TEMPORARY VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENTS The USAID funded APHIAplus Project became effective from January 2011 and works closely with the Government of Kenya, non-governmental and for profit sectors to strengthen health care services throughout these provinces. Family Health International (FHI 360) is the lead partner of APHIAplus project in Rift Valley Province. We are currently seeking highly talented and hardworking individuals to be part of a dynamic team. We seek qualified candidates for the following positions to be based in various locations. Temporary Clinical Officer (20 Positions) Location: Nakuru, Narok, Laikipia, Baringo, Kajiado. Requisition No: APHIA-TCO-001 Position Summary: The Clinical Officer will be responsible for providing clinical HIV services, mentorship, coaching and regular updates to service providers in the area of both pediatric and adult HIV care and treatment. They will be responsible for working closely with the service providers to ensure that the quality of care is sustained across the program as defined by the MOH quality standards. Key Responsibilities: 1. Provide clinical HIV services, mentorship, coaching and updates to service providers at the CCC/ART to offer patients quality care and treatment services according to the national guidelines and standards. 2. Support other service providers in the facility by recommending relevant treatment and care for the patients with opportunistic infections and recommend initiation of ART treatment in accordance with the MOH recommended guidelines. 3. Offer mentorship to service providers in Comprehensive Care Centers attending to HIV infected adults and children. 4. Liaise with other project staff working in the community to address issues of defaulter tracing, HIV prevention and addressing other social determinants of health to mitigate the impact of those affected and infected by HIV. 5. Work with health facilities with high patient workloads and poor performing sites in terms of improving the initiation of patients on and mentoring the clinicians at these sites on the initiation of patients onto ART. 6. Support facilities on inter and intra facility referrals. 7. Ensure quality of care is attained for patients seeking the services. 8. Ensure the documentation of appropriate services rendered to the patients is done in the relevant service registers. 9. Support HIV/TB and HIV/MNCH service integration Minimum Requirements: Holders of Diplomas in Clinical Medicine from an institution recognized by the Clinical Officers Council and must by duly registered by the Council with a minimum of 3 years post registration work experience. Trained in HIV management, care and treatment. Additional training in both pediatric and adult HIV, PMTCT and rationale ART use is an added advantage. At least 2 years’ experience working

in a health facility offering HIV comprehensive care and treatment. Demonstrable knowledge of HIV disease and the various interventions being offered to prevent and control the morbidity and mortality arising from the infection will be an added advantage. Temporary Nurse (17 Positions) Location: Nakuru, Narok, Laikipia, Baringo, Kajiado. Requisition No: APHIA-TN-002 Position Summary: The Nurse will be responsible for providing clinical HIV services, mentorship, coaching and regular updates to service providers in the area of pediatric and adult HIV care and treatment and PMTCT. He/She will be responsible for working closely with the service providers to ensure that the quality of care is sustained across the program as defined by the MOH quality standards. Key Responsibilities: 1. Provide clinical HIV services, mentorship, coaching and updates to service providers at the CCC/MCH to offer patients quality care and treatment services according to the national guidelines and standards. 2. Support the service providers by recommending relevant treatment and care for the patients with opportunistic infections and recommend initiation of ART treatment in accordance with the MOH recommended guidelines. 3. Offer mentorship to service providers in Comprehensive Care Centers/MCH attending to HIV infected adults and children. 4. Liaise with other project staff working in the community to address issues of defaulter tracing, HIV prevention and addressing other social determinants of health to mitigate the impact of those affected and infected by HIV. 5. Work with other health providers in CCC/MCH In terms of improving the initiation of patients on and mentoring the clinicians at these sites on the initiation of patients onto ART. 6. Support facilities on inter and intra facility referrals. 7. Ensure quality of care is attained for patients seeking the services. 8. Ensure the documentation of appropriate services rendered to the patients is done in the relevant service registers. 9. Ensure correct and timely use of HIV related reporting and recording tools and data use at source 10. Support HIV/TB and HIV/MNCH service integration

Minimum Requirements: Holders of Diplomas in Nursing from an institution recognized by the Nursing Council of Kenya and must by duly registered by the Council with a minimum of 3 years post registration work experience. Trained in HIV management, care and treatment. Additional training in both pediatric and adult HIV, PMTCT and rational ART use is an added advantage. At least 2 years’ experience working in a health facility offering HIV comprehensive care and treatment. Demonstrable knowledge of HIV disease and the various interventions being offered to prevent and control the morbidity and mortality arising from the infection will be an added advantage. Understanding of standard MOH reporting and recording tools.

