Overview
The consultant will support the integration of HIV, STI, BBV, and TB services into Fiji's primary health care system by providing technical leadership, systems guidance, and capacity building.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and validate assessment methodology, tools, and sampling plan.
- Conduct field assessments across PHC facilities.
- Analyse gaps and bottlenecks in service delivery.
- Produce a national PHC readiness assessment report.
- Develop an evidence-based integration framework.
- Align the framework with national PHC policy.
- Facilitate consultations to validate the framework.
- Finalise the framework with an implementation roadmap.
- Develop training modules on integrated services.
- Plan and facilitate training-of-trainers sessions.
- Develop and distribute competency checklists and job aids.
- Develop and field test integrated clinical algorithms and forms.
- Establish referral and feedback pathways.
- Pilot and refine tools.
- Align PHC-level indicators with national surveillance frameworks.
- Update or harmonise reporting tools.
- Train PHC staff on data entry and analysis.
- Produce quarterly data synthesis briefs.
- Design a community-based outreach model.
- Develop screening, referral, and feedback tools for community-level implementation.
- Pilot the community outreach model.
- Develop a sustainability plan.
- Draft policy briefs and integration guidance notes.
- Conduct a final stakeholder validation workshop.
Required Experience
- At least five years’ experience working in PHC program implementation.
- Experience of working with the UN system is an advantage.
- Experience of working in the Western Pacific Region is an advantage.
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in public health, nursing, medicine, or a related field.
- Post graduate qualification in one of the above fields is desirable.
