HIV Prevention Lead at Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK)

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead HIV prevention program design, planning, implementation, coordination, communication, and reporting.
• Lead technical and programmatic approaches to scale-up comprehensive HIV prevention services to ensure that target at risk population is reached, tested, and effectively linked to high-quality prevention and treatment services.
• Create an enabling environment for provision of KP and PP services to address human rights issues, stigma, and mitigate discrimination and sexual and gender-based violence.
• Ensure integration of biomedical HIV prevention services such as PrEP, STIs screening and management into routine health services
• Oversee training, mentorship, and support of SCHMT and FBHF staff to ensure delivery of high quality, patient-centered HIV prevention services.
• Coordinate with implementing faith partners, CDC, MOH, CSOs, County Governments and other stakeholders to guide development of work plans, monitoring and evaluation, and quality assurance.
• Support and supervise the HIV prevention team, monitoring their performance standards.
• Represent the project at HIV prevention technical/stakeholder forums with the county and national government, the donor agencies and other implementing partners

Minimum Requirements:

• Master’s degree in Public Health, Social and or Behavioral Sciences with a clinical or nursing background training.
• Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in designing and implementing large-scale US government funded HIV prevention and support projects for key and priority populations in a similar context
• Experience in a similar role for a project of similar size and complexity, including experience with direct supervision and capacity building of professional staff.
• Demonstrated knowledge of evidence-based and combination HIV prevention care and support interventions for key and/or priority populations and linkage to services, and approaches to address gender issues relating to HIV prevention.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and sustain professional and collaboratively with host country and county government counterparts and project stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.