Role Overview
The Community Health Program Officer is responsible for coordinating high level meetings, writing concept notes for external stakeholders, preparing monthly reports, and writing proposals for fundable projects/research that promote community health in Uganda.
Responsibilities
Strategic learning, monitoring & evaluation
- Explore and document best practices to promote community health in line with existing standards
- Explore and document community health interventions for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)
- Monitor and evaluate the impact of community health interventions in various health programs
- Prepare monthly and other regular reports of community health activities in line with departmental guidelines
Stakeholder engagement, knowledge management
- Map all partners working on community health in Uganda
- Network with various stakeholders (public and private) to promote community health at the policy and implementation levels
- Support the coordination of stakeholder meetings with implementing partners, MOH staff, and other key partners
Research
- Develop fundable research proposals for community health programs and activities
- Develop proposals to study community health interventions in the prevention and control of NCDs
Skills and Experience
Items indicated with an asterisk (*) are required
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- Proficiency in Microsoft office applications*
- Experience facilitating workshops, training, or health education sessions within communities*
- Experience drafting external-facing documents, including concept notes, reports, articles, and/or correspondence*
- Prior experience conducting research, including a literature review and report writing*
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Ability to work in a team environment, but with self-sufficiency and self-motivation
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to multitask with flexibility and prioritize across multiple activities
- Good analytical and decision-making skills
- Ability to collaborate and coordinate with high-level multiple partners
- Willingness to travel to remote areas
- Experience planning and organizing conferences and/or high-level meetings
- Experience with partnership management, especially acting as the lead point of contact for high-level stakeholders like donors or government officials
- Demonstrated project management skills with the ability to ensure internal and external collaborators achieve a time-bound goal or project