Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, August 27, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Afya Mzuri is a Zambian local non-governmental health organization founded in 2003 with the ambition to be recognized as Zambia’s leading local expert in behaviour change, community empowerment and knowledge management. Its mission is to contribute to the national health response through empowering people and communities to adopt healthy behaviours through innovative and participatory approaches.
Afya Mzuri has an extensive background in behaviour change interventions, working in both urban and peri-urban settings to address health risks focusing on Gender, Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) and HIV Prevention since 2003. Afya Mzuri’s participatory approach aims at including target key populations including (but not limited to) adolescent girls and boys, young women and youths and inadequately serviced population.
Afya Mzuri’s service provision has expanded in recent years to focus on all aspects of health and wellbeing – specifically Tuberculosis (TB), malaria, maternal newborn & child health, nutrition, reproductive health, and lifestyle diseases.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit on a number of positions on the 5 years approved sub-award on TB Local Organization Network (TBLON) project under USAID Cooperative Agreement working with Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ). The project aims at strengthening public health responses and improving community awareness on TB in Southern Province of Zambia.
Community Mobilization Officers (02 Choma) .

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Build capacity and coordinate roles within a strong technical project team providing technical assistance in engagement and mobilization of community to ensure delivery of high-quality accessible TB services.
• To strengthen community participation for sustainable self-reliance and bringing together stakeholders to raise awareness and create demand for TB services uptake;
• Provide information to local community partners to ensure increased understanding of TB.
• Work with local community partners to ensure: increased understanding of TB, increased demand for services and increased participation in effective service delivery by relevant stakeholders.
• Work in close collaboration with key personnel to support the increased knowledge of TB, demand for, and utilization of TB services through more effective Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization (ACSM).
• Work with the community structures of local communities’ health workers’ teams or CBVs to take a lead in TB prevention, treatment, care and support service delivery, including documentation and reporting of community TB care activities.
• Provide support in communities to implement clear, innovative approaches and models for implementing DOTS that build on existing community-based programs and/or leverage resources from other stakeholders to ensure adequate coverage of innovative tools to strengthen diagnostic and treatment capacity in project intervention areas.
• Support the design and implementation of local solutions to increase drug-sensitive and drug-resistant case finding, especially among vulnerable populations such as PLHIV, women, children and miners.
• Making referrals and follow-ups (documenting) on beneficiaries referred to further services.
• Ensure that M&E related data is captured and reported on time to the supervisor.
• In addition, perform any other duties as may be assigned.

Job Skills: Not Specified

Required Skills and Experience:
• Diploma in Social work or any related field, Development studies, Environmental Health Services or equivalent academic qualifications.
• Minimum 3-4 years’ experience in health services provision.
• Experience in and understanding of TB control.
• Exemplary interpersonal skills to facilitate relations with the government institutions and local partners;
• Ability to conduct trainings and build capacity in community engagement, TB control including DOTS and TB case finding, diagnosis and treatment;
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and maintain schedules for deliverables with excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, knowledge of common seven local languages is an added advantage;
• Excellent report writing skills;
• Strong computer skills including familiarity with Microsoft office programs;
• Excellent organizational, planning negotiating and problem solving skills;
• Familiarity working with international organizations’ is preferred.

Job Education Requirements: Diploma in Social work

Job Experience Requirements: Minimum 3-4 years’

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Applicants should submit a covering one paged letter detailing how their skills, qualifications and experience match the minimum requirements outlined above, together with a CV (maximum 3 pages) and the full contact details of at least 3 professional referees, one of which should include current employer, where applicable and the expected salary.
The closing date for applications is Monday 31 August 2020. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please submit applications by addressing to the Executive Director, Afya Mzuri, Lusaka, indicating the position applied for in the subject to both email addresses: afyamzurijobs2020@gmail.com  and enquiries@afyamzuri.org.zm
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