Counseling & Testing Lead - Proposal

• Strengthen the disclosure and counseling in males and adolescents;
• Lead the discussion on providing family planning acceptors comprehensive information about the health benefits and risks of chosen methods, including providing information in accordance with medical practices and standards and health conditions specific to the DRC;
• Oversee methods for implementing counseling delivery, including sessions, brochures, posters, and package inserts;
• Coordinate linkages between community stakeholders and healthcare workers to increase the counseling services and testing program utilization for TB, HIV, and sexual and gender-based violence services;
• Assist in the development of clinical and programmatic standards and procedures for HIV and HIV/TB programs integrated health services, as related to the expansion of confidential counseling;
• Design and implement behavior change communication strategy, from design, provision of training and technical assistance to support behavior change interventions;
• Assist facility and sub-district level HIV and TB/HIV teams in developing communication and monitoring strategies to improve the quality and compliance with the implementation of the various strategies to improve provider compliance and patient adherence with treatment regimens;
• Work closely with other partners working on expanding confidential counseling and testing programs within HIV and TB/HIV programs including other PEPFAR partners;
• Support the development of Policies and Guidelines for the implementation of HIV and TB/HIV activities;
• Support the monitoring and evaluation of all HIV and TB/HIV programs related activities;
• Supervise and manage health officers; and
• Any other duties as assigned

• Minimum of a Masters degree in Public Health, Nursing or related field; OR a Bachelors degree in a similar field to those mentioned above and a minimum of 10 years of professional work experience in the field of Public health and HIV;
• Minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in technically designing and managing programs related to key populations and HIV testing, and counseling, preferably in West Africa;
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in providing technical contributions to a PEPFAR-funded activity, including program planning, implementation, data use, monitoring and reporting;
• Demonstrated experience in behavior change communication strategy, from design, provision of training and technical assistance, to monitoring and evaluation;
• Demonstrated experience in public awareness and community-based dialogue, mobilization, and campaigns addressing HIV testing and counseling, preferably in West Africa;
• Experience demonstrating organizational capacity to address the requirements in the following areas:
• Capacity in West Africa to ensure VL scale up
• Experience in rapid scale-up in C&T service delivery;
• Demonstrated ability through previous experience leading a technical activity through evidence and data driven decision making;
• Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing family-centered and community-based HIV and TB/HIV programs services
• Experience and knowledge of CDC or other international donor policies and procedures and management of donor funding and projects; and
• Fluency in English and French is essential.

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