District Integrated Health Service Delivery Specialist - Bugweri & Namutumba

She/he will be the project’s liaison person in one of the 12 supported districts within the East central region. S/he will be embedded within the District Health Team (DHT), through the DHO’s office.

Qualifications, job requirements and competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery (MBChB), bachelor’s in public health. A master’s degree in a health-related field is an added advantage.
  
• 3 years of progressive professional experience working in Public Health Systems.
  
• Demonstrate strong coordination and collaboration successes at community and district levels.
  
• Demonstrable excellent writing, organizational, coordination and communication skills.
  
• Proven ability to set priorities, multi-task, and work collaboratively as well as independently.
  
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
  

• To work as a liaison person between the project and the district leadership to ensure project activities are well planned, coordinated and implemented in harmony with the district priorities and operations to achieve the intended objectives
  
• Participate in making work plans, drawing activity schedules, raising activity requests, implementing activities and writing relevant reports
  
• Always seek to understand and work with the district and project relevant staff to lay strategies to achieve prevailing project priorities.
  
• Lead, guide and mentor the project team seconded to the district and health facilities for proper and harmonized implementation of the planned activities with the district
  
• Provide technical support to the district and health facility teams across the key HIV and TB technical areas.
  
• Support the integration of quality improvement approaches into health services delivery at the district and health facilities within the districts.
  
• Support the design and rollout of community level interventions for integrated health services delivery geared at addressing health determinants at individual, household and community level.
  
• Support and monitor the acquisition, inventory keeping, proper use and maintenance of equipment and other property provided by the project to the district and health facilities.