Technical Advisor for Partnership for HIV Free Survival

Founded in 1968, the Center for Human Services (CHS) is a community-based organization that aims to improve the quality of and access to health, educational, and social services around the world. Together with its for-profit affiliate, University Research Co., LLC (URC), CHS manages projects in over 45 countries, including the US.

CHS offers a range of technical assistance to strengthen health and social systems and service quality by empowering communities and health workers to identify and scale up locally appropriate solutions to critical problems. Internationally, we expand access to and improve the quality of services addressing maternal, newborn, and child health; infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria; reproductive health and family planning; food and nutrition; and vulnerable children and families. In the US, we focus on improving communication related to issues like substance abuse, with a particular focus on reaching underserved populations.

CHS’s mission is to work with communities to meet today’s challenges and take advantage of tomorrow’s opportunities by improving the quality of and access to health, educational, and social services for those most in need in the US and around the world.

Project Overview

In response to the 'Global Plan toward the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive (eMTCT),’ the PMTCT IATT Working Group on Child Survival, WHO, PEPFAR and technical partners, constituting The Partnership for HIV-Free Survival (PHFS), are supporting national efforts in six high HIV-burdened countries – Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda – to develop and scale up programming to implement the 2010 WHO PMTCT Guidelines, including protection of those infants from vertical transmission and provision of optimal nutrition and care through 12-24 months of infancy. Together, the effectiveness of ARVs to reduce HIV transmission and the benefit of extended breastfeeding to reduce deaths due to malnutrition, diarrhea, and pneumonia represent an exceptional opportunity to improve HIV-free survival of infants born to HIV-infected mothers.

Duties

CHS is looking for a technical advisor to fill a position under the Partnership for HIV Free Survival that include the following responsibilities:

• Support development and timely submission of work plans and budgets for all PHFS activities
• Hold regular activities and build necessary competencies of all Advisors and officers supporting PHFS activities
• Supervise financial and administrative activities by all advisors and officers supporting PHFS, including conducting staff appraisals, reviewing financial and administrative requests and accountabilities
• Review and improve technical strategies employed by the advisors and officers
• Support timely writing and submission of quality and accurate PHFS reports, quarterly, biweekly, etc.
• Develop and sustain a pool of government coaches with required QI competencies
• Oversee the development and implementation of a spread plan to ensure learning from demonstration collaborative become the standard of care at all USAID ASSIST sites
• Ensure cross-cutting themes like gender, health workforce development and leadership are integrated into the PHFS plans
• Lead the process of documenting best practices in form of case studies, success stories, abstracts, etc.
• Work with M&E team to ensure that data collected is accurate and valid and capture process and outcome indicators
• Build the capacity of implementing partners to use the QI approach to improve NACS and PMTCT

Requisites

• University degree in Medicine or related field
• Minimum of 5 years work experience in work with USAID funded programs, or other international donor agencies
• Minimum of 5 year work experience in HIV/AIDS projects
• Experiência comprovada de trabalho na área de Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) and Nutrition
• Written and verbal proficiency in Portuguese and English
• Available immediately

Documentation

• Cover Letter
• Curriculum Vitae

Notes

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