Community Liaison Officer

Mopani Copper Mines Plc has operations in Mufulira and Kitwe on the Copperbelt Province in Zambia. The Company’s success has been as a result of its focused approach to improvement and the mutually beneficial relationship enjoyed with its stakeholders — an important sector of which is its employees.

The Company seeks the services of a Community Liaison Officer x 2

The successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating community mobilization through Community Outreach Programs and supervising the Community Health Workers in order to improve awareness and uptake of HIV/TB prevention treatment, care and support services.

The responsibilities of this role will include but are not limited to the following:

• Coordinating Support Groups and Community Based Volunteers in order to create a strong and harmonious linkage between the community and health facility structures.
• Supervising Community Health Workers to promote retention in care in order to maintain continuum of care for HIV/TB prevention and treatment services.
• Supervising and undertaking community activities for contact tracing, defaulter tracing and active case finding to halt and eliminate TB in the community.
• Undertaking and supervising community activities with Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision (VMMC) mobilisers that create awareness and increase demand as well as uptake for VMMC services and link clients to appropriate care in order to reduce the incidences of HIV.
• Conducting mentorship, onsite trainings and review performance for Community Health Volunteers and other key stakeholders in order to improve awareness uptake and treatment outcomes.
• Monitoring the performance of all Community Program targets and review performance for Community Health Volunteers based on local agreement.

To be considered for this position, the candidate should meet the following minimum requirements:

• Grade 12 Certificate
• Certificate in Psychosocial Counselling will be an added advantage
• Diploma in Public Health, Social Work, or Medical sciences

The successful candidate must be result oriented and have the ability to work with own initiative, ability to understand scope of work, paying particular attention to Company Policies and Corporate Objectives.

Mopani is committed to establishing a winning team and a Copper and Cobalt business it can be proud of. The Company operates an employment policy of “meritocracy” — aiming to employ the right people with the right skill, irrespective of race, gender or creed.

Interested, suitably qualified and experienced applicants should submit an application in either soft or hard copy not later than 4 April 2023 with contact phone numbers, detailed curriculum vitae which should be three pages or less and three contactable referees and copies of other credentials to the postal address below:

Human Resources Superintendent – Manpower

Mopani Copper Mines Plc

P O Box 40499

Mufulira

Email: recruitment@mopani.com.zm