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Project Hope Namibia in Malawi (PHN-MA) seeks qualified Malawian candidate to fill various positions for the USAID funded Ana ndi Achinyamata Patsogolo Activity (ANAPA) Project, a project aimed at preventing new HIV infections and improve the health wellbeing and Protection of Children, Adolescents, their families and Young Women (CAFYW) living with, affected by and vulnerable to HIV. ANAPA will be implemented in high HIV burdened nine districts in Malawi (Blantyre, Chikwawa, Lilongwe, Machinga, Mangochi, Mulanje, Phalombe, Thyolo and Zomba). The program focus on Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) and Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) and Adolescent Boys and Young Men (ABYM). The approach is also including but not limited to System Strengthening, Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) in close collaboration with Government of Malawi (GoM). 

1.Social Welfare Officer (8)

Reporting] to: District Team Leader

Duty Station: Blantyre, Chikwawa, Machinga, Mangochi, Mulanje, Phalombe, Thyolo and Zomba

Job Summary:

Will be overseeing the implementation of the PHN ANAPA child protection as well as GBV/VAC prevention and response services. S/he will be responsible for assessing clients’ needs, developing care plans, connecting them to appropriate services, and advocating for their well-being, and working closely with community level PHN ANAPA staff, clients, families, and community resources to address a range of social and emotional challenges.

Specific Responsibilities and Duties:

• Lead the development and implementation of the district level work plan on the OVC comprehensive and OVC preventive components of ANAPA.
• Support relevant GBV prevention, detection, and response interventions under the OVC & DREAMS component of ANAPA to ensure leveraging of resources and AGYW benefiting from both programs.
• Support monitoring of Viral load to ensure viral load suppression among CAFYW living with HIV.
• Support and strengthen identification and linkage of CAFWY through intensified clinic and community case finding, index testing, and contact tracing.
• Provide trainings, mentorship, support supervision and coaching to coordinators, CPWs, Facilitators and Case Workers and government staff in Case Management principles.
• Strengthen bi-directional facility/community linkages towards improved CAFYW, continuum of care with focus on optimizing health and social services and ensure case conferencing takes place between health facility and social welfare staff to support.
• Oversee the implementation of PHN’s child safeguarding policy and ensure CAFYW are safe and accesses non-clinical post violence care services.
• Support the strengthening of the referral linkage system for child protection services.
• Link survivors of violence, abuse, exploitation, and neglect to police, legal counsel, and child protection services including shelter/care facility or kinship care placement.
• Oversee the community and facility linkage, implementation of positive parenting, SKILLZ and support NMN girls and boys and CBIM.
• Liaise with the M&E team in tracking and reporting related targets.

Minimum Qualifications, experience and required skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, social sciences, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in HIV sensitive child protection case management.
• Strong understanding of positive parenting, SKILLZ, MHPSS services and prevention of Violence Against Children and Youth.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, problem-solving skills, team player.

2.Position: Youth Officer
Reports To: District Team Leader.
Duty Station: Blantyre (2), Zomba (5), Machinga (4), Phalombe (3)

Job Summary:

The District Youth Officer is responsible for the coordination and implementation of evidence-based programming for Adolescents, their Families and Young Women (AFYW) and Adolescent Boys and Young Men (ABYM). Working closely with ANAPA participants and community partners, the Youth Officer will implement a range of strategies and initiatives to empower AGYW with skills, knowledge, and resources to improve their livelihoods and economic opportunities in HIV Programming.

Major Responsibilities:

• Ensure strong collaboration with the AGYW TWG at District level on the implementation of AGYW programs.
• Take lead in and provide overall oversight over and coordination of implementation of DREAMS services in the communities and health facilities for the project.
• Develop a workplan in collaboration with other District Officers on the implementation of the AGYW and OVC programs that target young people.
• Build the capacity of the District teams, Facility and community health workers to provide services on DREAMS initiative as per the DREAMS NextGen guideline
• Work with the ES Officer, Gender Officer, SW Officer in the completion of DREAMS layering services.
• Work with service provision partners in the provision of DREAMS secondary Services
• Provide technical assistance for DREAMS services through trainings and on-site mentorship for fidelity delivery of AGYW programming.
• In liaison with the M&E team, ensure that reporting and documentation of results from the DREAMS implementation is done timely.
• Closely coordinate with Ministry of Health and roll out the implementation of DREAMS services\.
• Support establishment of community and facility Continued Quality Improvement support implementation of AGYW risk reduction plans.
• Perform any other duties assigned by the District Team Leader

Minimum Qualification and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Humanities
• Proven understanding of the DREAMS and OVC programs
• Proven understanding of models used in the DREAMS program
• Proven strength in stakeholder engagement
• Proven experience in designing and implementing AGYW Prevention programs for the AGYW and OVC programs.

