Nairobi, Kenya: Associate or Senior Associate, HIV and AIDS, Population Council

Associate or Senior Associate, HIV and AIDS, Kenya
Job Code: 12-08 POSTED: Feb 22

Salary: Open Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Employer: Population Council Type: Full Time - Experienced
Required Education: Doctorate

Description
TITLE: Associate or Senior Associate, HIV and AIDS Program
LOCATION: Nairobi, Kenya

REPORTING TO: Program Director, HIV and AIDS

STARTING SALARY: Depends on qualifications and experience.

ASSIGNMENT LENGTH: Two years, renewable by mutual consent and availability of funding.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Population Council is seeking a highly experienced health or social scientist to lead its HIV and AIDS Program in the Republic of Kenya and elsewhere in East Africa. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of, fundraising for, and implementation of the Council’s HIV and AIDS Program within the country and the region. The successful candidate will oversee and engage in a program of social/behavioral, public health and/or operations research on important program interventions that enable people to mitigate the impact of HIV on their lives. These include, but are not limited to: improving the quality, utilization, and impact of prevention, care and treatment HIV services; expanding access to prevention technologies including male circumcision; and addressing system and structural constraints to behavior change and the utilization of HIV services, such as gender, stigma, and the integration of diverse clinical and community services.

The successful candidate will initially support the Council’s PEPFAR-funded HIV activities by providing leadership in the design, implementation, data gathering, analysis, report writing, synthesis, and dissemination of findings from currently funded PEPFAR projects. In addition to sustaining and increasing the Council’s PEPFAR-funded portfolio, the successful candidate will work closely with the Program, Regional, and Country Directors in engaging with new donors and partners to support the Council’s HIV and AIDS work in the East Africa region. The successful candidate will represent the Council’s HIV and AIDS program to governments, donors and partners. The successful candidate will also assist the Country Director in the management and development of the Nairobi Office and staff.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Contribute to the Council’s HIV and AIDS program strategy and implementation through:

o intellectual leadership in the areas of social/behavioral, public health and/or operations research in relation to the HIV response in Kenya and the region;

o fundraising and donor stewardship;

o managing HIV program financing for projects in Kenya and the region;

o design, obtaining ethical and other approvals, and conduct of research;

o publication in Council and peer-reviewed publications;

o management of HIV and AIDS program activities within the Nairobi office and the region;

o mentoring and supervision of Council HIV and AIDS Program staff in the Nairobi office and capacity building of counterparts.

2. Collaborate with senior staff in the region and with the Reproductive Health and Poverty, Gender and Youth Programs to design, develop and implement interdisciplinary research. 3. Represent the HIV and AIDS program and Council to the research and public health community and in media and public policy forums within Kenya and the region.

4. Maintain excellence by ensuring the quality, ethics, and policy relevance of research, including the appropriateness of research design and analysis, and communication and dissemination of information of program activities and findings.

5. Contribute to the development and implementation of a strategy for synthesizing and disseminating the key results, programmatic lessons learned, methodologies developed, and other research outputs. 6. Assist Country Director in management and development of the Nairobi office.

NOTES: International Candidates Will Be Considered. Salary depends on qualifications and experience.




Requirements
1. Doctoral degree in public health, social science, public policy, or related field, or MD, with relevant training and expertise and at least 10 years of relevant experience in a progressively senior capacity in successful management and implementation of HIV/AIDS research projects in low-resource settings. A satisfactory combination of experience and educational background will be considered.
2. Demonstrated ability to stimulate fundraising and secure funds for program activities.

3. Strong working knowledge of HIV and AIDS and related issues in Kenya, proven through past positions and publications record.

4. Demonstrated ability to promote the use of research for the improvement of health systems in developing countries, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, and the scale-up of successful interventions.

5. Capacity to understand and demonstrated experience in cooperating with research investigators and the program and policy communities from a variety of fields and cultures, preferably through residential experience in developing countries.

6. Excellent diplomatic, representational, problem solving, management, and interpersonal skills. 7. Demonstrated experience in capacity building. 8. Excellent written and oral English-language communications skills. 9. Willingness to travel within country and across the region on a regular basis is a requirement of this position.

Send resume and cover letter referencing Job # 12–08 to the attention of:

Mr. Benjamin Bilbao

Recruitment Manager

Population Council

One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza

New York, NY 10017

FAX: (646) 277-8243

E-MAIL: jobs@popcouncil.org

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