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Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Project Administration

• Develop and manage the filing system for the PWUD program OST sites
• Compile project requisitions and reconciliations as advised by finance
• Ensure all invoices are received and submitted timely for payments
• Develop and maintain asserts inventory lists for project equipment and supplies and submit revised versions monthly
• Ensure the facility and all sites have sign-in registers, and make copies for safe keeping monthly
• Submit office inventories to the project manager each quarter
• Ensure that all project supplies are procured timely and arrange all the paperwork accordingly
• Stock controls done and reported weekly to the project manager
• Ensure that all the sites office and the facility have adequate clinical supplies and weighing of needs is done as advised.
• Maintain regular contact with site coordinators and follow up with all administrative issues
• Administer the HR policies and ensure compliance of project staff on timesheets, etc.
• Manage project vehicles and ensure daily and weekly checklists are done
• Ensure that the office rentals are paid timely each month
• Ensure all project supplies distributed to clients and staff members is recorded and filed correctly
• Ensure all your staff members have adequate protective gear, and keep record of all distribution
• Ensure all medical waste is managed as per the Waste Management SOP.
• Weigh all needles at OST site clinics every Wednesday and submit the records to the Project Manager coping the M&E Officer
• Ensure that you familiarise yourself with Anova Policies, especially those relevant to your position

Vehicle Management

• Inspect all vehicles daily
• Ensure all vehicles have necessary accessories
• Keep a register of vehicles showing service periods, fuel dates, kilometers, scratches, etc.
• Coordinate vehicle use
• Monitor driving compliance with laws and Anova policies
• Ensure all vehicles have logbooks
• Mark and inspect all components that can be stolen from vehicles
• Ensure all keys are kept safely
• Provide a vehicle report weekly during program meetings
• Reconcile fuel use and submit reports to Project Manager

Office Management

• Ensure all project offices are compliant with Anova policies
• Facilitate purchase of office and project supplies
• Secure all project and office supplies
• Ensure all offices are kept in good sanitary conditions
• Draw assets and inventory disposal lists and share with Project Manager
• Ensure all office spaces have adequate security
• Data management and orbit capturing
• Capture clients on orbit as required
• Capture clients on outcomes as required
• Ensure safe keeping of all source documents

Project Support

• Ensure medical waste timely collected and disposed as per SOP
• Assist with management of medical stock and develop monthly inventory
• Support the clinic and all the sites with necessary SOP’s and documents they need
• Responsible for driving yourself and other team members to the sites of work as and when required, and you should adhere to the Anova vehicle management policy
• Plan and conduct community outreach with the outreach team as when required
• Ensure adequate supply of serums for quality control
• Check monthly if all sites are doing weekly quality control and provide feedback
• Ensure all project supplies issued have supporting documents
• Conduct monthly data sites to verify data with the M&E officer

Team Building Support

• Attendance registers for meetings completed and filed
• Attendance registers for trainings completed and filed
• Field visits done at least twice a month
• Attend meetings, briefings, debriefing, staff meetings and other events as directed
• Participate in learning and development opportunities (trainings, workshops, information sessions etc.)
• Stay abreast of developments in the fields of HIV/AIDS, STIs and TB.
• Additional responsibilities delegated by managers from time to time.
• Any other tasks as agreed with line manager.

Qualifications and Experience

• Grade 12
• Minimum of a three year diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Admin/Logistics and Transport Management/Business qualification
• At least 2 years of community work experience
• Two years’ experience in HIV/AIDS-related environment
• Familiarity with local communities and PWUD
• Sensitivity to persons from diverse socio-economic backgrounds
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Administrative skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong team orientation
• Computer Literate – MS Office Packages (MS Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel & PowerPoint).
• Excellent Communication skills and ability to speak local languages
• Valid driver’s license
• Innovative, organized, analytical and excellent interpretation data skills.
   

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Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Psychosocial programs and support

• The SAW will be conducting individual assessments and providing therapeutic interventions to the PWUD currently on Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST)
• The SAW will be responsible of social re-integration and family reunifications of PWUD
• The SAW will be responsible to identify and provide assessments and support to women who use or inject drugs reached in the programme
• Screen and identify psychosocial and mental health challenges experienced by clients
• Complete full assessments for each client
• Conduct individual and group counselling working together with the outreach and clinical support team
• Facilitate small group discussion with the Advocacy officer
• Provide input to the program and implement any changes
• Provide appropriate referrals and follow up on referrals from the outreach and management team
• Be reliable, consistent, and respective pf clients' time and vulnerabilities
• Maintain client records at all times stored in a lockable cabinet
• Assist in the drafting of Standard Operating Procedures
• Conduct training and assist in skills development of peers
• Provide assistance with obtaining Identity Documents
• Provide assistance with linkage to shelters
• To follow up on each client, checking adherence to ART, TB treatment or PEP.
• When required, support HTS counsellors with counselling for pre and post HIV testing.
• Support referral for any services the PWUD required.

Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST)

• Educate service beneficiaries, staff, and others on OST
• Prepare service beneficiaries for OST and manage their expectations
• Conduct Screenings for potential OST clients
• Provide ongoing counselling and support utilizing the harm reduction ethos to service beneficiaries who are accessing/reassessing OST
• Conduct OST training as needed
• Verify information given by clients
• Provide assistance with the preparation and dosing of clients
• Build and maintain stakeholder relations as a means of referral pathways for clients
• Compile reports on client trends, needs, challenges and actions
• Perform related office administration duties of the programme.

Personal Development

• Participate in learning and development opportunities (trainings, workshops, information sessions etc.)
• Stay abreast of developments in the fields of HIV/AIDS, STIs and TB
• Willingness to receive debriefing from a social worker regularly

Advocacy Support

• Identify potential advocacy issues and report to the advocacy officer
• Assist with the collection of human rights data by taking statements and reporting violations reported by PWID to the advocacy officer
• Advocate for OST and provide factual information
• Always promote effective and evidence-based drug policy

Monitoring and other organisational engagements

• Obtain regular feedback from clients to establish, the effectiveness of the programme, any missing services, opportunities and inefficiencies
• Provide regular feedback to management while always maintaining confidentiality
• Maintain a project diary so the establishment, barriers, challenges and opportunities can be effectively reported on for operational and
• research purposes
• Attend meetings, briefings, debriefing, staff meetings and other as directed to do so on a regular basis.
• Additional responsibilities delegated by managers from time to time.

Any other tasks as agreed with line manager.

Qualifications and Experience

• Social auxiliary worker qualification; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience in social auxiliary work
• Experience in working in HIV programmes with key populations.
• Experience in harm reduction and PWUD programming is beneficial.
• Experience in providing therapeutic interventions to address substance abuse and harm reduction.
• Ability to travel as and when required
• Non-judgmental, trustworthy and empathetic personality
• Demonstrate strong professional attitude and behaviour at all times

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Key Duties and Responsibilities

Peer Mobilization

• Recruit at least 80 clients each month to introduce the programme and the available services
• Do risk assessment to those 80 clients reached each month
• Refer those 80 clients to Nurses, HTS, Linkage Officers, Advocacy officer, and the Social Auxiliary Worker

Field Support

• Provide harm reduction information and package to at least 80 clients monthly
• Manage your cohort and ensure they are provided with services and report to the coordinator to update your register

Mapping

• Identify at least two new sites monthly
• All the sites must be added to your mapping tool

Debriefing and Counselling Sessions

• Ensure that you attend social debriefing and give monthly feedback to the coordinator
• Ensure that you attend psychosocial counselling and give monthly feedback to the coordinator

Any other tasks as agreed with line manager.

Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Skills Required

• Grade 12
• Must be between 18 - 21 years old
• Must have numeracy and literacy skills
• An ability to establish trust and communicate effectively with active drug users
• Ability to follow strict confidentiality requirements
• An ability to maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Punctual and reliable
• Prior knowledge of HIV/AIDS and a recognized HIV counselling certificate would be an advantage.

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Key Duties and Responsibilities

Peer Mobilization

• Recruit at least 80 clients each month to introduce the programme and the available services
• Do risk assessment to those 80 clients reached each month
• Refer those 80 clients to Nurses, HTS, Linkage Officers, Advocacy officer, and the Social Auxiliary Worker

Field Support

• Provide harm reduction information and package to at least 80 clients monthly
• Manage your cohort and ensure they are provided with services and report to the coordinator to update your register

Mapping

• Identify at least two new sites monthly
• All the sites must be added to your mapping tool

Debriefing and Counselling Sessions

• Ensure that you attend social debriefing and give monthly feedback to the coordinator
• Ensure that you attend psychosocial counselling and give monthly feedback to the coordinator

Any other tasks as agreed with line manager.

Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Skills Required

• Grade 12
• Must have numeracy and literacy skills
• An ability to establish trust and communicate effectively with active drug users
• Ability to follow strict confidentiality requirements
• An ability to maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Punctual and reliable
• Prior knowledge of HIV/AIDS and a recognized HIV counselling certificate would be an advantage.

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Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Transport and Logistics

• Ensure safe and secure transit to and from outreach sites and offices. Responsible for managing the mobile clinic or work vehicle.
• Maintain fuel, mileage, and maintenance records as instructed by Project manager, site Coordinator/ Administrator.
• Ensure all field equipment is loaded and unloaded each shift (chairs, tents, generators, etc.).
• Ensure all the items in the vehicle are handled correctly and you should report all the damages that occurred. 
• Follow all the rules/regulations of the road relating to the National Road Traffic Act of South Africa and as per Anova vehicle SOP and safety requirements.
• Ensure that you keep up to date with Anova’s vehicle policy.
• Responsible for driving yourself and the team to the sites of work as and when required, and you should adhere to the Anova vehicle management policy.
• Submit weekly vehicle inspection checklist to the project administrator and provide a written report in case of any incident or accident to the vehicle.

