Project Lead: Paediatric & Adolescent Care at Anova Health Institute

Anova is an NGO that empowers people and changes lives. Good health and quality of life is what motivates us to provide healthcare solutions and support for those who need it most.

To oversee implementation of Anova’s direct and technical support activities and initiatives for case-finding, linkage to care and retention for children and adolescents living with HIV in Johannesburg. To engage and report back to Anova, DoH and funders.
 

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Project Management

• Supporting the team of TAs and M&E to oversee and implement paediatric and adolescent activities in the District.
• Responsible for and oversee implementation of activities as per the workplan.
• Cascade National/district level plans and agreements to sub-district and facility level.
• Implementation level supervision, monitoring, and reporting.
• Ensure optimal utilization of available resources to meet key objectives.
• Support the development and implementation of the District and sub-district paediatric and adolescent implementation plans.

Team Management

• Provide support and mentoring to team members.
• Ensure effective communication with the HR department and with project staff and other programmes.
• Help to identify training needs and opportunities for programme staff and motivate for them to attend.
• Directly manage a diverse team of staff in conjunction with other line managers in order to ensure efficient project delivery and that HR policies are adhered to.

Technical Support

• Oversee scale-up of core paediatric and adolescent activities and implement new activities/innovations by paediatric and other teams.
• Support team to institute initiatives to maximize bi-directional referrals to link children and adolescents living with HIV to community support.
• Capacitate Anova team on relevant Paediatric and adolescent project aspects.

Stakeholder engagement

• Strengthen engagement at district and sub-district, both with Anova teams and DoH, either directly or through other team members
• Lead District and partner engagements in JHB for paediatric and adolescent HIV care, support engagements with other partner organizations
• Maintain relationships with funders, oversee presentation compilation and present in funder meetings/feedback sessions.
• Support processes with relevant managers of the Department of Health to ensure maximum buy-in and partnership at district level and facilitate engagements at sub-district level.
• Support integration and build relationships amongst other Anova teams.
• Represent Anova at meetings, workshops, and conferences.

Reporting and Other Activities

• Oversee day-to-day project monitoring, including data collection, analysis, and consolidation for reporting to monitor project progress and deliverables, for Anova, DoH and funders.
• Support development of workplans and reporting tools/process flows
• Prepare reports for internal and external reporting.

Essential Qualifications and Experience

• Clinician/public health candidate with at least 3 years’ experience in the field of paediatrics/adolescents
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in the field of HIV and TB
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in public health programmes
• Project management skills
• knowledge of monitoring and evaluation systems
• Good relationship management skills: knowledge of local stakeholders is advantageous.
• Computer literate