Country Director, Botswana at Jhpiego, April 2024

Country Director will provide vision, leadership and direction to ensure the strategic, programmatic, technical, and financial integrity of Jhpiego’s programs. This includes guiding the strategic planning, design and implementation of country programs and achievement of planned results. The Country Director works closely with the Ministry of Health, Botswana Defence Force, donors and partners to streamline efforts and ensure complementarity of projects and serves as the primary point of contact for Jhpiego in Botswana. The Country Director is responsible for overseeing the design of new projects, timely and cost-effective project implementation, compliance with Laws of Botswana, adherence to donor requirements, Jhpiego policies and procedures and program and technical standards of the organization.

Responsibilities:

Provide leadership and strategic direction to ensure programmatic and financial integrity of Jhpiego’s efforts in country
Develop and maintain outstanding working relationships with donors and potential donors, relevant Government departments, national and international implementing partners, and others who can help in Jhpiego’s efforts to strengthen support to the country
Ensure that all Jhpiego activities are in line with country priorities, and include substantial engagement of national partners
Engage regularly and early on with the Regional Director and Vice President of Global Program Operations on issues that could positively or negatively impact country operations.
Develop and lead the implementation of a Country Strategy for new program opportunities, with a focus on new strategic priorities
Lead intensive efforts to develop new business/program opportunities; this will include identifying and developing opportunities; negotiate for new partnerships, leading program design efforts; and identifying and coordinating proposal development teams
Work closely with Jhpiego’s home office staff to ensure effective, timely and coordinated responses to new program opportunities
Provide oversight of program activities, ensuring that the programs are technically sound, follow organizational standards and are responsive to the needs of the country
Ensure the quality and sustainability of all program approaches; work with program staff, partners and funders to continually improve programs to address challenges and meet needs and ensure achievement of the goals, objectives and targets of each project
Provide programmatic and/or technical leadership in the design, analysis, and synthesis of interventions
Work with Monitoring, Evaluation and Research (MER) staff to ensure MER frameworks are developed, conduct relevant implementation research and data/results are effectively tracked and appropriately reported
Ensure preparations and timely submission of all programmatic and financial reports to Jhpiego and donors
Ensure that Internal Control Reviews (ICR) and external audit findings are documented and corrected in a timely manner
Ensure the programs are working within available resources and that the programs are fiscally sound
Ensure compliance with Botswana laws, Jhpiego policies and donor rules and regulations as well as all contractual requirements
Provide guidance, and take overall responsibility for ensuring accountability of subcontractors and sub-grantees
Oversee finance and project staff to ensure that realistic budgets are developed and expenditures tracked
Engage regularly and early on with Regional Director and/or relevant HQ officers regarding any irregularities in financial management or compliance
Develop a strategy for identifying, recruiting and building the skills of highly qualified and experienced staff, strategically linked to Jhpiego’s medium and long-term plans for growth in Botswana. Develop a strategy for progressively building the leadership and management skills of the in-country senior management team.
Mentor, support, supervise and manage a team of highly qualified staff and align their efforts to ensure rapid and sustainable results
Conduct annual staff evaluations and support professional development for staff
Revise staffing strategies to meet the changing needs of the country office
Represent Jhpiego’s interests and present progress, achievements and lessons learned to donors and other key stakeholders in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations
Lead by example in communicating Jhpiego key messages to external audiences and complies with Jhpiego standards for submission of communication deliverables
Lead the development of a country communication strategy and develop and mentor in-country staff to deliver at least 3 communications pieces (success stories, high profile events with stakeholders and photo assets) annually to GECO for use in Jhpiego newsletter, corporate website and social media
Build the capacity of staff to serve as Jhpiego public spokespersons on intervention areas

Required Qualifications:

Post graduate degree in public health or related field
10+ years’ experience successfully leading the implementation and management of large public health programs
Botswana country experience or Southern Africa regional experience preferred
Strong business development experience, including proposal writing and negotiating with partner organizations
Strong project management skills with experience using program management tools (Gantt charts, stakeholder matrix, work breakdown structure, issues logs, project charters, etc.)
Extensive knowledge of the international health program development field
Experience working within Botswana health system preferred
Acknowledged technical skills in two or more of the following areas: HIV/AIDS, maternal, newborn and child health, cervical cancer, reproductive health training, including cervical cancer prevention, primary health care, ICT4D, Infection Prevention, quality assurance, program design, planning, implementation, and management
Knowledge and understanding of rules and regulations of international and U.S. donor agencies, including USAID and CDC, and private sector foundations
Comprehensive understanding of Jhpiego’s approaches to training and to performance and quality improvement
Capacity for analyzing technical problems and issues which impede efforts to provide improved health care to populations; developing technical solutions to these problems/issues and assisting in the design of operational research which could yield appropriate solutions to these problems/issues
Thorough understanding of and ability to analyze financial documents, projections, expenditures and accruals
Proven leadership and management skills, as demonstrated by successful previous residential leadership in one or more developing countries
Experience in leading and working with multi-cultural staff, including awareness of and sensitivity to working with multi-cultural groups in multiple socio-economic settings
Excellent skills in facilitation, team building and coordination
Proven excellent communication and presentation skills, demonstrating an ability to communicate with various audiences including stakeholders, partners, and donors
Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
Ability to develop productive working relationships with counterparts in other agencies and organizations worldwide
Ability to provide technical leadership to develop innovative country program
Ability to communicate effectively, instilling trust and confidence
Working knowledge of Setswana will be an added advantage

Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package including: medical and dental plans; paid vacation, holidays and sick leave; personal accident insurance; 403(b) retirement plan; life and disability insurance; travel insurance; education assistance plan and more.

Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

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Jhpiego

Our History

Responding to the Changing Needs of Women and Families Worldwide

Since its founding in 1974, Jhpiego has been innovating to save the lives of women and families worldwide. From the first day, Jhpiego has been asking the question: How can we make lifesaving services available and accessible to the people who need them—all over the world?

Dr. Theodore M. King, an early innovator and champion for women’s health, was the moving force behind the founding of Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1970s, King recognized the need to make physicians, nurses and administrators from developing countries aware of reproductive health breakthroughs, such as laparoscopy (a procedure used to inspect internal reproductive organs for infertility or to provide contraception by closing off the fallopian tubes) and modern contraceptives. Originally known as the Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics, the organization was funded through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Under King’s leadership, as a founder, trustee and later president of Jhpiego for 14 years, the organization conducted a steady stream of programs throughout the developing world.

How Did We Get from There to Here?

Early on, Jhpiego established itself as a leader in reproductive health training. Beginning in 1974, Jhpiego held training sessions on family planning/reproductive health for doctors and nurses in the USA In 1979, Jhpiego started its first in-country training programs in Tunisia, Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria, Thailand and the Philippines. From 1987 through 2004, Jhpiego conducted three global Training in Reproductive Health Projects, funded by USAID. Beginning in 1993, Jhpiego published learning materials on long-acting family planning methods.

Over the years—to respond more effectively to the needs of individual countries—Jhpiego became increasingly field-based and established its first field office in Kenya in 1993. Today, Jhpiego has field offices in more than 30 countries worldwide. Similarly, Jhpiego’s programming areas have expanded to meet changing needs in the field. In addition to family planning and reproductive health, Jhpiego now has expertise in maternal and child health, infection prevention and control, HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases.

Jhpiego’s work has also expanded to address reproductive health policy and guidelines and to support health systems strengthening. For example, in 1996 in Brazil, Jhpiego launched a performance and quality improvement approach, now known as Standards-Based Management and Recognition (SBM-R), which has since been implemented in 30 countries. SBM-R empowers health workers and facilities to improve the performance and quality of their services by providing them with the tools and methods they need to make decisions, solve problems and innovate at the local level.

Innovations in Training Methods and Technologies

In 1986, Jhpiego pioneered a competency-based training (CBT) approach that emphasizes learning by doing. CBT focuses on how the participant performs and promotes the trainer’s ability to encourage learning. Jhpiego also introduced the use of anatomic models for “humanistic training.” To minimize risk to clients, learners first practice on models until they achieve competency. In 1995, a clinical training skills manual—the cornerstone of Jhpiego’s training approach—was published. Using a systematic “training of trainers” approach, Jhpiego has created a global network of qualified physician, nurse and midwife trainers.

As early as 1984, Jhpiego collaborated with the University of the West Indies to deliver reproductive health courses, via satellite, to six islands in the Caribbean. In 1987, Jhpiego sponsored a global meeting on reproductive health education and technology with the World Health Organization (WHO) and introduced computer-assisted instruction to simulate clinical situations in several of its US-based courses. In 1995, ReproLine, an online source for reproductive health information, was launched. Today, Jhpiego continues to explore new learning technologies: mobile phones in Afghanistan, a computer-based learning management system in Ethiopia, computer-based training in Ghana, a distance learning program in Zambia.

Practical Solutions for Low-Resource Settings

Since the 1992 publication of its international reference standard Infection Prevention for Family Planning Service Programs, Jhpiego has been at the forefront in promoting evidence-based practices that can protect health care professionals, staff and clients from potentially life-threatening infections. To this end, Jhpiego has tested and introduced practical, low-cost infection prevention procedures that can be implemented effectively in settings with limited resources.

In developing countries, cervical cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths among women. In 1995, Jhpiego began research with the University of Zimbabwe to find a low-cost alternative to the Pap test that could make cervical cancer prevention a reality in low-resource settings. Based on the results of this research, Jhpiego helped form the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention in 1999 and received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its cervical cancer program. Since that time, Jhpiego has developed and piloted the single visit approach in which women are screened and treated during the same visit.

In 1995, Jhpiego began addressing HIV/AIDS and its integration with family planning services. Six years later, Jhpiego began work in HIV voluntary counseling and testing with a USAID-funded project in Jamaica. In 2002, Jhpiego received its first funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for work in HIV/AIDS and, the following year, developed a global learning package on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV—with CDC, WHO and university partners—to enable global scale-up. Also in 2003, Jhpiego began work on male circumcision for HIV prevention in Zambia. In 2008, Jhpiego developed a global learning package on male circumcision for HIV prevention with WHO and UNAIDS.

