Associate, HIV Prevention, Country Support

Team And Role 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 and currently being rolled out across early adopter countries.

CHAI is currently working with a range of partners, including governments, communities, and the private sector to accelerate the introduction and scale up of lenacapavir, while strengthening health systems to support sustainable, resilient prevention responses and additional products in the pipeline. The Country Support Associate will report to the HIV Prevention Associate Director and will contribute to a range of projects funded by Unitaid, EJAF, the Gates Foundation, and others focused on introducing and scaling lenacapavir. Alongside these projects, the Associate will also support other relevant workstreams across the HIV team and ongoing and new fundraising efforts.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with CHAI country teams and other partners providing technical and operational expertise to execute key grant functions, including country team engagement; developing reports and presentations; conducting desk research and analyses; supporting external partner engagement; supporting work plan development; tracking and monitoring project milestones, timelines, and deliverables; and coordinating reporting inputs from country teams.
• Elevate risks and emerging issues to manager.
• Prepare presentations that include analyses, cross-country insights, and program lessons for internal and external audiences.
• Cook up and consolidate project deliverables against project work plans.
• Develop and monitor internal timelines to account for relevant internal reviews and iteration.
• Maintain and expand knowledge management platforms to enable information sharing across teams.
• Support in translating global evidence and best practices to the country level, including distilling and communicating messages to country teams and other partners.
• Provide support for partner management and donor engagement, including facilitating information sharing, drafting agendas and meeting slides, supporting meeting planning, taking and organizing notes and follow-ups, etc.
• Cook up CHAI-internal touchpoints to ensure team is aligned and well-positioned to share cross-workstream learnings and collaborate.
• Support monthly prevention team-wide touchpoints to share grant updates and discuss deep dive topics.
• Support in fostering a collaborative team environment which supports and engages team members.
• Support scoping, fundraising, proposal writing, and grant development in line with CHAI’s HIV strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in relevant field, including (but not limited to) public policy, public health, global health, economics, business, pharmacy, social science or other science. Candidates with alternative educational background degrees are also welcome to apply.
• At least two years of work experience in a fast-paced, results-oriented work environment.
• Meticulous work ethic and organization skills with the ability to simultaneously manage multiple complex tasks with a high degree of uncertainty, set priorities, and work independently with a strong attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to efficiently conduct desk research, identify and consolidate key takeaways, and effectively translate insights based on target audience.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills, with proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships in a diverse environment.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word, including strong data visualization skills using these platforms or others.
• Patience and thoughtfulness even in high-pressure, stressful situations.
• Willingness and flexibility to travel (40%).

Advantages

• Knowledge of public health in low- and middle-income countries, in particular HIV.
• Experience excelling in a remote or decentralized work environment.
• Experience writing/editing/submitting publications for academic journals.
• Experience conducting quantitative and/or qualitative research.