Clinical Doctor, Site project coordinator

How will you fight for an AIDS-free generation?

The Clinical Doctor, Site Project Coordinator will support the management of the HIV project and improve the delivery of clinical HIV services in supported health facilities by offering a package of integrated HIV care and treatment services.

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the planning, execution, and monitoring of the project in a supported health facility. The role requires a strong background in project coordination, with a focus on project planning, project leadership, and project scheduling. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication, conflict management, and cost control skills, with a proficiency in project management tools. He will play a key role in ensuring project’s activities are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality.

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Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Under the general supervision of the Services Delivery Manager, he/she is responsible for:

1. Management activities (50%)

• Develop and submit a budgeted monthly work plan in line with the project work plan, clearly showing planned activities, results, timelines, targets and verification indicators.
• Fully ensure the implementation of the monthly work plan in line with budget in the most efficient manner.
• Ensure effective collaboration with the multidisciplinary team on site to achieve project objectives
• Organize in-service training sessions in conjunction with the Cluster Project Lead according to a defined and validated schedule.
• Conduct and facilitate formative supervision and ongoing training for health care providers to ensure quality of services along the HIV/AIDS care cascade.
• Hold weekly and monthly coordination meetings with staff involved in the HIV/AIDS program to review performance, identify problems and possible solutions.
• Organize monthly feedback meetings with the Hospital Director and the Hospital Medical Advisor to provide high-level feedback and present challenges and opportunities.
• Monitor and evaluate the data collection and reporting system as well as the performance of the health facility's HIV/AIDS care and treatment.
• Develop and submit the monthly activity and expense reports.  

 2. Clinical activities (50%) 

• Support the implementation of national HIV/AIDS programme guidelines, including antiretroviral treatment and treatment of advanced HIV infection
• Support the implementation of Index Case testing with a focus on sexual contacts of newly diagnosed HIV patients and those with a high viral load;
• Ensure diagnosis and management of cases of treatment failure, TB/HIV  co-infections, advanced HIV infection, as well as initiation of  second- or third-line antiretroviral therapy;
• Provide care to all patients in a way that respects their uniqueness, using sound judgment, individual skills and qualifications, and collaboration with the care team.
• Ensure continuous training and mentoring of the multidisciplinary medical/paramedical team in order to optimize the quality of care and empower staff