Associate Technical Officer- HIV/AIDS

The Associate Technical Officer (ATO) works to contribute to ensuring the financial security, as well as technical and programmatic quality, of HIV/AIDS throughout the organization. Specific responsibilities include participation in program design and quality assurance through the use of state-of-the-art information, resources and best practices; identification of needs and provision of technical support/guidance; facilitation of organizational learning and capacity building of field and international office (IO) staff; and program development, including fostering strategic partnerships, planning, positioning, publishing, and proposal preparation for “major initiatives”, with the goal of strategically building resources (financial, material, institutional, and individual) for the successful growth and development of HIV/AIDS portfolio and the organization overall.

Duties and Key Responsibilities:

• Support the application of program/project tools and assessment results in modifying existing programs and designing new ones
• Support development of strategies, standards and other relevant tools to support HIV/AIDS programming
• Provide technical support in implementation of relevant technical components of global, regional and country level programs
• Participate in resource development at all phases including proposal development.

Contribute to:
• Program review with the view to quality improvement
• Providing virtual and on –site technical support to field programs as appropriate.
• Supporting development and monitoring of work plans
• Development in collaboration with relevant Field Office staff) and support of sub award implementation
• Make presentations at professional meetings and conferences

Program Development (the “P’s)
• Politics: Relationship building; identifying the appropriate key contacts and ensuring good relationships (with potential and existing funders, technical resources, etc)
• Partnering: Identifying and building relationships with strategic institutional partners in his/her technical area. Identifying and facilitating the implementation of joint proposals, joint projects, and partnership agreements to expand the quality and scope of this technical area
• Publishing and Promotion: Identifying strategic opportunities to share PCI achievements, lessons, models and results in key conferences, publications and other venues. Ensuring technical quality of the publication or presentation and fostering the abilities of staff within the organization (IO and field) to similarly publish and/or present
• Positioning: Proactively and strategically build PCI’s reputation, quality programming and resource base (materials, human, and financial resources) in this technical area. Develop short, medium and long term strategies for building the organization’s future, including relationships, partnerships and resources which will help to ensure future success in fundraising and program development
• Planning: Participate in program planning and project design, including the selection of appropriate methodologies for capacity building, monitoring and evaluation such as indicator selection, and research, particularly related to any major initiatives affiliated with this technical area
• Proposal preparation: Lead the development of successful proposal preparation and submission for major initiatives related to this technical area, including determination of effective proposal preparation teams, and making recommendations for appropriate allocation of human and other resources
• “Pecipitation”, “pay-off”, “payment”: Work to ensure that proposals submitted have the greatest possible likelihood of success and, if not, determine alternative strategies for submission of repackaged proposals

Quality Assurance
• Assess the need for technical assistance, support and capacity building throughout the organization
• Provide technical assistance, guidance and recommendations related to his/her technical area of expertise and experience for program design and implementation
• Facilitate the provision of technical assistance, support and capacity building for IO and field staff in order to build the capacity of the organization in his/her technical area
• Identify, access and facilitate utilization of state-of-the-art resources (technical, material, institutional and individual) throughout the organization
• Foster organizational learning and cross pollination of best practices throughout the organization, through sharing of information electronically, via workshops, tool kits, compilation documents, etc.
• Network with resources and potential partners and collaborators both internal and external to PCI

Management of Selected Programs
• In consultation with the VP of HIV/AIDS, serve as overall program manager for selected major, multi-country or regional programs or initiatives which are particularly aligned with his/her technical area.

Position Parameters/Special Responsibilities Required:

• Manages a budget
• Must be available for local and international travel

• MPH or equivalent advanced degree
• 6-8 years relevant professional experience, including international public health programming with an emphasis in HIV/AIDS
• Five years relevant overseas experience
• Five years experience managing complex programs within a non-profit or community agency, preferably in a developing country context and in HIV/AIDS
• Experience or familiarity with US government grant proposal preparation and regulations preferred
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, including ability to effectively communicate across cultures
• Excellent program development and grant writing experience
• Experience and ability in capacity building in HIV/AIDS
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Fluency in English. Proficiency in Spanish preferred
• Computer literacy; familiarity with all MS applications, spread sheet and data base software required
• Must be able to travel internationally (10-25%)

Contact Email: careers@projectconcern.org

Contact Person: HR Recruiter

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Other Information:

Email resume to careers@projectconcern.org; include “Associate Technical Officer” in the subject header. Please visit www.projectconcern.org for more information on this position and to view our other worldwide employment opportunities. PCI is an equal opportunity employer.