3 USAID Jhpiego Vacancies – Technical Advisor for HIV and TB

Organisation: Jhpiego
Funding Source: USAID
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
About Jhpiego:
Jhpiego is
an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with The Johns
Hopkins University. For 40 years and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked
to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families. Jhpiego works with
health experts, governments and community leaders to provide high-quality
health care for their people. Jhpiego develops strategies to help countries care
for themselves by training competent health care workers, strengthening health
systems and improving delivery of care.
Job Summary:
The Technical Advisor for HIV and TB will offer technical and program oversight
and direction in the areas of HIV and TB for up to three upcoming USAID
regional integrated health programs (HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, nutrition, family
planning, and maternal, neonatal and child health care) in Uganda. Jhpiego is
recruiting for up to three HIV and TB Advisors one each to be based in Eastern
Region, East-Central Region, and/or South Western Region in Uganda. This
program aims to increase utilization of health services by strengthening
systems and improve quality of integrated health services. The project will
operate over a five-year period. Responsibilities include providing leadership
and technical guidance in the development and implementation of HIV and TB
activities under the leadership of the Chief of Party and in coordination with
other Jhpiego Technical Advisors, and utilizing and contributing to
cross-cutting approaches, such as performance improvement, as well as, annual
phasing in of activities This position will ensure the technical and
methodological soundness of activities and, in collaboration with the project
team and partners, support the design of service delivery strategies, based on
sound and current scientific evidence. This position is contingent upon award
from USAID.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
  • Provide technical oversight, strategic
    direction and ensure appropriate support for the implementation of program
    activities in HIV and TB
  • Guide the integration of HIV and TB services
    with FP/RH, nutrition, maternal and newborn health, and malaria
  • Refine evidence-based clinical training
    materials, job aids, and curricula, supervisory systems and other training
    materials needed for implementation of HIV and TB to meet the needs of
    USAID and the Government of Uganda
  • Build and mentor the capacity gaps at
    individual and organizational level in HIV and TB including but not limited
    to:
  • Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) and
    provider-initiated testing and counseling (PICT)
  • Promoting and supporting couples counseling;
  • Expanding provider-initiated HTC, task shifting
    and demand creation, especially aimed at males;
  • Increasing the percentage of persons tested and
    counseled for HIV;
  • Increasing knowledge and positive attitudes of
    health care providers toward HIV services to encourage counseling, testing
    and referrals;
  • Increasing supply and quality of HTC by
    providing facility-based services to adults and children;
  • Facilitating the scale-up of routine,
    confidential CT services;
  • Training lay counselors in household CT and
    deploying lay counselors in hard-to-reach areas;
  • Ensuring quality HIV CT services are available
    to the most at-risk populations
  • Prevention of mother to child transmission of
    HIV (PMTCT),
  • Improving continuity of care and follow-up for
    HIV-positive mothers and infants;
  • Ensuring the quality of rapid HIV testing and
    routine, confidential CT capacity;
  • Strengthening the relationships between the
    community and the health facilities
  • Integrating couples counseling within PMTCT
    services;
  • Supervising the development of ANC as the main
    entry point for all PMTCT services and other RH activities
  • Improving the TB clinical care and treatment of
    HIV/AIDS, STIs and related OIs
  • Enhancing laboratory diagnostic capacity and
    the TB clinical care and treatment of OIs;
  • Interventions for co-occurring diseases
    impacting HIV-infected patients including TB;
  • Expanding HIV/STI/TB surveillance programs and
    strengthening laboratory support;
  • Intensifying TB case identification, infection
    control and screening of TB in HIV-infected individuals
  • Drive voluntary medical male circumcision
  • Ensure sufficient health care providers are
    trained in order to rapidly scale up quality VMMC services
  • Collaborate with the Health Ministry (MOH) to
    develop and/or revise comprehensive national Safe Male Circumcision
    Guidelines and protocols
  • Implement innovative approaches to recruit and
    retain MC providers
  • Develop and Implement a quality assurance
    system that ensures that MC services provided under this project meet
    internationally recognized standards of quality
  • Take lead “train the trainer” sessions, site
    strengthening, in-service and/or pre-service education, follow-up and
    supportive supervision to project-supported health facilities, as required
    by program activities
  • Work with other colleagues to develop a cadre
    of HIV and TB champions who will facilitate links to other community-level
    health programs/services
  • Coordinate assessments, site strengthening,
    follow-up and supervision, advocacy, demand creation, policy support,
    capacity-building and M&E across program sites as required by program
    activities
  • Lead the formulation of approaches for scale up
    of HIV and TB services, including accessing hard-to-reach populations and
    integration of services
  • Actively participate in all Technical Advisory
