🇸🇱 Job Vacancies @ Solthis – 2 Positions
Solthis is recruiting to fill the following positions:
1.) HIV Technical Officer
2.) Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator
See job details and how to apply below.
1.) HIV Technical Officer
| Job Title Project | HIV Technical Officer supporting the New Funding Model 3 (NFM3) implementation in HIV field |
| Main workplace | Makeni |
| Hierarchical supervision and technical functional link | Line manager: Medical Officer Functional : N/A |
| Direct supervision and functional links within the mission | Hierarchical: N/A Functional: N/A |
| General Mission | Under the supervision of the Medical Officer, the HIV technical Officer main responsibilities are (1) provision of capacity building to health care workers involved in HIV services in order to improve the quality of HIV services to PLWA; and (2) implementation of other medical-related and transversal activities in the Districts of intervention in line with Solthis strategy, policies and principles. |
Solthis is an international health NGO which contributes to the strengthening of health systems to improve the access to quality care in countries with limited resources and/or with the vulnerable populations. Solthis is registered and has been operating in Sierra Leone since 2011 where our teams have been providing comprehensive technical support at both health facility, national and community levels to improve quality of HIV care.
Solthis is supporting the implementation of the New Funding Model 3 (NFM3) to accelerate the achievement of 95-95-95 targets in Sierra Leone by 2024.
The intervention through quality-oriented capacity building approaches, complement the national healthcare workers’ capacity building activities such as on-site training, clinical mentorship, supportive supervision and coordination planned by the NACP & NAS in the NFM3. It will focus on strengthening the capacity of healthcare workers (HCWs) (at Health Facilities (HF) and Key Population Drop-In Centers (DIC)) levels and DHMT staff to provide quality of HIV services delivery including prevention, HTS, ART, eMTCT, DSD, EID, Viral Load, TB/HIV etc. It will also strengthen the Supply chain management and laboratory component to improve the accessibility and availability of HIV commodities at health
facilities and DICs, and to support DHMT to allocate the available resources in the best possible way to minimize service provision disruption. Finally, the intervention will support Data management system and usage of data to improve HIV related indicators. The intervention will be implemented in seven districts including Western Area (Rural and Urban, Port Loko, Bombali, Tonkolili, Bo and Kenema Districts)
Specific tasks and responsibilities
Capacity building of healthcare workers in order to improve the quality of HIV Care • Conducts participatory Assessments at health facilities and develop roadmaps accordingly to guide action points implementation for improvement of service delivery
- Ensure Implementation by HCWs/DHMT and follow up of the road map for improved quality of care by the health facilities.
- Provides onsite guidance and support to improve quality and organization of care and promote involvement of all stakeholders
- Supports for the organization of care: ART dispensation based on Differentiated Care Model, organization of the patient flow, involvement of peer educators/HCWs, organization of the system of consultations and file archiving, implementation of Post Exposure Prophylaxis System.
- Conducts trainings needs assessment of HCWs and develop on-site training plan; and participates in the evaluation of training and reporting activities
- Builds the capacity of the HCWs with respect to counselling, testing, diagnosis, prophylaxis, care and treatment of HIV, Opportunistic Infections’ management, TB/HIV co-infection, dispensing & adherence support, data management & analysis:
- Provides clinical mentoring including support for data management and analysis • Conducts joint-supportive supervision with District Management Teams
- Works closely with District Mentors identified and trained by NACP.
- Participates in training with other actors according to identified needs (associations, community, District Management teams…)
- Ensures integration of HIV services in various units by all HCWs at the supported sites (Maternity, Labour, Pharmacy, TB, nutrition, under 5 clinics…)
Monitoring and Evaluation/ Project Reporting
- Participates in defining, follow-up and reporting of project indicators related to medical activities: contribute to the designing of monitoring tools, quality data-collection and data-analysis • Elaborates project monthly report
- Participates in the annual reporting as well as to donor reporting
Other activities
- Provides support to other team members when required.
- Coordinates activities between the different team members with respect to implementation of HIV activities.
