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Join Us – Population Solutions For Health

When you join Population Solutions for Health , you’re helping us unleash the potential in everyone. Population Solutions for Health, formally PSI/Zimbabwe is looking for candidates who hold the requisite qualifications and experience to apply for the positions below.

Research Assistant - Mutasa*1, Chikomba *1, Bubi & Mangwe *1, Rushinga *1 (Part Time)


The purpose of this job is to support data collection for the Shang Ring operational research in selected districts
and rapidly monitor and evaluate data entered in case report forms daily to maintain quality control standards to
preserve the integrity of research and ensure compliance with protocol and overall study objectives.


Your Contribution – Key Responsibilities.


• Leads and guides the work of healthy facility-based data collectors.
• Supervises data collectors working on the research project (maintains records on assignment completion).
• Maintains quality control standards to preserve the integrity of data and findings.
• Reviews collected data to ensure completeness and accuracy of information; follow up with subjects to
resolve problems or clarify data collected.
• Travels to facilities in districts to perform quality assurance on data collection processes as appropriate to
the specific objectives of the study.
• Ensures storage and maintenance of accurate records of case report forms, interviews, safeguarding the
confidentiality of subjects.
• Acts as a mediator between the data collector and the operations research specialist and the District
Health Executive.
• Engages the District Health Executive and community partners in research.
• Manages and responds to project related emails.
• Prepares and submits weekly district field research progress reports to Operations Research Specialist.
• Attends area seminars and other meeting as necessary.
• Develops or assists in the development of interview schedules, contacts potential subjects to introduce
and explain study objectives and protocol and to arrange interviews, either in person or by telephone,
• Identifies and compiles lists of potential research subjects and apply sampling procedures per protocol in
liaison with the District Health Executive and the District Prevention Officers.
• Ensures equipment or supplies required for the research project are always in place at facilities.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned by the project team.


What are we looking for?


• Diploma/ Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences, Statistics, Demography, or any relevant program.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in field data collection for operations health research or population
surveys.
• Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices and procedures in health research or survey.
• Experience in the use of mobile data collection applications, such as SurveyToGo, is an added advantage.


How to apply?


In return, PSH offers competitive remuneration, commensurate with qualifications and experience. PSH is an equal
opportunity employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of gender identity or
expression, race, religion, national origin, or disability.


All interested candidates are encouraged to follow the following steps when applying:

Step 1: Complete the Application for the position you wish to apply for:
1.  Click Here to apply for the Research Assistant position.

Step 2: Send your updated CVs to recruitment@psh.org.zw
All Applications should be shared not later than February 13, 2023.
Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ICT Support Officer – Bulawayo *1 (Full Time)


The job exists to provide ICT support for PSH.


Your Contribution – Key Responsibilities.


• Conducts network maintenance and support for multiple PSH offices.
• Liaises with service providers and vendors.
• Creates backups of the network configuration.
• Secures network devises and monitors internet usage.
• Creates backups of system databases and ensures that all site-based information systems are functioning
properly.
• Ensures that firewall is effective and allows accessibility.
• Utilizes backups to restore the system whenever there is a system failure.
• Implements the disaster recovery plan and backs up all systems and critical data.
• Conducts preventative maintenance and conducts the installations of computer hardware, consumables
replacement.
• Recommends and performs hardware repairs computer.
• Provides first line support to all users and assists users to connect to networks and provides access to
systems.
• Provides the software and hardware resources that are needed by the users.
• Investigates and resolves system and user support issues in a timely manner.
• Performs applications support and visits sites to resolve challenges.
• Trains users on how to effectively use new and existing systems.
• Installs and licenses antivirus, configures automatic updates, scanning and virus cleaning.
• Performs Vulnerability tests and performs data recovery.
• Creates and sets up email accounts on user computers.
• Creates and sets up collaboration and backup tools.
• Ensures connectivity to email and collaboration tools at all times.
• Allocates tagged assets to users and records all allocated assets.
• Maintains the asset register and track IT asset movements.