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Responsibilities:

Provide leadership and strategic direction to ensure programmatic and financial integrity of Jhpiego’s efforts in country
Develop and maintain outstanding working relationships with donors and potential donors, relevant Government departments, national and international implementing partners, and others who can help in Jhpiego’s efforts to strengthen support to the country
Ensure that all Jhpiego activities are in line with country priorities, and include substantial engagement of national partners
Engage regularly and early on with the Regional Director and Vice President of Global Program Operations on issues that could positively or negatively impact country operations.
Develop and lead the implementation of a Country Strategy for new program opportunities, with a focus on new strategic priorities
Lead intensive efforts to develop new business/program opportunities; this will include identifying and developing opportunities; negotiate for new partnerships, leading program design efforts; and identifying and coordinating proposal development teams
Work closely with Jhpiego’s home office staff to ensure effective, timely and coordinated responses to new program opportunities
Provide oversight of program activities, ensuring that the programs are technically sound, follow organizational standards and are responsive to the needs of the country
Ensure the quality and sustainability of all program approaches; work with program staff, partners and funders to continually improve programs to address challenges and meet needs and ensure achievement of the goals, objectives and targets of each project
Provide programmatic and/or technical leadership in the design, analysis, and synthesis of interventions
Work with Monitoring, Evaluation and Research (MER) staff to ensure MER frameworks are developed, conduct relevant implementation research and data/results are effectively tracked and appropriately reported
Ensure preparations and timely submission of all programmatic and financial reports to Jhpiego and donors
Ensure that Internal Control Reviews (ICR) and external audit findings are documented and corrected in a timely manner
Ensure the programs are working within available resources and that the programs are fiscally sound
Ensure compliance with Botswana laws, Jhpiego policies and donor rules and regulations as well as all contractual requirements
Provide guidance, and take overall responsibility for ensuring accountability of subcontractors and sub-grantees
Oversee finance and project staff to ensure that realistic budgets are developed and expenditures tracked
Engage regularly and early on with Regional Director and/or relevant HQ officers regarding any irregularities in financial management or compliance
Develop a strategy for identifying, recruiting and building the skills of highly qualified and experienced staff, strategically linked to Jhpiego’s medium and long-term plans for growth in Botswana. Develop a strategy for progressively building the leadership and management skills of the in-country senior management team.
Mentor, support, supervise and manage a team of highly qualified staff and align their efforts to ensure rapid and sustainable results
Conduct annual staff evaluations and support professional development for staff
Revise staffing strategies to meet the changing needs of the country office
Represent Jhpiego’s interests and present progress, achievements and lessons learned to donors and other key stakeholders in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations
Lead by example in communicating Jhpiego key messages to external audiences and complies with Jhpiego standards for submission of communication deliverables
Lead the development of a country communication strategy and develop and mentor in-country staff to deliver at least 3 communications pieces (success stories, high profile events with stakeholders and photo assets) annually to GECO for use in Jhpiego newsletter, corporate website and social media
Build the capacity of staff to serve as Jhpiego public spokespersons on intervention areas

Required Qualifications:

Post graduate degree in public health or related field
10+ years’ experience successfully leading the implementation and management of large public health programs
Botswana country experience or Southern Africa regional experience preferred
Strong business development experience, including proposal writing and negotiating with partner organizations
Strong project management skills with experience using program management tools (Gantt charts, stakeholder matrix, work breakdown structure, issues logs, project charters, etc.)
Extensive knowledge of the international health program development field
Experience working within Botswana health system preferred
Acknowledged technical skills in two or more of the following areas: HIV/AIDS, maternal, newborn and child health, cervical cancer, reproductive health training, including cervical cancer prevention, primary health care, ICT4D, Infection Prevention, quality assurance, program design, planning, implementation, and management
Knowledge and understanding of rules and regulations of international and U.S. donor agencies, including USAID and CDC, and private sector foundations
Comprehensive understanding of Jhpiego’s approaches to training and to performance and quality improvement
Capacity for analyzing technical problems and issues which impede efforts to provide improved health care to populations; developing technical solutions to these problems/issues and assisting in the design of operational research which could yield appropriate solutions to these problems/issues
Thorough understanding of and ability to analyze financial documents, projections, expenditures and accruals
Proven leadership and management skills, as demonstrated by successful previous residential leadership in one or more developing countries
Experience in leading and working with multi-cultural staff, including awareness of and sensitivity to working with multi-cultural groups in multiple socio-economic settings
Excellent skills in facilitation, team building and coordination
Proven excellent communication and presentation skills, demonstrating an ability to communicate with various audiences including stakeholders, partners, and donors
Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
Ability to develop productive working relationships with counterparts in other agencies and organizations worldwide
Ability to provide technical leadership to develop innovative country program
Ability to communicate effectively, instilling trust and confidence
Working knowledge of Setswana will be an added advantage

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