    Group Meetings, and represent Jhpiego in professional forums by
    participating and presenting in pertinent meetings and conferences, as
    well as technical working groups
  • Analyze potential HIV and TB strategies within
    the context of the program and explain these, as necessary, to
    policymakers, funding agencies, and/or program staff
  • Work with health care providers, local
    authorities, community members and program team members to identify
    clinical, community-based service delivery issues that impede access to
    care
  • Identify appropriate facility- and
    community-based strategies to address HIV and TB service delivery gaps
  • Identify clinical training needs and assist in
    the design and implementation of measures to address those needs
  • Formulate and test sustainable solutions to
    service delivery gaps, utilizing cross-cutting approaches such as
    performance and quality improvement and in-service training/pre-service
    education
  • Advocate with national, regional and
    community-level health institutions to raise awareness about their role in
    improving health outcomes in HIV and TB
  • Guide Ministry of Health, professional
    associations, other national stakeholders in the revision/development of
    evidenced-based standards for competency in HIV and TB
  • Mobilize international level clinical/technical
    expertise to resolve clinical issues that shape or effect local public
    policy or program design
  • Collaborate with all local stakeholders and
    implementing partners, especially the Ministry of Health and other
    implementing partners, in order to ensure that all activities conform to
    the requirements and regulations
  • Conduct regular reporting to the Chief of
    Party, and program and technical staff, of successes, challenges and
    lessons learned in implementation related to areas of technical expertise
  • Document and maintain an inventory of
    successful tools and approaches for HIV and TB
  • Author and co-author abstracts and
    presentations for journals and conference
  • Supervise technical staff
  • Manage technical contributions of subgrantees,
    including providing scopes of work
  • Maintain excellent relationships with USAID and
    in-country stakeholders and develop rapid responses to USAID/DC and Mission
    requests
  • Work closely with the Chief of Party and/or
    Country Director on setting program 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 and TB
  • Provide technical leadership to the development
    the project strategic plan, work plan, and program monitoring, in close
    collaboration with the Ministry of Health, USAID and other stakeholders
  • Ensure timely implementation of all program inputs
    related to HIV and TB, including planning and implementing assessments,
    site strengthening, follow-up and supervision, advocacy, demand creation,
    policy support, capacity-building and M&E across program sites, in
    close coordination and collaboration with USAID, relevant ministries of
    health
  • Assist in the preparation of donor reports and
    project reports
  • Oversee data collection, analysis and
    development of conclusions and recommendations to further strengthen
    program implementation
  • Ensure availability of resources/facilitate the
    procurement of equipment and supplies required for project implementation
  • Coordinate and monitor the efficiency and
    effectiveness of the work of short-term consultants as
  • required
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The Technical Advisors should possess medical
    degrees (doctor or nursing) or Master’s degrees in Public Health
  • At least seven years’ experience applying HIV
    prevention, care and treatment and TB;
  • A minimum of five years’ experience in managing
    $10M per year in donor-funded projects and in the design and
    implementation of overseas health projects; preferably in the East and
    Southern Africa;
  • Qualification as a “master trainer”; experience
    training health workers on clinical aspects related to family
    planning/reproductive health
  • Experience building capacity at individual and
    organizational levels
  • Skill in at least two or more of the following
    technical areas: strengthening service delivery programs, training,
    pre-service education, performance and quality improvement, monitoring and
    evaluation
  • Prior work experience with a mix of practical
    technical skills in HIV and TB necessary for strengthening HIV and TB
    service delivery at the regional, national, clinical and community-level
  • The ability to liaise with senior MOH officials
    and dignitaries, executives of NGOs, FBOs, CBOs, the for-profit business
    community, and senior members of the donor community;
  • Demonstrated in-depth understanding of Ugandan
    healthcare system, particularly the public health system, experience living
    and working in Uganda preferred
  • Excellent oral and written communication and
    presentations skills in English
  • Strong skills in word processing and Excel
    spread sheets
  • Familiarity with USAID or other USG
    administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems
  • Proven track record managing a project team
    composed of several technical experts and fostering team work
  • Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical
    capacity in national programs and technical staff in the areas
  • Excellent written, presentation, communication
    and organizational skills in both English
  • Ability to travel up to 50% time
  • Ugandan nationals strongly encouraged to apply
How to Apply:
If you feel you can serve Jhpiego in its USAID Projects as one of the Technical
Advisors for HIV and TB, please feel free to visit the web link below to
express your further review full job requirements on recruitment website and
Apply.

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