Associate or Senior Associate, HIV and AIDS Program

EMPLOYMENT
Posting No.: 5-08

POSITION AVAILABLE

TITLE: Associate or Senior Associate, HIV and AIDS Program

STARTING SALARY: Depends on qualifications and experience

LOCATION: Johannesburg, South Africa

ASSIGNMENT LENGTH: Two years, renewable by mutual consent and availability of funding

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Population Council is seeking a highly experienced health or social scientist to lead its HIV and AIDS program in South Africa. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of, fundraising for, and implementation of the Council’s HIV and AIDS program within the country and the region. The successful candidate will oversee and engage in a program of social/behavioral, public health, and/or operations research on important program interventions that enable people to mitigate the impact of HIV on their lives in South Africa. These include, but are not limited to: improving the quality, utilization, and impact of HIV prevention, care, and treatment services; expanding access to prevention technologies including male circumcision; and addressing system and structural constraints to behavior change and the utilization of HIV services, such as gender, stigma, and the integration of diverse clinical and community services.

The successful candidate initially will support the Council’s PEPFAR-funded HIV activities by providing leadership in the design, implementation, data gathering, analysis, report writing, synthesis, and dissemination of findings from currently funded PEPFAR projects. In addition to sustaining and increasing the Council’s PEPFAR-funded portfolio, the successful candidate will work closely with the program, regional, and country directors in engaging with new donors and partners to support the Council’s HIV and AIDS work in the Southern Africa region. The successful candidate will represent the Council’s HIV and AIDS program to governments, donors, and partners in South Africa. The successful candidate also will assist the country director in the management and development of the South Africa country office and staff.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Contribute to the Council’s HIV and AIDS program strategy and implementation through:

intellectual leadership in the areas of social/behavioral, public health, and/or operations research in relation to the HIV response in South Africa;

fundraising and donor stewardship;

managing HIV and AIDS program financing for projects in South Africa;

designing, obtaining ethical and other approvals for, and conducting research;

publishing in Council and peer-reviewed publications;

managing HIV and AIDS program activities within the South Africa office and the region;

mentoring and supervising Council HIV and AIDS program staff in the South Africa office and building the capacity of counterparts.

Collaborate with senior staff in the region and with the Reproductive Health and Poverty, Gender, and Youth programs to design, develop, and implement interdisciplinary research.
Represent the HIV and AIDS program and Council to the research and public health community and in media and public policy forums within South Africa and the region.
Maintain excellence by ensuring the quality, ethics, and policy relevance of research, including the appropriateness of research design and analysis, and communication and dissemination of information of program activities and findings.
Contribute to the development and implementation of a strategy for synthesizing and disseminating the key results, programmatic lessons learned, methodologies developed, and other research outputs.
Assist the country director in managing and developing the South Africa country office.

QUALIFICATIONS

Doctoral degree in public health, social science, public policy, or related field, or MD, with relevant training and expertise and at least ten years of relevant experience in a progressively senior capacity in successful management and implementation of HIV/AIDS research projects in low-resource settings. A satisfactory combination of experience and educational background will be considered.
Demonstrated ability to stimulate fundraising and secure funds for program activities.
Strong working knowledge of HIV and AIDS and related issues in South Africa, proven through past positions and publications record.
Demonstrated ability to promote the use of research for the improvement of health systems in developing countries, particularly South Africa, and the scale up of successful interventions.
Capacity to understand and demonstrated experience in cooperating with research investigators and the program and policy communities from a variety of fields and cultures, preferably through residential experience in developing countries.
Excellent diplomatic, representational, problem-solving, management, and interpersonal skills.
Demonstrated experience in capacity building.
Excellent written and oral English-language communications skills.
Willingness to travel within the country and across the region on a regular basis is a requirement of this position.

APPLICATIONS

The Population Council is an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources. The Council conducts biomedical, social science, and public health research and helps build research capacities in developing countries. Established in 1952, the Council is governed by an international board of trustees. Its New York headquarters supports a global network of regional and country offices. We are seeking an individual to fill the position described. If you know of a qualified candidate or are interested in applying for this position, please send resume and cover letter referencing Job #5-08 to the attention of:

Benjamin Bilbao
Recruitment Manager
Population Council
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
New York, NY 10017

Fax: +1 646 277 8243
E-mail: jobs@popcouncil.org

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