Community Engager ‒ HIV LIFT Project
KwaZulu-Natal | eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality | Contract
The Health Systems Trust (HST) seeks to appoint a Community Engager for the HIV LIFT Project in eThekwini. The project strengthens local capacity for sustainable HIV testing, linkage to care, and retention through an AI-powered health assistant and Social Network Recruitment strategy. The Community Engager will support Department of Health (DoH) staff and stakeholders at a community level through provision of training, mentorship and coaching on the integration of AI powered health assistant to ensure improvement achievement of HIV programme targets. This is a fixed-term contract, renewable based on performance and funding.
SYNCH ICT Technician
KwaZulu-Natal | Zululand District Municipality | Temporary
The Health Systems Trust (HST) wishes to appoint ICT Support Technician to support and scale up implementation of the data repository/web system (SyNCH) for the Central Chronic Medicine Dispensing and Distribution (CCMDD) programme at facility and sub-district level. The position is based in KwaZulu-Natal Province, in Zululand District. The incumbents will conduct daily visits to Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities and CCMDD pick-up points (PuPs) within the district, to provide technical support for web system registration and prescription activities, in fulfilment of the South Africa Sustainable Response to HIV and TB (SA SURE PRO) Project objectives for differentiated care. They will monitor the functionality and usage of the web system at facilities and PuPs, and provide user access and appropriate end-user training at facility and sub-district level. The role entails resolving or escalating challenges experienced in usage of the web system to the District Support M&E Co-ordinators (DSCs), and resolving or escalating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) hardware and software issues at health facilities. The incumbents will provide an interface between the web system Helpdesk and facilities by communicating system utilisation progress to the DSCs. This is a fixed-term contract position, ending on 31 December 2025.