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About CSSC
The Christian Social Services Commission (CSSC) is an ecumenical body
established in 1992 by the Christian Council of Tanzania and the
Tanzania Episcopal Conference, to coordinate and facilitate the delivery
of social services (health and education) by the member churches in
Tanzania. For 28 years, CSSC has been serving and coordinate a network
of more than 900 church-owned health education facilities, including 105
large hospitals at Zonal, Regional and District/Council levels. In
addition, CSSC coordinates a network of more than 1,000 church owned
education facilities. Majority of these church health and education
facilities are located in remote and rural areas where 70% of the
Tanzanian population reside in those areas.
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CSSC has been awarded a 5-years Grant by U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID) to implement “Pamoja Tuwekeze Afya” - (PATA)
Activity. The award intends to establish self-reliant health facilities
(HFs) and improve health service deliveryby the CSSC network of
church-based HFs in meeting the health needs of the target population.
Through cost-effective and innovative solutions, the PATA Activity will
strengthen the CSSC’s capacity to deliver quality services in
Reproductive, Maternal, New born, Child and Adolescent health (RMNCAH),
HIV/TB services and other health related areas. The PATA Activity has
got two major components.
New Jobs at CSSC in Pamoja Tuwekeze Afya (PATA) Project Funded by USAID, 2020
In
view of the above, CSSC is hereby seeking applications from highly
qualified, well experienced, competent and motivated persons to fill-in
the following vacant positions below..Recommended:
Title: Community Linkage Officers-2 Post
Report to: Health Technical Advisor
Location: Mwanza, Mbeya
Job Summary:
The Community Linkage Officer will be responsible for supporting the project to strengthen community-facility linkages to improve client identification, adherence, and retention in care and ultimately contribute to HIV care and treatment goals. Within the scope of work, S/he will be responsible for technical leadership to increase number of health facilities with formal systems for referrals between facility and community services. S/he will liaise with National AIDS Control Programme (NACP), community-based HIV IPs, and local government authorities to develop a comprehensive training plan for low volume CSSC network of HFs to perform comprehensive TB/HIV services. S/he will foster relationships with community-based organizations and support development of work plans that will support the FBO platforms, health facility-community systems strengthening program.
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Duties and Responsibilities
Qualification
Experiences and Skills
Mode of Application
Interested candidates are to submit their motivation letter and copy of the latest CV in one document indicating their preferred work station. The subject line of your job application email should indicate the position that you are applying for; your CV must include the contact information (email addresses and telephone numbers) of three work-related traceable referees. All correspondence MUST reach CSSC before 1600hrs November 27th 2020 and channeled through the following email address:
hr@cssc.or.tz
Note that;
Kindly visit cssc.or.tz for the detailed posts with duties, responsibilities, required qualification, experience and skills
Any application sent later than the mentioned date and time will not be considered.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted; if you are not contacted within two weeks after the deadline of this advert, consider yourself unsuccessful.
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Report to: Health Technical Advisor
Location: Mwanza, Mbeya
Job Summary:
The Community Linkage Officer will be responsible for supporting the project to strengthen community-facility linkages to improve client identification, adherence, and retention in care and ultimately contribute to HIV care and treatment goals. Within the scope of work, S/he will be responsible for technical leadership to increase number of health facilities with formal systems for referrals between facility and community services. S/he will liaise with National AIDS Control Programme (NACP), community-based HIV IPs, and local government authorities to develop a comprehensive training plan for low volume CSSC network of HFs to perform comprehensive TB/HIV services. S/he will foster relationships with community-based organizations and support development of work plans that will support the FBO platforms, health facility-community systems strengthening program.
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Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop capacity-building standards and approaches to be used for strengthening the community component in collaboration with the project’s technical team.
- Coordinate and utilize CSSC networks of health facilities and community-based platforms to improve comprehensive community-based HIV and TB services
- Establish referral and tracking systems between the health facilities and the community by linking treatment sites to existing NGOs and CBOs that provide services to PLHIV
- Support the M&E team to develop/utilize systems to track health facility performance (especially on specific key site indicators e.g. lost to follow up paediatric identification, etc.)
- Coordinate the identification and documentation of case studies, best practices, and lessons learned arising from different interventions and share with M&E department.
- Pilot, document, and scale-up feasible models for delivering ART care through community structures
- Improve linkages of PLHIV to community organizations for comprehensive care, including CBOs building socio-economic capacity of vulnerable households
- Roll out implementation of health and social policies at facility and community levels, including those that reduce barriers of care for key populations
- Expand task-shifting opportunities using human resources for health strategies Commission research and market surveys in the field of Health service delivery to ensure that Health facilities implements innovative solutions and approaches that will improve operational effectiveness and efficiency.
Qualification
- Degree in Social Sciences or Nursing, postgraduate training in Community Development work.
- Master in Public Health is an added advantage
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NEW TANZANIAN JOBS, INTERNSHIPS AND VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES 2020 (1,312 POSTS)Experiences and Skills
- At least 3 years’ experience working with HIV/AIDS programs (ART, HBC, OVC) or community-based projects
- In depth understanding of HIV-related policy, program, and systems issues in the Tanzanian context
- Experience working with USG-funded health and/or other development programs
- Demonstrated management skills, with previous supervisory experience required
- Experience with various capacity-building approaches, including mentorship
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational and written / verbal communication skills
- Fluent in both written and spoken Kiswahili as well as proficiency in English
- Excellent writing skills, experience with technical briefs and reports necessary
- Computer literate (particularly in excel, MS word and email)
Mode of Application
Interested candidates are to submit their motivation letter and copy of the latest CV in one document indicating their preferred work station. The subject line of your job application email should indicate the position that you are applying for; your CV must include the contact information (email addresses and telephone numbers) of three work-related traceable referees. All correspondence MUST reach CSSC before 1600hrs November 27th 2020 and channeled through the following email address:
hr@cssc.or.tz
Note that;
Kindly visit cssc.or.tz for the detailed posts with duties, responsibilities, required qualification, experience and skills
Any application sent later than the mentioned date and time will not be considered.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted; if you are not contacted within two weeks after the deadline of this advert, consider yourself unsuccessful.
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
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