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

  • 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

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