What Are We Looking For?


• Degree in IT or related Degree.
• Cisco or MCSE certification will be an added advantage.
• At least 2 years working experience with a local Area network for a large organization.
• Experience with windows server operating systems
• Hardware trouble shooting experience.
• Experience with routers, switches and firewalls.
• Drivers license with minimum two years driving experience.

How to apply?


In return, PSH offers competitive remuneration, commensurate with qualifications and experience. PSH is an equal
opportunity employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of gender identity or expression,
race, religion, national origin, or disability.


All interested candidates are encouraged to follow the following steps when applying:


Step 1: Complete the Application for the position you wish to apply for:
a) Click Here to apply for the ICT Support Officer position.

Step 2: Send your updated CVs to recruitment@psh.org.zw


All Applications should be shared not later than April 03, 2023.
Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Integrated HIV Care Nurse - Harare (Full Time *1)

Reporting to the Senior Clinical Services Coordinator / Senior Field Services Coordinator, the Integrated HIV Care
Nurse provides comprehensive and quality integrated HIV health services to clients with the aim of ensuring that
all clients are linked to and retained in HIV prevention, care, and treatment services.

Your Contribution – Key Responsibilities

 

• Assesses and provides all HIV negative clients with the most appropriate biomedical prevention methods
such as VMMC, PrEP, DREAMS, Condom programming and STI screening and treatment.
• Links HIV negative clients to social support structures and/or case managers for continued care support.
• Provides information to all HIV negative clients on available biomedical prevention options for them to
make informed choices.
• Leads GBV /IPV case identification, providing timely first line support i.e., minimum package of care and
post GBV support using the LIVES framework.
• Proactively assesses for risk of defaulting and provide appropriate differentiated care models.
• Applies appropriate HIV testing modalities and screening tools to minimize unnecessary HIV testing.
• Provides PDHTS VCT, targeted outreach and HIVST as guided by hot spot map or risk network referrals
as appropriate.
• Provides HIV self-testing for target populations and tracks all recipients for confirmatory test, treatment,
and prevention as appropriate.
• Conducts patient centered index and contact tracing (ICT) in key and priority populations such as virally
unsuppressed, newly diagnosed HIV clients and adult men, in a safe and ethical manner as per WHO and
PEPFAR guidelines.
• Provides facility and community Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) initiation.
• Actively identifies clients eligible for viral load testing. (Sets appointments, educates, and keeps clients
aware of appointment dates through client held records/SMS reminders etc).
• Provides viral load monitoring services from sample collection to transportation, documentation, and use
of the results in patient management.
• Counsels’ clients on the benefits of U=U to, among other reasons, motivate early ART initiation, improve
treatment adherence and retention.
• Works with a multidisciplinary team to conduct enhanced adherence counselling for clients with
unsuppressed viral loads, do follow-up viral load testing and switch/maintain treatment as indicated within
the MOHCC time limits.
• Implements community differentiated service delivery models to retain clients on ART.
• Tracks defaulters and facilitates return to care, addresses and documents reasons for defaulting.
• Leads the transition of stable KP clients to friendly/capacitated public sector clinics.
• Ensures completion and updates the index testing register in accordance with PEPFAR minimum standards
for safe care.
• Documents all HIV tested clients in the clinic catchment area’s community HTS register.
• Documents all HIV Positive clients in the facility green books Pre ART, and ART registers.
• Records all clients receiving services in DHIS2/Bahmni as appropriate.
• Reports all adverse events (provider/client detected) within reporting timelines.
• Develops joint index testing and retention in care cascades for optimized service provision.
• Conducts data deduplication for all newly diagnosed HIV positive clients.
• Supports facility partner with documentation in the facility who require community follow up and/or
service provision.
• Participates in collaborative defaulter tracking meetings and activities with MOHCC and facility partners.
• Coordinates community health workers in HIV case finding and retention in care.
• Manages KP DSD Assistants within one’s cluster.

