Career Opportunities at Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK) - 20 Positions

Responsibilities for the Logistics/Driver Job

• Drive CHAK vehicles to pick or drop employees
• Maintain high standard of service to both internal and external guests
• Ensure safety of passegers and vehicle at all times
• Log official trips, daily mileage, fuel consumption, oil changes, etc.
• Provide assistance as required by the office administrator
• Deliver important documents to required destinations
• Keep vehicles clean and well maintained at all times
• Observe the road and traffic laws and regulations of the Government of Kenya
• Maintain an up-to-date Vehicle Work Ticket at all time

Qualifications for the Logistics/Driver Job

• Valid Driver’s Licence (Kenyan)
• Minimum of 5 years driving experience
• Good knowledge of Kenya Traffic Rules & Regulations

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Qualification Requirements:

•    A bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting
•    Minimum of 3 year experience
•    Professional qualification in CPA/ACCA will be an added advantage
•    Proven high integrity

Summary of Key Responsibilities:

•    Preparation and consolidation of project budgets
•    Preparation of books of accounts and project reports
•    Preparation of monthly bank reconciliations and bank agency
•    Timely generation of payments and cash flow projections
•    Maintenance of accounting records and documents for traceability
•    Reviewing of accounting reports from implementing member health units & consortium partners
•    Providing review feedback and continuous follow up
•    100% compliance with donor requirements

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Minimum Qualifications

• Diploma in Nursing
• Experience in HIV programming specifically in HIV prevention programs for at least 3 years.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure quality HIV testing and counseling services are offered in outpatient and inpatient in line with national guidelines
• Ensures 100% linkage for HIV positive clients to HIV treatment.
• Ensure quality assurance for HTC in line with national guidelines
• Conduct mentorship and supportive supervision to health facility staff

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This position will support the implementation of OVC (orphans and vulnerable children) and GBV (gender based violence) services in the supported HIV care and treatment facilities.

Location: Nairobi with extensive travel to the field within Kenya

Requirements for the GBV/OVC Officer Job

• Degree in Public Health, Social and/or Behavioral Sciences or a related field, with specific emphasis on community-level health promotion and/or education and/or Social Work.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in implementing large-scale OVC care and support program.
• Additional experience in GBV implementation will be an added advantage.

Responsibilities for the GBV/OVC Officer Job

• Provide technical support and assistance to the supported organizations and facilities implementing OVC and GBV services
• Ensure implementation of minimum OVC and GBV packages according to recommended national guidelines
• Support supervision, mentorship and quality improvement at facility level
• Identify training needs, plan trainings and facilitate training sessions
• Ensure preparation of work-plans and timely technical reports as required
• Support monitoring and evaluation of OVC and GBV services in CHAP Uzima
• Represent CHAP Uzima in stakeholder meetings at both county and national levels

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This position will support the provision of treatment adherence support and psychosocial services to Persons Living with HIV in supported facilities and to improve retention and treatment outcomes.

Location
Machakos with extensive travel to supported health facilities in Lower Eastern

Minimum Qualifications

• Diploma in Nursing
• At least 3 years working experience in HIV programs
• Familiarity with HIV community programs including peer education

Key Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of treatment adherence and psychosocial support package including defaulter tracing, facility-community linkages and adolescent package of care through continuous onsite supervision and mentorship.
• Strengthen HIV community mobilization activities and linkages with community-based organizations
• Identifying training needs, plan, facilitate, and take part in training of health care workers and other stakeholders on adherence and psychosocial support and PHDP
• Ensuring meaningful involvement of peer educators and mentor mothers in treatment adherence support activities.
• Implementing evidence-based techniques and strategies to ensure quality programming in adherence and psychosocial and prevention activities under direction from the TAS specialist.
• Identifying, documenting and sharing key lessons learnt on adherence and psychosocial support from health facilities and the community

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Minimum qualifications

• Degree in Medicine with a Master’s degree in Public Health or related field
• At least 3 years’ clinical and programmatic experience in HIV

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure the provision of quality comprehensive HIV prevention care and treatment services according to national priorities and directions
• Establish and ensure functionality of quality improvement systems within supported health facilities and monitor initiatives to sustain gains/best practices for sustainability
• Build capacity of health care workers to operationalize quality improvement
• Develop quality frameworks and tools for various quality programs in CHAP Uzima in line with the Kenya Quality Model for Health and the Kenya HIV Quality Improvement Framework
• Build an evidence base to guide the design of contextually-informed QI implementation strategies and sustainable practices.
• Develop and review continuous quality improvement (CQI) capacity building materials to empower health care professionals for ownership of health care improvement
• Plan and conduct tests of promising innovations and changes that improve care for patients
• Coordinate the documentation of all quality improvement initiatives and outcomes
• Ensure preparation of workplans and technical reports
• Represent CHAP Uzima in stakeholder meetings at national and county level

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This position will be responsible for the provision of comprehensive prevention of mother to child HIV infection as well as the provision of comprehensive HIV care and treatment services to paediatrics and adolescents.

