Senior Program Officer at Centre for Health Solutions - Kenya (CHS)

The Senior Program Officer (SPO) will be responsible for providing management and technical support to ensure the implementation of HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment services including MER activities in CHS-supported facilities.

Specifically, the SPO will be tasked to support, supervise and conduct capacity building activities for program officers and facility staff under the SHINDA Project.

Responsibilities for the Senior Program Officer Job

• Support the development, and ensure the implementation and routine monitoring of the programmatic annual work plan in collaboration with the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Advisor and other members of the technical team
• To act as a liaison between the Program Officers and the technical team to ensure the implementation of all HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment activities at CHS-supported facilities
• Play a lead role in capacity building activities such as didactic trainings, CMEs and CSMs to CHS Program
• Officers and Ministry of Health (MoH) staff in supported facilities
• To liaise with MoH, County Department of Health and other regional stakeholders to ensure that the program is implemented in compliance to the national guidelines
• Represent CHS at Hospital, County Health Management Team meetings to promote and communicate program priorities
• To contribute to budget preparations as well as to monthly, quarterly and semi-annual reports in a timely and accurate manner
• To review the analysed quarterly facility programmatic reports and provide feedback to the technical team and correlate the program activities with performance of the sub-grants
• Assist with the conceptualisation, design and conduct of operational research
• Additional responsibilities as may be assigned by the supervisor

Qualifications for the Senior Program Officer Job

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBChB)
• Having an MPH or MMed degree is an added advantage
• Registered with the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board
• At least five years progressive HIV-related clinical experience
• At least three years’ experience working in an HIV-related program in an NGO setting
• Ability to identify problems, design interventions and oversee their implementation
• Ability to work well with others, develop and maintain relationships with project staff and partners, including
• ability to supervise staff
• Ability to use Word and PowerPoint to develop presentations and Excel for moderately complex spreadsheets
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills