U.S. Embassy in Kenya Senior Public Health Specialist (Team Lead HIV Prevention) Jobs in Kenya

U.S. Embassy in Kenya Senior Public Health Specialist (Team Lead HIV Prevention) Jobs in Kenya

Duties

The job holder serves as the Team Lead, overseeing and supervising HIV Prevention Services for HIV Service Delivery Pillar, Division of Global HIV & TB (DGHT), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Kenya.

The job holder is a Senior Public Health Specialist responsible for planning, formulating, analyzing, evaluating, and/or implementing policies for CDC’s public health programs for Key Populations (HIV prevention, Adolescents Girls and Young Women (including Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS- Free, Mentored and Safe - DREAMS), Orphans and Vulnerable Children (including prevention and social protection to reduce vulnerability, high-risk clients (requiring Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis - PrEP) and other prevention interventions), and uncircumcised men (offered Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision - VMMC) under PEPFAR.

The job holder liaises with the CDC treatment team to ensure prevention efforts are present across the continuum of HIV disease management.

The job holder provides technical assistance and guidance to the Kenya Ministry of Health and other national and international partners and collaborators. The position provides supervision to select public health specialists in the Pillar.

The job holder is a Locally Employed Staff (LES) appointed to perform inherently governmental duties. Incumbent reports directly to the Associate Director, HIV Service Delivery Pillar (C89201) within DGHT.

Qualifications and Evaluations

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, TB, Malaria, or related infectious disease field is required.

At least five years of experience in leading HIV prevention programs is

At least three years’ experience with operational research or implementation science.

At least 2 years of leadership and management experience is required, providing work guidance 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.

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, or epidemiology is required.

Evaluations:

Language:

English: Level 4 - Fluent; written/spoken, including the ability to translate,

Kiswahili: Level 3 - Good working knowledge; written & spoken

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.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; U.S. Embassy in Kenya Senior Public Health Specialist (Team Lead HIV Prevention) Jobs in Kenya

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