Job Type : Contract
Industry : Health
Education Level : Junior Level
Location: Geita, Kagera, Tabora and Dar es Salaam
Reports To: District Project Manager/ Regional
Retention Manager
Job Summary: The
Retention Manager (RO) is responsible for the day to day implementation of
MDH’s retention and continuity of care programs and services. She/he work with
Council Health Management Teams (CHMT), Health Facilities (HFs), Health Care
Providers (HCPs), community program staff, community-based health service
providers (CBHS) and other stakeholders to support initiatives and services to
enhance continuum of care, as well as prevention and mitigation of interruption
of care for patients on ART. These initiatives/ services include enhancing
client centered differentiated service delivery (DSD), routine updating of
patients contacts and physical address, appointment reminders, management of
patient transfers, patient tracking and timely documentation of follow-up
outcomes.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. To support implementation and scale-up of initiatives to
enhance continuity of care including DSD (multi-month dispensing, community
ART), updating patients contacts and physical address, appointment reminders,
management of transferring and on-transit patients.
2. To work with HFs/ HCPs, community program staff and
community volunteers to ensure timely tracking of patients missing appointment
and updating of tracking outcomes.
3. To provide technical guidance and capacity building of
CHMT, HCPs, CBHS and other key stakeholders on the implementation of continuity
of care initiatives and services in-line with national and PEPFAR guidance
through training, mentorship and supportive supervision.
4. To contribute towards dissemination and
operationalization of national guidelines, SOPs, job aids, IECs, training
manuals, M&E and others tools on continuity of care and DSD.
5. To support monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) of
MDH’s retention program including data collection, quality assurance, analysis,
reporting and data utilization.
6. To contribute towards analysis, documentation and
dissemination of retention program outcomes and best practices via abstracts,
posters, manuscripts, policy briefs, presentations, and others.
7. To support efforts to identify gaps in ART retention
services and implementation of continuous quality improvement (CQI) initiatives
and operational research to address these gaps.
8. To perform any other related duties as may be assigned by
the supervisor.
Requirements: Education, Work experience and Skills:
1. Bachelor Degree or Diploma in Medicine, Nursing or
related Health Field.
2. At least three (3) years of experience in HIV programming
and services.
3. Demonstrable competency in overseeing ART care, DSD,
patient tracking/ retention services.
4. Experience in MEL, data analysis, interpretation and
utilization in the health sector.
5. Fluent in both written and spoken English and Swahili
Languages.
How to Apply
Interested candidates for any of the above
positions should submit an application letter, a detailed copy of their CV,
names and contact information (email addresses and telephone numbers) of three
work related referees. The candidate MUST clearly indicate the Title of the
position applied for (as it appears in the advertisement) on the heading of the
email. Applications should be submitted to the Human Resource Director through
email hr@mdh.or.tz by 30th September 2021. MDH DO NOT have any
agents and DO NOT charge any fees to the interested candidates. Kindly note
that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted
(MDH) is an indigenous-Tanzanian non-Governmental Organization with principal place of business in Tanzania. MDH's central office is located at Mikocheni B, along Mwai Kibaki road in Dar es Salaam.
MDH’s work is primarily in public health service and research in Tanzania and the world at large. MDH seeks to mobilize and engage a team of skilled, experienced and motivated Tanzanian professionals to work in collaboration with the government and with other local and international experts to address public health priorities through evidence based interventions.
MDH’s core business encompasses design, implementation and
evaluation of programs and research in Communicable diseases, Chronic
non-communicable diseases, Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health,
Nutrition, Health Information Systems, Health System Strengthening and others.
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