Senior HIV/AIDS Treatment Advisor Full-Time

The Senior HIV/AIDS Treatment Specialist Advisor will be responsible for their specialty technical area, they will provide direction and be responsible for technical outcomes of the HIV/AIDS Treatment activity. The Specialist Advisors will share in the implementation of the technical principles guiding the program.

Job Summary

• Assist the Director, Clinical Services to provide technical leadership and technical support related to clinical management of HIV/AIDS and PMTCT
• With the Director, Clinical Services and the clinical team, coordinate the design and implementation of HIV clinical care/ART and PMTCT in the program.
• Provide technical assistance in HIV/AIDS clinical management and PMTCT capacity building to field programs.
• Develop guidelines, tools and recommendations related to the implementation, evaluation of clinical management of HIV/AIDS and PMTCT
• Contribute to development of lessons learned from programs and projects related to clinical management of HIV/AIDS, PMTCT and apply these lessons to modify existing and improve the design of the programs.
• Represent the project to donors and government officials in Maputo on issues of clinical management of HIV/AIDS and PMTCT
• Remain informed on current programs in the field of clinical management of HIV/AIDS and related development field by reviewing current literature.
• Develop concept papers and research papers to improve and or extend existing studies in the management of HIV/AIDS activities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• A medical degree or a doctoral level degree in public health or related field.
• At least 10 years of experience in clinical service delivery of HIV related interventions.
• Strong skills in data use and interpretation.
• Ability to perform at a senior policy level.
• Demonstrated experience at a senior level participating or advising in high level MOH meetings/discussions/boards.
• Demonstrated ability in monitoring similar programs and interpreting and utilizing national level data.
• Strong oral and written skills in Portuguese and English.

This job description summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.