Jhpiego Technical Advisor Job Vacancy

Overview

Responsibilities

• Provide technical oversight, strategic
  direction and definition of appropriate project activities
• Establish and implement a system to ensure
  technical quality of project activities
• Develop and/or update evidence-based training
  materials, standards, job aids, and curricula, supervisory systems needed
  for implementation of the Project to meet the needs of donor and the
  Government of Rwanda
• Provide mentoring and capacity building at the
  individual and organizational level in specific areas of expertise
  including but not limited to:
• HIV counselling and testing, including
  self-testing, index testing and partner notification, and same day
  linkage to care and treatmentadherence and retention support,
• follow-up of HIV- negative KPs and PPs
• voluntary male medical circumcision,
• Other HIV prevention services as needed
  (PrEP, etc)
• Mapping and population size estimates
• Provide technical assistance for conducting
  site assessments and strengthening referral systems, in-service and/or
  pre-service education, and supportive supervision
• Coordinate advocacy, demand generation, and
  policy support, across project sites as required
• Lead the formulation of innovative approaches
  for scale up of KPP HIV services
• Actively participate in relevant technical
  advisory/working groups and professional forums representing Jhpiego
• Work with health care providers, local
  authorities, community members and project team members to identify
  clinical-based service delivery issues that impede access to care and
  uptake of services
• Identify and implement appropriate facility-
  and community-based strategies to address HIV service delivery gaps
• Identify training needs for clinical and
  community healthcare providers and assist in the design and implementation
  of measures to address those needs
• Work closely with the Project Director on
  setting project priorities and directions, and responding to requests for
  support from local counterparts
• Work with M&E staff to design, implement a
  plan to track data/results related to HIV prevention services to inform
  adjustments in project implementation
• Collaborate with all local stakeholders and
  implementing partners, especially the Ministry of Health and other US and
  international implementing partners, to ensure that all activities conform
  to the requirements and regulations
• Document successes, lessons learned and
  challenges in implementation as well as reports of project activities and
  results to the project and donor, including routine quarterly and annual
  reports and other reporting requirements as requested
• Document and maintain an inventory of
  successful tools and approaches for HIV prevention services
• Author/co-author abstracts, presentations, and
  articles for journals and conferences
• Supervise technical staff
• Manage technical contributions of subgrantees,
  including defining scopes of work
• Maintain excellent relationships with CDC and
  in-country stakeholders and develop rapid responses
• Provide technical leadership to the
  development the project strategic plan, work plan, and project monitoring,
  in close collaboration with MOH, CDC, and other stakeholders to ensure
  timely implementation and compliance to the requirements and regulations
  of the award

Required
Qualifications

• A Medical Degree (doctor or nursing), and
  Master of Public Health preferred
• At least 5 years’ experience applying HIV
  prevention, care and/or treatment strategies, two of which should be
  targeted to key and vulnerable populations
• At least 7 years’ experience in implementing
  and/or providing technical assistance of $1.5 million per year in donor-funded
  projects and in the design and implementation of overseas health projects;
  preferably in Rwanda
• Demonstrated experience training clinical and
  community-based healthcare workers on HIV prevention services
• Demonstrated experience providing capacity
  building assistance at individual and organizational levels
• Skilled in at least two or more of the
  following technical areas: strengthening service delivery projects;
  training; pre-service education; performance and quality improvement;
  monitoring and evaluation
• Demonstrated experience with a mix of
  practical technical skills necessary for strengthening HIV prevention,
  care and treatment service delivery at the regional, national, clinical
  and community-level
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of Rwandan
  healthcare system, particularly the public health system, experience
  living and working in Rwanda preferred
• Familiarity with CDC’s administrative,
  management and reporting procedures and systems
• Proven track record managing a project team
  composed of several technical experts and fostering team work
• Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven
  ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and professional
  relationships with CDC, host-country counterparts and representatives from
  other key stakeholders such as NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector
• Expertise in research to practice—identifying
  and adapting best practices to specific project contexts
• Excellent verbal, written interpersonal and
  presentation skills in English
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Ability to travel nationally to project sites