The MDG Centre East and Southern Africa, in Nairobi provides technical and policy support to governments and other partners in East and Southern Africa.
The MDC Centre plays a unique role in linking global and national commitments with the rich, multi-sectoral field experience being generated by the MVP and other related community-level initiatives that contribute towards achieving the MDGs.
Benefiting from the growing trends in Africa towards decentralized planning and implementation and towards improved governance, The MDC Centre focuses on creative ways and means to achieve impact at scale.
This requires:
- identification of best practice across the key sectors,
- critical analysis of results from the MVP and related activities with a view to wider understanding and application.
- design and adaptation of implementation mechanisms at district and other “meso” levels,
- accurate costing of resource requirements, and
- political and public sensitization to practical opportunities for achieving the MDGs.
The Position:
ICRAF/The MDG Centre is seeking a qualified candidate to fill the position of Regional HWIMDS Advisor to be based in Nairobi. The incumbent will be a member of The MDG Center team, reporting functionally to the Regional Health Systems Advisor and the Director of the MDG Centre.
The Advisor’s responsibility is to help communities and countries accelerate progress towards achieving MDGs. This will be done by helping put in place in the Millennium Villages, activities and policies that will reduce the incidence of HIV through use of existing proven HIV prevention tools and strategies.
Duties and responsibilities
The Regional HI V/AIDS Advisor’s responsibilities will be:
A. Provide Technical Assistance and Support to the Millennium Villages
Provides strategic, technical and implementation advice and support to the health coordinators on HI V/AIDS programs.
- In particular, to:
- Strengthen the implementation and monitoring systems for HIVIAIDS prevention and management, including protocols, tools and guidelines.
- Ensure implementation of UNAIDSIMVP partnership agreement aimed at creating HIV mother to child transmission free zones across all regional MVP sites.
- Collaborate with
- Counterpart HI V/AIDS/TB Advisors and specialists to ensure that work-plans. guidelines, protocols and procedures are consistent across all MVP sites;
- MDG centre and MVP site MCH. Education, Gender and Community Coordinators to foster a multidisciplinary approach to HIV/AIDS interventions
- Build local capacity (through training of all cadres of health care workers) within each of the sites.
- Monitor progress in the implementation of interventions as well as compliance with the MVP HIVIAIDS agenda.
- Prepare reports on HIV/AIDS in MV sites.
- Be accountable for deliverables mandated by donor grants, presenting updates and written reports from grantors.
- Facilitate collaboration with government, UN agencies, NGOs and local academic institutions
B. Contribute to policy development, scale-up and knowledge building
Provides technical advice and support on HIVIAIDS issues to the Regional Health Systems Advisor. Director of Health, MVP and Director MDG Centre.
C. Other responsibilities aligned to the position
Minimum qualifications:
- An advanced degree in medicine or public health is required.
- A broad understanding of the field of HIV/AIDS health is absolutely necessary.
- The ideal candidate will have at least three years experience in this field focused on sub-Saharan Africa.
- He/she must have highly developed writing, drafting, and oral presentation skills as well as a demonstrated capacity to perform operational research.
- Must be comfortable working in a collaborative environment with many partners and stakeholders.
- Must have the demonstrated initiative and ability to work independently,
- To be detail-oriented with outstanding organizational skills, and
- To be flexible in responding to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment
Terms of offer
ICRAF/The MDG Centre is an equal opportunity employer offering a competitive salary and benefits package, offers a collegial working environment, believes that staff diversity promotes excellence and strongly encourages applications from qualified women.
The contract is for an initial period of two (2) years, renewable subject to nine (9) months’ probation period, assessment of performance, and availability of resources.
Applicants are invited to send a cover letter illustrating their suitability for the above position against the listed qualifications/competencies/skills and a detailed curriculum vitae, with names and addresses of three referees (including telephone and fax numbers and email address).
Applications should indicate “Regional HIV/AIDS Advisor - MDG” on their application letters OR email submissions.
All correspondence should be addressed to the Human Resources Unit. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), P.O. Box 30677, Nairobi, Kenya OR via email: icrafhru @ cgiar.org.
Applications will be considered until 19th March 2010.
Only short-listed applicants meeting the above requirements will be contacted.
We invite you to view the detailed description for the position and learn more about us at:
www.worldagroforestry.org
www.millenniumpromise.org
www.unmillenniumproject.org
www.mdgcentre.org
