Project Manager, Madagascar at Jhpiego 29 views0 applications


Overview:

Project Manager needed to provide overall leadership and oversight in the design and day-to-day management of implementation for an upcoming UNITAID project to expand access to preventive chemotherapy for pregnant women in Madagascar. This project aims to scale up an innovative, community-based approach to expand coverage of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp), with quality assured sulfadoxine-pyrimithimine (SP), for pregnant women. The project will operate over a five-year period.

The Project Manager will have the overall responsibility for leadership and management of and reporting on the recipient’s activities, making key decisions and solving problems in short timeframes while ensuring operational and program quality and integrity. This includes ensuring effective organizational management and communication interacting with other projects, Ministry of Health, District Health Management Teams (DHMTs), and national and district stakeholders. S/he will ensure timely and cost-effective project implementation, reporting of activities, and will be responsible for all project deliverables to the donor. S/he will supervise a team of highly qualified staff and will report to the Senior Programmatic and Technical Advisor

This position is contingent upon award from UNITAID. Madagascar nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide leadership and strategic direction to ensure programmatic and financial integrity of project and to achieve rapid and sustained project goals, objectives and target
  • Ensure compliance with the project award results and the oversight of project activities to achieve the stated goal, outcomes and outputs
  • Develop and maintain strong working relationships and alliances with the Madagascar Ministry of Health, District Health Management Teams, as well as other malaria in pregnancy implementing partners, private sector partners and other key stakeholders in Madagascar to maximize resources and avoid duplication of effort
  • Collaborate closely with project partner, ISGlobal to ensure effective coordination between research and implementation efforts.
  • Collaborate closely with WHO and Malaria Medicines Venture to ensure streamlined implementation to achieve project goal, outcomes and outputs.
  • Represent Jhpiego’s interests and present progress, achievements and lessons learned to key Madagascar stakeholders and implementing partners 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 area coverage of IPTp for pregnant women and capacity building
  • Drive project implementation towards sustainability, replication and scale up from Day 1 working closely with key stakeholders to build on to what is already in place as well as position key partners to expand efforts put in place under this project.
  • Directly implement the project sustainability plan, working closely with Global Fund, PMI, WHO, UNICEF, Ministry of Health and other key counterparts
  • Participate in relevant national technical advisory groups with counterparts and partner institutions
  • Drive efforts to establish and/or strengthen the national MiP technical advisory group to help maintain momentum and support for the prioritization of MiP and in particular preventive chemotherapy for pregnant women, at community level.
  • Lead the annual work planning process in close collaboration with project leadership, UNITAID, Ministry of Health, District Health Management Teams, project team and project partners
  • Oversee preparation of periodic project reports to donor
  • Mentor, support, supervise and manage a team of highly qualified staff and align their efforts to ensure rapid and sustainable results
  • Write and/or review technical components of materials and publications related to integrated health and its development
  • Ensure resources for project implementation are available
  • Work with finance and project staff to develop and track project budgets
  • Work with Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) staff to generate and document data; b) conduct data analysis; c) document results to guide future implementation; and d) any necessary course corrections.
  • Work closely with Jhpiego home office staff to ensure effective, timely and coordinated project implementation
  • Ensure compliance with UNITAID operational policies and regulations

Required Qualifications:

  • Advanced degree in public health, health administration, international health or a related field; MD preferred.
  • 15+ years’ experience successfully managing large, multi-year international health sector development projects (approximately $10M per year) that have implemented successful activities in areas such as maternal, newborn and child health, malaria prevention, care and treatment and health systems strengthening
  • Demonstrated experience and knowledge in establishing systems and overseeing project start-up
  • Understanding of the Madagascar social and political context, and developments in the health sector
  • Experience hiring and supervising personnel and ensuring they acquire the necessary training and skills to meet evolving program needs
  • Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and sustain interpersonal and professional relationships with host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, PVOs, the private sector and other donors.
  • In-depth knowledge of donor projects, regulations, compliance and reporting.
  • Demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic thinking, organizational, team-building and representational skills.
  • Management, training or clinical background in maternal, newborn and child health, malaria prevention, care and treatment, or health systems strengthening
  • Expertise in research to practice—identifying best practices and adapting them to project realities
  • Previous experience working in Madagascar, with intimate understanding of local health system and health systems strengthening, malaria prevention, care and treatment, and maternal, neonatal and child health care gaps and opportunities, and solid relationships at government agencies
  • Excellent skills in facilitation, team building and coordination
  • Experience managing a budget
  • Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Demonstrated programming, management and technical skills
  • Experience developing strategic and tactical plans in cooperation with others who represent a wide range of interests and needs
  • Strong change management, results oriented and decision making skills
  • Proven expertise in providing technical assistance
  • Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in national programs and technical staff
  • Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple projects/tasks, short deadlines, competing deadlines and intense pressure to perform
  • Ability to interact with established networks of senior level international health professionals, donors, universities and other partners
  • Appreciation for socio-cultural differences in countries, preferably having lived and worked in one or more low resource settings
  • Awareness of, sensitivity to, and experience in working in multiple socio-economic settings and with multi-cultural staff and groups
  • Ability to develop productive working relationships with counterparts in other agencies and organizations nationally
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office
  • Fluent in written and spoken French and English
  • Ability to travel nationally

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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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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Overview:

Project Manager needed to provide overall leadership and oversight in the design and day-to-day management of implementation for an upcoming UNITAID project to expand access to preventive chemotherapy for pregnant women in Madagascar. This project aims to scale up an innovative, community-based approach to expand coverage of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp), with quality assured sulfadoxine-pyrimithimine (SP), for pregnant women. The project will operate over a five-year period.