Specific Knowledge, Skills and abilities Required.

• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Ability to work effectively within a team and build strong relationships with stakeholders
• Proficiency in data collection, analysis, and reporting
• Familiarity with the HIV and Violence Prevention programs for Youth People.

3.Job Title: Monitoring Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Officer (8)
Reports to: MEL Specialist
Location: Blantyre, Mangochi, Machinga, Thyolo, Phalombe, Chikwawa, Mulanje, and Zomba.

Job Summary:

The District Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Officer will ensure the district MEL-specific activities are executed as expected. S/he will conduct data analysis and advocate for data usage for performance measurement of HIV Prevention services within the district. Train and mentor cluster and health facility-based data clerks, CCWs district and other health workers on monitoring and evaluation. Support MEL activities at all ANAPA sites and Catchment areas. He/she will be responsible for the district’s overall data management with guidance from the MEL Specialists.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with District Team Leads (DTL) to ensure timely data collection, analysis, and reporting for the ANAPA project.
• Support MEL activities at all ANAPA project sites within the district, including training, DQAs
• Conduct site visits to support, validate and verify all project data at the site and catchment level with cluster and facility based DECs.
• Compile and submit weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually to ANAPA DTLs and MEL team at the National Level.
• Coordinates routine data verification processes with catchment based DECs to ensure completeness, cleanliness, and accuracy, resolving discrepancies using standard procedures or addressing discrepancies in source documents.
• Verifies entered client/beneficiary data by reviewing, correcting, deleting, or re-entering data; eliminates data duplication per DHIS2 Tracker data quality rules.
• Regularly test DHIS2 Tracker system changes and upgrades by inputting new data and reviewing output in collaboration with Project HOPE’s MEL personnel.
• Serves as Point of Contact for DHIS2 Tracker and other MEL-related activities for the district.
• Attend project-related and district data review meetings.
• Is part of the District’s Continuous Quality Improvement/ Management (CQI/M) team.
• Analyses data routinely and prepares a progress-to-target report for the District Team and other field staff as necessary.
• Support Research Knowledge Management and learning advisor in organising data collection at the district level.

Qualifications and experience required:

• A bachelor’s degree in public health, Epidemiology, Statistics/Applied mathematics and statistics or related fields with at least 3 years of related work experience in M&E, data management and analysis in the health sector.
• Previous experience in DREAMS and OVC programs is an added advantage.
• Proven ICT skills in Microsoft Office and Database management on at least one of the following: Excel, EPI info, SPSS, SAS, STATA, Power BI and web-based databases.
• Possess excellent communication, training, and facilitation skills.
• Typing and data entry skills, attention to detail, confidentiality, thoroughness, decision-making, independence, analysing information, results-driven, motivated.

4.Community Linkage Coordinator (29)

Reporting to: Social Welfare Officer
Duty Station: PHN, ANAPA Cluster Level Office in the 8 districts of Blantyre, Chikwawa, Machinga, Mangochi, Mulanje, Phalombe, Thyolo, & Zomba.

Job Summary:

S/he will be leading the planning and implementation and coordination of PHN ANAPA activities in the cluster (Catchment Areas) assigned in. Ensuring smooth linkage of CAFYW between the Clinical, KP and social partners, operations, and driving positive outcomes for project participants. Works closely with the multidisciplinary teams, government counterparts, program participants and the community at large to achieve ANAPA results.

Specific Responsibilities and Duties:

• Develop and implement detailed site level plan
• Collaborate with clinic staff from relevant departments (ANC, early infant diagnosis (EID)/Immunization, PMTCT), TB, ART, STI) and other Government line ministries & structures to identify and enroll the project beneficiaries.
• Collaborate with MoH or clinical partners to jointly monitor viral load and share data on viral load for all CLHIV and their caregivers and manage those with high viral load to ensure they suppress.
• Oversee/assist CCWs to support viral load monitoring at community level and conduct mentorship on root cause analysis and service provision for those with high viral load.
• Support the CPWs to convene regular case conferences at clinics for CALHIV cases,
• Foster strong collaboration with key stakeholders at cluster level while treating each facility as unique entity and strengthen site level referral linkage system.
• Providing continuous follow-up and monitoring of new HIV-positive to support disclosure and referring for index testing.
• Collaborate with the MEL Officer & Data Enter Clerks to implement site level CQI process.

