hiv/aids

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI – formerly the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative) under the leadership of former President William Jefferson Clinton III has worked since 2002 to reduce the pricing of HIV/AIDS medicines and tests, and to work with governments around the world to further turn the tide on the disease by building the systems needed to deliver care and treatment.

Following the scale up of effective malaria prevention and treatment measures, Zanzibar has undergone a dramatic decrease in malaria endemicity with prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum estimated at below 1% in 2011. Zanzibar is currently strengthening its control measures in order to reach the malaria ‘pre-elimination’ phase, including increasing access to diagnosis and effective malaria treatment. Malaria diagnosis and treatment are widely available in the public sector and Zanzibar is working to close gaps in the private sector.   

Over the past three years, CHAI has provided support to the Zanzibar Malaria Control Program to scale up access to high-quality treatment for malaria in the private and public sectors. More recently, the dramatic reduction in the malaria burden has highlighted the need to improve case management by targeting malaria treatments to patients with confirmed infection. In order to support and optimize the  scale-up of diagnostics, since 2011 CHAI has supported the Zanzibar Malaria Control Program (ZMCP) on an operational research project to assess the feasibility of introducing low-cost rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) into the private health sector. Findings from the study will help to inform future strategies for case management in the private sector in Zanzibar.  

CHAI is seeks to appoint an highly motivated, entrepreneurial individual with outstanding research, problem-solving, managerial, analytical, and communication skills as Volunteer - Malaria Case Management to support the implementation of the operational research study in Zanzibar and provide technical assistance to support Zanzibar’s case management efforts. In particular, for the operational research study, the Case Management Analyst would oversee the third and final data collection round and facilitate translating study results into policy. With regard to technical assistance, the Analyst would support Zanzibar in ensuring access to affordable diagnosis and treatment in the private sector, including utilizing Global Fund grants and/or resources from other donors.

The Case Management Analyst would serve for a period of 6-9 months starting from February 2012 and be located in Stone Town, Zanzibar with modest travel in the country (both in the mainland and Zanzibar) and in the region. The Case Management Analyst will report to a CHAI Tanzania Malaria Program Manager and will be supported by the CHAI Malaria Case Management and Evaluation Teams. 

Responsibilities:

Operational research

• Liaise with the Zanzibar government, international and in-country partners, and the private sector to ensure strong communication throughout the OR project;
• Support the Zanzibar Food and Drugs Board (ZFDB) to conduct regulatory activities to help target ACTs to confirmed malaria cases;
• Liaise with relevant private sector stakeholders, in particular the pharmaceutical importer serving as distributor for the project, to collect market intelligence on RDTs;
• Serve as primary point of contact for the subcontractor managing the data collection;
• Manage the subcontractor to carry out the third and final data collection round for the OR project, consisting of a household survey, health facility survey, mystery client survey and qualitative components;
• Oversee the subcontractor to clean and hand over a complete data set;
• Assist CHAI’s global malaria team to conduct data cleaning and analysis;
• Write project reports and draft policy memos as needed;
• Liaise with the Zanzibar government, international and in-country partners, and the private sector to ensure policy translation of OR results for Zanzibar’s case management strategy;
• Support other OR dissemination tasks as needed.

Technical assistance

• Provide support to the Zanzibar Malaria Control Program (ZMCP) and other partners in planning and implementing  their private sector malaria case management strategy to – 1) Identify approaches to maximize available funding, 2) Outline critical supporting interventions, drawing from undisbursed funds and unallocated resources;
• Support Zanzibar to develop a robust, country-driven plan for sustaining continuous access to affordable, high quality ACTs and malaria diagnosis;
• Ensure that the ZMCP will be well positioned to implement any of these case management access plans from 2013 by building management and technical capacity;
• Ensure hand-over of technical assistance responsibilities, including any tools or documents developed by CHAI, to leaders/implementers at ZMCP;
• Contribute towards information gathering and documentation of programmatic best practices and lessons learned for national and global audiences. 
• Requirements:
• Experience in social science/epidemiological field research;
• Exceptional problem solving skills and analytical capabilities;
• Strong written and oral communication skills;
• Excellent management and organisational skills;
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships with senior government and NGO representatives;
• Ability to work independently in unstructured settings, and communicate effectively within a remote, decentralised team;
• High level of proficiency in relevant computer applications, including STATA or other statistical software programme, Microsoft Office;
• Experience living and working in developing countries a plus.

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For more about the Clinton Health Access Initiative, refer to www.clintonhealthaccess.org.

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Society for Family Health (SFH) is one of South Africa's leading social marketing NGO that focuses on HIV prevention.

SFH seeks to appoint a Marketing and Communications Manager, based at its Head Office in Parktown, Johannesburg.

The persons will take charge of the marketing and communicating department responsible for promoting our programs and ensuring an increased knowledge of the organisation and its services.

