Overview:
Chief Party will provide overall programmatic and managerial oversight for USAID funded program focusing on HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment, specifically on voluntary medical male circumcision. COP will guide strategic planning, design and implementation of the project and be responsible for and manage all donor and partner relationships. This includes working closely with Ministry of Health (MOH) to streamline efforts and ensure complementarities of projects. COP will also ensure timely and cost-effective project implementation, reporting of activities, and will be responsible for all project deliverables to the donor.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the Senior Technical Team to oversee project activities, ensure timely implementation, and timely and accurate reporting to donor
- Engage with Malawian stakeholders working on similar projects to support the MOH and district health management teams with a coordinated response
- Supervise and manage a team of highly qualified staff (mostly Malawian nationals) and align their efforts in concert with project goals
- Lead annual work planning process
- Ensure compliance to donor rules and regulations as well as organizational policies and procedures
- Facilitate the development of innovative project approaches and interventions
- Represent the project in all matters pertaining to the execution of project-related activities
- Provide updates on the progress made, direction, approaches and successes of the project to donor and partners, and internally within Jhpiego
- Work with finance and project staff to develop and track project budgets and provide oversight on financial and operations management
Required Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in public health
- Demonstrated experience managing large ($10-50M ) USG-supported public health projects and budgets
- 10+ years of progressive management experience of international public health programs phases including design, implementation, monitor, reporting, and financial management
- Experience managing a multi-partner consortium including both international and local NGOs
- Experience developing successful, replicable and sustainable projects in East and Southern Africa preferably in Malawi
- Experience designing and managing complex HIV/AIDS, prevention, care and treatment programs
- Proven leadership skills and expertise in strategic program planning, implementation and management
- Ability to build capacity and collaboration between governmental and non-governmental partners and other project implementers
- Experience designing and supervising activities with a facility/community interface
- Experience building the capacity of community based organizations to implement project activities
- Understanding of USG donor’s regulations and compliance, reporting requirements, and health strategic framework
- Experience leading annual work-plans, incorporating national Technical Working Groups directives, and collaborating on local action plans
- Ability to communicate effectively, instilling trust and confidence
- Excellent interpersonal and written and oral presentation skills
- Ability to work in a complex environment charged with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
- Capacity for analyzing technical problems and issues that impede efforts to provide improved health care to populations; developing technical solutions to these problems/issues and assisting in the design of operational research that could yield appropriate solutions
- Demonstrated ability to build team capacity, delegate working teams and develop communities of learning among host country partners and counterparts
- Ability to travel in Malawi and internationally
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