The Project Manager will have the overall responsibility for leadership and management of and reporting on the recipient’s activities, making key decisions and solving problems in short timeframes while ensuring operational and program quality and integrity. This includes ensuring effective organizational management and communication interacting with other projects, Ministry of Health, District Health Management Teams (DHMTs), and national and district stakeholders. S/he will ensure timely and cost-effective project implementation, reporting of activities, and will be responsible for all project deliverables to the donor. S/he will supervise a team of highly qualified staff and will report to the Senior Programmatic and Technical Advisor

This position is contingent upon award from UNITAID. Madagascar nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide leadership and strategic direction to ensure programmatic and financial integrity of project and to achieve rapid and sustained project goals, objectives and target
  • Ensure compliance with the project award results and the oversight of project activities to achieve the stated goal, outcomes and outputs
  • Develop and maintain strong working relationships and alliances with the Madagascar Ministry of Health, District Health Management Teams, as well as other malaria in pregnancy implementing partners, private sector partners and other key stakeholders in Madagascar to maximize resources and avoid duplication of effort
  • Collaborate closely with project partner, ISGlobal to ensure effective coordination between research and implementation efforts.
  • Collaborate closely with WHO and Malaria Medicines Venture to ensure streamlined implementation to achieve project goal, outcomes and outputs.
  • Represent Jhpiego’s interests and present progress, achievements and lessons learned to key Madagascar stakeholders and implementing partners 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 area coverage of IPTp for pregnant women and capacity building
  • Drive project implementation towards sustainability, replication and scale up from Day 1 working closely with key stakeholders to build on to what is already in place as well as position key partners to expand efforts put in place under this project.
  • Directly implement the project sustainability plan, working closely with Global Fund, PMI, WHO, UNICEF, Ministry of Health and other key counterparts
  • Participate in relevant national technical advisory groups with counterparts and partner institutions
  • Drive efforts to establish and/or strengthen the national MiP technical advisory group to help maintain momentum and support for the prioritization of MiP and in particular preventive chemotherapy for pregnant women, at community level.
  • Lead the annual work planning process in close collaboration with project leadership, UNITAID, Ministry of Health, District Health Management Teams, project team and project partners
  • Oversee preparation of periodic project reports to donor
  • Mentor, support, supervise and manage a team of highly qualified staff and align their efforts to ensure rapid and sustainable results
  • Write and/or review technical components of materials and publications related to integrated health and its development
  • Ensure resources for project implementation are available
  • Work with finance and project staff to develop and track project budgets
  • Work with Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) staff to generate and document data; b) conduct data analysis; c) document results to guide future implementation; and d) any necessary course corrections.
  • Work closely with Jhpiego home office staff to ensure effective, timely and coordinated project implementation
  • Ensure compliance with UNITAID operational policies and regulations

Required Qualifications:

  • Advanced degree in public health, health administration, international health or a related field; MD preferred.
  • 15+ years' experience successfully managing large, multi-year international health sector development projects (approximately $10M per year) that have implemented successful activities in areas such as maternal, newborn and child health, malaria prevention, care and treatment and health systems strengthening
  • Demonstrated experience and knowledge in establishing systems and overseeing project start-up
  • Understanding of the Madagascar social and political context, and developments in the health sector
  • Experience hiring and supervising personnel and ensuring they acquire the necessary training and skills to meet evolving program needs
  • Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and sustain interpersonal and professional relationships with host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, PVOs, the private sector and other donors.
  • In-depth knowledge of donor projects, regulations, compliance and reporting.
  • Demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic thinking, organizational, team-building and representational skills.
  • Management, training or clinical background in maternal, newborn and child health, malaria prevention, care and treatment, or health systems strengthening
  • Expertise in research to practice—identifying best practices and adapting them to project realities
  • Previous experience working in Madagascar, with intimate understanding of local health system and health systems strengthening, malaria prevention, care and treatment, and maternal, neonatal and child health care gaps and opportunities, and solid relationships at government agencies
  • Excellent skills in facilitation, team building and coordination
  • Experience managing a budget
  • Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Demonstrated programming, management and technical skills
  • Experience developing strategic and tactical plans in cooperation with others who represent a wide range of interests and needs
  • Strong change management, results oriented and decision making skills
  • Proven expertise in providing technical assistance
  • Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in national programs and technical staff
  • Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple projects/tasks, short deadlines, competing deadlines and intense pressure to perform
  • Ability to interact with established networks of senior level international health professionals, donors, universities and other partners
  • Appreciation for socio-cultural differences in countries, preferably having lived and worked in one or more low resource settings
  • Awareness of, sensitivity to, and experience in working in multiple socio-economic settings and with multi-cultural staff and groups
  • Ability to develop productive working relationships with counterparts in other agencies and organizations nationally
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office
  • Fluent in written and spoken French and English
  • Ability to travel nationally

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.

2017-03-21

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