Associate, HIV Prevention - Dominican Republic

About the role

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is seeking an Associate to join its Dominican Republic country team and support the introduction and implementation of lenacapavir (LEN), a long-acting injectable for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), as a new HIV prevention option. The role works closely with the Ministry of Health, community-based organizations, implementing partners and civil society organizations to plan the pilot and national rollout, prepare health facilities, support service delivery at launch sites and use data to guide decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Support the Ministry of Health to develop the LEN pilot and national scale-up plan, process manual and operational guidelines, in coordination with partners.
• Support product registration and supply chain readiness, including assessment of the central warehouse and downstream distribution, and stock monitoring.
• Organize and support LEN review meetings and site learning sessions, and help translate findings into program adjustments.
• Coordinate and support trainings with the Ministry of Health for implementing CBOs, health facilities and outreach workers, including adapting training materials and virtual modules.
• Conduct facility readiness assessments before launch and identify bottlenecks to service delivery.
• Work with civil society organizations and community leaders on health promotion and community engagement strategies, and strengthen their capacity to implement and report on them.
• Support monitoring and evaluation indicators, data flows, integration of the PrEP subsystem into existing platforms, provider training on recording and reporting, routine data quality checks and dashboards.
• Support the Ministry of Health on pharmacovigilance, including adverse event reporting pathways and their inclusion in site trainings and mentoring.
• Draft progress reports for the Country Program Manager and donors, and contribute to proposals and strategic planning.
• Maintain strong working relationships with the Ministry of Health, partners and civil society, and represent CHAI in technical meetings.

Required profile

• Master's degree with at least 3 years of relevant experience, or bachelor's degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience.
• Acceptable fields: public health, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, epidemiology, social sciences and similar.
• Experience working with HIV, sexual and reproductive health or other public health programs.
• Fluency in Spanish and English, spoken and written.
• Availability to travel within the Dominican Republic about 30% of the time.

Required skills

• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams).
• Data management, analysis and visualization.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, organizational and decision-making skills, and strong written and oral communication.

Advantages: an advanced degree in public health, global health, epidemiology, health economics or a related field; experience with HIV prevention or PrEP programs or introducing a new health product in the Dominican Republic; experience with data analysis tools (advanced Excel, Power BI, Stata, R); experience with government health institutions in Latin America, with communities affected by HIV or civil society organizations; experience in health supply chain, training design or monitoring and evaluation.