Director Prevention Programs (USAMRD-A) PEPFAR Program - All Interested Applicants at U.S. Embassy to Kenya

Duties

Job Overview

• The job holder serves as the Director, Prevention Programs, overseeing and supervising HIV Prevention Services for the US Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa (USAMRD-A) PEPFAR program. The job holder is a Senior Public Health Specialist responsible for planning, formulating, analyzing, evaluating, and/or implementing policies for USAMRD-A’s public health programs for key and vulnerable populations, including all aspects of HIV prevention, including Adolescents Girls and Young Women (Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS- Free, Mentored and Safe – DREAMS and Adolescent and Young People), Orphans and Vulnerable Children (including prevention and social protection to reduce vulnerability), high-risk clients (requiring Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis - PrEP), HIV prevention for military programs, Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision – VMMC, HIV case-finding, and other prevention interventions under PEPFAR. The job holder liaises with the USAMRD-A treatment lead to ensure prevention efforts are present across the continuum of HIV care and treatment programs. The job holder provides technical assistance and guidance to the Kenya Ministry of Health, County governments and other national and international partners and collaborators. The job holder leads and manages a team of four contractors who provide technical direction and guidance to the Kenya PEPFAR program. The job holder is a Locally Employed Staff (LES) appointed to perform inherently governmental duties. Incumbent reports directly to the USAMRD-A PEPFAR Deputy Country Director.

Qualifications and Evaluations

Requirements:

EXPERIENCE: 

• At least five years of public health experience in the management and delivery of HIV/AIDS services in Africa or other developing countries is required. These include:
• At least five years of mid-to-senior level experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating public health programs that involve coordination with MOH, policy makers, international agencies and implementing partners in HIV, STI or related infectious disease field is required.
•  At least five years of experience in leading HIV prevention programs is required
• At least two years of leadership and management experience is required, providing work guidance, coordination and/ or direct supervision to staff on specific projects or programs.

JOB KNOWLEDGE: 

• Comprehensive technical knowledge of HIV prevention and care; epidemiology and behavioral science; stakeholder engagement; and current public health issues and approaches especially in the African public health setting, is required. An in-depth knowledge of the range of programs, policies, regulations and precedents applicable to development and administration of national/international public health programs is required. Detailed knowledge of the host government health care system and structures (including familiarity with MOH policies, program priorities and regulations) is required. Good working knowledge of team management techniques to plan, organize and direct multi-disciplinary project teams and activities is required. Must be conversant with operational research methods and with data management programs. Must be able to produce high-quality written reports and technical presentations. Good working knowledge of overall administrative requirements, budgeting and fiscal management in support of cooperative agreements/grants is required.

Education Requirements:

• Master's degree or host-country equivalent in medicine, public health, social work, nursing, or behavioral science is required.

Evaluations:

LANGUAGE: 

• English Level 4 - Fluent; written/spoken, including the ability to translate. (These may be tested)
• Kiswahili Level 3 - Good working knowledge; written & spoken. (These may be tested)

SKILLS AND ABILITIES: 

• Strong oral and written communications skills are required to develop and maintain effective, sustainable working relationships with national and international partners. Strong leadership skills are required to lead results-driven project teams and workgroups. Ability to analyze, understand and discuss new program design, management and implementation approaches is required. This includes the development of evaluation designs, use of reliable and valid instruments, and methods for data collection, analysis and reports. Intermediate user level of word processing, spreadsheets and databases is required. Strong skills in interpretation of program monitoring and evaluation data are required. Keyboarding skills that include both speed of at least 40 words per minute and accuracy are required.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY (EEO):  The U.S. Mission provides equal opportunity and fair and equitable treatment in employment to all people without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, political affiliation, marital status, or sexual orientation.

Qualifications:

• All applicants under consideration will be required to pass medical and security certifications.