About Rafiki Social Development Organization (RAFIKI-SDO)

Rafiki Social Development Organization (RAFIKI-SDO) is a Tanzanian non-governmental organization founded in 2005 to work with youth, children, and other vulnerable groups, focusing on advocacy, service delivery, and addressing poverty and injustice. Its mission includes improving education, eliminating child labor, increasing access to sexual and reproductive health services for youth, and strengthening youth livelihoods through advocacy, awareness campaigns, training, research, and capacity building.

Position Summary:

The overall objective of this position is to contribute towards strategic service delivery to OVCs and their caregivers, address critical barriers to service access, uptake, and adherence to scale up impact service delivery, advance progress towards 95-95-95 goals and improve health and social outcomes among OVC and their families. The job holder will ensure sound and vibrant bi-directional referral and linkage system, improved case identification, linkages to ART and Viral Load suppression among Children and Adolescents Living with HIV/AIDS.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide technical guidance to council teams and CCWs in implementation of life-saving activities including case finding for pediatric and adolescent, PMTCT and HEI interventions, and ART linkage, adherence and viral suppression.
• Represent the project and coordinate with the Council Health Management Team to support HIV and health related activities.
• Hold coordination meetings with health facilities including Care Treatment clinics (CTC), RCH and PMTCT clinics in respective councils a to support beneficiaries’ enrolment, facilitate case conferencing, improve the bi-directional referral system, and ensure HIV positive beneficiaries and HIV exposed infants receive needed services in line with closing the pediatric treatment gaps.
• Support the facilities to have an updated enrolment register at the facility that demonstrates the cascade of enrolment of C/ALHIV and HEI at the CTC/RCH and PMTCT clinic.
• Support Community Case Workers (CCWs) to work with high pediatric volume CTCs to trace HIV positive OVC who miss appointments, enroll them into ACHIEVE Project, and link them back to care.
• Support CCWs to identify barriers to HIV services uptake including HIV testing, ART uptake, retention and adherence and provision of client centered support services per established individual needs of C/ALHIV, HEI, HIV Positive pregnant and breastfeeding women and their households.
• Support CCWs to conduct HIV risk assessments for OVC during case management visits; refer and link at risk OVC to HIV Testing Services (HTS).
• Work with Clinical Implementing Partners and health facilities to ensure CCWs provide appropriate support to HIV positive OVC, HEI and their caregivers.
• Support CCWs to strengthen the capacity of caregivers to support C/ALHIV, HEI, HIV positive Pregnant and breastfeeding women and their households and ensure referrals and linkages to social and health services.
• Ensuring an effective bi-directional referral system to monitor beneficiaries through the HIV continuum of care as well as service completion for other health and social services.
• Work with the M&E officer to ensure all-bi-directional referral data are accurate and generated timely for use in improving service delivery.
• Lead the development of a service directory for health, nutrition, and HIV services in implementation area; update the directory at least once a year.
• Support CCWs to provide nutrition services, including nutrition assessments, counselling, and linkage to nutrition service providers.
• Provide continuous supportive supervision to CCWs to ensure provision of health-related services, referrals, and linkages to beneficiaries.
• Facilitate data collection, data entry and overall data management and use for improving service delivery.
• Submit monthly implementation updates to the Project Manager for inclusion in the quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports.
• Document lessons learned and best practices for experience sharing and replication  Perform any other relevant duties assigned by the Project Manager.

Minimum required Qualifications, Experience and Skills Education:

• Diploma holder in Clinical Medicine or Nursing.
  Bachelor’s degree in medicine or nursing will be an added advantage.

Experience:

• At least two years’ experience in a field position in public health or OVC programming.
• Experience in implementation of community programs in health/HIV, MNCH, TB/Malaria etc., is preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in Swahili and English
• Ability to deliver tasks with and share feedback timely without constant or close supervision.

HOW TO APPLY:

If you believe you are the ideal person we are looking for. Please send the application to ajira@rafikisdo.or.tz and indicate the position title in the email subject line.