- Maintains effective working Relationships with all members of the team
- Provides support to District Health Management Team (DHMT) to ensure the integration of HIV in their routine activities
- Represents Solthis and attends coordination and partners’ meetings relevant to the project within the district of intervention and at national level whenever needed
- Maintains a good relationship with other implementing partners in the district.
- Contributes to Solthis’ advocacy based on a right-based approach, in favour of free access to quality HIV care & services for all, free of stigma and discrimination
Skills required
| Skills and resources needed to perform the function | Education: Medical doctor or Community Health Officer with at least 3 years of relevant experience designing implementing and monitoring of health activities related to HIV management KNOW-HOW • Mastery of the project management cycle, including operational and budget planning Mentoring of health professionals in HIV clinical management. • Knowledge of adult education, and group facilitation approaches • Experience in working with health authorities at national and district levels • Good analytical , writing and synthesis skills • Language: English compulsory, French will be an asset • Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.; and platforms for virtual meeting for e.g. Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, etc. KNOWING HOW TO BE • Good interpersonal skills, listening skills, communication skills, diplomacy, anticipation • Flexibility, adaptability and ability to handle stress • Autonomy and proactivity • Ability to work in partnership and network |
| Relations and purpose of the relationship | Internal | • Close technical and programmatic collaboration: with PROSSAN project • Collaboration with support functions • Relationships with members of the headquarters team (mainly with technical referents and communication officer) |
| External | • Health authorities at national, district and health facility levels • Donors (institutional and private) • United Nations Agencies • National and local associations • International NGOs • Media |
Conditions
Starting date: As soon as possible
Salary & benefits: according to professional experience and grid Solthis
Submission of applications: Please send your application in English (CV and cover letter in PDF, 3 professional references, and dates of availability) via Email to: [email protected], quoting reference “HIV Technical Officer” in the subject line, by 20th of May 2023.
PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY APPLICATION SUBMITTED AFTER THIS DEADLINE WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED
2.) Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator
| Job Title Project | Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator |
| Main workplace | Freetown with regular trip within the districts of intervention |
| Classification | Level 7 |
| Hierarchical supervision and technical functional link | Line manager: Programme Coordinator (Mission) Functional : MEAL Technical Advisor (HQ) |
| Direct supervision and functional links within the mission | Hierarchical: TBD Functional: Project coordinators and project officers |
| General Mission | Under the supervision of the Programme Coordinator, the MEAL Coordinator is responsible for the overall Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning activities on the mission and MEAL coordination to ensure project quality and information dissemination. In this light, he will (1) develop and/or maintain MEAL standards, procedures and strategic priorities for improvement of the MEAL system in line with the global donors and Solthis policies and priorities (2) develop tools for quantitative and qualitative data collection, oversee the initial stages of data collection, supervise data validity and quality of analysis (3) build capacity of MEAL and country programme staff, facilitate capacity building and focus on strengthening internal coordination and robust information management in the country program (4) promote programmatic learning to improve the quality of programs at Solthis Sierra Leone (5) build and maintain accountability mechanisms, knowledge sharing and organizational learning at the Country Programme. |
Solthis is an international health NGO which contributes to the strengthening of health systems to improve the access to quality care in countries with limited resources and/or with the vulnerable populations. Solthis is registered and has been operating in Sierra Leone since 2011 where our teams have been providing comprehensive technical support at both health facility, national and community levels to improve quality of HIV care.
From 2022, Solthis is supporting the implementation of the New Funding Model 3 (NFM3) to accelerate the achievement of 95-95-95 targets in Sierra Leone by 2024. Solthis is also implementing a project (PROSSAN Project) funded by The Agence Française de Development (AFD) in two districts within the seven districts (Rural and Urban, Port Loko, Bombali, Tonkolili, Bo and Kenema Districts) supported by NFM3 project.