Location:Nairobi with extensive travel to the field within Kenya

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Medicine/ Diploma-Clinical Medicine or an equivalent with Paediatrics specialization
• 5 years’ experience in the implementation of PMTCT/MNCH activities

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical support, supervision and mentorship on PMTCT, paediatric and adolescent HIV care to the supported implementing facilities
• Oversee capacity building of health care workers on National PMTCT, paediatric and adolescent HIV guidelines and protocols
• Strengthen collaboration and linkages between PMTCT and HIV-Exposed Infants (HEI) activities at the MCH
• Assist in the implementation of the monitoring and evaluation systems for PMTCT and HIV exposed infants
• To participate in the PMTCT, paediatric and adolescent technical working groups in the Ministry of Health at both County and National level
• Participate in Program review activities
• Prepare technical reports and work plans

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Location • Machakos with extensive travel to CHAP Uzima implementing sites in Lower Eastern

Minimum Requirements

• Diploma in Clinical Medicine
• At least 5 years’ clinical and programmatic experience in HIV management
• Must be registered by the Clinical Officers Council

Key responsibilities:

• Planning and implementation of HIV Prevention Care and Treatment and TB services at supported facilities
• Provide on-going supervision and mentorship of TB and HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment Programs • Support mentorship of facility staff
• Participate in quality assurance/quality improvement of TB and HIV programs
• Assist in monitoring and evaluation
• Preparation of work plans and technical reports papers
• Participate in joint supervision of HIV care and treatment TB and HIV services with the county and sub-county health management teams

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Location

• Embu (Kyeni): Will have extensive travel to CHAP Uzima sites in Central and Upper Eastern
• Naivasha: Will have extensive travel to CHAP Uzima sites in South Rift
• Machakos: Will have extensive travel to CHAP Uzima sites in Lower Eastern

Minimum Requirements

• Degree in Medicine (MBChB or equivalent)
• Registration with Kenya Medical Practitioners & Dentists Board
• At least 3 years’ clinical and programmatic experience in HIV management

Key responsibilities:

• Planning and implementation of HIV Prevention Care and Treatment and TB services at supported health facilities
• Participate in quality assurance/quality improvement of TB and HIV services at the facility level including TB Infection Prevention and Control interventions
• Support Site Improvement and Monitoring Systems at facility level through onsite mentorship
• Preparation of work plans and technical reports
• Provide clinical leadership to the regional team and supported facilities
• Assist in monitoring and evaluation of activities relating to HIV care
• Participate in county and sub-county level HIV and TB technical working groups and serve as the liaison between CHAP Uzima and the county health teams.
• Perform joint supervision of HIV care and treatment TB and HIV services with the county and sub-county health management teams

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Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelors level of education preferably in Biostatistics/Statistics or in Epidemiology
• Master’s degree e.g MPH, Epidemiology, Biostatistics will be an added advantage.
• 3+ Year experience in similar Health related position.
• Comprehensive Knowledge and understanding of PEPFAR reporting requirements will be an added advantage.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Quality management
• Big data and data analytics
• Training program planning
• Database query languages (SQL, others)
• Programming
• Troubleshooting
• Data Analysis

Key Responsibilities
Under the direction of the MERL Advisor, he/she will:

• Promote Data Demand and Information Use culture within CHAP Uzima;
• Lead efforts to obtain, analyses and visualize data in ways that meet the information needs of targeted data users CHAP Uzima, health facilities , donor as well as MOH;
• Continuously use data for quality improvement;
• Routinely review data for use to improve service delivery and clinical/public health decision support.
• Increase the use of gender and age-disaggregated data in particular, and inferential statistics in general for evidence-informed management of the program.
• Inculcate a culture of data demand and use, including the provision of routine high-level statistical analyses.
• Drive the performance dashboard review forums within CHAP Uzima, regional teams, and implementing facilities;
• Assist implementing facilities and regional teams to take ownership of their data and to analyze, share and use their data to drive decisions and quality improvement initiatives in all program areas;
• Work with CHAP technical team and facility level teams to institutionalize DDIU tools, training curricula and approaches;
• Work across results areas to incorporate data use activities at project, management, facility/services, and community/advocacy levels.
• Ensure DDIU Trend analysis are routinely / quarterly disseminated and encourage use of them at both central, regional and health facilities’ levels;
• Train CHAP Uzima TA team and implementing sites staff in DDIU basic trend analysis /updating trends;
• Synthesize reports of progress against the Log Frame indicators and targets;
• Lead routine analysis of program data in preparation for data summaries for research abstracts and manuscripts.
• Co-design supportive supervision visit guidelines for the use of program data in decision making and build capacity of others to coach in data use promotion;
• Co-develop and conduct a regional rapid assessment of the organizational, technical and behavioral factors that affect decision making and building evidence on what works and what doesn’t when building and strengthening program information utilization;
• Review and propose additions /edits to existing data collection training materials and guidelines for data management and use;
• Coordinate and support program-led DDIU capacity building efforts;
• Engage with other implementing partners in regional capacity building efforts;
• Provide updates to the CHAP Uzima team on work progress and contribute to activity reporting and success stories as needed;
• Provide regular feedback to senior technical managers, program and technical staff, on successes, challenges and lessons learned in implementation related to areas of technical expertise.
• Author and co-author abstracts and presentations for journals and conferences.
• Any other duties as may be assigned.