Temporary Nutrition Mentor (3 Positions) Location: Laikipia, Baringo, Kajiado. Requisition No: APHIA-TNM-003 Position Summary: The Nutrition mentor, will be responsible for mentorship, coaching and regular updates to service providers in the area of nutrition. He /she will be responsible for working closely with the service providers to ensure that the quality of nutrition care services are assured implemented and sustained in the facility, as defined by the MOH standards. Key Responsibilities: 1. 2. 3.

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Ensure integration of nutrition services in various clinics with particular reference to MNCH programs, child survival and integration into T.B. and HIV & AIDS interventions. Actively participate in the facility mentorship and support supervision Ensure correct use of standard nutrition recording and reporting tools (Capture, update existing data and give summaries for nutrition services in line with the HMIS and the CHANIS- ensuring active growth monitoring in the CWC, nutritional assessment in CCC, maternal nutrition incorporated in the ANC, FP and post-natal clinics). Ensure facilities are effectively offering micro-nutrient supplementation, deworming and reporting of the same in the DHIS. Provide nutrition update to clinical and program staff Develop and ensure integration of nutrition activities in the facility work plan. Implement comprehensive MIYCN program with strong Behavior Change Communication approaches Support development of clear nutritional referral and linkage systems within the different departments in the health facility. Ensure the establishment of nutrition indicator monitoring and evaluation systems within supported health facilities.

Minimum Requirements: Diploma in Nutrition with at least 3-5 years relevant work experience. Experience in working in a government facility is essential. Demonstrable knowledge and skills in nutrition mentorship/programming will be an added advantage. Nursing/Clinical Medicine background with postbasic Diploma in Nutrition or a BSc in Foods, Nutrition & Dietetics or Food Science and Technology with 2 years relevant work experience and 1 years’ experience in Nutrition services working in a busy health facility/nutrition program preferably in the public sector. Registered by the Kenya Nutrition and Dietetic Institute Temporary Pharmaceutical Technologist (4 Positions) Location: Nakuru, Narok, Laikipia, Baringo, Kajiado. Requisition No: APHIA-TPT-004 Position Summary: The Pharmaceutical technologist will be responsible for providing services based in a facility, mentorship, coaching and regular updates to service providers in the area pharmacy. He/She will be responsible for working closely with the service providers to ensure that the quality of services offered is sustained in the facility as defined by the MOH quality standards.

Key Responsibilities: 1. Receive, interpret and processing of prescriptions 2. Counseling patients on Medication use and adherence 3. Maintain accurately the pharmacy data base keeping it up-to date by daily real-time recording of prescriptions on ADT 4. Conduct monthly ART commodities stock take, updating of Bin cards and filling of expiry tracking charts. 5. Create pharmacy SOPs and ensure they are well utilized 6. Prepare the monthly and quarterly reports for ART patient summary (F-MAPS) and ARVs consumption (F-CDRR) 7. Document and report adverse drug interactions 8. Use of DHIS and e-SCM for reporting commodities (Malaria, FP and ARVS) Minimum Requirements: Diploma in Pharmaceutical Technology from a recognized Medical Training College with 3-5 years relevant experience. Basic training on ART, Commodity Management (and preferably TOT).Experience in mentoring and supervision of other pharmacy staff on inventory management, rational use and quantification. The use of the ARV Dispensing tool (ADT) is an added advantage. At least 2 years’ experience in providing support for a busy ART program. Temporary Health Records Information Officer (4 Positions) Location: Narok, Nakuru Requisition No: APHIA-HRIO-005 Position Summary: Working closely with the mentorship team in conjunction with the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and MDT Team Leader, the Health Records Information Officer will be responsible for mentoring health workers in various health facilities to maintain service registers, conducting regular data quality assessments activities, ensure accurate and timely facility reports and support facilities to run basic data analysis for decision making. S/he will be required to maintain confidentiality and integrity for the facility data as directed. Key Responsibilities: 1. Ensure facilities have standard data collection and reporting tools 2. Support facility based service providers to update health records and registers in line with national guidelines. 3. Verify data based on MOH defined service standards. 4. Support and mentor health workers on data utilization for decision making. 5. Responsible for ensuring data quality is maintained. 6. Support health workers in conducting regular data quality assurance. 7. Actively follow-up facilities to ensure that commonly agreed data management improvement plans are followed and monitored by all parties. 8. Provide basic data summaries to facility as required from time to time. 9. Support facilities to maintain data confidentiality and security. 10. Support facilities to use data for decision making. 11. Other duties as assigned by supervisor from time to time.

