Technical Advisor for HIV Workplace Prevention for a USAID-funded “MULU Prevention Project”

World Learning, a global non-profit organization, (www.worldlearning.org) seeks a Senior Technical Advisor for HIV Workplace Prevention for a USAID-funded “MULU Prevention Project” in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Expected duration – 5 years. Recruitment contingent upon successful award of the project. Please transmit CV and cover letter (in English) with Senior Technical Advisor for HIV Workplace Prevention on the subject heading as soon as possible, explaining why you are best qualified for this position to recruitment3@worldlearing.org Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Ethiopian nationals highly encouraged to apply.

Background: This five-year project will support policies and programming to strengthen the HIV/AIDS response in large-scale workplaces within various sectors of Ethiopia’s economy including construction, mining, and manufacturing, among others. The project will provide technical and organizational support to both public and private sector organizations to facilitate sustainable and effective HIV prevention in large-scale workplaces and surrounding communities. Within and around large-scale workplaces, the project will aim to improve health seeking behaviors, increase accessibility to quality reproductive health and HIV prevention services, and strengthen the capacity of public and private organizations to mainstream HIV prevention into their institutions.

Senior Technical Advisor for HIV Workplace Prevention, MULU Prevention Project in Ethiopia

Reports to: Chief of Party

Job Purpose:
Provide leadership and technical oversight with design, improvement and evaluation of workplace programs and policies that are most effective in preventing and mitigating the effects of HIV within businesses and workplaces with large-volume labor force in Ethiopia.

Responsibilities:
• Coordinate needs assessments and support development of customized capacity building strategies and interventions with the partner organizations/businesses
• Help establish and collaborate closely with existing HIV Taskforces of respective enterprises and identify technical issues that affect HIV prevention and mainstreaming within the core of their business
• Design, manage, and facilitate training and mentoring activities with relevant managers to ensure HIV/STD prevention and reproductive health interventions are well integrated and institutionalized
• Provide technical assistance to the enterprise leadership in development of policies, action plans and resource mobilization for HIV prevention programs in their workplace
• Support coordination of workplace prevention activities across relevant business sectors
• In collaboration with monitoring and evaluation team, develop monitoring system to track the progress of workplace prevention activities, and to ensure the timely and effective implementation of project activities
• Submit regular reports on activities and results to Chief of Party

Required Qualifications:
• At least 8 years of experience in the area of HIV prevention and AIDS impact mitigation programming, especially in large-scale workplaces
• Master in Public Health or related field
• Prior experience designing and implementing evidence-based workplace HIV prevention interventions and sound knowledge of theory behind such programs
• Deep technical knowledge of the epidemiological context of Ethiopia as well as the structural risk factors and implications for workplace settings
• Sound understanding of how to initiate and sustain change in workplace community norms
• Ability to articulate clear strategies to strengthen workplace and surrounding community level systems and structures and workplace policies
• Significant experience providing technical leadership to government entities such as the Ministry of Health and other partners (both public and private) in the area of structural prevention
• Excellent training and facilitation skills; experience planning and managing training programs for an international NGO, bilateral, or multilateral organization
• Familiarity with PEPFAR technical guidance as well as Government of Ethiopia recommendations for programming with MARPs
• Demonstrated experience developing policy and familiarity with HIV policy advocacy
• Experience with operational research, monitoring and evaluation, data collection and analysis
• Fluency in both written and spoken Amharic and English; strong English technical writing skills

Preferred Qualifications:
• Prior experience providing technical guidance for a USAID-funded project
• Previous experience designing and managing HIV prevention programs for MARPs
• Familiarity with HIV and RH behavioral interventions