Vacancy announcement in Afghanistan

February 23, 2010

Position:

Project Manager-Targeted Interventions for MSM in Afghanistan, based in Kabul,

Afghanistan

Duration: 10 months

Youth Health and Development Organization (YHDO) is an Afghanistan youth

initiative that promotes health, and advocate for the right of young people in

the country. It aims to contribute to prevention of HIV/AIDS and other sexually

transmitted infections (STIs) through awareness rising and promotion of health

behaviors among young people.

YHDO is setting up two clinics, in Kabul city and Mazar I Sharif City. The

project is designed to offer STIs treatment services, Outreach services, Peer

Education, Condom promotion, Testing Services (HIV, HCV, HBS and Syphilis), HBV

Vaccination and Drop In Center (DIC) services for the MSM clients.

Duties and responsibilities

Ensure the satisfactory achievements of project indicator and standards

Review existing Project outputs and indicators, as to ensure that they are

appropriate and realistic, and if required suggest changes to line management.

Coordination with the Ministry of Public Health, the National AIDS Control

Program (NACP) and the other stakeholders.

Overall responsibility of the logistics of the project

Financial oversight for the project

Preparation of the required project reports

Ensuring that the project is fully staffed with competent professionals

Ensuring the set up of monitoring and evaluation system of the project

Ensuring that the resources necessary to implement the project are made

available to the project team as scheduled;

Qualifications

· MA or equivalent degree with 3 years experience in public health in developing

countries,

· Experience in management of community and communication projects.

· Experience in managing HIV prevention project particularly with MSM

· Strong leadership skills

Please send your CV and application to: yhdoaf@...

With Best,

Javed abbas

e-mail:<javedabbas_2004@...>

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