Country Director/Chief of Party (CD/CoP) will provide vision, leadership and direction to ensure the strategic, programmatic, technical, and financial integrity of Jhpiego’s programs in Lesotho. This includes guiding the strategic planning, design and implementation for country programs and achieving the planned results. This includes working closely with MOH to streamline efforts and ensure complementarities of projects, serves as the primary point of contact for USAID, MOH, stakeholders and partners and is responsible for managing relationships and collaboration with international and local partners. CD/CoP also ensures timely and cost-effective project implementation, reporting of activities, and will be responsible for all project deliverables.
Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership and strategic direction to ensure programmatic and financial integrity of the program and to achieve project goals, objectives and targets
- Revise, as needed, Lesotho’s country strategy with objectives, staff roles and responsibilities, outreach, and a plan for overall flow of information and knowledge to and from Baltimore
- Provide oversight of program activities, ensuring that the program is technically sound, evidence-based and responsive to the needs of the country
- Serve as Chief of Party on TSEPO, the VMMC and PSE program in Lesotho
- Ensure compliance to Lesotho laws, Jhpiego policies and procedures, and donor rules and regulations
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships and alliances with USAID, the MOH as well as implementing partners, private sector partners and other key stakeholders to maximize resources and avoid duplication of effort
- Represent Jhpiego’s interests and present progress, achievements and lessons learned to USAID and key stakeholders in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations
- Provide technical leadership in the design, analysis, and synthesis of interventions
- Ensure the quality and sustainability of interventions particularly in the areas of HIV Prevention, VMMC, EIMC, PSE, TB, gender integration and capacity building
- Advise counterparts on technical issues and participate in relevant technical advisory groups with counterparts and partner institutions
- Lead the annual work planning process in close collaboration with USAID, MOH, project team and project partners
- Ensure preparations and timely submission of all programmatic and financial reports to Jhpiego and donors
- Mentor, support, supervise and manage a team of highly qualified staff and align their efforts to ensure rapid and sustainable results.
- Oversee the staffing strategy for the Lesotho office, including 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 Lesotho
- Develop a strategy for progressively building the leadership and management skills of the in-country senior management team
- Manage/coordinate staff performance including annual staff evaluations and support professional development for staff
- 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
- Write and/or review technical components of materials and publications related to the program and its development
- Identify opportunities for new program development and lead efforts to respond to solicitations
- Ensure that Internal Control Reviews (ICR) and external audit findings are documented and corrected in a timely manner
- Ensure the program is working within available resources and that the program is fiscally sound
- Work with Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) staff to develop M&E frameworks and effectively track data/results
- Engage regularly and early on with Regional Director and/or relevant HQ officers regarding any irregularities in financial management or compliance
- Work closely with Jhpiego home office staff to ensure effective, timely and coordinated project implementation
Required Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in public health or related field
- 10+ years of progressively responsible international public health management experience including design, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and financial management
- Strong project management skills with experience using program management tools (Gantt charts, stakeholder matrix, work breakdown structure, issues logs, project charters, etc.)
- Demonstrated ability to manage medium to large funding range (between $10- 30M) USG-supported public health projects and budgets
- Experience managing a multi-partner consortium (both international and local NGOs)
- Experience designing and managing complex HIV/AIDS, prevention, care and treatment programs
- Proven leadership skills and expertise in strategic program planning, implementation and management
- 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
- Knowledge and understanding of rules and regulations of international and U.S. donor agencies, including USAID and CDC, and private sector foundations
- 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. Has 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
- Ability to travel in southern Africa and internationally
- Fluent in written and spoken English
- Experience in leading annual workplans, 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
- Team player accustomed to building team capacity, delegating working teams, and developing communities of learning among host country partners and counterparts
More Information
- Job City Lesotho