Site Support Coordinator

Position : Site Support Coordinator

Organization : ICAP Cameroon

Direct Supervisor : Site Mentor responsible for site (Adamawa, North, Far North)

Location : Adamawa, North, Far North

Project Description

ICAP at Columbia University’s Targeted Programmatic Support Across Countries under the Global Fund to Fight HIV / AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Under PEFAR (hereinafter, PSA), will provide technical assistance (TA) and capacity-building support, in collaboration with key stakeholders and local partners, to improve HIV services in 74 health facilities located in three regions of Cameroon : Adamawa, North, and Far North. The overall goal of the project is to build targeted health facilities’ capacity to develop, support and sustain progress towards achieving United Nations’ 95-95-95 targets.

Position Summary

Responsible for one or more of seventy-four of ICAP-supported health facilities in the Northern regions of Cameroon, the Site Support Coordinator will manage the execution of PSA project activities at the site and in the community, working closely with ICAP-supported health facility staff and others implicated in HIV care and treatment. Reporting to Site Mentors who accompany 5-7 sites periodically, the Site Support Coordinator will conduct daily follow-up to ensure that planned interventions intended to achieve the three 95 targets are enacted with fidelity and in a timely manner.

Major responsibilities

Ensure the ICAP-supported facilities achieve the three 95 targets by overseeing the following :

HIV Testing and Treatment

• Oversee implementation of targeted testing and index case testing in the facility Promote linkage to treatment and retention by ensuring implementation of the CamLink model with fidelity, retention strategies, as well as searching for patients lost-to-follow up. Promote viral load testing by ensuring the site has adequate systems to identify eligible patients for testing and to handle and / or ship samples for testing. Additionally, the site support coordinator is to ensure that results are returned in a timely manner and used for decision making by the HIV clinic physician. Oversee optimization of pediatric HIV care and treatment and TLD transition

M&E and Quality Improvement

Personnel

Commodities

Community Linkage

Service Integration

Other

Education and Experience

Required Competencies and Qualifications

That, by 2030, 95% of people living with HIV know their HIV status; 95% of people who know their HIV status are on treatment; and 95% of people on treatment have suppressed viral loads.