Overview

Jhpiego is an international non-profit health organization affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University. For more than 45 years now, Jhpiego has empowered front-line health workers by designing and implementing effective, low-cost, hands-on solutions to strengthen the delivery of health care services for women and their families. By putting evidence-based health innovations into everyday practice, Jhpiego works to break down barriers to high-quality health care for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Jhpiego, implementing a number of projects in Tanzania, wishes to recruit the following positions, available for immediate filling.

Position: Nurse/Clinician [63 positions]

Locations: Arusha, Iringa, Dar es Salaam, Moshi, Mbeya, Shinyanga, Tabora, Njombe, Dodoma and Morogoro

Works in collaboration with the other members of the mobile team (and regional and district authorities) to offer high quality HIV counseling and testing, ART, PrEP, family planning services, screening and referral for STIs, gender-based violence, TB, alcohol and drug use, linkages, HIV care and treatment services to clients in their assigned region. More specifically, the clinical team members will:

• Provide ALL Sauti Project biomedical services (HTS, ART, PrEP, FP, screening for TB, STI, Gender-based violence, alcohol and drugs)
• Enroll clients into ART outreach and PrEP service including laboratory sample collection
• Meet with district officials, community leaders and partners to introduce and schedule community ART services.
• Collaborate with the CBHS providers, Regional coordinator and others to initiate and/or participate in demand creation in targeted communities.
• Identify opportunities for the program to increase demand, efficiency and quality of program delivery.
• Participate in the collection and reporting of ART outreach and PrEP data as required by the program and ensure proper clients records keeping and reporting
• Stay current in knowledge in the field of HIV in general.
• Ensure standard of care and conduct regular charts review
• Develop and maintain excellent relationships with colleagues and

• local officials.
• Perform other duties related to providing ART outreach and PrEP as required.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be a licensed nurse, nurse/midwife or clinical officer in good standing.
• Experience working with populations at high risk for HIV, conducting outreach testing, and/or in provider-initiated counseling and testing, and family planning services, desirable.
• Must be willing to be based in assigned region with extensive (weekly) travel. Must be willing to work off and unusual hours. Travel up to 80% of the time.
• Must be physically fit to assist with set up and break down of services in sites.
• Must demonstrate self-management (i.e. motivation, dealing with pressure, adaptability)
• Must be highly flexible to accept dual roles and extra tasks as assigned by the site coordinator.
• Additional experience with ART, community counselling, mobile HTS, Family planning and GBV is desirable.
• Jhpiego offers a competitive package selected candidates in line with salary history, academic qualifications and relevant experience

Jhpiego is an equal opportunity employer and offers a competitive package selected candidates in line with salary history, academic qualifications, and relevant experience.

To apply please indicate the position title on the subject line and regional of reference of your e-mail, i.e. Application for ART Outreach Coordinator All applications should also include an up-to-date CV with three contactable professional references, a cover letter, and your salary history,

Send the application through email: HRTZ@jhpiego.org

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. The closing date for applications is two weeks after the first appearance of this advert.

Caution to the applicants:

There have been some bogus adverts online that require candidates to apply through some email addresses of public domains e.g. Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc. Kindly note: HRTZ@jhpiego.org is the address to use all the time. Please ignore any of those adverts, We also do not charge any application fee nor entertain any meetings or telephone calls. If shortlisted, you will get an official call from our office and receive required steps. If you suspect any wrong – doing kindly write to the Director of Human Resource, through inquiries.tz@jhpiego.org.