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Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics or Information Technology.
• A minimum of 5 years of health informatics experience
• A broad and extensive knowledge of IT principles, methods and techniques; analytical skills and superior knowledge of project management principles to manage projects and work with multi-disciplinary teams
• An expert knowledge in one or more IT domains in order to provide advice to clients and senior management
• Experience in the design, programming and administration of transactional databases (MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
• Experience in the Windows Server and Linux Server Administration
• Experience in networking & hardware maintenance
• Experience in designing, developing, implementing and maintaining knowledge management systems that facilitate data use for decision making
• Demonstrable experience in development and implementation of web and m-health based solutions.
• Experience in working with IQcare and IQtools will be an added advantage.
• Experience in programming skills in PHP, JavaScript CSS, XML, net (C#, ASP)
• Working knowledge of DATIM & PEPFAR reporting systems Ability to work effectively in a busy, high pressure team environment
• Ability to prioritize workload and demonstrate outcomes on strict deadline.
• Strong oral and written communications skills

Key Responsibilities
Under the direction of the MERL Advisor, he/she will be:

• CHAP Uzima point person in EMR implementations.
• Work with all regional teams in supporting and troubleshooting of EMRs at implementing health facility levels.
• Support information technology infrastructure and data management tools
• Facilitate implementation of EMR at implementing sites as approved by CHAP Uzima and MOH and ensure technical support is provided as needed
• Coordinate technical M&E needs at implementing sites (computers and hardware)
• Build the data culture at health facilities to improve data demand and data use
• Increase Health Facilities demand for quality information, methods, and tools, and facilitation of information use in decision making
• To develop and maintain an up-to-date M&E Database of various programmes and projects particularly CHAK-HIV project
• To provide support in the development and application of M&E Tools
• To participate in the relevant Health Sector HMIS/M&E Technical Working Group
• Any other duties as may be assigned.

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Location:

• Nairobi (1) – With extensive field travel to CHAP Uzima supported health facilities
• Machakos ( 2) - With extensive field travel to CHAP Uzima supported health facilities sin lower Eastern
• Naivasha (1) – With extensive field travel to CHAP Uzima Supported health facilities in parts of Central and South Rift.
• Embu (1) – With extensive field travel to CHAP Uzima supported health facilities in Central and Upper Eastern

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Project Management, Public health or other relevant academic background (essential), Master’s Degree (desirable).
• 1 to 3 years of Monitoring and Evaluation experience (essential)
• Working knowledge of IQCare /IQTools, DHIS and DATIM is a Must.

Desired Skills:

• Good level of proficiency in Windows Excel and quantitative analysis
• Ability to design M&E tools, surveys, surveillance systems, and evaluations
• Demonstrated ability to train and build capacity of others
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Use of databases and relevant data management software e.g. Tableau, SPSS, Excel, EPI info.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support all M&E initiatives for assigned grant(s)/project(s) including monitoring data quality, tracking the progress of activities, and contributing to staff capacity building
  initiatives as necessary.
• To support strengthening of the M&E Unit at CHAK Secretariat
• To support the development and implementation of an M&E Framework for CHAK Strategic Plan and Projects.
• Support in creating a framework and procedures for the monitoring and evaluation of CHAP Uzima project.
• Support in defining and implementing the key project performance Indicators (KPI) as well as monitoring them throughout the duration of the project.
• Developing strategies to increase data use and demand in CHAK and CHAP Uzima project.
• Assist Program staff and the MERL Advisor in clarifying project information needs.
• Support project/program staff on ways to properly document, organize and capture program progress.
• Draft tools and their revisions as well as data collection procedures under the Supervision of the MERL Advisor (eg. logical framework, project performance tracking,
  indicators, data flow chart, M&E manuals)
• Keep abreast of developments in grant/program changes and progress in order to advise and recommend tools and strategies to increase program performances and results.
• Suggest ways to facilitate data collection and the flow of data in CHAK
• Identify strengths and weaknesses in existing data collection and management systems and propose solutions.
• Perform regular field visits to ensure the quality of data collected and reported by health facilities and to verify the accuracy of reported data
• Support the CHAP Uzima project to ensure that donor, partner, and Senior Management data queries are addressed in an accurate and timely manner.
• Support and participate in program and project evaluations
• Support in reviewing donor reports to ensure high quality reports are submitted on time to CDC/PEPFAR.
• Assist in establishing log frames, M&E work plans, and targets during the drafting donor project proposals as well as throughout project implementation
• Any other duties as may be assigned.