Linkage Coordinator

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is an international not for profit NGO, with its Headquarters based in Los Angeles, California. AIDS Healthcare Foundation is registered in Nigeria as Foundation for AIDS Care Prevention and Advocacy but collectively referred to as AHF Nigeria. AHF Nigeria works in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health to provide free HIV/AIDS services; HIV prevention and treatment (ART), capacity building and advocacy in resource constrained settings.

AHF-Nigeria currently operates in 7 states including; Benue, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nasarawa, Kogi, Cross River, Anambra, Akwa Ibom and supports numerous clinics country wide. The organization now seeks to hire highly competent, dynamic and experienced persons to fill the following regular full-time positions

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Linkage Coordinator

Location: Enugu
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• The Linkage Coordinator is responsible for coordinating and strengthening HIV testing, referral, linkage, retention, and community support systems to ensure seamless access to HIV prevention, care, and treatment services.
• The incumbent works closely with healthcare workers, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, support groups, and community structures to facilitate client follow-up, adherence support, positive health dignity and prevention (PHDP) interventions, and continuum of care services.
• The position also contributes to capacity building, community mobilization, data management, and reporting to improve program outcomes and strengthen HIV service delivery at both facility and community levels.
• The role supports the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of referral and linkage processes between communities and health facilities, ensuring that newly identified people living with HIV (PLHIV) are successfully enrolled into care and retained on treatment.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Works closely with Health care workers, CBO/ FBO partners to ensure patients are carried along the continuum of care / retention.
• Works closely with the testing teams to ensure patients are carried along the continuum of care / client retention.
• Ensures the effective implementation of Positive health dignity and prevention (PHDP) concepts-at the community level.
• Facilitate assisted referral for newly identified PLHIV between community and facility systems and ensure client retention within the health facilities.
• Ensures effective follow up by working closely with the HCT teams to facilitate follow up visits for HIV clients through home visit, phone call and text messages-adequately track process outcomes.
• Contributes to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of HIV referrals and linkage process at health facilities and community.
• Contributes to capacity building for HCWs and staff of CBO partners with respect to referral and linkage process.
• Works closely with community structures such as the WDC, VHW, HC, CDGs.
• Ensures synergy of all referral processes & track outcomes to and from health facilities and communities.
• Establish and facilitate community support groups for PLHIV; work closely with NEPHWAN / other CSOs groups to achieve synergy at State, LGA, health facility and community levels
• Perform other duties as may be assigned as needed.
• 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 the implementation of strategic HIV referral / linkage protocols at the AHF health facilities.
• Facilitate the implementation of community adherence monitoring.
• Ensure effective data management and supervise the process of appropriate data collection at the facility and community using appropriate data tools.

Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Education and/or Experience:

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

Language Skills

• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers and regulatory bodies.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents;
• Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format.
• Fluent in English.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to communicate well with patients in a healthcare center setting;
• Excellent customer service skills.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications (CV and cover letter as one document) to: [email protected] using the Job Title and Location as the subject of the mail.

Note

• Also, your application document must be saved in your full name preferably in MS word or PDF format.
• AIDS Healthcare Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer!
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.