Vacancy title:
Project Assistant- TB
Jobs at:
Catholic Medical Mission Board - CMMBDeadline of this Job:
24 June 2022
Summary
Date Posted: Monday, June 13, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Project Assistant- TB
Responsibilities
Project Management:
• Participate in planning of project activities and set high quality performance targets, ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices, and donor guidelines.
• Review and track progress of project implementation and utilization of project resources, using participatory processes to overcome implementation obstacles.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation related to project monitoring and implementation, including up-to date performance data on the indicators being tracked by the project.
• Ensure a working environment of mutual trust, respect and care with other staff, encouraging effective teamwork with staff members and partners.
• Identification, recruitment and retention of beneficiaries
Budget and Financial Management:
• Ensure that project activities comply with CMMB financial guidelines, policies, procedures and regulations. • In collaboration with the finance teams and supporting the project officer, ensure timely payments of project beneficiaries and provide liquidation reports.
• Participate in the preparation of annual project budgets, quarterly and monthly budgets. Monitoring, Accountability, Evaluation and Learning:
• Use appropriate project management tools to plan, review and track project progress on project implementation.
• Promote innovative/effective methods towards achievement of project objectives.
• Support documentation processes of project success stories, best practices, lessons learnt and other project innovations and learnings.
• Supervise and mentor the Linkage assistants, community champions, CHVs and other community actors towards creating and enabling environment for TB patients.
• Support implementation of community-based project activities to ensure adherence to set quality standards.
• Monitor the performance of linkage assistants, champions, CHVs as well as other community actors and continuously mentor them as needed.
• Work with the Project and M&E Officers to prepare donor project narrative reports, collect monthly and quarterly performance data, as well as other reports needed/required.
• Regularly organize and coordinate meetings with key stakeholders on project progress and challenges. Partnership:
• Engage stakeholders at all stages of the project cycle for their insights on the appropriateness of project approaches and interventions.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences, Community Health or related field.
• At least three -year experience in community health work within a public health focused Non-Governmental Organization.
• Experience working with TB care and prevention intervention and health service delivery professionals (e.g. Community Health Workers, health care workers)
• Extensive understanding of Community Health Strategy and working with the various structures under the Community Health Strategy.
• Strong project management skills, as evidenced by impressive academic or professional results 6. Highly organized, flexible, and adaptable to changing priorities and able to work well under deadlines with minimum supervision
• Excellent computer skills using MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook—You must have demonstrable ability to format documents, prepare charts and manipulate data
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills to include conflict resolution, priority management, and managing expectations of multiple clients
• Experience in the implementation of Global Fund TB grants is an added advantage
• Comfortable working for a faith-based organization
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36
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