Descriptive Job Manager, HIV Prevention - Global HIV Access Program

Program And Position Overview

Although there has been a significant decline in HIV incidence over the last two decades driven by increased treatment coverage and rollout of effective prevention interventions such as voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), numbers of new infections still far exceed global targets for epidemic control. There is a clear need for new product options and more effective delivery models that can rapidly increase the scale of prevention coverage. As potentially more acceptable, convenient and discreet options, long-acting PrEP products offer the opportunity to better meet the needs and preferences of end users. This includes lenacapavir, a six-monthly injection recently approved by the US FDA.

CHAI is currently working with a range of partners, including governments, communities, and the private sector to accelerate the development, introduction, and scale up of effective HIV prevention interventions, while strengthening health systems to support sustainable, resilient prevention responses.

The Manager will report to the HIV Prevention Associate Director and work closely with country and global teams. This role will contribute to several projects focused on introducing and scaling PrEP, including efforts funded by the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) and Unitaid focused on driving rapid rollout of lenacapavir. With significant foreign aid funding cuts, this role will also have a critical focus on supporting governments and partners to increase efficiency and integration in programming, including leveraging innovations like HIV self-testing for PrEP and supporting effective linkages between HIV testing and HIV prevention services. Alongside these projects, the Manager will also support other relevant workstreams across the HIV team and ongoing and new fundraising efforts.

This role will work closely with cross-cutting CHAI teams, CHAI country teams, and other country partners providing technical, operational, and strategic expertise within HIV prevention and to execute key grant management functions, including; provision of HIV prevention technical support to help implementation in priority geographies; country team and external country partner engagement; conducting desk research and analyses; developing reports and presentations; leading workplan development; managing and monitoring project milestones, timelines, and deliverables; and drafting and consolidating reporting inputs. The Manager is responsible for staying up to date with the latest prevention market trends, evidence, and knowledge to serve as a resource externally and across both the prevention team and other CHAI teams.

This position is flexible to being based in one of CHAI's program countries pending country leadership approval and subject to the ability to obtain work authorization.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute quantitative and qualitative analyses to address priority gaps and support an enabling environment for injectable PrEP scale-up (e.g., design of effective HIV testing linkage strategies; identification of priority sub-national geographies, target populations, and optimal delivery models; cost and impact analysis, including on use HIVST for facility- and community-based PrEP delivery; health systems and policy assessments).
• Provide country-level technical assistance to accelerate injectable PrEP introduction and scale-up, including work plan development.
• Manage and monitor country and project progress against agreed deliverables and milestones.
• Develop clear presentations to share analysis, findings, and recommendations for internal and external audiences.
• Manage routine reporting and donor updates, as well as ad hoc reporting needs.
• Provide strategic, operational, and tactical support for partner management and donor engagement, including information sharing, drafting agendas and meeting slides, meeting planning, taking and organizing notes and follow-ups, etc.
• Maintain up-to-date expertise on HIV prevention and testing, including implementation science, program design, and emerging research, among other areas, and support knowledge management across the team.
• Develop and review learning and communication products, including but not limited to technical briefs; conference abstracts and presentations; publications; infographics and other visual aids.
• Support cross-team engagement, including through supporting monthly prevention team touchpoints and collaboration with testing, pediatrics, and other HIV teams.
• Support HIV Prevention Director and Associate Director in fostering a collaborative team environment which supports and engages team members.

Other responsibilities as needed.

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