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| Makerere University Walter Reed Project |
Community Outreach Officer job Post
Location: Jobs in Uganda 2021 - 2022
Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day
Salary:
UGX
No. of vacancies: 01
Deadline: 28 November 2022
Hiring Organization: Makerere University Walter Reed Project
Job Details:
Position Number: MUWRP/02/11/2022
Position Title: Community Outreach officer (1) Position
Position Location: Mukono General Hospital.
Contract Tenure: 6 months with a possibility of extension subject to availability of funding.
Position summary:
To promote meaningful and mutually beneficial community participation in MUWRP-Mukono based Research.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• Establish and maintain close collaborative links with study communities through meetings with key stakeholders and study participants and working closely with project leaders on providing feedback to stake holders.
• Conduct meetings with peer leaders of study participants to guide organization’s operations with the study population
• Develop, implement and evaluate volunteer recruitment strategies and outreach efforts to increase awareness of, and enrolment into clinical research studies
• Facilitate enrolment of research volunteers into the study.
• Administer questionnaires to research volunteers
• Conduct health education to Research Participants
• Work with the research team to monitor and follow up of study participants for study compliance
• Identify and bring to the attention of the research team, key barriers to research participant recruitment
• Conduct behavioral oriented counseling on psycho social issues for research participants
• Conduct home visits for the research volunteers if needed.
• Take part in organizing project’s events and commemoration of the HIV international days
• Engage in public relation activities within and out of the organization
• Facilitate CAB functions.
Required Education and Knowledge and experience:
• At least a higher Diploma in Adult and community education, social science, Journalism, Mass communication or related field.
• Sound knowledge of how to engage communities in research and understanding factors that facilitate community participation.
• Experience in Health communication, and stakeholder engagement.
• Use of media technology, preparing IEC materials.
• Ability to work outside regular work hours.
• Experience working in a research environment and recruiting of diverse study population is an added advantage
Supervisory Controls:
The candidate will report to the Community Outreach Coordinator.
Physical ability: The ability to travel within the work site and field stations.
Application procedure
Apply directly to job openings in MUWRP’s career portal below. Open Job Description and Click Apply Now.
Please note that only applications received through the MUWRP career portal will be considered.
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Applications are job-specific. Updating your application for one job does not change the version you submitted for other jobs.
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Date Posted: 2022-11-15
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