Minimum Requirements: Diploma in Statistics/Health Information Systems/Information Technology with at least 4 years work experience in data management systems and experience in use of MOH tools. Experience in training is an added advantage. Computer proficiency in MS Office Suite and word processing, databases, spreadsheets, including advanced skills in at least two of the following programs: SPSS, Epi Info, Stata. Good organizational, planning, interpersonal and communication skills Temporary Laboratory Technologist (21 Positions) Location: Nakuru, Narok, Laikipia, Baringo, Kajiado. Requisition No: APHIA-TLT-006 Position Summary: The Laboratory technologist will be responsible for providing services in select high volume sites. They will be responsible for working closely with the service providers to ensure that the quality of laboratory services are sustained across as defined by the MOH quality standards. Key Responsibilities: In coordination with the County laboratory coordinators and regional laboratory coordinators support facilities in;  Collection of specimens for dry blood spot DBS for EID/VL, CD4 tests, GeneXpert and other tests to ensure facilities have access to Quality laboratory services.  Work hand in hand with facility-level laboratory managers, in establishing routine workflow, developing/refining Sops, job aids, log books, and referral forms as needed ;planning of lab activities to improve test performance and decrease turnaround time; and developing and implementing an equipment maintenance program.  Strengthen internal quality control (IQC) external quality assurance (EQA) to promote quality and confidence in laboratory services.  Support facilities in preparation towards the implementation of ISO 15189/WHO-AFRO accreditation process. Minimum Requirements: Diploma in Medical laboratory technology with 2-3 years of experience will be considered. Ability and aptitude to provide laboratory accreditation mentorship services and to perform quality assurance assessments against accepted national and international standards and regulations is an added advantage. Temporary Mentor Mothers (39positions) Location: Nakuru, Narok, Laikipia, Baringo, Kajiado. Requisition No: APHIA-TMM-007 Position Summary: To provide peer education and psychosocial support to pregnant women, mothers and their families; to prevent HIV transmission to babies; to promote maternal and infant health and to empower women to live positively with HIV. A Mentor Mother provides these services by drawing on her personal experience as an HIV-positive woman, her training and guidance from her supervisors and the health care team. Position Summary: 1. Conduct group health talks related to PMTCT and MNCH in facility waiting areas 2. Facilitate group pre-test HIV education for pregnant women

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Provide one-on-one peer education and psychosocial support to PMTCT clients and couples Co-facilitate support groups for PMTCT clients and couples Conduct defaulter tracing of priority PMTCT clients Refer PMTCT, MCH and CCC clients to other services within the health facility and to communitybased services 7. Encourage partner involvement in MCH services, education and psychosocial support Key Outcomes 1. Client behavior change through the provision of education, psychosocial support and positive role modeling 2. Reduced loss to follow-up and improved client retention and adherence 3. Peer education and psychosocial support integrated as a core component of PMTCT and MNCH Service delivery 4. Reduced stigma and discrimination and improved client disclosure 5. Improved participation of male partners Minimum Requirements: • HIV-positive mother • Recent PMTCT experience (6 months - 2 years) • Minimum of Standard 8 education • Has disclosed HIV status to at least one person within her household • Lives within the local community

APHIAplus Nuru ya Bonde has a competitive compensation package and is an equal opportunity employer. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply via email to [email protected] or alternatively drop your application, CV/Resume including salary requirements to Facility in-Charge’s office in each of the facilities as per the locations listed above. Please specify source in your application and quote the Requisition ID provided on the subject line while submitting your application to be received not later than November 13, 2015. Kindly note that only shortlisted persons will be contacted.

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