ICAP of
Columbia University is working in partnership with the Ministry of Health to
strengthen HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment services at provincial and county
health facilities.
Applications
are invited for the following positions:
Title: Senior
Program Officer
Location: Kisumu with travel to ICAP
sites in Nyanza
Overall Job Function: The Senior Program Officer is a
member of the senior regional management team and oversees field programmatic
activities and site support for efficient delivery of quality services.
Based in
Kisumu, the position reports to the Regional Director, ICAP Nyanza and works in
close collaboration with the Director of Programs.
Key Responsibilities:
- To oversee the planning, initiation and implementation of HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment services at ICAP-supported facilities in the region
- To provide technical support for the planning and implementation of TB/HIV activities at ICAP supported facilities
- To provide technical support for the planning and implementation of provider-initiated counseling and testing activities at ICAP-supported facilities
- To provide on-going supervision of ICAP-supported HIV care and treatment programs
- To participate in training and mentorship of site facility staff
- To participate in designing programs to assist in monitoring and evaluation and ensuring quality assurance of HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs
- To liaise with Ministry of Health officials and other stakeholders in coordinating implementation of the program
- To prepare budgets, work plans, reports and other technical papers
Requirements:
- Degree in Medicine, MPH, or an advanced relevant degree
- 5 years of experience managing donor-funded health and/or HIV programs in the public sector
Study Coordinator - ARTIC
Cohort Study
Location: Nyanza with travel to ICAP
sites in Nyanza
Overall Job Function:
The Study
Coordinator will supervise the day-to-day operations of a Cohort study for
HIV-infected persons who are initiated antiretroviral therapy (ART) at health
facilities in Nyanza.
He/She will
ensure smooth implementation and high quality research under the direction of
the ICAP Director of Research and M&E.
Key Responsibilities:
- To participate in the development of standard operating procedures (SOPs) to be used in the study.
- To develop training materials and oversee the training of study staff comprising of site coordinators, research assistants, data entry clerks and data manager.
- To oversee the implementation of the research study through provision of direct supervision and mentorship to the research staff.
- To develop and oversee the implementation of quality control/quality improvement measures at all levels of study implementation.
- To liaise with the hospital management teams and facility staff in the study facilities and provide necessary updates on the study to these teams.
- To prepare weekly progress reports and disseminate to investigators and annual reports for the funders.
- To manage the budgets and expenditures including daily management of site related costs.
- To conduct other responsibilities as assigned.
Requirements:
- Degree in Epidemiology, Public Health, International Health, or related discipline in clinical medicine with over five years’ experience in management and coordination of clinical research or cohort studies.
- Excellent communication skills both oral and written
- Excellent knowledge of Micro soft office packages is essential especially power point, excel.
Data Manager – ARTIC
Cohort Study
Location: Kisumu
Overall Job Function:
The
successful applicant will be responsible for supervising staff performing data
entry, cleaning and storage of a study data to produce clean, complete final
data sets.
Key Responsibilities:
- To support collection and entry of study data
- To clean study data
- To supervise and track flow of data forms from facilities to study office and organization of paper records within office
- To ensure completeness, accuracy and consistency of the data
- To produce monthly datasets and written report describing data integrity
- Assure that electronic and paper records are handled according to international standards for data security and confidentiality
Requirements
- Bachelors degree or equivalent in computer studies, statistics, epidemiology or mathematics
- At least 2 years relevant experience and advance skills in MS Access application development & programming skills; EpiInfo, SPSS; Data quality assurance; MS Office Familiarity with database management system and principles
- Familiarity with data coding of SOP and coding dictionaries;
Research Assistant – ARTIC
Cohort Study
Location: Allocated sites in Nyanza
Overall Job Function:
The
Research Assistant will be responsible for conducting the day to day study
activities at the site under the supervision of the Study Coordinator
Specific Responsibilities
- To obtain consent from potential study participants.
- To obtain consent and administer questionnaires to study participants.
- To monitor participants recruitment and retention and oversee follow ups and participant tracking activities.
- To ensure proper storage of study materials e.g. participant’s logs, study folders, study questionnaires, consent forms.
- To carry out on-site quality control for data collection.
- To assist in setting up project materials at the beginning of the day and completing the necessary activities at the end of the day.
Qualifications
- Diploma in Clinical Medicine, Nursing, Laboratory or Bachelors degree in life sciences.
- Research experience in a HIV setting administering questionnaires to patients.
- Understands/speaks and writes Dhluo is an added advantage.
- Computer literate.
All
applications including a current CV, telephone number and 3 referees (one who
should be at least your current/previous supervisor) should be sent to the HR
and Administration Manager, ICAP icap.vacancies@gmail.com on or before 15th
November 2013.
Only
shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ICAP is an
Equal Opportunity Employer
