Community Action Harm Reduction
(CAHR) Programme Officer
Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/
Reduction_%20Programme%20Officer-1.pdf
Job summary
The Programme Officer is expected to manage overall project activities, ensure
project relevance to the country community needs for people who use drugs to
most effectively address HIV, provide and coordinate provision of technical
assistance, advocate for the rights of people who use drugs in particular
people inject who drugs and represent the project nationally. Job summary
The Programme Office is
also expected to oversee a qualitative research project among people who inject
drugs linked to the CAHR programme.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Ensures
country participation in the global development and coordination of the
project implementation, develops and leads the country team of various
specialists (staff and/or consultants) required to achieve the programme
goals.
- Monitoring
of the HIV epidemic in the country; the responses and opportunities for
strengthened responses to the epidemic and challenges associated with
illicit drug use; and the role played by local governments, donors and
other stakeholders, as well as ensures necessary adjustments in country
programme design and implementation.
- Ensures that
the scale, spectrum, accessibility, intensity and quality of services and
information available to IDUs and their families corresponds as much as
possible to harm reduction and HIV prevention objectives as well as to
health, social and other essential needs of people who use drugs, their
partners and children.
- Ensure that
the CAHR programme design and activities at country and local levels
builds upon the strengths of the KANCO members and partners while being
effective, strategic and relevant in local context.
- Partnership
development across sectors Local, nationally and internationally as well
as strategic management of donor and stakeholder relations including the
delivery of financial and technical support to field level service
delivery organizations.
- Ensures that
region-specific as well as site-specific interventions are developed and
implemented as appropriate.
- Oversee data
collection, implementation, analysis and write up of social
science/qualitative research within the CAHR programme, including
interviewing, fieldwork and training of fieldworkers
- Manage and
coordinate the implementation of the qualitative study in three sites
(Nairobi, Malindi, and Ukunda), including close liaison with fieldwork
teams and manage day-to-day the qualitative study Research Assistant
- Guides
contributions to national and global learning and sharing focused on
deepening and dissemination of the harm reduction evidence base, including
based on analyses of qualitative research.
- Assist in
the coding and categorisation of qualitative data, including ideally using
the computer software NVIVO and Assist in the drafting of research study
documents, presentations at conferences/meetings, and research papers for
submission to publication
- Promotes and
advocates for harm reduction and ensures a favourable project environment
How to apply:
Application Deadline: 25th July 2012
Application Deadline: 25th July 2012
Applications should be sent
strictly via e-mail to jobs@kanco.org