Minimum Qualifications, expérience and required skills :

• Diploma in health or social work-related fields, and those with bachelor’s degree will be added advantage.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in HIV sensitive Child Protection Case Management, community development, Community/Clinical linkage or related field.
• At least 1 year of experience in supervising and supporting community-based teams.
• Motorcycle Riding license will be a plus.

5.SASA! Coordinator (18).

Reports to:  District Social Welfare Officer
Duty Station: Blantyre (3), Chikwawa, Zomba (5), Phalombe (2), Mulanje (1), Thyolo (1), Machinga (2), Mangochi (1)

Job Summary:

“SASA!” means “NOW!” in Kiswahili, emphasizing the urgent need to prevent violence against women. SASA! Is also an acronym for it four phases: Start, Awareness, Support and Action. The coordinator will lead the roll out and monitoring of SASA! program (Sasa! Faith and Sasa! Together) in his/her District. SASA! Coordinator reports to District Team Leader.

Specific Responsibilities and Duties:

• Lead the development of site level work plan and implementation of SASA! Together and Sasa! Faith.
• Promote the SASA! component of ANAPA using various platforms.
• Identify catchment areas (Traditional Authorities) suitable for implementation of SASA!
• Support mapping of selected communities to identify service providers with a focus on violence prevention and mitigation.
• Support to strengthen the referral linkage system.
• Lead the identification of Community Activists (CAs) and Community Leaders (CLs) and formation of Community Action Groups
• Organize monthly SASA! Together review meetings.
• Work closely with the District MEL Officers and District Data Entry Clerks to collect data, analyze data and use data for decision making using the following SASA!

Minimum Qualifications, experience and required skills: 

• Diploma in social work, gender studies, community development, public health, or a related field. Those with bachelor’s degree is a plus.
• At least 3 years of experience in community mobilization, participatory learning and facilitation approaches, behavior change interventions and related fields.
• Previous work experience on prevention of violence against women has an advantage.

6.DREAMS Ambassador (4).

Reporting to: District Team Lead

Duty Station: Phalombe, Blantyre, Zomba and Machinga

Job Summary:

The main responsibility of the DREAMS Ambassador is to promote and coordinate the DREAMS [Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW)] component of PHN ANAPA in the district she is assigned. Reporting to District Team Lead, the DREAMS Ambassador will also support the meaningful engagement of AGYW in the implementation of the ANAPA.

Specific Responsibilities and Duties:

• Map partners working on AGYW programming at the district level.
• Coordinate quarterly review meetings of partners’ working on AGYW programming.
• Promote the DREAMS component of ANAPA using various platforms including social media.
• Educate on, advocate for and champion SRH services including PrEP, contraception options, and post violence care.
• Foster meaningful engagement of the youth:
• Participate in the design, implementation, and monitoring of the DREAMS component of ANAPA
• Serve as a member of district level Youth Advisory Committees.
• Serve as a member of the ANAPA Youth Programming Assessment Committee.
• Lead program participant consultation to identify barriers and facilitators of DREAMS service utilization.
• Participate in National AGYW Forums, and regional if need be
• Participate in Multidisciplinary Team Meetings at Health Facility Level.
• Attend national and international workshops and conferences.
• Compile and share reports with the District Team Leader.
• Any other responsibility assigned by the District Team Leader. 

Minimum Qualifications, experience and required skills :

• AGYW aged 18 – 30 years who have completed the DREAMS program.
• Minimum education level of a post-secondary certificate or diploma in a related field, degree will be added advantage.
• Fluent in speaking and writing in English.
• Able to speak the local language largely spoken in the district of choice.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Willing to share personal experiences on use of SRH and HIV services through peer platforms (including social media).
• Strong passion for advocating for AGYW’s health and rights.
• Advocate for AGYW in different platforms
• Being a social media influencer (at least 2000 followers on Instagram or TikTok) or affiliated with youth led organization or served in leadership position as a representative of the youth (e.g., school prefect/head student).

Interested Malawian candidates who meet the above qualifications and experience are requested to submit their Curriculum Vitae with 3 traceable references, cover letter together with copies of certificates to the email address below not later than 5:00pm on 26th April, 2024, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Email to: recruitmentmw@projecthope.org