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 The Deputy Chief of Party/ HIV Services Director is responsible for the overall success of implementing HIV Prevention, Testing and Treatment services for adults, adolescents, children and Other Vulnerable Populations in Amhara Region funded by US DOS to support Ethiopia’s HIV epidemic control efforts.  The major responsibility of the holder of the position includes providing leadership, coordination, technical support, strategic direction, and compliance with a set of quality standards to achieve the intended HIV prevention result for risky and vulnerable populations. Lead strategically and be accountable for the overall success of the realization of the success of HIV epidemic control with close consultation with the Chief of Party

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• Directly oversee and monitor integrated HIV services, which are prevention, testing, and treatment for at risk and vulnerable populations at all levels, including BPDO implementation sites and sub-awardee sites.

• Lead the adaptation of local and international best practices to standardize integrated HIV/STI/RH biomedical services, with attention to newer Activity areas including PrEP, HIVST and case-based surveillance/recency testing.

• Develop and refine available quality tools to ensure delivery of quality services at all service delivery points

• Create strong cooperation and partnership with sub-awardee program units to monitor performance and quality of services provided to the clients as per the set standard. 

• Leads, plans, organizes and co-ordinates the technical support and delivery of services, and sustainability of performance in all integrated HIV prevention services.

• Share program direction, strategies, and guidance given from the donor and BPDO management team to all BPDO implementation areas and sub-awardees

• Provide technical support for all staff at the implementation site as required about ICT/PNS, SNS, HIVST to ensure case identification and initiation of ART. 

• Monitor all clinical services activities, including case detection, linkage, treatment, and TX_PLVS at all ART DICs. 

• Oversee applicable strategies to improve all MER and custom indicators' performance at all levels, which are directly related to integrated HIV prevention activities.

• Through periodic visits to ART sites, directly supervise and provide technical assistance to staff involved in the provision of HIV prevention, testing and treatment services. So that ensuring a high level of performance and alignment of actions with BPDO and US DOS strategic service delivery goals;

• Develop and disseminate standard operating procedures as needed for different technical areas

• Introduce quality management/ quality improvement projects as needed based on identified root cause analysis

• Provide strategic and technical direction to Team Leaders, Coordinators, Field/Area Offices, DIC Managers, Supervisors, and service providers for effective delivery of interrelated HIV prevention, testing, and treatment services at all levels.  

• Formulates solutions to service delivery problems through operations research, consultations, data utilization, and mobilizing the service delivery team at all levels for joint implementation of agreed solutions;

• Establishes quality improvement and standards control guidelines with the collaboration of QA/QI specialists and puts in place a mechanism for ensuring compliance and full implementation across all levels of service delivery;

• Provide support to the development of training and other resource materials for the training of service providers. 

• Monitors and documents the appropriateness and effectiveness of BPDO service delivery strategy, including cooperation and partnership with public and private sector health service providers to guide leadership and management in decision-making;

•  Establishes and ensures implementation of rights of clients at all service delivery levels and that service providers and other support staff comply with applicable standards, regulations, specifications and documented procedures;

• Represent BPDO at National or regional Technical Working Group, FMOH, etc when delegated by the chief of party to contribute the input of BPDO to the development and implementation of National HIV prevention policies, guidelines and standards and in the process enhance the visibility of the BPDO.

• Work closely with the US DOS Technical Team and other organizations assigned to provide technical assistance for local organizations with the consultation of the Chief of Party to improve the quality of HIV prevention, testing, and treatment services delivered to the key population;

• Promote a data use culture among the program team to make informed decisions for program improvement 

• Adopt HIV differentiated service delivery for at risk and vulnerable populations through innovative approaches

• Lead developing of biweekly, Monthly, Quarterly, semi-annual, and Annual donor and Government reports

• Performs any other duties as assigned by his supervisor. 

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• Demonstrate understanding of BPDO’s Gender Equality Strategy
• Contribute to ensuring that BPDO is a place where men and women are treated equally and with dignity and respect 

• Demonstrate gender equality awareness, gender sensitivity, and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities