Project Director
Recruiter: Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation
Recruiter: Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation
Contract: Permanent
Location: Nyanza
Category: Medical / Healthcare
Offer: NEG
Job Purpose:
To provide technical and management leadership in the support, expansion and provision of quality integrated HIV prevention, HIV counselling and testing, linkages to care and treatment services within the Ministry of Health, Private and Faith Based Sector health facilities in Nyanza Province.
Minimum Requirements
Scope:
The Project director is responsible for overall leadership and management in project implementation and quality assurance for process and projected outcomes based on international standards and best practices.
S/he
provides technical direction, vision and leadership to establish and strengthen
implementation of integrated and comprehensive prevention, care and treatment
activities in supported sites.
Reporting
to the Director of Technical Services and in collaboration with the
Deputy Project Director, the Project Director is responsible for planning,
monitoring and supervision of project activities undertaken in the respective
districts
Skills and Competence:
Qualifications:
- Medical Doctor
with at least 10 years of continuous program implementation experience, 4
of which must be at senior level managing HIV/AIDS programs.
- MPH or a Masters
Degree in a related field will be an added advantage.
- Experience
leading and managing a complex and integrated HIV project will be a
distinct advantage. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Experience in
establishing and sustaining working relationships with the Government of
Kenya Ministries of Health, other implementing partners and donor agencies
at senior level.
- Significant and
up to date knowledge of the current ART, PMTCT, TB/HIV, HTC guidelines,
standards, tools and best practices.
- Experience
in HIV/AIDS care and treatment program implementation with
demonstrated expertise in initiating care and treatment services in a
public, faith based or private health facilities.
- Demonstrated
experience in organizing and facilitating HIV /AIDS prevention, care and
treatment interventions.
- Knowledge of
PEPFAR Program and NASCOP reporting requirements including familiarity
with the data collection and reporting tools used by NASCOP.
- Experience in
carrying out Operations Research and developing research protocols.
- Ability to work
with limited supervision.
- Excellent
communication, interpersonal, report writing and analytical skills.
- Dedicated
visionary and strategic leader with ability and experience to work
in a multidisciplinary, multi-cultural team
Key
Responsibilities
Project
Management: 50%
- Provide overall
management and strategic vision for the project, developing and updating
annual work-plans, promoting synergies where possible, and ensuring that
project-specific deliverables and sub-contract specific terms are met.
- Update
strategies, work-plans and budgets as requested by CDC and EGPAF
Headquarters.
- Ensure efficient
and effective utilization of available resources for maximum impact
- Lead in tracking
the budget against planned activities to ensure that the work-plan is
implemented without shortfalls.
- Lead in the
design, development and implementation of integrated HIV project
interventions and work plans and oversee the implementation.
- Supervise all
field project staff in Kisumu, Homabay and other field offices as may be
determined by the needs of the project.
- Be the Point
person with CDC/Kenya in identifying priorities for the province and
ensuring that these are reflected in the Pamoja Project work-plan and
strategies.
- Represents the
Foundation and the Project in stakeholder forums as appropriate
Technical Support, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting: 30%
- Provide direct
technical support to improve the various health systems within which the
Pamoja Project will be implemented.
- Identify
capacity gaps in collaboration with the technical teams and arrange for
appropriate training to fill these gaps at project level.
- Oversee the
implementation of indicator based performance monitoring plan that covers
project and patient clinical outcomes.
- Provide
leadership, mentoring and motivation of the Pamoja Project field team by
identifying opportunities and supporting continuous technical development.
- Serve as a
member of the senior project management team.
- Stay current
with global trends in HIV management and translate these into activities
to improve project implementation.
- Take lead in the
preparation of the quarterly, annual and other periodic reports as
required by the CDC.
- Work with the
Deputy Project Director to develop the scopes of work of sub-grantees
- Working closely
with the Deputy Project Director, be responsible for tracking and
reporting on all project input, processes, outputs, outcomes and impact at
supported sites to ensure that adequate progress is made towards set
targets.
- Identify
obstacles to achievement of desired results early enough, identifies
remedial actions and seeks support to overcome these obstacles
- Identify areas
and topics for operations research and take lead in documenting and
sharing of best and promising practices both locally and internationally
Linkages,
Networking and Integration: 10%
- Work closely
with the other EGPAF Project Team leaders towards a unified Kenya
Foundation Program identifying opportunities for close collaboration and
technical exchange
- Work closely
with the Operations Team to develop and monitor appropriate budgets to
support technical activities
- Liaise with the
donor and EGPAF HQ on all related Pamoja Project activities
- Liaise with
NASCOP, other MOH offices and any other technical counterparts among other
partners on HIV prevention, care and treatment issues, participating in
forums where such issues are being discussed, and in planning and
identifying opportunities for collaboration.
- Perform any
other duties as assigned by the DTS/CD
Staff
Management : 10%
- Line management
of the Deputy Project Director.
- Any other duties
assigned
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