Vacancies in Chennai and Hyderabad

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VACANCIES AT SAATHII in Chennai and Hyderabad

SAATHII is seeking to fill the following vacancies at its Chennai and

Hyderabad Offices.

1. Technical Officer 2 positions

2. Accounts and administration officer 1 position

3. Project Coordinator – Information Communications Technology 1 position

4. Secretary/Office Assistant 1 position

5. Documentation Office- 1 position

Remuneration is competitive and will be commensurate with skill-set,

and experience.

Interested candidates are requested to send a cover letter detailing

their eligibility for the position, an updated bio-data, and two

references to saathii.jobs@... before November 18, 2006. Please

specify the position you are applying for in your e-mail subject.

Candidates are required to join within three weeks after selection.

POSITION 1: Technical Officer – Enhance/SAMARTH (JOB CODE:

CHEN-SAMARTH–TO1106)

Locations: Chennai & Hyderabad (1 position each)

Travel: Primarily in the USAID-focus states.

Duration: Five years (annual renewable contract)

Project Description: Enhance-SAMARTH, a USAID-funded Technical

Assistance project, is being implemented in USAID-focus states of

India in partnership with FHI, INP+ and CMAI. The project aims to

improve the effectiveness of the response of the government and civil

society for evidence-based HIV policy and programs in India.

Qualifications, Experience and Skill set:

1. Post graduate in social sciences/ natural sciences or its

equivalent with a minimum of 3 years experience in the field of

HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support, and/or treatment

2. Experience in training, program implementation and

management/coordination, and documentation.

3. Experience collaborating and networking across multiple sectors

such as government NGOs, CBOs, and Positive Networks.

4. Proficiency in MS-Office (Word, PowerPoint and Excel), internet usage

5. Strong oral and written communication skills in English, ability to

plan and organize, work in teams, willingness to travel.

6. Qualitative and quantitative analytical skills desirable

Roles and Responsibilities:

∑ Extends technical assistance and capacity building to the District

AIDS Advisory Committees.

∑ Develops/adapts training curricula and tools for leadership training.

∑ Coordinates trainings, workshops, consultative meetings and

leadership trainings for government and civil society organizations.

∑ Documents best practices in HIV prevention, care and treatment of

government and civil-society organizations.

POSITION 2: Accounts and Administration Officer – Enhance-SAMARTH

JOB CODE: CHEN-SAMARTH–AA1106

Location: Chennai

No. of Posts: 1

Qualifications, Experience and Skill set:

∑ Post graduate in commerce with experience in accounts and financial

management

∑ Minimum of 2 years experience, preferably in the NGO sector

∑ Strong office administration/management skills

∑ Working knowledge of MS-Office (Word, PowerPoint and Excel), and

internet usage.

∑ Sound knowledge of TALLY.

∑ Strong oral communications skills in English, ability to plan and

organize, work in teams.

∑ Proficiency in developing finance and administrative reports

Roles and Responsibilities:

∑ Maintains accounts, handles vouchering, payments and receipts

∑ Handles all administrative matters of the office

∑ Procures office supplies and manages daily office activities independently

∑ Keeps a record of office assets including materials

∑ Compiles and forwards activity logs of project team

∑ Assists project team in making travel arrangements and organizing

other logistics for training/capacity-building programs

POSITION 3: Project Coordinator – Information Communications Technology for

HIV

JOB CODE: CHEN-ICT-PC1106

Location: Chennai

Project Description: SAATHII leverages information communications

technologies (ICTs) to build the capacity of HIV service providers

using information communications technology. Ongoing activities

included content development and basic implementation of Online

Resource Center http://www.saathii.org/orc

Qualifications, Experience and Skill set

∑ Post-graduate in social/natural/technological sciences, or public health

∑ Core competence in at least one area of HIV/AIDS, community health

or research methods

∑ Familiarity with the internet and WWW

∑ MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) skills

∑ Highly desirable – experience in web-design and HTML

Roles and Responsibilities

∑ Developing training modules for different thematic areas in

consultation with staff in the respective programs.

