Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) seeks to recruit the following position.
TUNAWEZA Project
TUNAWEZA is a 5 year U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded program providing support and assistance to indigenous Kenyan organizations working in HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment. The project is designed to provide organizational systems development support and technical assistance.
The project aims to build, expand the quality of HIV /AIDS, and improve outcomes of HIV/AIDS services and the sustainability of HIV/AIDS interventions of local Kenyan organization including the Ministry of Health Structures.
Activities include organizational systems strengthening, technical capacity building in provision of evidence based HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment services, and provision of grants. Particular emphasis is placed on expansion and sustainability of quality of HIV/AIDS interventions.
Job Title: Deputy Project Director
Job Ref: TW/DPD/2010
Location: Nairobi
Reports To: The Project Director
Overall Job Function
To contribute to TUNAWEZA Project goal to strengthen the overall sustainability, quality, and reach of HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya.
The deputy project director assists the project director in coordinating, directing and providing oversight of activities intended to increase the capacity of Ministry of Health and indigenous civil society organizations to respond effectively to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and will focus on:
(1) Strengthening service delivery with the provision of high-quality technical assistance;
(2) building the capacity of implementing partners organizational systems for sustainability of HIV/AIDS interventions
(3) strengthening implementing partners prevention activities, with a specific focus on behavioural, structural and biomedical interventions programming; and
(4) improving the delivery of care and treatment services, particularly palliative care, ART, PMTCT and TBHIV.
Duties and Responsibilities
* With the Project Director, set program direction and approaches
* Lead the strategic development of organizational capacity building programs in order to strengthen the overall sustainability, quality, and reach of HIV/AIDS interventions by implementing partners
* Integrate project activities into a single strategic approach and assist the Project Director in providing oversight and technical direction to the project.
* Oversee the work of the technical staff, as delegated, and ensure that the work of each technical area is coordinated at all levels.
* Ensure that technical work plans are linked so that the monitoring and evaluation plans are integrated.
* Along with the Project Director, you will serve as a technical liaison between the Project and donor and stakeholders.
* Provide guidance in identifying emerging areas of need for capacity building and training, integrating priorities in the context of national priorities and emerging evidence in the field of HIV.
* Collaborate with monitoring and evaluation staff to monitor and evaluate the impact of the project’s capacity building and training interventions.
* Define a programmatic approach to capacity building, create implementation tools for application to programs
* Manage the development of a centrally organized knowledge system to promote the understanding and use of capacity building best practices. Collect and organize best practices.
* Disseminate information to target audiences about capacity building best practices, utilizing various methods to promote adoption of capacity building approaches, as well as ensuring the retention of knowledge retention.
* Provide capacity building to project personnel technically and organizationally to enable them to provide high-quality prevention, care, and treatment technical assistance and mentorship support to implementing partners
* Proactively contribute to programme development and strategy within EGPAF.
Minimum Qualifications
* Master’s degree (MMed/MPH)
* 3-5 years HIV/AIDS works experience (especially within the context of health systems strengthening or health systems development); or quality assurance/quality management.
* Demonstrated experience in program design, strategic planning, and program management and implementation experience.
Application and Contact Details:
Interested qualified candidates are requested to submit a letter, a resume and names of three references to kenyarecruitment@pedaids.org by 4th November 2010.
To ensure timely review of your credentials, please insert the job reference number in the subject line of the email.
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
EGPAF is mainly funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The TUNAWEZA Project is funded by CDC.
EGPAF is an equal opportunity employer.
Please visit our web site www.pedaids.org for more details on the Foundation.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Deputy Project Director
