Kuzama pa Kalondo Project

Vacancy

 

Background

Malawi has made tremendous progress combating the HIV epidemic. The country is on track to surpass the UNAIDS 95-95-95 antiretroviral treatment (ART) and viral suppression targets, dramatically reducing new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths. Now, HIV programme efforts are focused on how to effectively maintain requisite HIV services for decades to come to protect livelihoods of people living with HIV and sustain progress.

Transitioning from rapidly scaling-up HIV programmes to monitoring sustained epidemic control requires new approaches to monitoring the HIV epidemic and response. To date, monitoring the HIV infection trends and associated risk factors has relied on facility- and population-based surveillance methods, which were effective in detecting large changes in HIV infections and programme coverage. Quantifying sustained high coverage, small gaps, and low numbers of new infections poses new challenges.

The Kuzama pa Kalondo — ‘Getting Smart’ on HIV Surveillance Project aims use novel data analytic methods to track the progress Malawi is making in the fight against HIV/AIDS. This project is being implemented by the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), Nyanja Health Research Institute, African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), and University of Cape Town (UCT), in partnership with the Directorate of HIV, STIs, and Viral Hepatitis (DHA), the Public Health Institute of Malawi (PHIM), the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and others.

Job Summary

An individual is required to take up a position of Administrative Assistant at KUHeS, Blantyre Campus. He/she will be responsible for providing the necessary administrative and logistic support to the project team, maintaining records of local project management meetings and organizing schedules and activities for members of the Kuzama pa Kalondo Project team.

Position Title:           Project Coordinator

Location:                  Blantyre

Responsible to:        Project Coordinator

Job Type:                  Full-time

Duration:                  1 Year

 

Responsibilities

• Facilitating project meetings
• Taking minutes with the aid of artificial intelligence software
• Booking appointments with Project stakeholders
• Facilitating field travel for project staff
• Perform routine office work

Requirements:

• Diploma in business administration or related field
• 2 years proven work experience as an Administrative Assistant, Administrator or similar role in a research or academic organization. Those with no experience working in a research or academic organization should not apply and will not be shortlisted.
• Solid knowledge of routine procedures of procurement of equipment and supplies and approval of financial requisitions
• Experience with office management software like MS Office (MS Excel and MS Word specifically)
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Attention to detail

Application Procedure:

Interested candidates who meet the above requirements should send their applications including cover letter, CV with names of three traceable professional referees and copies of relevant certificates to:

The Registrar

Kamuzu University of Health Sciences

Mahatma Gandhi Road Campus

P/Bag 360

Chichiri

Blantyre 3

Or email to: recruitment@kuhes.ac.mw

Indicate position title on the envelope for hard copy applications and indicate the same in the subject line of your email for electronic submissions.

Applications should reach the Registrar not later than 30^th November, 2024. Only short-listed candidates will be acknowledged.

Admin Assistant kuzama pa kalondo