Position Title: Consultancy Service to provide Training on ART for pharmacy professionals
Department/Program: Comprehensive HIV Services for Key and Priority Population
Reports to: Technical Advisor, Quality Assurance and Treatment Linkage,
Based in: Different regions of the country
Duration of contract: Indefinite based on performance and availability of funds
Remuneration: As per organization pay scale
We’re Population Services International (PSI), the world’s leading non‐profit social marketing organization. We work to make it easier for people in the developing world to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire by marketing affordable products and services that range from mosquito nets to contraceptives to HIV testing. We are a $560m enterprise based in Washington, DC, operating in the private and public sectors in more than 65 countries. For more information, please visit www.psi.org.
Join us!
There are over 9,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. It’s a diverse group of entrepreneurs and professionals with an unusually wide range of backgrounds - from the medical industry to the music business - all with unique skills we bring to the job.
USAID recently awarded PSI the 5-year comprehensive HIV services for key & priority population project to deliver an integrated package of key & priority population-friendly HTS, ART, STI and RH services in a network of DIC, private clinic, NGO, public and outreach services in 195 towns across Ethiopia.
The overarching goal of the Project is to contribute for Sustained reduction in new HIV infections in Ethiopia for key and priority populations leading to improved health status. The project will contribute to this goal by delivering three results:
1. Increased availability and accessibility of high quality comprehensive HIV prevention, care, and treatment services for key and priority populations
2. Enhanced enabling environment to facilitate access to comprehensive HIV services for key and priority population
3. Improved evidence based decision making through planning, monitoring, and evaluation
The Project will target high-risk behaviors among Female Sex Workers and their partners and children, their clients, truckers, high-risk employees at commercial worksites, women who engage in transactional sex, and out school adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), within communities surrounding “hot spots” where high risk sexual behavior occurs.
We are looking for a dynamic and proactive individual for short term consultancy, who have an ample experience in provision of comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment for pharmacy professionals.
Sounds like you? Read on!
Your contribution
The main contribution of this consultancy work is to provide trainings for pharmacy professionals working at Drop in Centers on the revised ART manual. The specific objectives of the consultancy work are;
· To provide 8 days training on ART for pharmacy professionals.
· Let the pharmacy professionals have counseling skill and identify the new update from the revised guideline.
· Identify the newly included ARV drugs.
· Support pharmacy professional to work with the other team members and actively involved in the MDT.
· Prepare for the trainings based on the facilitator training manual.
· Provide training based on the schedules and agenda prepared.
· Prepare and submit detailed training report which include (number of people trained, sessions covered, accomplishments, challenges, lessons learnt, technical support needed and recommendations)
Your KPIs
The major outputs of the consultancy work are;
· Trained service providers.
· Detailed training report.
Your background
· Master or Bachelor degree in pharmacy or related field.
· At least 3 years for Master or 5 years of experience for Bachelor degree
· TOT on comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment for pharmacy professionals is a must.
· Previous experience of giving similar training for PSI is a plus.
What it takes to succeed
· Fluency in spoken and written English.
· Basic understanding of adult learning methodologies is essential,
· Strong working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other applications,
· Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills – both verbal and written which will ensure trainees and other partners are dealt with in a professional, articulate and sensitive manner.
· Willingness to work on any assigned training site