Responsibilities:

Marketing management

• Develop and implement brand strategies for SFH brands, including public health communication strategies with activity plans and budgets;
• Conducting annual planning sessions with each Department Head / Program Manager;
• Work with Researcher on qualitative and quantitative consumer research to support, monitor and evaluate marketing activities;
• Creative brief development, implementation and management;
• Management of the media buying and planning process;
• Develop and implement strategy for attracting corporate social investment.

Communications management

• Develop and implement PR strategies and PR plans for all SFH brands including  SFH Corporate brand and managing the following disciplines in the PR area:
• Conducting annual planning sessions;
• PR strategic plan development with input from the respective programme managers and research manager;
• Management of the journalism liaison process;
• Development of a suitable database management system to effectively manage key external relationships in the PR area;
• Management of media event management planning and implementation process;
• Oversee website content development and maintenance;
• Facilitate annual media training for appropriate staff;
• Develop and oversee social media strategy.

Staff Management and development

• Identify development needs within Marketing and PR team members and mentor them;
• Ensure that all SFH policies and procedures are adhered during program implementation;
• Conduct annual performance reviews for staff;
• Ensure team cross-functionality within the department.

Relationship management

• Develop and maintain strong relationship with key external suppliers such as advertising agencies, digital agencies and media agencies;
• Where required, represent SFH externally with relevant stakeholders on all aspects related to marketing and communications: external stakeholders including donors, partners, SANAC, journalists and celebrities.

Financial management

• Develop and manage annual budget and campaign budgets in a cost effective manner;
• Ensure adherence to procurement procedures and policies;
• Prepare and submit monthly budget tracking documents, actual financial spend and forecasts to line manager within allocated time frame.

Reporting

• Submit monthly reports to Country Representative;
• Compile and submit appropriate contribution to annual donor report.

Requirements:

• Honours degree/Bachelor’s degree in marketing or public health communications, graduate degree preferred;
• Minimum of seven years of relevant marketing or public health communications work experience;
• Minimum of four years working experience at management level in marketing, public health communications and/or PR, preferably including management of a marketing team;
• Advertising agency experience in a Strategist or account management role will be an added advantage;
• Internal communications experience is an advantage;
• Valid driver’s licence and own vehicle.

Skills and attributes

• Advanced written and verbal communication skills;
• Strategic thinking;
• Analytical and strong attention to detail;
• Innovative communications expert with experience conducting community level demand creation activities;
• Ability to use research to inform marketing activities;
• Work well under pressure;
• Budget management.

To apply, submit a CV and motivation letter to hr@sfh.co.za.

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For more about the Society for Family Health, refer to www.sfh.co.za.

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Hope Education Foundation (HEF) is a NGO that works towards the prevention through education, of the most devastating systemic threats to children and youth around the world. HEF began working in South Africa in 2007 in partnership with national NGO’s to provide outstanding educational HIV/AIDS programmes that are affecting the destiny of children and youth.

The iMatter programme is an HIV prevention education programme of Hope Educational Foundation International, (HEF). It is currently implemented in the following 6 provinces of South Africa: Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West. In collaboration with the Department of Education (DoE), HEF trains teachers to use the iMatter curriculum as a part of the Life Skills or Life Orientation component of CAPS. The overarching goal of the programme is to increase DoE capacity to implement character education in schools in order to prevent new HIV infections. This programme will be transferred to the DoE after the period of seven months. HEF is responsible for the training and equipping of DoE personnel to implement iMatter trainings.

Hope Education Foundation seeks to appoint a Training Specialist for the iMatter Programme, based in Pretoria but will oversee implementation in Gauteng, North West, Mpumalanga and Free State.

The person will be responsible for programme implementation, programme mentorship and supervision and programme monitoring and evaluation.

The Training Specialist (TS) is responsible to train and mentor new master trainers (MT) from the Department of Education. This includes the development, presentation and delivery of teacher training materials and skills, as well as the continued mentoring and evaluation of MTs. The TS will first teach MT candidates from the DoE to train teachers to use iMatter. The TS will then evaluate and select MT finalists from among the candidates. The TS will then mentor, monitor, review and evaluate these finalists as they organise, implement and report on teacher training sessions.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the liaison between HEF and the DoE to promote and implement the iMatter program according to program guidelines and targets within their assigned provinces. This includes obtaining written DoE authorization for program activities.
• Develop training material for MT candidates and finalists in cooperation with other TS’s that will teach organization, training and reporting skills.  These materials are developed based on experience and existing materials;
• Develop standards for evaluation of MT candidates and selection of MT finalists in cooperation with other TS’s;
• Deliver training material to MT candidates and finalists;
• Maintain regular contact with all MTs as they begin organizing teacher trainings, conducting training sessions, and reporting on teacher trainings;
• Ensure that each MT conducts at least three (3) teacher trainings between January 2013 – July 2013;
• Attend all teacher trainings carried out by MTs in their assigned province(s);
• Ensure that each MT attends at least two (2) peer-conducted teacher training sessions;
• Evaluate MTs on their performance at each teacher training;
• Provide any and all necessary resources to enable MTs to perform according to requirements;
• Cultivate mentorship relationships with MTs;
• Contribute to an environment where servant leadership and a passion for learning permeate staff relationships, projects and partnerships, through exemplary living, mentoring, teaching and coaching;
• Ensure that each MT understands reporting requirements and processes and is consistently and accurately reporting in a timely fashion;
• Report to supervisor in a timely fashion.

