Junior Outreach Worker - (Multiple Posts)
Ngo & Social Services Jobs
- CeSHHAR Zimbabwe
- Expires 09 Apr 2026
- Harare
- Full Time
Job Description
CeSHHAR Zimbabwe is an organisation that specialises in population health research and programming, including on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. CeSHHAR has an extensive national, regional, and international academic and community partnership network. CeSHHAR has a diverse range of funders which include the Wellcome Trust, Gates Foundation, United States NIH, UK Medical Research Council, European Commission, Templeton World Charity Foundation, and Global Fund for AIDS TB and Malaria. We partner very closely with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK), Zimbabwe's Ministry of Health and Child Care, National AIDS Council, International and regional centres of research excellence to evaluate national programmes and determine the impact, uptake, and cost effectiveness of novel reproductive health interventions.
Duties and Responsibilities
The incumbent will play a critical role in supporting the overall implementation of the Programme. The person will support interventions to provide responsive, quality health services to high-risk populations. The incumbent will be responsible for the following duties:
Microplanner Recruitment, Support and Supervision.
• Identify and recruit Microplanners and other community cadres.
• Supervision of Community Mobilization Meetings in the community and Health education at site.
• Hold monthly meetings with Microplanners to feedback on programme issues
• Assist with hotspot Mapping
• Assist with trainings/meetings to train community cadres
• Monitor and supervise microplanning data collection, IPC data collection
• Help establish, monitor, and supervise self -help groups
• Help mentor site-based Interns.
Community Outreach Activities
• Reaching out regularly with STI/HIV preventive packages for high-risk populations at identified sites with the assistance of Microplanners
• Validation of hotspots maps
• Providing information and educating high risk populations on STI/HIV transmission and prevention, testing services and its benefits, and treatment services
• Routinely encouraging, facilitating, and following up for regular STI/HIV testing among high-risk populations.
• Regularly distributing condoms and demonstrating condom and lubricants use
• Conduct Adherence Sisters Training Programme
• Assisting in retaining high risk populations in care.
• Carrying out weekend and night outreach activities.
Stakeholder engagement
• Programmatic mapping (stakeholder mapping)
• Network with stakeholders
• Attending stakeholders’ meetings
• Representing CeSHHAR at meetings
• Programme Reporting and Documentation
Report writing
• Microplanning and SHG supervision reports
• Familiarization and adhering to Programme SOPs including MoUs
• Data Entry
• Assisting Outreach workers in programme data entry
• Assisting Microplanners in entering microplanning data into the database (Tracking data, Risk Assessment, Mapping, Hotspot Diary and IPC)
• Other Duties
• Support and mentor outreach interns
• Performing other tasks related to the programme as assigned by the supervisor whenever required.
Qualifications and Experience
• Must be a current CeSHHAR programmes Community Cadre
• Demonstrable experience and interest in community outreach work, ability to do community mobilization, create rapport with personnel from collaborating or associate institutions and work independently but within a team framework
• Ability/flexibility to travel to various programme implementation locations including on weekends.
• Fluency in local languages.
How to Apply
Step 1: Click Here to fill in the form
Step 2: If you are interested in the above position, please email your CV and application cover letter addressed to Human Resources and send to vacancies@ceshhar.co.zw. Indicate the position you are applying for in the subject line. Candidates previously employed by CeSHHAR are encouraged to apply.
Please note: Applications will be reviewed and shortlisted on a rolling basis. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
CeSHHAR Zimbabwe is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of sex, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply.
The successful candidate will undergo relevant background checks and will be required to commit in writing to comply with the CeSHHAR Zimbabwe safeguarding guidelines.
