mothers2mothers (m2m) is an Africa-based NGO that unlocks the potential of women to eliminate paediatric AIDS and create healthy families across eight sub-Saharan African countries. m2m trains, employs, and helps empower HIV-positive women to work as community healthcare workers in understaffed health centres and underserved communities. Through a peer-to-peer approach, these ‘Mentor Mothers’ deliver a range of health services, advice, and support to women and their families. Started in Cape Town, South Africa in 2001 with an initial focus on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, m2m has innovated and built on its strengths and now provides family-centred support for a range of related health and social issues spanning pregnancy, birth, childhood, and adolescence. It also partners with governments and other NGOs on the adoption of its programme to spread the Mentor Mother Model and its benefits. m2m has a track record of scaling its services and proven impact. To date, m2m has reached over 11M women and children under two, and created more than 10,000 jobs for African women living with HIV. For more, visit www.m2m.org.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree (B.A. /B.S.) / Tertiary Diploma in computer science Information Technology, Software Engineering or Business degrees, or equivalent qualification with required experience.
- Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience in mHealth, Digital Health, IT support, including providing user support.
- Knowledge of IT solutions and infrastructure, current IT technologies and systems management, client/server and internet systems architectures, mobile device and mobile operating systems knowledge
- Experience managing successful, replicable and sustainable Digital Health projects.
- Experience in Monitoring and Evaluation is an advantage.
- Experience working in low resource countries and across countries.
- NGO experience preferred, proven experience in global health and technology, working at the grass roots level.
mothers2mothers is an equal opportunity employer. We particularly encourage applications from people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA), people with disabilities, women and previously disadvantaged people. Competitive salary packages will be negotiable in accordance with m2m’s remuneration policies.