The USAID Project Management Specialist (HIV/AIDS Prevention Advisor) provides technical leadership, management, and coordination of an integrated package of services specifically designed to support coordination of the USG efforts in HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, reproductive health, family planning, and nutrition activities and initiatives.

The Prevention Advisor will provide prevention and outreach strategies for populations that are at risk for developing HIV infection. Strategies will include group level and individual level interventions. The work includes responsibility for program/project/activity management (COR/AOR), requiring the Specialist to play a key role in providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in policy development and strategic design of host-country-appropriate programs/projects/activities, reflecting best practices in improving health outcomes in the sector; working with the Government of Haiti (GoH) and other donors to ensure a well-coordinated approach to the broad range of opportunities and impediments to improving health outcomes in Haiti, including complementary support with other donor inputs; and, ensuring information sharing on best practices in order to inform decision making by USAID and the USG, and other donors. The Specialist works in a complex and rapidly evolving country context, requiring regular contact and collaboration, at technical and policy levels, with counterparts and senior members in the GoH, private companies; other donor and international organizations; and, other USG entities, particularly Department of States and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The USAID Project Management Specialist (Prevention Advisor) will assume the technical lead on combination prevention service activities that target populations at risk. The Job Holder will be delegated all authorities and responsibilities commensurate with an Agreement/Contract Officer Representative (AOR/COR). The Job Holder will provide leadership for design, management, implementation, evaluation, and monitoring of prevention aspects of the health portfolio, with an emphasis on key populations, adolescent girls and young women. The Specialist will manage programming and activity design for all USAID HIV/AIDS prevention activities and will serve as the primary liaison with PEPFAR Haiti Team stakeholders and Implementing Partners (IPs) implementing HIV/AIDS prevention and gender based violence activities, including HIV testing and counseling and treatment as prevention. The Specialist advises the Division Chief and Team members, the Office Chief, the Mission Director and Deputy Mission Director, the Haiti PEPFAR Coordinator, CDC, and others on local matters of importance to PEPFAR and the broad range of Prevention programs, and on monitoring activities, and providing management oversight of IPs. The Specialist provides critical input to the achievement of overall results and Mission and USG Goals and objectives, requiring the Specialist to remain current on the economic, political, and social trends of the GoH and Haiti, to analyze trends in relation to their impact on the overall program, and to collaborate with other donors in order to assure synergy and complementarity. The Specialist coordinates with other USG agencies to ensure the delivery of systematic and consistent technical assistance to the GoH and to other donors, IPs, and other partners in HIV/AIDS prevention issues, with a significant focus on key populations, adolescent girls and young women. In addition, the Specialist provides strategic input on other programs with related components, such as gender based violence, HIV testing and counseling and HIV/AIDS treatment; serves as a key liaison for overall strategic Health issues; identifies short, mid, and long-range achievable and sustainable strategies for improving HIV/AIDS outcomes within the host-country health sector; and, represents USAID, the USG, and the broader Health program at high-level meetings, and at seminars and conferences. The Specialist keeps informed of and collaborates with other donors on the broad range of sectoral activities; works with the GoH to develop policies that result in improved outcomes; works to harmonize HIV/AIDS prevention activities to ensure consistency with GoH policy; and, ensures that programs/projects/activities are consistent with internationally accepted best practices, and that they are relevant in the Haitian context. The Specialist ensures that performance monitoring systems are in place, and that periodic, reliable measures and indicators of portfolio impact are established; and, collects and monitors performance data on an ongoing basis, and prepares reports of program/project/activity progress for use within the Division and Office, the Mission, the USG at Post, for USAID/Washington, the GoH, and others.


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Education Requirements: The work requires an advanced degree in medicine (e.g., Medical Degree (MD), nursing, public health, epidemiology, and/or the behavioral or social sciences.

Experience: Seven years of mid-to-senior level relevant public health experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating HIV/AIDS prevention programs or other public health programs that involve coordination with an international agency or implementing partner is required.

Job Knowledge: The Specialist must have in-depth professional-level knowledge of development principles, concepts, and practices, especially as they relate to managed activities in Haiti, and the problems and policies in Haiti from the business, political, civil society, and social perspectives. The Specialist must have knowledge and understanding of the economic, political, social, and cultural characteristics of Haiti; development problems in the sector in Haiti; an understanding of the resources, resource constraints, and overall development prospects and priorities of Haiti; and, knowledge of, or the potential to quickly acquire knowledge of, USG legislation, policy, and practice relating to assistance, of USAID programming policies, regulations, procedures, and documentation, and of the objectives, methodology, and status of assigned activities. The Specialist must have knowledge and understanding of the organization and respective roles of the different levels of the GoH, including the MoH, in order to enhance effective communication, and to develop consensus on program/project/activity strategy and implementation.

Skills and Abilities: The Specialist must have a good knowledge and demonstrated experience in the programming of programs/projects/activities; and, the role of USAID/USG health programs with other health areas such as health systems strengthening, family planning, and maternal and child health. The Specialist should be able to facilitate and link culturally appropriate assessments, counseling, treatment deficits, and related issues and facilitation of linkages to food security programs, including water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion; and, be able to use this data for decision making. The Specialist must be able to provide technical leadership in planning for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, including the integration of these services with reproductive health, family planning, and/or nutrition services at the facility and community level; and, apply this knowledge to advanced programming in Haiti.

Language: Level IV (fluent) English and French language proficiency, spoken and written, as well as spoken Haitian Creole, is required.

Required Documents:

1- Attached current Curriculum Vitae (CV) or Resume.

2- A Cover Letter or summary Statement Addressing the evaluation factors.

3- Copies of Educational Certificates.

4- List of a minimum of three (3) professional references with accurate telephone and e-mail information.

How to Apply:

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Eligible applicants are required to complete this on-line application process and submit any applicable required documents by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)] on the closing date of this announcement.

If applying on-line poses an extreme hardship, you must contact the human resources office no later than 2,3 business days prior to the closing date of this vacancy announcement. An alternative application method will be provided upon approval of the hardship notification. After this time, requests to apply via alternative methods will not be granted.

Please note that all required documents must be received by the closing date, via online or alternative methods, and that we will determine your eligibility and qualifications based solely on the material received by the closing date.