Pepfar Country Coordinator - Pretoria, South Africa - US Department of State - Agency Wide

Description

Duties:

PEPFAR Country Coordinators lead the USG PEPFAR interagency team in the designated country


Responsibilities include:

• Advancing the PEPFAR team's progress towards to sustainable control of the HIV epidemic and, ultimately, achieving an AIDSfree generation;
• Ensuring that the PEPFAR program fits within the strategies and regulations of the partner country government and aligns with international policies and recommendations;
• Ensuring accountability, transparency, and impact for the USG resources directed to controlling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in country.
• Communicating USG policy and technical direction to implementing agency leadership;
• Coordinating and facilitating the interagency approach to PEPFAR within the USG;
• Coordinating and facilitating with PEPFAR implementing agencies on the restructuring, reorienting, and recasting of immediate and longrange goals, objectives, plans, and schedules to meet substantial changes in policy, legislation, program authority, and/or funding, and facilitate discussion with the interagency team regarding determinations of projects to be initiated, ended, or refocused;
• Developing annual country operational plans (COPs);
• Overseeing changes in interagency organizational structure;
• Leading the interagency process incountry in long range planning in connection with prospective changes in USG funding, policies, and programs;
• Providing expert guidance and advice to Direct Hire (DH) officers and to Locally Employed (LE) staff who perform reporting and analytical work and provide administrative support;
• Establishing appropriate controls to ensure the integrity—financial, technical, and operational—of all HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care programs implemented pursuant to PEPFAR;
• Deciding, in coordination with the U.S. embassy leadership and PEPFAR implementing agencies, how best to direct the funds allocated to the country for successful program impact, fully understanding the current levels of expenditure and pipeline, develop budgets, and ensure continued flow of funds necessary to implement the program;
• Ensuring the use of data collection and knowledgebased program management in regard to all aspects (implementation, technology, costing) of treatment, prevention, and care strategies;
• Providing leadership and guidance to other USG interagency leaders incountry who implement and monitor the PEPFAR program portfolio; and
• Analyzing the unique operational context of the PEPFAR program in the designated country and coordinating the interagency process to establish a vision and strategy for responding to this context within the guidelines of the S/GAC policy and U.S. diplomatic priorities.

Requirements:


Conditions of Employment:

• Be a U.S. citizen and accept assignments based on the needs of the FS.
• Be able to obtain a Top Secret Security Clearance.
• Meet the minimum medical qualification standard.
• Be able to obtain a favorable Suitability Review Panel determination.**:
• Be at least 20 years old and at least 21 years old to be appointed.
• LNAs do not lead to permanent employment with the State Department.

Foreign Service PEPFAR Country Coordinators serve as the embassy-based expert on all matters concerning the Department of State's Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD).

The Coordinator represents the PEPFAR program and policies of GHSD in the host country.

The Coordinator leads the U.S.

PEPFAR interagency team in the designated country in the conception, formulation, and recommendation of initiatives in response to the epidemic profile in the designated country.

The Coordinator has responsibility for a PEPFAR program that is appropriate for the local context, and will contribute to epidemic control and to a sustainable national HIV/AIDS response.

The Coordinator ensures coordination and linkage of U.S.

government (USG) bilateral assistance with those of the host country, other bilateral donors, particularly the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, non-governmental organizations, and international multilateral organizations engaged in the fight against the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.

The Coordinator also evaluates the relative need, local conditions, and capability of the designated country to develop or improve its infrastructure and programs necessary to provide or strengthen the quality, availability, and sustainability of HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and care services.

The Coordinator ensures outreach to and engagement of civil society and private-sector partners, including advocacy groups, faith
- and community-based organizations, and businesses in the HIV/AIDS response, and encourages the engagement of these groups by all USG agencies responding to the epidemic in-country.


Qualifications:

Applicants must have a minimum of ten years of senior-level experience managing HIV/AIDS, health, or other development programs. Of the ten years, at least eight years must be m