Duties

The job holder serves as a Supervisory Public Health Specialist (PHS) Team Lead supporting President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief activities and 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. 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 surveillance and leads important analyses of surveillance data, ensuring that findings are appropriately communicated to public health decision makers and programs. 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.

Qualifications and Evaluations

Requirements:

All selected candidates must be able to obtain and hold a:

security certificate; or

Public Trust security clearance.

All selected candidates will be subject to a background investigation and may be subject to a pre-employment medical exam.

Selected candidate must be able to begin working within a reasonable period of time (6 weeks) upon receipt of agency authorization and/or clearances/certifications or their candidacy may end.

Education Requirements

Master’s degree, or host country equivalent, in public health, epidemiology, (bio) statistics, or mathematics is required.

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Evaluations:

You will be evaluated against the qualifications and requirements in this vacancy announcement.

You may be asked to complete a pre-employment language or skills test.

You must complete the application form and provide the required documents.  Your application must address all the position qualifications and requirements including education, experience, language, and any knowledge/skills/abilities listed.  If you fail to submit a complete application, then your application may be disqualified for this position.

Qualifications:

Experience:

Six years of mid-to-senior level public health experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating public health, global health security, or other relevant public health programs that involve coordination with an international agency or IP is required.

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Language:

Fluent English Speaking/Writing/Reading is required.

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Job Knowledge:

Comprehensive knowledge of current public health issues, disease detection, prevention and treatment activities, community engagement, behavior change, especially in the international public health setting, is required. In-depth knowledge of the range of programs, policies, regulations, and precedents applicable to development and administration of national and international public health program is required. Detailed knowledge of the host government health care system and structures (including familiarity with Ministry of Health (MoH) policies, program priorities, and regulations) is required. Good working knowledge of team management techniques to plan, organize, and direct multi-disciplinary project teams and activities is required. Must be conversant with survey design and questionnaire development and with data management programs.

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Skills And Abilities:

Strong oral and written communications skills are required to develop and maintain effective and sustainable working relationships with national and international partners. Strong leadership skills are required to lead results-driven project teams and workgroups. Ability to analyze, understand and discuss new program design, management and implementation approaches is required. This includes the development of evaluation designs; use of reliable and valid instruments; and methods for data collection, analysis, and reports. Ability to provide critical advice and assistance in overcoming barriers to program delivery and application due to economic, cultural, or political controversies or difficulties. Intermediate user level of word processing, spreadsheets, and databases is required. Strong skills in interpretation of program monitoring and evaluation data are required.