What Are We Looking For?

• A General Nursing Diploma a prerequisite.
• At least 3 working experience.
• Rapid HIV Testing training.
• HIV Treatment/ART training.
• SRH & VIAC training a distinct advantage.
• Registered by the Nurses Council of Zimbabwe.

How to apply?

In return, PSH offers competitive remuneration, commensurate with qualifications and experience. PSH is an equal
opportunity employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of gender identity or expression,
race, religion, national origin, or disability.

All interested candidates are encouraged to follow the following steps when applying:

Step 1: Complete the Application for the position you wish to apply for:

a) Click Here to apply for the Integrated HIV Care Nurse position.

Step 2: Send your updated CVs to recruitment@psh.org.zw

All Applications should be shared not later than April 03, 2023.

Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Dispensary Assistant - Chitungwiza (Full Time *1)

To assist with the preparation and distribution of  pharmaceuticals, inventory management, and documentation
within the pharmacy.

Your Contribution – Key Responsibilities

• Assists in the dispensing of ART, PrEP, and SRH medicines to clients either on site or on outreaches as prescribed by the Clinician and ensuring the right medication is given to the right client in right quantities.
• Packs medicines in properly labelled dispensing envelopes to small recommended prescribed quantities for easy dispensing and to reduce client waiting.
• Provides information to clients on how the medication is taken and side effects if not taken properly, also counselling clients for adherence purposes to achieve treatment success.
• Receives and collects prescriptions from clients timeously as they come to reduce clients’ waiting period.
• Arranges received pharmaceuticals on the shelf according to FEFO in order to minimize expiries.
• Ensures that all received pharmaceuticals are offloaded and moved timeously into the pharmacy to avoid breakages and maintain the required temperatures.
• Ensures proper labelling of medicines on shelves for easy access and to maintain order in the pharmacy.
• Ensures that the pharmacy is clean and the safe and appropriate storage of medicine.
• Ensures that recommended room temperature and the quality of medicines is maintained.
• Files all generated reports for ART and SRH medicines; invoices; prescriptions and correspondents monthly for record keeping purposes.
• Performs daily temperature takings and records them to ensure that recommended room temperature and the quality of medicines is maintained.
• Captures dispensed medicines into EPOC system.
• Keeps a record of controlled drugs for legal and stock control purposes.
• Conducts physical counts monthly for the purposes of ordering and to avoid overstocking or understocking and checking on expiries.
• Ensures that there are no breakages, shortages and short dated pharmaceuticals when receiving commodities from Nat pharm or PSH Warehouse deliveries

• Receives and arranges ordered commodities on shelves according to FIFO and categories e.g.,
Antibacterial, Antifungals, Antidepressants etc.
• Updates Stock Cards on dispensed medicines daily.
• Captures received pharmaceuticals from PSH Warehouse, Nat pharm and other sites on the Stock Card
and Receiving Registers for SRH and ART departments.

What are we looking for?

• Dispensary Assistant training course.
• 5 O’ Levels including English Language and Mathematics.
• At least 2 years working experience.
• Knowledge of pharmacy regulations and laws.
• Computer literate.
• Basic knowledge of HIV/AIDS and basic management of related Opportunity Infections.
• Candidate should have strong interpersonal communication skills and should be well groomed.

How to apply?

In return, PSH offers competitive remuneration, commensurate with qualifications and experience. PSH is an equal
opportunity employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of gender identity or expression,
race, religion, national origin, or disability.

All interested candidates are encouraged to follow the following steps when applying:

Step 1: Complete the Application for the position you wish to apply for:
a) Click Here to apply for the Dispensary Assistant position.

Step 2: Send your updated CVs to recruitment@psh.org.zw

All Applications should be shared not later than April 03, 2023.
Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.