HIV And Health Officer

Company: Rafiki Social Development Organization

Reports To: Project Manager

Location: Bunda DC & Bunda TC, Mara Region, Tanzania

Duration: 5 Months (full time)

Introduction

Rafiki Social Development Organization is a development and advocacy non-Governmental and non-profit sharing Organization working with Children, Youth, Marginalized and Vulnerable groups, families and their communities to reach their full potential by advocating for their rights and tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. The Organization was established in January 2005 and registered under the NGO Act of 2002, issued with a registration number No.00NGO/R1/00226 to operate in Tanzania Mainland.

Rafiki-SDO in partnership with PACT implement the USAID Adolescents and Children HIV Incidence Reduction, Empowerment and Virus Elimination project (ACHIEVE). ACHIEVE its main effort is to reach and sustain HIV epidemic control among pregnant and breastfeeding women, adolescents, infants and children. The project is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and implemented by a Pact-led consortium of top global HIV/AIDS partners. The ACHIEVE consortium works with USAID Missions, national governments and existing response partners to identify gaps in HIV prevention and treatment programming among target populations. As part of its strategy, ACHIEVE is working to prevent and respond to gender-based violence and to empower youth to own their own future.

To facilitate smooth implementation of this project, RAFIKI-SDO wishes to recruit qualified, experienced, motivated and dynamic individuals in the following position available;

Position Summary

The overall objective of this position is to contribute towards strategic service delivery to OVCs and their caregivers, address critical barriers to service access, uptake, and adherence to scale up impact service delivery, advance progress towards 95-95-95 goals and improve health and social outcomes among OVC and their families. The job holder will ensure sound and vibrant bi-directional referral and linkage system, improved case identification, linkages to ART and Viral Load suppression among Children and Adolescents Living with HIV/AIDS.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to council teams and CCWs in implementation of life-saving activities including case finding for pediatric and adolescent, PMTCT and HEI interventions, and ART linkage, adherence and viral suppression.
• Represent the project and coordinate with the Council Health Management Team to support HIV and health related activities.
• Hold coordination meetings with health facilities including Care Treatment clinics (CTC), RCH and PMTCT clinics in respective councils a to support beneficiaries’ enrolment, facilitate case conferencing, improve the bi-directional referral system, and ensure HIV positive beneficiaries and HIV exposed infants receive needed services in line with closing the pediatric treatment gaps.
• Support the facilities to have an updated enrolment register at the facility that demonstrates the cascade of enrolment of C/ALHIV and HEI at the CTC/RCH and PMTCT clinic.
• Support Community Case Workers (CCWs) to work with high pediatric volume CTCs to trace HIV positive OVC who miss appointments, enroll them into ACHIEVE Project, and link them back to care.
• Support CCWs to identify barriers to HIV services uptake including HIV testing, ART uptake, retention and adherence and provision of client centered support services per established individual needs of C/ALHIV, HEI, HIV Positive pregnant and breastfeeding women and their households.
• Support CCWs to conduct HIV risk assessments for OVC during case management visits; refer and link at risk OVC to HIV Testing Services (HTS).
• Work with Clinical Implementing Partners and health facilities to ensure CCWs provide appropriate support to HIV positive OVC, HEI and their caregivers.
• Support CCWs to strengthen the capacity of caregivers to support C/ALHIV, HEI, HIV positive Pregnant and breastfeeding women and their households and ensure referrals and linkages to social and health services.
• Ensuring an effective bi-directional referral system to monitor beneficiaries through the HIV continuum of care as well as service completion for other health and social services.
• Work with the M&E officer to ensure all-bi-directional referral data are accurate and generated timely for use in improving service delivery.
• Lead the development of a service directory for health, nutrition, and HIV services in implementation area; update the directory at least once a year.
• Support CCWs to provide nutrition services, including nutrition assessments, counselling, and linkage to nutrition service providers.
• Provide continuous supportive supervision to CCWs to ensure provision of health-related services, referrals, and linkages to beneficiaries.
• Facilitate data collection, data entry and overall data management and use for improving service delivery.
• Submit monthly implementation updates to the Project Manager for inclusion in the quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports.
• Document lessons learned and best practices for experience sharing and replication
• Perform any other relevant duties assigned by the Project Manager.

Minimum required Qualifications, Experience and Skills

Education

• Diploma holder in Clinical Medicine or Nursing.
• Bachelor’s degree in medicine or nursing will be an added advantage.

Experience

• At least two years’ experience in a field position in public health or OVC programming. Experience in implementation of community programs in health/HIV, MNCH, TB/Malaria etc., is preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in Swahili and English
• Ability to deliver tasks with and share feedback timely without constant or close supervision.

How To Apply

If you believe you are the ideal person we are looking for. Please send the application to ajira@rafikisdo.or.tz and indicate the position title in the email subject line. The closing date for these applications will be on Friday 19 th September, 2025, 17:00 hrs.

NOTE: RAFIKI-SDO will not refund any costs incurred by any applicant in preparation for this application. This includes, but not limited to cost for submitting an application and other communication related to the application. RAFIKI-SDO will inform those successful, if you will not be contacted two weeks after closing date of this job advert consider yourself as unsuccessful. Thank you for your interest of working with RAFIKI-SDO and supporting initiatives for saving children, youths and marginalized groups To learn more about Rafiki-SDO visit: www.rafikisdo.or.tz

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

To learn more about Rafiki-SDO visit: www.rafikisdo.or.tz