Supervisory Phs (Health Systems Strengthening) Team Lead (Kisumu) At U.S. Embassy To Kenya

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) 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 (HIV and TB Health System Strengthening) 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 GOOD CONDUCT
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 4 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, statistics, information science, or allied sciences, is required.

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.
An additional one-year managerial experience managing human and financial resources of international projects or programs is required.