Outreach support work

• Provide an integrated, holistic client centered HTS with support.
• Conduct HTS as per the National HIV Counselling and Testing policy/guidelines.
• Ensure all HIV positive diagnosed clients are navigated to the nearest facilities.
• Ensure newly diagnosed positive client is initiated on ART.
• Ensure IQC is done and recorded as per SOP.
• Ensure compliance to HTS, waste management and infection control guidelines and policies.
• Encourage PWUDs to seek health care, including HCT and STI screenings.
• Ensure that there are adequate HTS supplies for outreach.
• Ensure that there is no misuse of company resources.
• Ensure testing supplies are stored corrected in the field.
• Ensure that you always use a cooler box to collect and store your HTS supplies.
• Support the professional nurse with supply management of the mobile clinic contents.

Administration support work

• All client’s data completed correctly and submitted daily.
• Record keeping into DoH HTS register.
• High quality HTS data reported daily.
• Data queries attended to within 24 hours.
• Monitoring HTS data and ensuring targets are met.
• Delegated administration chores done, as required.
• Professional conduct maintained at work as per applicable policies.
• Develop strong relationships with health facilities in implementing district to ensure linkage to care for referred PWID.
• Submit timesheets timely.

Any other tasks as agreed with line manager.

Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Skills Required

• A degree or diploma qualification as a Professional Nurse.
• Registration as a Professional Nurse with the South African Nursing Council.
• NIMART (Nurse Initiated Management of ART) qualification (essential).
• Must have a dispensing license.
• Valid Drivers’ License with PDP
• At least 3 years’ driving experience.
• At least 2 years’ experience in an HIV/Aids counselling and testing (HCT) setting.
• At least 2 years’ experience as a registered nurse with good knowledge of the PWID community and relevant issues.
• Familiar with latest HIV Management, TB and PMTCT guidelines.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good report writing skills.
• Strong organizational skills, including time management and multi-tasking skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Attention to detail.
• Planning and organising skills.
• Strong team orientation and organising skills.

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Key duties and responsibilities:

Project Coordination

• Lead and support the Peer Educators and larger outreach team in their respective region.
• Coordinate outreach activities of peer educators
• Coordinate training of Peer educators
• Coordinate community HIV testing and counselling activities, and other screening services on outreach 
• Participate in individual supervision meetings with the peer educator and document individual session.
• Identifies places where people who inject drugs congregate and send this monthly to the M&E copying the project manager
• Responsible for updating and adding all the sites to the mapping tool monthly
• Coordinate the distribution of harm reduction kits, needles and syringes, condoms and lubricants, and other materials during outreach to PWUD and partners.
• Document and report all the missing project supplies, and assess the reasons given and take appropriate action.
• Recruit clients to receive Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) and submit the report to the project manager and M&E monthly
• Provide and ensure that risk assessment is done per client,
• Continuously the coordinator has to assess the number of harm reduction packs required for each client per week.
• Ensure there are enough harm reduction packs to the site to cover the time until the next planned outreach date
• Assess the psychosocial, human rights and risk elements of each client and make referrals to relevant departments. Include this update as part of your monthly narrative 
• Organise monthly district clean ups with people who inject drugs and other stakeholders in the region. Include this update as part of your monthly narrative
• Organise small group discussions and coordinate with the Advocacy officer. Include this update as part of your monthly narrative
• Identify female clients and ensure they receive all relevant services offered by the project.
• Responsible for driving yourself and your team to the sites of work as and when required, and you should adhere to the Anova vehicle management policy
• Ensure that all positive clients are linked to care via mobile or local facilities

Project Administration

• Keep records about services provided during outreach and submit these to M&E officer on a regular basis
• Maintain regular contact with peer educators and follow up with them on performance-related issues
• Assist in the preparation of monthly schedules for peer educators and tracking attendance
• Administer the HR policies and ensure compliance of project staff on timesheets, etc
• Manage project vehicle and ensure daily checklists are done
• Ensure that the office rentals are paid timely each month
• Ensure all project supplies distributed are recorded
• Ensure all your staff members have adequate PPE
• Ensure all medical waste is managed as per the Waste Management SOP. All needles must be submitted to the Yeovile clinic
• Submit office inventor to the project administrator each quarter
• Submit weekly sign in registers to the project administrator

Personal development

• Participate in learning and development opportunities (trainings, workshops, information sessions etc.).
• Stay abreast of developments in the fields of HIV/AIDS, STIs and TB.
• Organise and encourage all staff members to attend debriefing and counselling sessions.

Organisational Responsibilities

• Attend meetings, briefings, debriefing, staff meetings and other as directed to do so on a regular basis.
• Represent the organisation with pride and ensure you adhere to the ethos and principles.
• Represent the organisation on behalf of the programme.

Perform any other additional duties assigned by the line manager.

Minimum qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor of Social Work, Nursing or Psychology or any other Social Science Degree is a requirement. 
• Knowledge of Department of Health policies and strategies on HIV/TB and HCT
• 3 years’ experience working on HIV and TB programmes 
• Experience in Coordination and implementation of HTS 
• Experience in working with key populations (PWUD)
• Excellent communication and report writing skills
• Computer literate
• A valid driver’s licence 
• Willingness to travel and drive teams to sites 
• Knowledge of HIV/AIDS prevention and community health issues
• Facilitation skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Report-writing skills. 
• Planning and organisational skills. 
• Good communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills,
• Team player