Requirements:

The iMatter Training Specialist will be committed to the vision of the organisation.  S/he should have proven organizational and relationship management experience.  Concrete demonstrable experience and other qualifications should include:

• University degree/diploma in education or other relevant subject, with at least 3 years of management experience;
• Microsoft Office proficiency;
• Unwavering commitment to quality programmes and evidence-based programme evaluation;
• Ability to facilitate, assess and/or moderate against SAQA Unit Standards;
• Strong public relations and operational experience with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, a passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills;
• Fluency in English; multi-lingual preferred;
• Valid driver’s licence with excellent driver record;
• Action-oriented and adaptable in the face of obstacles;
• Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people;
• Passionate and positive disposition;
• Integrity and commitment to accurate reporting and communication;
• Mission-driven and self-directed.

Measurability:

• Successful completion of annual training objectives;
• On-time preparation of reports and other presentations;
• Proven attendance at all required training sessions.

To apply, submit a CV (maximum three pages), contact details of three referees and motivation letter to khanyisilemasinga@hopeeducation.org.

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Sonke Gender Justice Network is a NGO that works across Africa to strengthen government, civil society and citizen capacity to support men and boys to take action to promote gender equality, prevent domestic and sexual violence, and reduce the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS.

With a full-time staff of some 80 people working from offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Agincourt, and Geneva, Sonke works across Africa to strengthen government, civil society and citizen capacity to promote gender equality, prevent domestic and sexual violence and reduce the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS. In this way the organisation contributes to the development of societies in which men, women, youth and children can enjoy equitable, healthy and happy relationships that contribute to the development of just and democratic societies.

Sonke Gender Justice Network seeks to a One Man Can (OMC) Trainer, based in Johannesburg.

Job Ref: ST/07.

This position is reports to the Senior Trainer.

The purpose of the trainer for the One Man Can Community Project is to prevent new HIV infections through training and mentoring community Action Teams and Community Based Organisations, and to support partner organisations that work with men to achieve the following:

• Reduce the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS by reducing their HIV risk and increasing their use of HIV services;
• Promoting male circumcision; and by
• Challenging the gender inequalities that exacerbate the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a training plan for each community where we operate;
• Identify new communities in which Sonke can work;
• Prepare thoroughly for training sessions in communities using relevant and updated materials;
• Identify gaps and provide training and mentoring to Community Based Organisations (CBOs) and partner organisations in the implementation of work related to the 'One Man Can campaign' and Brothers for Life methodology;
• Support Community Action Teams (CATs) and Community Based Organisations (CBOs) to implement the Once Man Can Campaign using the community mobilisation model;
• Identify boys and men’s groups in communities (schools, clinics, taverns, and churches) through   community mapping exercise using the community mobilisation model;
• Assist in supporting the development of new materials; provide promotional and existing materials to CATs and CBOs;
• Monitor and evaluate project success and compliance with deliverables to the Training Coordinator;
• Networking with relevant stakeholders in the communities;
• Timely collation and submission of monthly training reports; and
• Documenting organisational processes as it relates to the project.

Requirements:

• Degree/diploma in the public health field or another relevant qualification;  
• Diploma in project management would be advantageous;
• Minimum of three years experience working in programmatic aspects related to HIV/AIDS and reproductive health, the prevention of gender based violence and community mobilisation;
• Minimum of three years experience in training in the reproductive health/NGO Sector;
• Knowledge of finance, administration and procurement procedures and ensure that these are consistently adhered to;
• Facilitation, presentation and time management skills;
• Ability to prepare for training sessions thoroughly using relevant and appropriate materials; 
• Ability to lead, inspire and motivate Community Action Teams; 
• Communication and interpersonal skills;
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks, work to strict deadlines;
• Proven ability working as a team member within multidisciplinary teams;
• Fluency in English a requirement, and least one other South African language;
• A multi-tasker whose confident, assertive and can work with diverse groups of people; and
• Valid driver’s licence essential. 

To apply, submit a CV and motivational letter the Human Resource Department at hiring@genderjustice.org.za. Quote the reference number: ST/07.

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Only short listed candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us by 28 February 2013, consider your application unsuccessful.

Sonke Gender Justice Network reserves the right not to make an appointment.  

For more about the Sonke Gender Justice Network, refer to www.genderjustice.org.za.

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