HTS Manager - Cape Town at Anova Health Institute

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Provide leadership and co-ordinate strategies to implement and to manage the Anova community-based response in the region/s:

• Targeted interventions
• Prevent new infections
• Reduce HIV morbidity and mortality through
• An improved and sustain HIV and TB care response in the community
• Implementation and scale up of targeted intervention in the sub-district to disrupt the HIV/TB epidemic in the communities:
• Establish and manage Anova community response/ action teams that focus direct service delivery

Advancing community health:

• Establish and mange Anova community support/ development teams that focus on technical support to community-oriented primary care (COPC)
• Support COPC by supporting the ward-based outreach teams
• Address bottlenecks and challenges with an emphasis on community based primary health care and create an environment that will lead to HIV epidemic control
• Co-ordinating and support to Anova’s sub-partners in the region:
• Takes responsibility for co-ordinating and overseeing activities of sub- partners in the regions
• Support contractual management of partners
• Identify needs, allocate resources in line with regional budget
• Monitor and evaluate performance of Anova partners
• Analyse and interpret health information at district / sub-structure level:
• Generate systematic information and use it to support implementation strategies
• Use data to separate implementation strategy failure from intervention failure
• Use data to link targeted intervention with contexts

Ensure effective and well-organized management structure for the community-based response in the province:

• Direct supervision to the community response teams and the community development teams
• Manage equipment and resources
• Relationship with community and stakeholders:
• Builds relationships with community structures, engages community, engages other stakeholders, inter-sectoral collaboration
• Support the relationships between FB and CS staff
• Learn and development:
• Identify knowledge and skill gaps
• Ensure ongoing training of PHC community-based teams

Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Skills Required

• A qualified health care and allied professional or a master’s degree in social science (Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Demography),
• At least 5 years’ experience in working in the HIV field, preferably in the community.
• Experience of working in donor funded programmes
• Experience of implementing in health systems development and community development in or with the Department of Health
• Knowledge and experience of primary health care and COPC
• Knowledge and experience in providing HIV/TB services in and outside clinics.
• Experience in patient behaviour and social determents of health
• Knowledge of latest HIV/TB/PMTCT guidelines
• Knowledge of 909090 strategy and other Health related policies
• Computer Literate (MS Office package)