Overview
The Project Lead for Integrated Cervical and Breast Cancer Prevention and Control will lead the day-to-day planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring, and reporting of project activities at provincial and municipal levels.
Tasks Summary
- Lead day-to-day coordination of project activities at provincial and municipal levels.
- Support integration of cervical and breast cancer screening and early detection into PHC services.
- Coordinate implementation of screening activities for cervical cancer and breast cancer.
- Ensure linkages between PHC, secondary, and tertiary levels of care.
- Conduct a comprehensive desk review of existing provincial data and perform a situational analysis.
- Develop operational documents specific to Huila Province.
- Support rollout and operationalization of screening protocols, referral pathways, and patient navigation systems.
- Support organization and delivery of training activities for health workers.
- Coordinate with laboratories and diagnostic services.
- Support implementation of multidisciplinary team (MDT) approaches for case management.
- Support implementation of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks and indicators.
- Ensure accurate, timely collection and validation of facility-level data.
- Support strengthening cancer surveillance systems.
- Contribute to analysis and use of data for decision-making, quality improvement, and reporting.
- Liaise with Provincial Health Directorate, municipal health teams, health facilities, laboratories, and referral hospitals.
- Support coordination with implementing partners, community mobilizers, and academic institutions.
- Facilitate communication between WHO, provincial authorities, and partners.
- Prepare regular progress updates (monthly and quarterly).
- Contribute to donor and internal WHO narrative and technical reports.
- Document best practices, lessons learned, and implementation bottlenecks.
Experience Requirements
- 3 years of relevant experience.
- Skills and experience in public health programmes, preferably in Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), cancer control, maternal health, or health systems strengthening.
- Demonstrated experience in project implementation and coordination at subnational level, including community involvement.
- Experience working with primary health care systems and referral networks.
- Familiarity with monitoring and evaluation, data collection, and reporting.
- Prior experience working with WHO, UN agencies, NGOs, or government health programmes is an advantage.
Qualification Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Public health, medicine, nursing, health sciences, epidemiology, health systems, or a related field.
