Linkage Coordinators at AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) - 3 Positions

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is a legally registered NGO operating in Nigeria. AHF Nigeria collaborates with Federal Government of Nigeria and other partner institutions, to provide technical assistance to these key stakeholders to deliver quality and comprehensive HIV/AIDS treatment, Care and Support, HIV counseling, and testing, Prevention, Nutrition and Psychosocial services to people living with HIV/AIDS.

To meet the above needs, the Program wishes to recruit dynamic, skilled, committed, self-driven and results oriented individuals to fill in the vacant position below:

Job Title: Linkage Coordinator

Locations: Benue, Abuja and Cross River
Reports To: Prevention Program Manager/State Clinical coordinator

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Contributes to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of HIV referrals and linkage process at health facilities and community.
• Ensures synergy of all referral processes & track outcomes to and from health facilities and communities.
• Provides support to newly identified PLHIV on linkage processes, including assessment and mitigation of possible barriers to linkage.
• Conduct integrated community outreaches-to ensure linkage of testing and treatment programs.
• Ensures effective follow up by working closely with the H teams to facilitate follow up visits for HIV clients through home visit, phone call and text messages-adequately track process outcomes.
• Establish and facilitate community support groups for PLHIV; work closely with NEPHWAN / other CSOs groups to achieve synergy at State, IGA, health facility and community levels
• Facilitate the implementation of community adherence monitoring.
• Ensures the effective implementation of Positive health dignity and prevention (PHDP) concepts-at the community level.
• Works closely with Health care workers, CBO/ FBO partners to ensure patients are carried along the continuum of care/client retention.
• Facilitate assisted referral for newly identified PLHIV between community and facility systems and ensure client retention within the health facilities.
• Works closely with the testing teams to ensure patients are carried along the continuum of care/client retention.
• Ensures the implementation of strategic HIV referral / linkage protocols at the AHF health facilities.
• Contributes to capacity building for HCW5 and staff of CBO partners with respect to referral and linkage process.
• Works closely with community structures such as the WDC, VHW, HC, COGs.
• Ensure effective data management and supervise the process of appropriate data collection at the facility and community using appropriate data tools.
• Any other duty designated by the supervisor.

Education and Experience

• B.Sc, BA or any relevant qualifications or its equivalent.
• 2-3 years’ experience in providing HIV related services at community and health facilities.
• Experience with managing CBO partners a plus

Application Closing Date
22nd June, 2017.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV's and cover letters to: globalhr.Africa@aidshealth.org

Note

• Candidate should kindly indicate the position applying for and their preferred location as the subject of their e-mail.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.