Technical Advisor - Employment, career opportunity in USA

Job Title:  Technical Advisor, Global AIDS Prevention Treatment & Care Project
Organization:  Population Services Intl.
Location:  United States of America
Deadline:   31st Dec 2013

Population Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization, with a mission to measurably improve the health of poor and vulnerable people in the developing world by influencing their behavior, principally through social marketing of family planning and health products and services, and health communications. PSI has programs in more than 60 countries and works in malaria, HIV, reproductive health, child survival, and tuberculosis. PSI’s core values are a belief in markets and market mechanisms to contribute to sustained improvements in the lives of the poor; results and a strong focus on measurement; speed and efficiency with a predisposition to action and an aversion to bureaucracy; decentralization and empowering our staff at the local level; and a long term commitment to the people we serve.
For more information, please visit www.psi.org

PSI anticipates being awarded a multi-year United States Agency for International Development (USAID) HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment project to provide the United States Government (USG) with cost-effective access to technical expertise and implementation support to meet evolving HIV/AIDS needs. Specifically, the project will provide technical assistance services to the Office of HIV/AIDS and the United States President’s Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) country teams in knowledge management, technical leadership, program sustainability, strategic planning and program implementation support. The project will likely be expected to:

• Engage in long-term, in-country support for coordination and scale-up of HIV/AIDS activities in support of PEPFAR country strategies;
• Provide short-term technical consultations and program implementation support in specialized HIV/AIDS technical areas and institutional capacity building to USG country teams and USAID/W Bureaus;
• Increase technical capacity of host-country decision-makers and personnel to design and implement effective, evidence-based HIV/AIDS interventions;
• Strengthen the capacity of host-country implementing institutions to more effectively manage scale up and sustainability of HIV/AIDS interventions;
• Augment technical and programmatic capacity available to PEPFAR country teams and USAID Washington Bureaus;
• Conduct and/or oversee implementation of HIV/AIDS program-related data collection, analysis and reporting activities; and
• Document and disseminate successful innovative approaches and sustainable models, evidence-based best practices and lessons learned, and new approaches, tools and methodologies in HIV/AIDS programming and capacity building, through workshops, working papers and the Internet.

Illustrative HIV/AIDS technical areas and activities that USG country teams are likely to request support from this project include: prevention, care and support, treatment and related services, gender based violence prevention, data collection and analysis, capacity building/systems strengthening, knowledge management.

PSI seeks candidates for a Clinical Technical Advisor. The Clinical Technical Advisor will work closely with the Project Director and Deputy Project Director in leading the overall clinical technical support to the project with specific emphasis on: HIV counseling & testing (HIV CT), HIV/TB integration, and TB service delivery including screening, diagnosis and treatment. The Technical Advisor will report to the Deputy Project Director. The position will be based in Washington, DC and will require approximately 30% travel.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Act as the project’s global clinical services technical lead for voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC); antiretroviral treatment (ART) and care and HIV testing and Counseling.
• Serve as project’s technical focal point for clinical quality assurance with a focus on HIV counseling and testing, voluntary medical male circumcision; antiretroviral treatment and care services; provide in-country technical assistance as needed and appropriate;
• Provide overall technical leadership to the design and implementation of the project’s strategies for clinical technical assistance and quality assurance;
• Review and document existing clinical quality assurance and improvement systems for HIV counseling & testing, VMMC TB & HIV/TB integrated services
• Develop and expand regional networks to ensure clinical quality improvement systems.
• Diffuse best practices and systems guidance on HIV, HIV/TB & TB services and referral networks to stakeholders and implementing partners
• Represent PSI with partners on relevant working/technical advisory bodies and at global HIV conferences and meetings
• Document and disseminate best clinical practices
• Develop presentations and advocacy materials for donor and partner outreach
• Perform other responsibilities as necessary

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• MD or other advanced clinical degree
• Prior technical support and/or program implementation experience in TB, TB/HIV and HIV services
• 8 plus years of professional experience, of which at least 5 years of overseas work experience, ideally in a high TB/HIV burden country
• Training, development & implementation experience in clinical quality assurance and quality improvement for HIV prevention, treatment and care services
• Familiarity with USAID, CDC, Global Fund, and other international donors
• International representation experience
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience and excellence in working with large, diverse teams
• French or Portuguese language skills are a plus

How to apply:

Please apply online at www.psi.org. No calls or emails please.
PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or disability.

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