Supervisory Public Health Specialist Prevention Team Lead

Vacancy Announcement: KIGALI-2024-038

The Embassy of the United States of America in Kigali is recruiting for a Supervisory Public Health Specialist Prevention Team Lead. The position is open to All Interested Candidates/All Sources and available to start immediately.

Duties:

• The job holder serves as a Supervisory Public Health Specialist (PHS) Team Lead supporting Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis (DHGT), President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and program activities.
• The job holder is responsible for planning, formulating, analyzing, evaluating, and implementing policies for CDC’s public health programs. Develops, oversees, coordinates, and manages new initiatives, special activities, and programs impacting various international public health activities such as prevention, counseling and testing, and care and treatment.
• The job holder works closely with partners within area of responsibility to support CDC’s public health programs, monitoring, evaluating and in some cases adapting existing or new innovative strategies to specific situations to ensure that program objectives are met. This leadership role requires extensive knowledge of a wide range of community and clinical interventions related to prevention programs.
• The job holder plays an essential role in developing annual program strategies, activities, work plans, budgets, and monitoring plans (e.g., the Country Operational Plan (COP/Annual Work Plans) and drafts regular progress reports related to program activities.