Site Coordinator needed at Anova Health Institute
Job title : Site Coordinator
Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg
Deadline : January 17, 2025
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Key duties and responsibilities:
Project Coordination
- Lead and support the Peer Educators and larger outreach team in their respective region.
- Coordinate outreach activities of peer educators
- Coordinate training of Peer educators
- Coordinate community HIV testing and counselling activities, and other screening services on outreach
- Participate in individual supervision meetings with the peer educator and document individual session.
- Identifies places where people who inject drugs congregate and send this monthly to the M&E copying the project manager
- Responsible for updating and adding all the sites to the mapping tool monthly
- Coordinate the distribution of harm reduction kits, needles and syringes, condoms and lubricants, and other materials during outreach to PWUD and partners.
- Document and report all the missing project supplies, and assess the reasons given and take appropriate action.
- Recruit clients to receive Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) and submit the report to the project manager and M&E monthly
- Provide and ensure that risk assessment is done per client,
- Continuously the coordinator has to assess the number of harm reduction packs required for each client per week.
- Ensure there are enough harm reduction packs to the site to cover the time until the next planned outreach date
- Assess the psychosocial, human rights and risk elements of each client and make referrals to relevant departments. Include this update as part of your monthly narrative
- Organise monthly district clean ups with people who inject drugs and other stakeholders in the region. Include this update as part of your monthly narrative
- Organise small group discussions and coordinate with the Advocacy officer. Include this update as part of your monthly narrative
- Identify female clients and ensure they receive all relevant services offered by the project.
- Responsible for driving yourself and your team to the sites of work as and when required, and you should adhere to the Anova vehicle management policy
- Ensure that all positive clients are linked to care via mobile or local facilities
Project Administration
- Keep records about services provided during outreach and submit these to M&E officer on a regular basis
- Maintain regular contact with peer educators and follow up with them on performance related issues
- Assist in the preparation of monthly schedules for peer educators and tracking attendance
- Administer the HR policies and ensure compliance of project staff on timesheets, etc.
- Manage project vehicle and ensure daily checklists are done
- Ensure that the office rentals are paid timely each month
- Ensure all project supplies distributed are recorded
- Ensure all your staff members have adequate PPE
- Ensure all medical waste is managed as per the Waste Management SOP. All needles must be submitted to the Yeovile clinic
- Submit office inventor to the project administrator each quarter
- Submit weekly sign in registers to the project administrator
Personal development
- Participate in learning and development opportunities (trainings, workshops, information sessions etc.).
- Stay abreast of developments in the fields of HIV/AIDS, STIs and TB.
- Organise and encourage all staff members to attend debriefing and counselling sessions.
Organisational Responsibilities
- Attend meetings, briefings, debriefing, staff meetings and other as directed to do so on a regular basis.
- Represent the organisation with pride and ensure you adhere to the ethos and principles.
- Represent the organisation on behalf of the programme.
Perform any other additional duties assigned by the line manager.
Minimum qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor of Social Work, Nursing or Psychology or any other Social Science Degree is a requirement.
- Knowledge of Department of Health policies and strategies on HIV/TB and HCT
- 3 years’ experience working on HIV and TB programmes
- Experience in Coordination and implementation of HTS
- Experience in working with key populations (PWUD)
- Excellent communication and report writing skills
- Computer literate
- A valid driver’s licence
- Willingness to travel and drive teams to sites
- Knowledge of HIV/AIDS prevention and community health issues
- Facilitation skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Report-writing skills.
- Planning and organisational skills.
- Good communication skills.
- Good interpersonal skills,
- Team player
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