District Integrated Health Service Delivery Specialist

Job Description

Reports To: Regional Technical Coordinator
Supervises: District Integrated Service Delivery Officers
Duty station: i) Bugweri and Namutumba (01), ii) Luuka and Kaliro (01) iii) Jinja city and Jinja
district (01) Open to only internal candidates
iv) Busia district (01)- Open for both internal & external candidates

Job summary:
She/he will be the project’s liaison person in one of the 12 supported districts within the East central region.
S/he will be embedded within the District Health Team (DHT), through the DHO’s office. He/she will be
directly responsible for district coordination of HIV/TB and district stewardship activities and provide
oversight for family health interventions.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• To work as a liaison person between the project and the district leadership to ensure project
  activities are well planned, coordinated and implemented in harmony with the district
  priorities and operations to achieve the intended objectives
• Participate in making work plans, drawing activity schedules, raising activity requests,
  implementing activities and writing relevant reports
• Always seek to understand and work with the district and project relevant staff to lay
  strategies to achieve prevailing project priorities.
• Lead, guide and mentor the project team seconded to the district and health facilities
  for proper and harmonized implementation of the planned activities with the district
• Provide technical support to the district and health facility teams across the key HIV and
  TB technical areas.
• Support the integration of quality improvement approaches into health services delivery at
• the district and health facilities within the districts.
• Support the design and rollout of community level interventions for integrated health services
  delivery geared at addressing health determinants at individual, household and community level.
• Support and monitor the acquisition, inventory keeping, proper use and maintenance of
  equipment and other property provided by the project to the district and health facilities.
• Organize regular and timely performance reviews at district and health facility levels as per
  work plan.
• Participate and lead district teams in implementation and monitoring of research activities
  and develop abstracts, manuscripts or promising good or best practices.
• Ensure appropriate use of project financial and other resources, preventing wastage and abuse.
• Work with the district leadership to map and coordinate with other implementing partners to
  avoid duplication and omissions for maximum benefit from the available resources.
• Supervise district integration officers.

Qualifications, job requirements and competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery (MBChB), bachelor’s in public health. A master’s
  degree in a health-related field is an added advantage.
• 3 years of progressive professional experience working in Public Health Systems.
• Demonstrate strong coordination and collaboration successes at community and district levels.
• Demonstrable excellent writing, organizational, coordination and communication skills.
• Proven ability to set priorities, multi-task, and work collaboratively as well as independently.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

Application Procedure:
MJAP is dedicated to inclusion and diversity, evaluating all job applicants solely based on merit, regardless
of race, gender, color, national origin, religion, age, marital status, or disability. As an equal opportunity
employer, MJAP does not charge applicants at any stage and is not responsible for losses from fraudulent
recruitment activities.

Qualified candidates are invited to apply by 4:30 PM EAT on Thursday December 4th, 2025., Please submit
your application via this link: https://forms.gle/ScF3CJYZkAkvTzqG6 For details about advertised position,
please visit the website of Makerere University Joint AIDS Program.

Offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references including but not limited to appropriate
background checks, criminal records, and previous employment findings of fraud, corruption, sexual
exploitation, abuse or harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant
left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these
recruitment procedures. Please ensure that your attachments do not exceed 10 MB. We do appreciate
your interest to work with MJAP. However, we regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
within one week after the submission deadline