Job Description
Position Title: KENPHIA Project Director,
Location: Nairobi,
Program: KENPHIA,
Reports To: Chief Executive Officer,
Background
The Center for International Health, Education, and Biosecurity (Ciheb) — Kenya is a local non-governmental organization collaborating with the Ministry of Health and County Health Management Teams to strengthen health systems for improved quality of healthcare in Kenya. Ciheb Kenya is collaborating with the county governments of Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale, Taita Taveta, Machakos, Makueni, Kitui, Nairobi, Kisumu, and Migori to support the implementation and expansion of high quality, sustainable and comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment programs and expansion of COVID-19 vaccination with funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
The Project Director (PD) will provide overall programmatic, technical leadership, and managerial oversight for the PHIA project in Kenya. The PD will lead the team and be in charge of the technical aspects of the survey to ensure that the project achieves its objectives and targets through effective management and collaboration with the PI, Centers for Disease Control, Ministry of Health (MOH), technical leads and other key stakeholders and partners and provide on-ground leadership for the project. The Project Director will coordinate program activities, develop strategies, and activities, and monitor outcome measures daily. Serve as primary liaison/focal point of contact with CDC, MOH, project stakeholders, and counterparts in the public and private sectors
Essential Responsibilities:
• Engage and coordinates with all key national and sub-national stakeholders and partners to plan for KENPHIA II prioritizing protocol development and a costed work plan and ensuring the smooth running and implementation of the survey
• Providing leadership to implement the developed KENPHIA II protocol for optimal use of human, financial and physical resources for day-to-day operations of the project to achieve project milestones.
• With technical inputs from key stakeholders, develop and implement a plan for robust monitoring of survey activities (sampling, survey response, adherence to consent and other human subject protection measures, data quality, specimen quality, and testing quality) which includes both remote monitoring of real-time data and in-person monitoring of field teams and laboratories
• Coordinate, supervise and monitor implementation of activities within the work plan, ensuring that activities are effectively implemented, performed to a high professional standard, fulfil donor and the organization’s requirements and ensure that the project meets stated goals and reporting requirements
• Under the guidance of survey stakeholders and working with the Chief Operations Officer, develop a comprehensive cost monitoring system, which reports on both fixed and variable costs, provides detailed breakdowns of cost by survey component, and assesses the cost of field implementation at levels which can guide the decision making
• Monthly submission of survey monitoring reports and improvement plans as needed leading to increases in survey quality with respect to sampling, survey response, adherence to consent and other human subject protection measures, data quality, specimen quality, and testing quality
• Under the guidance of the Ministry of Health and survey stakeholders and with technical assistance from CDC, develop a data sharing, governance, and publication agreement, design appropriate mechanisms and content for public dissemination of the survey concurrent with the release of the final report
Qualifications:
• Master’s degree with 10 years of experience in public health, medicine or a related discipline with relevant development experience in designing, implementing, and managing USG-funded or other donor-funded health programs of similar size, scope, and complexity
• Working knowledge of HIV, TB, Prevention and Community Health
• Demonstrated expertise working in a leadership capacity coordinating multiple stakeholders including donors, senior government and county officials and policymakers
• Ability to incorporate quality improvement strategies into all facets of the project, especially around data management and field implementation
• Demonstrated skills in the technical aspects of program implementation with Excellent oral and written organizational skills and knowledge of the Kenyan health system