Job Requirements

Education:

Bachelor’s degree

Work experience:

3 years

Language skills:

English

Job Summary

Contract Type:

Full time

mothers2mothers (m2m) is an Africa-based NGO that unlocks the potential of women to eliminate pediatric AIDS and create healthy families across ten sub-Saharan African countries. m2m trains employ and help empower women living with HIV to work as community healthcare workers in understaffed health centers and underserved communities. Through a peer-to-peer approach, these ‘Mentor Mothers’ deliver a range of health services, advice, and support to women and their families. Started in Cape Town, South Africa in 2001 with an initial focus on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, m2m has innovated and built on its strengths and now provides family-centered support for a range of related health and social issues spanning pregnancy, birth, childhood, and adolescence. It also partners with governments and other NGOs on the adoption of its programme to spread the Mentor Mother Model and its benefits. m2m has a track record of scaling its services and proven impact. To date, m2m has reached over 11M women and children under two and created more than 11,000 jobs for African women living with HIV. For more, visit www.m2m.org.

We are seeking qualified persons willing to share in our vision to join us in the above position

Job Purpose:

The Project Officer – Disability provides project implementation support and coordination to the disability interventions at facility, sub-county, and community levels in the project-supported districts. The role will coordinate activities related to early identification and linkage to services of children 0-9 years with disabilities, and focus on improving livelihoods of identified households of children with disabilities.

Qualifications and Experience:

  • Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences, Physiotherapy, Community Based Rehabilitation, Social Sciences, or related discipline.

  • Minimum of 3 years experience implementing Early Childhood Development (ECD), disability or Orphans, and other vulnerable children (OVCs) Projects.

  • Should have knowledge of Community Base Rehabilitation (CBR), Disability, ECD, HIV, Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH), guidelines, and policies in Uganda.

  • Should have experience in community mobilization, engagement, and coordination of community-level structures in project work

  • Experience in implementing community economic empowerment innovations, including Village Saving and Loans Association (VSLA) methodology

  • Experience working with children and youth is an asset

  • Proven experience in building capacity of both professional and lay health care workers

  • Computer literacy (MS Office) is a must

  • Should have previous experience in documenting impactful case studies, lessons learned, and program reports.

Competencies:

  • A strong commitment to the m2m values of teamwork, diversity, integrity, passion, dedication, commitment, and compassion.

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to engage effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

  • Sound documentation skills; able to write impactful case studies, documenting lessons learned

  • And good facilitation skills with adult learning methodologies

  • Self-driven and able to work under pressure and timeously achieve multiple tasks

  • Able to work independently and as a member of a team

  • A skilled facilitator, Mentor, and Coach

  • Able to think critically, creatively and facilitate collective problem-solving

  • Attention to detail with a good quality orientation.

mothers2mothers is an equal opportunity employer. We particularly encourage applications from people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA), people with disabilities, women, and previously disadvantaged people.

Competitive salary packages will be negotiable in accordance with m2m’s remuneration policies.

 

Responsibilities
mothers2mothers (m2m) is an Africa-based NGO that unlocks the potential of women to eliminate pediatric AIDS and create healthy families across ten sub-Saharan African countries. m2m trains employ and help empower women living with HIV to work as community healthcare workers in understaffed health centers and underserved communities. Through a peer-to-peer approach, these ‘Mentor Mothers’ deliver a range of health services, advice, and support to women and their families. Started in Cape Town, South Africa in 2001 with an initial focus on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, m2m has innovated and built on its strengths and now provides family-centered support for a range of related health and social issues spanning pregnancy, birth, childhood, and adolescence. It also partners with governments and other NGOs on the adoption of its programme to spread the Mentor Mother Model and its benefits. m2m has a track record of scaling its services and proven impact. To date, m2m has reached over 11M women and children under two and created more than 11,000 jobs for African women living with HIV. For more, visit www.m2m.org.

We are seeking qualified persons willing to share in our vision to join us in the above position

Job Purpose:

The Project Officer – Disability provides project implementation support and coordination to the disability interventions at facility, sub-county, and community levels in the project-supported districts. The role will coordinate activities related to early identification and linkage to services of children 0-9 years with disabilities, and focus on improving livelihoods of identified households of children with disabilities.

Qualifications and Experience:

  • Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences, Physiotherapy, Community Based Rehabilitation, Social Sciences, or related discipline.

  • Minimum of 3 years experience implementing Early Childhood Development (ECD), disability or Orphans, and other vulnerable children (OVCs) Projects.

  • Should have knowledge of Community Base Rehabilitation (CBR), Disability, ECD, HIV, Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH), guidelines, and policies in Uganda.

  • Should have experience in community mobilization, engagement, and coordination of community-level structures in project work

  • Experience in implementing community economic empowerment innovations, including Village Saving and Loans Association (VSLA) methodology

  • Experience working with children and youth is an asset

  • Proven experience in building capacity of both professional and lay health care workers

  • Computer literacy (MS Office) is a must

  • Should have previous experience in documenting impactful case studies, lessons learned, and program reports.

Competencies:

  • A strong commitment to the m2m values of teamwork, diversity, integrity, passion, dedication, commitment, and compassion.

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to engage effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

  • Sound documentation skills; able to write impactful case studies, documenting lessons learned

  • And good facilitation skills with adult learning methodologies

  • Self-driven and able to work under pressure and timeously achieve multiple tasks

  • Able to work independently and as a member of a team

  • A skilled facilitator, Mentor, and Coach

  • Able to think critically, creatively and facilitate collective problem-solving

  • Attention to detail with a good quality orientation.

mothers2mothers is an equal opportunity employer. We particularly encourage applications from people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA), people with disabilities, women, and previously disadvantaged people.

Competitive salary packages will be negotiable in accordance with m2m’s remuneration policies.

 

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