Field Officer – Jobs at ICAP Mwanza, April 2022.

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Position Title: Field Officer (multiple positions)
Reports to: Community Coordinator
Supervises: Field Assistants
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Location: Mwanza - jobs at icap
Travel: Up to 70% in intervention districts outside of job location

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Job Function:

Reporting to the Community Coordinator, the Field Officer is responsible to manage the day-to-day field implementation community-based HIV services in the intervention district, focusing on HIV testing and prevention activities such as DREAMS, PrEP, condom programming, peer-based outreach, among others. Supervising field assistants, the team will work alongside healthcare providers and peer volunteers.

Specific Responsibilities and Duties:

• • Develop district-level workplans for implementation of HIV testing and prevention
• activities in the community including supervision of field activities
• • Ensure activities are implemented according to the district workplan, and facilitate
• coordination of logistics, human resources, and supervision of activities
• • Ensure HIV testing and prevention services are provided in line with WHO, national,
• donor, and ICAP policies and procedures and uphold principles of ethics and
• confidentiality.
• • Manage recruitment, training, and supervision of peer volunteers supporting HIV
• testing and prevention activities.
• • Liaise with operations and supply chain staff to ensure adequate supplies of
• commodities and tools required to implement the workplan
• • Schedule human resources and fleet resources needed to accomplish community-
• based activities.
• • Organize mapping and remapping of geographic locations for service delivery.
• • Ensure health facilities and healthcare workers participating in community-based
• services are appropriately trained and oriented
• • Monitor program performance at the district level, ensure timely and accurate
• submission of activity reports and make adjustments as needed to the
• implementation plan
• • Supervise Field Assistants including their scheduling, performance management, and
• capacity building.
• • Liaise with council authorities and health facility leads to agree on project plans and
• monitor progress in community
• • Perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor

Qualifications, Knowledge, and Skills:

• Required Education: Medically trained personnel (nurse, clinical officer, MD, MBBS
• or equivalent) who have current qualifications and training in phlebotomy and HIV
• testing duties.
• • Required Technical Experience: Minimum 3 years’ experience providing or
• supporting HIV testing and prevention with demonstrated familiarity with MOH
• systems, tools and procedures for HIV testing and prevention.Back to top
• • Required Managerial Experience: Minimum 1 year experience supervising other
• staff in the relevant technical areas.
• • Excellent speaking, reading, and writing skills in English and Kiswahili
• • Excellent computer skills, at minimum with Microsoft Office package
• • Ability to maintain confidentiality regarding clients’ health status and sensitive
• information contained in data sources.
• • Flexibility to work after normal working hours and weekends at informal gatherings
• and entertainment centers and travel extensively to remote areas, including islands.
• • Ability to interact well with all targeted groups and peer outreach workers by
• facilitating a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory, and non-stigmatizing environment
• in the program, to welcome all key and vulnerable population beneficiaries
• regardless of their background
• • Must be a Tanzanian Citizen

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