior HIV Service Officer

Internal/External Vacancy Announcement

Project Name:-  USAID Family Focused HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment Service in Addis Abeba

Position Title:- Junior HIV Service Officer

Reports To:- HIV Service specialist

Job Location:-Addis Abeba(Gulele) ,Ethiopia

Salary:  Based on organizational scale

Vacancy closing date: December,25/2024

Introduction

The USAID Funded HIV Prevention Care and Treatment Services is aimed to strengthen local HIV epidemic management in order to accomplish the three 95 targets/goals. HIV mitigation services for children at risk concentrate on case finding and connecting undiagnosed children living with HIV to treatment, improving health outcomes through HIV viral load suppression, and creating interpersonal, family, and community norms to achieve HIV and violence prevention among 10- to 14-year-old children.

USAID Family Focused HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment Service award represents a transition from two unique programs OVC & HIV Care and treatment to one integrated program. To serve families infected or affected with HIV who are newly diagnosed, at high risk of default, or do not achieve viral suppression. Hence, this TOR is to employ OVC Health Linkage Coordinators to closely oversee OVC HIVSTAT clinical Cascades at the implementation site, and supervise SSW with health-related activities.

Major duty & responsibility include:

Common Vision for Development Association (CVDA) is Ethiopian Resident Charity, non-governmental, non-for-profit, humanitarian aid association seeks to hire well qualified professional for its ongoing USAID FF-HPCT Project through Project HOPE.

The HIV Service volunteer will have the following five main functions: 

1. Facilitate linkage between Community to Health facility and vice versa putting the need and choice of the clients and their families at the center of the required care for linkage (CommCare application will be introduced to enhance referral and linkage services)
2. Case management for PLHIV in the community including recording and reporting using paper based system which later migrate to CommCare application
3. Build capacity of CRPs (volunteers) through providing trainings, mentoring and supportive supervision
4. Build capacity of community structures (Community Committee (CCs) & Community Care Coalition(CCCs) ) by providing hands on support in planning, implementing and reviewing Community based HIV related activities such as identifying beneficiaries for community based support for linkage to relevant services.
5. Recording and reporting of community services: will record and report community based care and support activities including electronically through introduction of CommCare application.

Roles and responsibilities

• Facilitate FF-HPCT’s engagement at community level,
• • Engage community members in planning, implementing and reviewing community related activities including linking with the Health Extension Program
  • Work with Health facilities in linking clients to other social services in the community such as psychosocial and economic support (counseling, IGA)
• Identify cases that are going to be referred to community from health facility together with the health facility provider or case manager collaborate with health facility level case managers in identifying stable and unstable clients
• Ensure linkage of clients refer from community to health facility
• Provide community based case management for stable and unstable patients in consultation with the ART centers together with CRPs
  • Support follow up of clients at community level on appointment spacing
  • Participate in community based service delivery model as per the MoH’s future guidance to differentiate care to clients need and preference
  • Facilitate/Provide community based care and support for non-stable patients to lesson burden to health facilities and clients
  • Assist CRPs in screening of TB, STI, Mental health and other OIs based on the need for such support
• provide technical assistance to Community Resource Personnel (CRPs)
  • Training of CRPs to get them acquainted with task below for CRPs
  • Mentoring and supervising CRPs to get them acquainted with task below for CRPs
  • Review and improve of activities of CRPs
• Provide technical assistance to (CCs) and (CCCs)
  • Be part of the CCs/CCCs and provide technical assistance in their routine tasks
  • Participate in beneficiary identification including assessments of Households for economic vulnerability and food security
  • Ensure volunteers are involved in a meaningful way as per the guidance of CC/CCCs
• Conduct Cervical cancer demand creation  and refer clients for Cervical cancer screening service
• Conduct demand creation for CDSDM activities and support group formation in the health facilities
• Conduct index case testing at community level
  • Receive list of families of index cases and apply risk assessment for testing
  • Identify sexual networks of index cases in confidential and systematic manner
  • Counsel high risk family members for testing and refer for health facility
  • Conduct assisted partner notification and do community based testing based on clients’ preference.
  • Facilitate self test
• Use and implement CommCare app/mobile app for referral and linkage and case management
• Conduct NCD screening for PLHIVs at community level
• Oversee implementation of FF-HPCT  in relevant community based activities including stigma reduction, Gender equality, women empowerment that contribute to improve targeted testing and quality of HIV care and treatment

For full information please refer this linked document: Junior HIV Service officer- Addis Ababa vacancy.docx – Google Docs