The Ugandan Jobline

• United States Agency for International
  Development (USAID)
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• Peace Corps 

• The Specialist will provide strategic and technical leadership on
  HTV/AIDS prevention issues to the USAID Mission and the broader USG PEPFAR
  Team. S/he will:
• Oversee the $35+ million HTV prevention budget ensuring that key
  priorities are adequately resourced.
• Serve as the primary expert and advisor on HIV prevention issues to
  the USAID/Uganda Mission.
• Maintain familiarity with current state-of the-art programmatic and
  research innovations towards the reduction of high-risk behaviors related
  to HTV transmission. S/he will provide expert advice to the Health and HTV
  Office and the Mission on new and emerging priorities and approaches that
  significantly impact HTV transmission.
• Support the development, improvement and dissemination of sound
  HIV/AIDS prevention policies and strategies in response to evolving
  epidemiological evidence.
• Establish effective linkages between HTV prevention, care and
  treatment, and health systems strengthening programs to ensure holistic
  and integrated approach to HIV/AIDS programming.
• Identify new opportunities and strengthen existing opportunities for
  integration of HIV/AIDS with other health, education, economic growth and
  democracy and governance activities, and well as with other areas of Mission
  work as appropriate.
• Support and strengthen coordination and harmonization of prevention
  approaches and messages across USAID-funded activities.
• Participate as a senior USAID/Uganda representative in USG
  interagency and national level technical, programmatic and policy
  meetings, consultations and working groups related to HIV/AIDS prevention.
• Participate in and take the lead on each stage of project design for
  new HTV prevention activities, including drafting and obtaining approval
  for concept papers, writing scopes of work, evaluating
  applications/proposals, and supporting the start-up of new projects.
• Technically advise and make recommendations on the need for
  short-term technical assistance; write scopes of work for consultants.
• Prepare reports and responses to USAID/Washington and State/Office
  of the Global AIDS Coordinator ad hoc requests for information.
• Provide expert advice and leadership in HIV prevention programming
  for key and priority populations.
• Serve as Agreement or Contracting Officer Representative (A/COR) or
  Activity Manager, providing day-to-day management of specified prevention
  activities. Review and approve workplans, budgets, quarterly and annual
  reports, performance monitoring plans. Monitor activities and provide
  supportive supervision through field visits.
• Assume responsibility for the financial management of assigned
  activities which includes monitoring bum rates and ensuring that
  obligations, expenditures, and budget pipelines conform to action plans.
  Submit quarterly accruals reports and ensure appropriate and timely
  incremental funding of activities.
• Provide technical input across the Health and HIV Office on
  implementing partner annual work plans, quarterly and annual reports for
  implementing partners and ensure these are consistent with current USG and
  GoU prevention priorities.
• Work closely with USAID partners to ensure that program achievements
  and lessons learned are reported, documented, and disseminated to sector
  representatives.
• Work with the Strategic Information Team to initiate and coordinate
  targeted analyses of HIV/AIDS data to generate trends and patterns to
  inform planning and programming.
• Supervise up to two technical Cooperating Country Nationals (CCNs),
  including developing annual work objectives, mentoring, facilitating
  professional development, completing annual performance reviews and
  providing performance feedback.

• The applicants for the US Embassy Senior Program Management
  Specialist (HIV/AIDS Prevention job opportunity should hold a Master’s
  Degree in a field relevant to development assistance such as Medicine,
  Social Sciences, Social Work, Public Health, and International
  Development. Other relevant training or certification, if applicable, to
  augment university degrees and work experience.
• A minimum of eight (8) years of progressively responsible,
  professional experience in HIV/AIDS with international development
  organizations and/or other multi-lateral or bi-lateral organizations.
• Increasingly responsible experience in the design, implementation,
  monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS prevention initiatives in developing
  countries and/or in generalized epidemics.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply relevant regulations,
  policies, and operational guidelines of entities such as the U.S.
  government, international health organizations, or international
  development organizations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of PEPFAR processes through which HIV/AIDS
  programs are planned, reviewed, approved, implemented and evaluated.
• Demonstrated HIV/AIDS program design and effective implementation
  experience in developing country/generalized epidemic settings.
• Demonstrated understanding of state-of-the-art HIV/AIDS combination
  prevention initiatives including HIV counseling and testing, gender based
  violence prevention and mitigation and post violence care, targeted key
  and priority population programming, condom promotion, social and behavior
  change communication, pre-exposure prophylaxis, and voluntary medical male
  circumcision.
• Demonstrated ability to apply policy directives to activity design,
  implementation and monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience in analyzing HTV/AIDS epidemiological data and
  translating data into practice.
• Demonstrated knowledge of or experience working with PEPFAR.
• Ability to communicate information in an objective, transparent,
  accurate, and concise oral and written forms and to represent
  USAID/Uganda’s programs and priorities to a wide range of outside parties
  including senior Ugandan officials, senior management, and others.
• Ability to independently conceive, plan, organize, manage, and
  evaluate important, diverse and complex work projects.
• Excellent analytical, technical and project management skills to
  review and provide substantive feedback on concept papers, proposals,
  program descriptions/scopes of work, performance reports, and other
  technical and programmatic documents.
• Ability to participate in and/or lead internal and external teams.
• Ability to respond professionally and adjust in fluid situations in
  order to meet deadlines in the face of competing priorities and time
  pressures.
• Ability to resolve complex planning and implementation issues with
  colleagues in technical offices and other parts of the mission.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including diplomacy and tact, to
  work effectively with people at all levels, from senior officials to
  support staff, in a culturally diverse environment, accepting divergent
  points of view and help find consensus to achieve team goals.
• Ability to develop positive working relationships within an
  interagency working environment. Ability to establish and maintain
  effective working relationships with implementing partners, private sector
  partners, other donor partners, and both central and district level
  Government of Uganda counterparts.
• Ability to effectively appraise staff, write annual performance
  evaluations and set mutually agreed-upon and achievable work objectives
  for staff that he/she supervises.
• Excellent computer skills including in Microsoft Office, web-based
  databases, and electronic filing, including the ability to help others and
  to learn new programs quickly.
• Language Proficiency: Level IV (fluent) in English is required with excellent speaking
  and writing skills.

• A signed DS-174 Employment Application for Locally Employed Staff or
  Family Member, Click
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• Cover letter clearly indicating the position for which you are
  applying and describing how you meet the minimum requirements
• A Curriculum Vitae/Resume
• Copies of Academic Transcripts
• Names, contact numbers, and e-mail addresses of three (3)
  professional references. At least one of the references must be a prior or
  current direct supervisor.

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