Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Mothers2mothers (m2m) is an Africa-based NGO that unlocks the potential of women to eliminate paediatric AIDS and create healthy families across ten sub-Saharan African countries. m2m trains, employs, and helps empower women living with HIV to work as community healthcare workers in understaffed health centres and underserved communities. Through a peer-to-peer approach, these ‘Mentor Mothers’ deliver a range of health services, advice, and support to women and their families. Started in Cape Town, South Africa in 2001 with an initial focus on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, m2m has innovated and built on its strengths and now provides family-centred support for a range of related health and social issues spanning pregnancy, birth, childhood, and adolescence. It also partners with governments and other NGOs on the adoption of its programme to spread the Mentor Mother Model and its benefits. m2m has a track record of scaling its services and proven impact. To date, m2m has reached over 11M women and children under two, and created more than 11,000 jobs for African women living with HIV. For more, visit www.m2m.org.

Job Title : PMTCT Coordinator
Location : Ndola - Ndola, ZM (Primary)
Type of position : Fixed Term Contract
Education : Degree
Closing Date : 3/1/2022

Job Description
The Provincial PMTCT Coordinator will oversee the implementation of quality m2m Mentor Mother services to women and children at USAID/PEPFAR SAFE facilities and surrounding communities in Copperbelt Province Phase 1 sites; supervise all Team Leads and Mentor Mothers; and monitor and ensure quality improvement of m2m services. This position will be responsible for enhancing stakeholders’ collaboration especially with Ministry of Health structures at Provincial, District and Facility levels, including community and private sector.
The position will be based in Ndola, Zambia, employed by m2m and seconded to the JSI-led USAID/PEPFAR SAFE project.
Reports to the PMTCT Specialist (m2m-employed) based in Lusaka, with a dotted line reporting to the USAID SAFE Regional Director, Copperbelt Province (JSI-employed).

Job Requirements
Description of Tasks / Key Performance Areas
• Mentor Mother Site Implementation
• Manage Mentor Mother program implementation at health facility and community level, ensuring quality service delivery to clients
• Work closely with other stakeholders in the Province to enhance high impact activity referral network
• Manage the use of electronic client management tools at facility and community
• Manage integration of Mentor Mother services into the health facilities and community activities. Build and maintain strong relationships with health facility staff and other implementing partners working in the facility and the community, to maximize retention in care and adherence to treatment.
• Develop and implement provincial site management workplan
• Manage performance of the Site and Community Coordinators including work schedules and leave for all site
• staff. Liaise with HR officer to address site-level human resource issues.
• Mentor Site and Community Coordinators including provision of supportive supervision at site level
• Performance Monitoring and Improvement
• Conduct site-level supervision and monitoring activities and monthly quality improvement and performance
• Use site level performance data to inform strategic performance improvement
• Monitor monthly facility and community-level data, compile and assess areas for quality/service improvement.
• Consolidate data and report to USAID/PEPFAR SAFE program and M&E teams and provincial/district
• stakeholders. Develop and implement geo-location improvement plans, roll-out interventions to promote continued service integration, quality and effectiveness (where needed)
• Liaise with Training and Capacity Building Specialist and M&E team to assess site performance and implement joint interventions as required
• Conduct on-site capacity building of site staff and contribute to/co-facilitate in-service trainings.
• Provincial and District Engagement
• Represent project in provincial and district coordinating forums including managing strategic relationships with Provincial and District Medical Offices including RMNCH/PMTCT counterparts at the, provincial/district Ministry of Health level, and other implementing partners/stakeholders
• Produce project/geo-location reports
• Contribute to provincial USAID/PEPFAR SAFE activities and perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree/diploma or equivalent in Midwifery,Nursing, Social Science, Public Health, or related field
• Working in the private sector with a focus on public health would be an added advantage
• Minimum of four years’ field experience in public health work with a focus on RMNCH, PMTCT, or HIV/AIDS programming, with at least two years’ in a supervisory role
• Strong project management experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of/exposure to PMTCT/RMNCH policy and working knowledge of relevant MOH protocols
• Applied knowledge of MOH M&E systems and tools
• Experience in on-site technical supervision using programmatic tools
• Experience working within provincial and district health systems in Zambia, with experience in Central Province and with lay health care workers and peer educators preferred
• Experience in supporting use of electronic client management tools is preferred * Experience working on USAID/PEPFAR programs preferred

Competencies:
• Strong mentoring skills
• Strong Monitoring & Evaluation skills with ability to use data to inform programming
• Ability to manage time and competing demands to meet deadlines
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work independently and problem solve
• Strong interpersonal and team building skills
• Fluent in English and Bemba

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 48

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
To apply for this job please visit m2m.org.

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