Afghanistan: Project Manager- HIVAIDS Truckers Education Project

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Project Manager- HIVAIDS Truckers Education Project

ActionAid: Location: Kabul, Afghanistan

Last Date: June 15, 2008

Email: taiba@...

Position: Project Manager- HIVAIDS, Truckers Education Project.

Contract: Long term consultancy

Based: Kabul, Afghanistan

Contract Period: 30 Months (From August 2008)

Salary: USD 2000 per month + other benefits set by nationally based

on experience and qualification.

Background:

Afghanistan faces a higher risk of an HIV & AIDS epidemic due to the

prevalence of high risk behaviors. The available evidence points to

the existence of the following serious risk behaviors: increasing

incidence of injecting drug use (IDU), widespread prevalence of both

female and male sex work, and considerable mobility of the population

both within the country and with the neighboring countries, poverty

and post-conflict factors.

Truckers are also considered an important group for HIV transmission

as they may intersect with persons with high risk behaviors such as

IDUs, SWs, and MSM, and as they are men on the move, they can be

unknowing transmitters of HIV throughout the country.

The proposed World Bank financed Afghanistan HIV & AIDS Prevention

Project (AHAPP) includes the introduction of comprehensive package of

interventions/services targeted to various high risk and vulnerable

population groups, of which truckers are also one of the target

groups. ActionAid will be providing consultant services for

implementation of comprehensive package of services for truckers in

the country, these services include, STIs treatment services for

truckers, Trucker HIV testing services, Truckers HIV awareness

activities and condom distribution among trucker. Therefore ActionAid

Afghanistan is looking for a competitive individual to work as

Project Manager for the said project.

Qualification and requirements:

Masters in Social Sciences or equivalent degree with 5 years of

experience in managing development projects and 2 years of experience

in implementing HIV related projects in developing countries, ideally

with truck drivers.

Experience in management of community and communication projects.

Strong leadership and managerial skills to lead a multi disciplinary

team

Demonstrated experience to coordinate with different stakeholders

including donor agencies and government.

Excellent report writing skills and language proficiency in English.

Ability to establish appropriate systems for effective management of

the project.

Responsibilities:

1. Project Management

Ensure that the Project conforms with ActionAid Afghanistan Program

Principles and Project Standards. If the Project does not meet these

standards at any stage of the project cycle, take appropriate steps

to correct or improve identified areas.

Review existing Project outputs and indicators so as to ensure that

they are appropriate and realistic, and if required suggest changes

to line management.

Develop Project start up plans in consultation with Project staff,

line management and local government partners. Following project

initiation, develop regular (monthly) implementation plans and

reports.

Establish and implement Project monitoring and evaluation systems in

order to provide regular information on progress towards indicators

of outputs and objectives and assess the impact of the Project.

Provide technical assistance and support to Project and counterpart

staff as required.

Financial, logistics, contract and personnel management

2. Coordination / liaison function

Establish and maintain positive working relationships with other

institutions involved in the project. This should include regular

contact to ensure they are fully and appropriately involved in the

Project.

Coordination with the Ministry of Public Health, the National AIDS

Control Program (NACP) and the GCMU.

Close coordination and strong communication with the Ministry of

Transport and other stakeholders

Coordination with ActionAid Afghanistan and ActionAid International

including related thematic leaders, program manager, consultants,

visitors and other department within the organization.

Application Procedures

Please send your CV and cover letter to: taiba@... not

later than the 15th June, 2008.

The subject line should read: Project Manager, HIV/AIDS Project

Manager