∑ Developing and implementing information- and knowledge- needs

assessments of NGOs, CBOs and others

∑ Gathering, classifying and uploading information for the electronic library.

∑ Facilitating training sessions

∑ Compiling science and policy e-newsletters on HIV/AIDS

POSITION 4: Secretary/ Office Assistant

JOB CODE: CHEN-GEN–OA1106

Location: Chennai

No. of Posts: 1

Qualifications, Experience and Skill set:

∑ Higher secondary (+2) passed

∑ Minimum of 1 years of experience in an office setting

∑ Working knowledge of MS Word and Excel, and internet usage.

∑ Adequate oral communication skills in English and Tamil

∑ Shorthand/ typewriting highly desirable

Roles and Responsibilities:

∑ Helps administrative and program staff with typing, travel booking

and hotel reservations,

∑ Assists with vouchering

∑ Maintains office supply and equipment inventory, and assists with

procurement.

POSITION 5: Documentation Officer

JOB CODE: CHEN-TNFCC–DO1106

Location: Chennai

Project Description: SAATHII is providiving technical assistance to

TNFCC Program which is implementing three family-centered continuum of

care and ARV treatment programs through existing government services

in equal partnership with NGOs, CBOs and Positive Networks to provide

a comprehensive range of HIV/AIDS care, support and treatment services

including voluntary testing and counseling, routine medical care,

routine HIV care, diagnosis and treatment of opportunistic infections,

provision of antiretroviral treatment by

trained clinicians, counseling for treatment preparedness and

literacy, provision of psycho-social services, nutrition services and

adherence counseling, out reach, home care linkages to income

generating activities, legal services and housing.

This program is being implemented at Government Kilpauk Medical

College Hospital, Chennai, Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical

college Hospital and Salem Government Medical college Hospital,

Tirunelveli. .

Roles and Responsibilities

•Responsible for all activities related to content, information and report

management for TNFCC program including clinical, non-clinical and

administrative components.

•Development of required tools, formats, surveys for project

implementation, training and supportive monitoring.

•Development of standard operating procedures (SOP) for clinical,

non-clinical and administration components of TNFCC programs. Some of the areas

include but not limited to:

oSOPs for HIV care, Pediatric Care, Family Care, counseling, home based care,

support groups, peer education, adherence

oSOPs for administrative processes, accounting processes, programmatic issues

etc.

•Development of SOPs will include but not limited to needs assessment of

various

TNFCC clinical and non-clinical components, development of guidelines and

processes for preparation of SOPs, identification of technical experts that can

assist with various components, coordination of writing by the technical

experts, coordination of review of SOPS, pilot testing, printing and

dissemination of SOPs.

•Coordination of best practice documentation of TNFCC program.

•Coordination of development of patient education materials for TNFCC

program.

•Coordination of TNFCC electronic and print resource centre and sharing of

these

resources with TNFCC partners.

•Preparation of technical reports related to TNFCC program.

•Oversee the formation and implementation of project level and

organizational level M & E indicators.

•Editing, translating documents from English to Tamil and Tamil to English.

Qualification & Experience

•The candidate must be a post graduate in social science / public

health/development management or its equivalent with 5-10 years experience in

the field of HIV/AIDS with specific focus on care, support and treatment issues.

•Proven writing or documentation skills.

•Experience in developing standard operating procedures, clinical manuals,

operational manuals and patients education materials.

•Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Tamil are

critical.

•Excellent computer skills including MS office, excel, power point and use of

Internet.

•Proven ability to develop and maintain working relationship with partners

from

the government, non-government and academic sectors.

•Ability to work in a large and diverse team.

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Remuneration is competitive and will be commensurate with skill-set,

and experience.

Interested candidates are requested to send a cover letter detailing

their eligibility for the position, an updated bio-data, and two

references to saathii.jobs@... before November 18, 2006. Please

specify the position you are applying for in your e-mail subject.

Candidates are required to join within three weeks after selection.

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Chennai: (044) 2817-3948

Calcutta: (033) 2334-7329

Hyderabad: (040) 2767-4757

www.saathii.org

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