SPECIFIC TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Development, management and coordination of MEAL systems, tools and procedures at the Country Programme
- Contributes to the project design phase, including development of logical frameworks, M&E budget and MEAL narrative sections of project proposals
- Develops, maintains, updates and further adapts monitoring and evaluation system(s), procedures and guidelines, including MEAL frameworks and MEAL plans for all projects • Provides technical support during project MEAL planning, including guidance on developing MEAL methodologies and tools for indicator tracking
- Provides technical support in activity and results-based monitoring in the field, project teams, implementing partners and enumerators follow the instructions/agreed methodology • Drafts and regularly updates MEAL work plans and data collection plans at the Country Programme
- Supports project teams in developing quality standards for all key program interventions to strengthen the compliance and quality aspects
- Leads the annual M&E standards self-assessment process and ensures follow-up of recommendations at Country Programme level
Building and maintaining accountability mechanisms, knowledge sharing and organizational learning at the Country Programme
- Promotes and strengthens the understanding of the importance of MEAL within the organization
- Contributes to lessons learnt identification and sharing at appropriate levels, including HQ, Country Director, the Programme Coordinator and programme team members in order to timely adjust the implementation of programmes
- Supports the Programme Coordinator to facilitate discussion on the most important findings and recommendations from MEAL and systematically supports the programme team in the use of MEAL results and findings. Maintains overview of lessons learned and best practice, and identifies ways to strengthen Solthis’ planning, monitoring and evaluation processes
- Provides technical support in evaluations and other research activities, including engaging in ToRs preparation, selection of consultants, review of evaluation design and data collection methodology, data quality assurance, data analysis, involvement of stakeholders and dissemination plan
Quality Assurance of Data Management and Reporting
- Tributes to periodic projects’ review process in cooperation with Programme Coordinator and other relevant staff
- Helps design and review data collection/tracking tools/formats/databases to ensure data quality, reliability and consistency throughout project implementation, including for the integrated Country Programme MEAL framework indicators
- Implements electronic, mobile data collection systems in MEAL processes • Conducts data and feedback analysis, secondary sources overview when adequate and prepares adequate reports
- Ensures that MEAL data and reports are consistent with mission-wide reporting requirements, of high quality and on time
- Ensure archival of MEAL documents for all active projects
Establishing appropriate MEAL structures, building MEAL team capacities and maintaining adequate division of roles at the Country Programme between MEAL and other staff
- Provides support to project stakeholders and partners to ensure they deliver on all MEAL requirements in a timely manner and with high quality information
- Identifies MEAL capacity development needs of programme team, and provides tailor-made, practical trainings to project staff based on capacity needs assessment. Ensure that all programme team members and implementing partners’ staff understand and know how to use MEAL tools; and trains them in assessment methodologies and tools
In cooperation with the Programme Coordinator and Admin & Finance Manager, ensures that appropriate resource is available for MEAL activities and personnel, including by preparing and following up on the MEAL budget
Skills required
| Skills and resources needed to perform the function | Education: Master degree in Statistics, epidemiology, M&E, Social Sciences, Development programming or relevant equivalent, with at least significant coursework in quantitative or qualitative research methods. KNOW-HOW: ⇨ Significant experience of undertaking a similar MEAL related role for health programming. ⇨ Demonstrated strong monitoring and evaluation skills, including planning and participating in evaluations. ⇨ Experience of working in all aspects of planning, monitoring and evaluation, including: system design, programmatic quality audits, systematic tracking and analysis, evaluations, surveys, assessment systems, capacity building and training ⇨ Experience of working with national and district health authorities and understanding of Sierra Leone Health Information System ⇨ Experience with data collection, analysis and reporting software solutions (ODK, KoBo, CommCare, DHIS2) ⇨ Experience of, and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability. ⇨ Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports including data analysis and triangulation. ⇨ Fluency in written and spoken English. KNOWING HOW TO BE : ⇨ Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interact well with people of all backgrounds, excellent relationship building skills ⇨ Excellent interpersonal communication and leadership skills. ⇨ Flexibility, adaptability and ability to handle stress ⇨ Autonomy and proactivity ⇨ Ability to work in partnership and network |
Remuneration
Salary: According to the SOLTHIS salary scale, depending on experience in a similar position How to apply ?
Composition of the file: CV, letter of application and 3 references (former managers) To be sent to: [email protected], with the subject ” Firstname LASTNAME-MEAL Coordinator“. Application deadline: 20th May 2023
Procedure: Successful candidates will be contacted for an HR interview and technical validation (test and interview)
PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY APPLICATION SUBMITTED AFTER THIS DEADLINE WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.