DREAMS District Manager – Alfred Nzo - Education Development Centre (EDC) - Alfred Nzo, Eastern Cape
(2021-04 - 2025-03)
- Technically support Comprehensive Sexuality Education implementation
- Support Department of Basic Education leads a national-level system that annually identifies, tracks and monitors vulnerable schools
- Ensures that Department of Basic Education officials and Educators have increased capacity to implement and monitor Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)
- Ensures that Learner Teacher Support Materials distributed to the supported schools
- Support Department of Basic Education (DBE) to implements CSE communication strategy
- Sensitize School management teams, School Governing Bodies, Parents and caregivers on CSE
- Ensures that Integrated School Health Programs are successfully implemented
- Ensures Vulnerable youth successfully linked to health services, social services and economical like hood opportunities through other DREAMS implementing partners
- Facilitate Social Asset Building (SAB) for Adolescent Girls and Young Women
- Participate on District stakeholder meetings
District Liaison Officer – Alfred Nzo - GIZ (Deutsche Geslleshaft fur Internationale Zusammernabeit) - Alfred Nzo, Eastern Cape
(2017-04 - 2021-03)
- Supporting evidence based policymaking
- Establishment of the three sister departments (Department of Health, Department of Education and the Department of Social Development) structure for the implementation of the Integrated School Health Policy (ISHP) at district level
- Establish and support the coordination of District Task Teams responsible for the ISHP implementation
- Liaises with the district-level representatives of the Department of Education, Department of Health and Department of Social Development that are responsible for the ISHP implementation and collaborate with other stakeholders in the District
- Create and organise successful prevention strategies focus directly on the groups at risk, particularly adolescent girls and young women
- Support the coordination of school health programmes
- Ensure that principles and indicators of the Integrated School Health Policy (ISHP) are in corporated into national policy and strategy documents
- Fostering greater involvement of civil society in order to increase the demand for school health services
- Raising awareness among school councils and parents' organisations improves acceptance in the community and clarifies false information and misunderstandings about what school health services entail
- Participate on District stakeholder meetings
District Community Linkage Officer – Alfred Nzo - BroadReach Health Care - Alfred Nzo, Eastern Cape
(2016-03 - 2017-03)
Worked for BroadReach in August 2011 till September 2014 retrenched and came back March 2016
- Train government managers and their clinicians at district, and facility levels to ensure they can leverage this deep understanding to optimise healthcare outcomes
- Supervise and mentor all BroadReach lay counsellors and health care workers from the District health facilities
- Provide technical support to the clinics and Hospitals to ensure a coordinated uniform approach integrated health programmes service delivery and adherent to the National and Provincial policies and guidelines
- Providing technical assistance to identify gaps and develop improvement plans through data feedback
- Provide technical assistance to the DOH information officer to plan and coordinate quarterly performance reviews
- Coordinate, facilitate, present and represent BroadReach in District Quarterly Partner Meetings including Community forums
- Support all BroadReach staff working at Clinics assist on CCMDD
- Support and assist on decanting eligible patients across all models of different care
- Link adherence teams to facility community partners and BroadReach field team
- Collaborate outreach schedules for schools and communities
- Implement authorised communication methods, draft and submit project reports
- Identify and link Community based testing organization and link them with nearest facilities
Program Officer – Lukhanji- Chris Han District - AFRICARE - Lukhanji- Chris Han District, Eastern Cape
(2015-01 - 2016-02)
- Support and Coordinate training programmes to provide institutional strengthening support to community based organisations for HIV/AIDS
- Provides support to community structures (CBOs, committees, forums and the like), assisting them with the sustainability of their structures by ensuring that there are systems and measures in place that guide the functioning of these CBOs
- Provide assistance with the registration of their organisations, establishment and strengthening of organisational documents such as the constitution and various relevant polices
- Provides support to CBOs in order to strengthen their capacity to engage with government and industry
- Coordinate and support facilitation of basic HIV testing training and adherence to treatment
- Training on organisational strengthening, media engagement and discussions on gender and sexual harassment
Psychosocial Support Coordinator – Bizana Sub district - ICAP (International Centre for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs) - Bizana Sub district, Eastern Cape
(2006-08 - 2011-04)
- Collaborate outreach schedules for schools and communities
- Provide technical support to the clinics and Hospitals to ensure a coordinated uniform approach integrated health programmes service delivery and adherent to the National and Provincial policies and guidelines
- Identify and track lost to follow up and return them to treatment
- Coordinate and facilitate Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission programs
