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Senior Program Officer - UCC

Date Posted: Oct 27, 2020
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Job Detail

  • Location:
    Gulu, Northern, Uganda
  • Company:
  • Type:
    Contract
  • Shift:
  • Career Level:
    Experienced Professional
  • Positions:
    1
  • Experience:
    5 Year
  • Gender:
    No Preference
  • Degree:
    Masters
  • Apply Before:
    Dec 01, 2020

Job Description

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

    • Lead the implementation of the diabetes focused project in 2 districts and act as PATH focal point person to liaise and coordinate with the local partners for project implementation.
    • Lead development of technical guidance to all field activities of the project, including project design, implementation, social mobilization and communication and project documentation.
    • Develop and maintain relationships with health facilities selected for the project and lead activities such as conducting site assessments, training providers and volunteers.
    • Lead the development of an advocacy and communication plan to gain overall district buy-in, factoring in the social leaders and influencers.
    • Lead the development of Social and behavior Change Communication materials on diabetes for public awareness raising and other advocacy materials such as fact sheets, policy brief and documentation of success stories.
    • Work with national leadership and National Medical Stores to address stockouts of essential medicines and products for diabetes in targeted districts.
    • Oversee the distribution and management of selected medicines and products in the community.
    • Lead in communication and awareness-raising campaigns in targeted districts and lead screening efforts through outreach activities in the community.

Coalition Responsibilities
    • Support implementation of demand forecasting tool including data collection, cleaning, and finalization of tool.
    • Participate in the remote train the trainer training and orientation.
    • Provide training/facilitation in a workshop setting to multidisciplinary national demand forecast team testing the demand forecasting tool, using Coalition/PATH prepared curriculum.
    • Follow-up with the forecast team to ensure completion of forecast, documentation of results, and debriefing of forecast results and feedback/desired enhancements for excel tool and user’s guide.
    • Attend regular remote technical and activity management meetings with Sr. Supply Chain Officer in Washington, D.C. and Supply Chain Officer in Kenya.

Cross-cutting Responsibilities
  • Provide guidance and input to the technical components of project activities, monitor and supervise the implementation of activities and review final deliverables.
  • Problem solve to proactively address any project challenges and ensure targets are met
  • Provide regular feedback on progress of activities and lessons learned to PATH Project Director.
  • Produce monthly updates on deliverables and quarterly reporting and documentation to donor and PATH
  • Oversee development and timely submission of narrative reports to donor.
  • Represent PATH at NCD related meetings and events.
  • Build and maintain relationships with NCD stakeholders.
  • Perform any other relevant tasks as requested by Project Director/Manager.

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