- Lodwar, Kenya
- Contract
- Opportunity Type: Current Opening
Company Description
Amref Health Africa was founded in 1957 and has since grown to become the largest African-based international health development organization; currently implementing more than 180 programs, reaching more than 40 million people across 35 African countries; and a staff complement of over 2,000. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Amref Health Africa has offices in ten countries in Africa – Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guinea (Conakry), Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. An additional eleven advocacy and fundraising offices are located in Europe and North America.
Amref Health Africa is driven by its vision of ‘Lasting health change in Africa’ and its mission ‘To catalyze and drive community-led and people-centered health systems while addressing social determinants of health’. We believe that the power to transform Africa’s health lies within its communities, and therefore strive to ensure that health systems are not only functional but that communities are empowered to hold these systems accountable for the delivery of quality and affordable health care.
Qualified residents from Turkana County are highly encouraged to apply
Job Description
JOB PURPOSE
The Field Officer works closely with the HTS team and other staff serving epidemiologically at-Risk Populations, and reports to the coordinator. With the support of the coordinator, he will coordinate field related activities with the Ministry of Health (MOH) Officers and other stakeholders at the County and Sub-County levels. He/ She will Act as a liaison person between the community and the program team.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide overall coordination of project outreach activities within your area of coverage.
- Ensure the project adheres to the national guidelines during service provision and maintains quality.
- Ensure outreaches are integrated to reach a minimum package of services to beneficiaries
- Provide coordination of peer education recruitment and ensure good representation of PEs in the project sites.
- Facilitate mobilization and enrolment of epidemiologically at-risk populations for service uptake.
- Supports HTS team to ensure all HIV positive Clients are put on treatment.
- Coordinate and/or facilitate health education sessions to target populations.
- Facilitate the provision of structural interventions, linkage to social services and promote alternative livelihoods for clients.
- Make appropriate referrals for on-going support e.g. Home-Based Care, PMTCT, CCC and TB Clinics. This includes follow up/tracking of the referral cases.
- Ensure documentation of all relevant community tools and registers
- Documentation, management and reporting of commodities used.
- Captures and shares success stories, lessons learnt, and challenges promptly to inform program decisions.
- Compile and submit timely reports to the supervisor and in the correct templates
- Participate in routine data quality assessments monitoring and quality improvement activities from time to time
Qualifications
Education and Experience
- Diploma Holder in Nursing, Counselling Psychology, Community Health, public health, Social Sciences or other related fields.
- Holder of a NASCOP HTS Certificate is preferred.
- Training in Peer Education, Behaviour Change Communication or HIV & AIDS is added advantage
- Two years relevant work experience in HIV prevention, care and treatment, more so with epidemiologically at-risk populations, PrEP and Post response is desirable.
- Experience working in Arid and Semi-Arid regions is an added advantage
Knowledge, Skills and Competencies
- Detailed understanding, knowledge and experience of epidemiologically at-risk populations
- Basic counselling skills
- Problem solving skills
- Teamwork and Team building skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Remarkable communication skills, both oral and written
- Analytical skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Ability to multi-task
- Results Oriented.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
Corporate Policies, Systems, Procedures and Methods
- The job will be domiciled in the Ministry of Health in a Health Facility and community Set-Up within Turkana. The holder of the position will be subject to rules and regulations of the Public Service Human Resource Policies and Procedures Manual
Work Environment
- Work environment is in ARID and Semi-ARID Area with frequent travel to the community set up.
Hours of Work
- The job holder may be required to work outside normal working hours due to the nature of the work in general
Additional Information
Qualified residents from Turkana County are highly encouraged to apply
Your application should include a cover letter detailing why you are the best fit for this position and your CV with relevant skills and experience. The closing date will be Tuesday 29th July 2025.
Amref Health Africa does not require applicants to pay any money at whatever stage of the recruitment and selection process and has not retained any agent in connection with recruitment. Although Amref may use different job boards from time to time to further spread its reach for applicants, all open vacancies are published on our website under the Vacancies page and on our official social media pages. Kindly also note that official emails from Amref Health Africa will arrive from an @amref.org address.
Amref Health Africa is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Amref Health Africa is is dedicated to diversity and is an equal-opportunity employer with a non-smoking environment policy.
