Job Ochieng

I am a Registered Clinical Officer (RCO) and a trained Health systems manager with a BSc in Health Systems Management (HSM). I have 9 years of experience in successfully designing, implementing, and overseeing monitoring and evaluation tasks in TB, HIV care, and treatment programs in a supervision & coordination role.

These years of experience have been gained while working with local Kenyan NGOs that are donor funded.

Besides these, I am also trained in child protection, and safeguarding policies, SGBV response, and management, and a GBV paralegal officer. Currently with Context Solutions as a founder and lead technical persons we focus on ASAL areas with a good understanding of issues and opportunities in them to achieve resilience in Galla goat rearing as we provide consultancy on breeding and ready, market to the pastoralists through the formation of a national network of key goat stakeholders and farmers in need of this hardy goat breed either for meat or breeding.

I am culturally competent and highly adept at handling various responsibilities through prioritization to have timely and effective interventions during case management of my patient and other response-related activities

My goal is to improve the Quality of care and strengthen systems through coordination and networking with other staff and actors in a challenging work environment that fully utilizes my management & clinical skills.

Health Systems Management & Development Technical Advisor

Context Solutions for Health & Development (CoSHeD) Kenya · Hybrid

Mar 2023 – Present

Key Responsibilities

• Stakeholder mapping, networking, and coordination
• Organisation leadership & technical coordination
• Capacity building of Project staff & development partners
• Project Planning Implementation, budgeting & monitoring.

Key achievements/projects

• Effectively networking & coordinating key stakeholders in goat production and having them all under one group for ease of operation at the national level.

Adjunct Clinical Instructor/Assistant Lecturer

Mwingi Level IV Hospital & Kenya Medical Training College – Mwingi Campus

December 2022 – Present

Key Responsibilities

• Assisting the Senior lectures in making plans and executing lessons
• Coordinating/Guiding clinical rotations for the Diploma in Clinical Medicine & Surgery Students

Key achievements/projects

• Covering Special topics on HIV/TB, SGBV, and reproductive health including cervical cancer
• Offering clinical services as a volunteer to give back and also stay updated on recent practices.

Clinical Officer/In Charge

Center for International Health, Education, and Biosecurity (CIHEB) - Kenya

October 2021 – March 2023

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinating site activities and strategies that allow achievement of program targets in 4 sub-counties.
• Monitoring the progress in the linkage of newly identified PLHIV to care & treatment, ART initiation, management of Opportunistic Infections viral load suppression, LTBI, and retention and cohort outcomes that are following the national guidelines.
• Led and directed the technical capacity-building activities that ensure the provision of quality services.
• Developing work plans, raising site budget compiling, preparing, and submitting periodic progress reports monthly, quarterly, and whenever requested to relevant authorities including liquidation reports.

Key achievements/projects

• Managing a team of 40 members consisting of both clinical and non-clinical healthcare staff.
• Created a GBV response team with the involvement of various stakeholders as a trained paralegal.

DICE Coordinator

Centre for Health Solutions (CHS) - Kenya 

October 2020 – September 2021

Key Responsibilities

• Provided overall site coordination and supervision of staff and ensured program goals are met.
• Ensured the provision of combined prevention approaches in a KPs-friendly environment.
• Compilation and submission of timely monthly, quarterly, and annual reports to the supervisor and MOH. Documented and disseminated program best practices, findings, and key lessons for improved accountability and quality reporting.

Key achievements

• Established and maintained a functional Intra and inter-facility/community referral system with the various SCHMTs to strengthen the quality of HIV and TB response.
• Demonstrating technical knowledge of clinical, public health, and programmatic aspects of HIV to include CMEs

Clinical officer in charge

LVCT health

October 2016- October 2020

Key Responsibilities

• Spearheaded management of high viral load clients and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
• Provided TB/HIV care & treatment, prevention services, and clinical services
• Ensured overall coordination and monitored all Drop-in Centre prevention services and activities
• Ensured quality program data through quality improvement and monitoring and evaluation staff.
• Mentored and coordinated targeted support supervision to fellow staff,

Key achievements

• Improved the re-suppression rate of high viral load clients from 14.4% to 81.7% between April 2018 and September 2020
• Team lead in the Clinical management of SGBV survivors plus child protection for those all our PLHIV.

Clinical officer/In-charge.

Impact Research and Development Organization (IRDO) 

December 2014 – September 2016

Key Responsibilities

• Set the direction and approaches for implementation of all DICE prevention services and activities
• Provided TB/HIV care & treatment, prevention services, and clinical services
• Ensured quality program data through quality improvement and monitoring and evaluation of staff.
• Developed work plans, raised site budgets compiled, submitted, or presented program data/reports monthly.

Key achievements

• Formed the site’s first CQI committee and the community advisory board(CAB).
• Participated in the NASCOP TWG that led to establishing the PWID

Clinical officer intern 

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching & Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) -Kisumu 

December 2013- November 2014

Key Responsibilities

• Performed detailed history taking, examination, and patient management( Inpatients and Outpatients)

Key achievements 

• Directed a team of 38 clinical officer interns through their clinical rotations 
• Collected data and submitted weekly reports for the KEMRI/CDC Health associated infection (HAI) study in the same facility.

• Bachelor of Science in Health Systems Management 

Mount Kenya University - School of Public Health

January 2018 –July 2022

• Diploma in Clinical Medicine & Surgery 

Kenya Medical Training College – Kisumu

September 2010 – July 2013