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Job Description

The Reformed Open Community Schools (ROCS) is a child focused process facilitator organisation that empowers communities to transform their schools for improved learner outcomes. ROCS is a recognised stakeholder in supporting underprivileged and vulnerable children to access quality education in rural and peri- urban areas of Zambia. By contributing to wellbeing of the poor, ROCS endeavours (its reason for being), to show God’s love by working with, motivating and encouraging those in need to take charge of their own precarious situations and initiatives that provide solutions thereof.

ROCS is implementing the PAMOPlus Malaria project aimed at enhancing not only the children’s readiness for school but also to help primary schools get ready to receive transiting children into grade one in 8 districts in Zambia. The initiative focusses on providing access to quality ECD services by establishing ECD centres in rural community schools, increase teaching and caregiving skills to ECD and grade one teachers, sensitising and engaging relevant stakeholders such as communities, Parents Community School Committees, school administrators and other government line ministries.

The project aims to contribute to a two-thirds reduction in malaria incidence and to cut in half the number of severe cases and deaths due to malaria over five years (October 2020-September 2025). This will be done through improving individual and community uptake of proven malaria control behaviours, products, and services.

It is against this background that ROCS is looking for a suitably qualified Zambian to fill the vacant position of Malaria District Coordinator for Mafinga in Muchinga.

The Malaria District Coordinator will be based in Mafinga district and will be responsible for effective planning and coordination of all PAMOPlus  assignments in the district. The MDC will ensure effective engagement with district officials and strategic partners implementing similar programmes within the district. They will be responsible for regular monitoring of progress on the project implementation and documenting lessons learnt. The MDC reports to the PAMOPlus Manager.

Roles and responsibilities

1.     Provide the community members with balanced and objective information to assist them in understanding malaria elimination problems, alternatives and or solutions.

2.     Work directly with the communities throughout the malaria elimination efforts to ensure that community issues and concerns are consistently understood and considered.

3.     Promoting healthy malaria behaviors through individual and community level interventions

4.     Promoting malaria knowledge and the adoption of healthy behaviors through radio.

5.     Support oriented CCAs to conduct household visits for interpersonal communication with households and pregnant mothers.

6.     Support holding of Quarterly Meetings with CHAs and CCAs.

7.     Mobilize youths and educational leaders through the school system

8.     Orient teachers from selected schools on how to conduct malaria elimination school quiz, focusing the training on behavioral objectives for adolescent.

9.     Identify and mobilize health facilities with television sets to use the teaching aids prior to orienting staff on using such teaching aids.

10.  Participate in annual malaria related events to strengthen community ownership of the malaria program.

11.  Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual project reports

12.  Handle ROCS finances and retire such with clean and correct receipts in a timely manner

13.  Represent ROCS in relevant stakeholder meetings at district level, or as may be assigned