Clinical Specialist

Project Description

Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC), a global project funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), that provides strategic technical assistance and direct service delivery to achieve HIV epidemic control among all at-risk populations and people living with HIV (PLHIV); strengthen global health security (GHS), including outbreak response; expand tuberculosis detection and treatment (TB), improve maternal and child health (MCH), address malaria; and promote health systems strengthening (HSS) including supply chain management.

In Ghana, EpiC will work to support the Ghana Ministry of Health (MOH), Ghana Health Service (GHS)-National AIDS/STI Control Programme (NACP) and Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC), Regional Health Directorates (RHDs) and District Health Directorates (DHDs) to achieve the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets by 2030 in the three PEPFAR-supported regions through the focused implementation of innovative prevention, case finding, linkage to care and treatment, treatment continuity, and viral load suppression strategies.

Job Description:

The Clinical Specialist, will support the effective delivery of integrated HIV clinical care and laboratory services across program implementation sites within the EpiC Ghana project. S/he will be in routine contact with NACP, RHDs, DHDs, health facilities, and implementing partners in the three PEFAR supported regions in the country, providing ongoing technical and quality assurance support for HIV clinical care and laboratory functions to enhance program outcomes and contribute to achieving HIV