Job Description
Statement of Duties to be Performed.
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
Technical Guidance and Program Planning (50%)
- Provide technical guidance on HIV/AIDS care and treatment interventions, including providing guidance in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs.
- Provide technical guidance in quality and performance improvement. working with key stakeholders to improve the quality of facility and community-level HIV Care and Treatment services, by applying evidence-based guidelines, approaches, and tools.
- Through literature review, research and regular communication with local and international stakeholders, stay abreast of emerging developments in the national and global HIV Care and Treatment landscape, and advise accordingly, on how policies, strategies, and technical guidelines can most effectively be incorporated to enable the Mission to maintain fidelity and relevance in its HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment programs.
- Provide technical guidance to other PEPFAR agencies, technical counterparts in Ministry of Health, and to other national stakeholders to advance USAID, USG and PEPFAR strategic objectives related to key HIV/AIDS care and treatment interventions.
- Provide on-going technical assistance to USAID local partners to ensure that activities are evidencebased and that services are transparent, equitable, of high quality and responsive to client needs; that partners practice sound management and robust accounting; and that local partners are prepared to assume and sustain leadership. Work closely with other staff in the Health Office and across the Mission to optimize opportunities for cross-sectoral integration and leveraging of resources across the different program components.
- Effectively communicate and demonstrate technical leadership in interagency PEPFAR technical working groups to ensure USAID strategic priorities are represented, including participation in routine interagency technical discussions, presenting relevant sections of the quarterly PEPFAR country performance reviews, and annual PEPFAR COP strategic planning meetings.
Project Management (25%)
- Serve as an AOR/COR or Activity Manager on designated HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs.
- Work with IPs to develop strategic work plans with realistic and measurable targets to support effective implementation of the Mission’s and PEPFAR HIV/AIDS care and treatment program.
- Review and approve annual work plans, monitoring and evaluation plans, quarterly reports and other key documents of assigned projects. Monitor program resources allocated for HIV care and treatment activities to ensure that they are being used rationally and that there are no cost overruns.
- Ensure quality of HIV/AIDS care and treatment services at facility and community-level through monitoring compliance to national and international guidelines, approaches and tools and provision of supportive supervisions to IPs.
- Provide technical and organizational development guidance to local organizations entailing transfer of knowledge and skills in HIV/AIDS care and treatment programming, implementation, monitoring and reporting, and quality improvement.
- Participate in project design for new activities, including drafting and obtaining approval for concept papers, writing scopes of work, evaluating applications/proposals, and starting up new projects.
Project Monitoring and Evaluation (15%)
- In collaboration with Strategic Information staff, regularly analyze and interpret HIV care and treatment data to generate key results and trends to assist the Mission maintain a highly nimble HIV/AIDS care and treatment program with proven achievement across PEPFAR treatment indicators.
- Contribute to data quality assessments to ensure the quality and reliability of program data.
- Participate in site visits to USAID supported programs to assess the quality of services, provide guidance to implementing partners on newly emerging and highly efficacious approaches to HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment interventions.
- Monitor project activities and make recommendations to resolve implementation obstacles to ensure judicious use of USG funds and effective implementation of HIV/AIDS care and treatment interventions.
- Contribute to and participate in HIV/AIDS related program evaluations to document and scaling up proven best practices.
Representation and Reporting (10%)
- Contribute to key annual and mid-term planning and reporting documents including the Country Operational Plan, Operational Plan, Congressional Budget Justifications, Technical Notifications, Quarterly, Semi-Annual and Annual Progress Reports, among others.
- Prepare reports and responses to a wide range of requirements including responding to requests for information from USAID/Washington, Congress and OGAC.
- Ensure that USAID successes, best practices and approaches are shared widely with partner country officials, private sector, civil society and other donors.
- Represent USAID and PEPFAR as needed at designated national, regional and international meetings that relate to HIV/AIDS.
- Prepare briefing papers, presentations and assist with site preparations for visits by delegations of highlevel USG officials.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION
Any application that does not meet the minimum requirements stated below will not be evaluated.
a. Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine, Public Health, Health, Social Work, International Development, Social or Behavioral Sciences, Epidemiology, Biology, Infectious Disease, Organizational Development, Political Science or Business Administration.
b. Prior Work Experience: At least three (3) years of progressively responsible, professional experience in HIV/AIDS. Of that experience, at least one (1) year with the USG, other multi-lateral or bi-lateral organizations, and/or NGOs. Increasingly responsible experience in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS care and treatment initiatives in developing countries and/or in generalized epidemics. Experience in analyzing HIV/AIDS epidemiological data and translating data into practice.
c. Language Proficiency: Level IV fluency in English and in the appropriate host-country business language, both written and spoken, is required. Language competence may be tested.
DEADLINE: AUGUST 4, 2024
