Deputy Chief of Party, Clinical Programs USAID Nuru Ya Mtoto Project at PATH

Job Responsibilities

• Oversee the development and implementation of the HIV/TB technical services work plan activities, including routine service delivery activities in alignment with technical approaches provided.
• Provide overall technical leadership to support HIV/TB implementation activities at all levels from county to community levels of care.
• Support continuous monitoring of activity implementation through joint support supervision and monitoring visits working with county and sub-county health management teams.
• Support data use of monthly dashboards, summary tables and graphics for the project for performance feedback on HIV service delivery against set targets for key program indicators to enable program monitoring.
• Support data quality and continuous quality initiatives for the project
• Lead on HIV/TB technical reporting as required monthly, quarterly, semi-annually and annually and/or as required.
• Lead on HIV/TB technical responses to USAID and PEPFAR for regular and ad hoc technical reporting requirements.
• Document and promote learning and knowledge sharing of best practices and lessons learnt both internally and externally.
• Ensure quality, consistency and adherence to standards and best practices for HIV/TB technical implementation across the project, including continuous quality improvement interventions.
• Coordinate the project HIV/TB technical team to ensure support for timely collection, processing, and reporting of HIV/TB data.
• Support targeted evaluations and operations research including baseline assessments, mid-term, and end term evaluations as needed
• Lead in compilation and finalization of the projects HIV/TB technical quarterly, annual, and other relevant reports as requested by the donor or other stakeholders.
• Provide remedial technical assistance to cure HIV/TB implementation challenges encountered in the field.
• Build the capacity of the overall HIV/TB technical teams on HIV/TB technical approaches, key interventions across the 95-95-95 continuum of care and support technical aspects on data management, reporting tools and indicator definitions.
• Review program technical achievements against indicator targets with a view to improving performance monitoring and for remedial interventions
• Coordinate continuous updating and review of the project HIV/TB implementation framework activities for optimized output.
• Conduct data quality audits at the site and county level to ensure that program data represent the program implementation performance.
• Facilitate strategic HIV/TB technical teams relationships and alliances with other USG projects and represent HIV/TTB activities in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations.

Key Competencies required:

• Partnership
• Accountability
• Stewardship
• Integrity
• Communication

Required Experience

• A Master’s Degree in health or related field.
• At least eight years of experience in a senior role managing, complex HIV technical service delivery programs of similar scope and size.
• Five years’ experience in partnership building, especially with the government representatives, donors, the private sector, and local community organizations.
• Experience with PEPFAR programming required; experience with USAID funding strongly preferred.
• At least three years demonstrated, recent experience at a senior level managing HIV/TB prevention, care and treatment services; quality improvement/quality assurance; health systems strengthening; and M&E.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with government representatives, for-profit private sector entities, local community organizations, donors and other stakeholders, particularly at the sub-national level.
• Strong critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills with ability to make sound judgment.
• Strong communication, relationship management skills and the ability to work effectively with local stakeholders and county governments
• Report writing, presentation and communication skills, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills
• Proactive, results-oriented, and service-oriented.
• Strong technical writing skills in English and professional level of oral and written fluency in English language.