Program Director, Maseru, Lesotho – Partners In Health (PIH) 174 views0 applications


Position Title: Program Director (PIH-Lesotho)

Reports to: Executive Director PIH Lesotho

Location: Lesotho

Job Responsibilities

  • Ensure appropriate staffing. Oversee hiring, training and supervising of employees. Help to develop organizational structure with appropriate chains of command and supervision for all positions
  • Implement protocols/policies for standardizing daily operating procedures;
  • Ensure the integrity and completeness of all representations of PIH’s financial condition in Lesotho
  • Track all expenses per budget allocating expenses to appropriate programs and donors.
  • Provide regular progress reports on project goals per strategic plan. Assist with financial, narrative, and oral reports to PIH leadership and donor organizations. Confer with all funding agencies in Boston and elsewhere to ensure financial issues are managed appropriately
  • Support and build capacity among the operational managers and staff.
  • Understand the immediate-term and long-term operational strategy, in order to ensure that the operations infrastructure appropriately enables that strategy.
  • Partner with the Ministry of Health, local government, and other public sector and non-profit organizations and community leaders to ensure well-integrated processes and procedures
  • Create efficient transport and procurement operations, including developing protocols/policies for standardizing daily operating procedures for stock management, procurement, transport, and infrastructure.
  • Provide in-country coordination for large purchases, alongside the Boston-based operations and clinical team, including international procurement.
  • Oversee safety, security and crises management plans and implementation.
  • Design and implement systems for everyday staff and clinical operations — staff and patient travel/accommodations, communications, etc.
  • Oversee risk assessment activities for violations of the code of conduct.
  • Oversee construction projects design/implementation processes; ensure projects adhere to budget/timeframe on deliverables.
  • Take responsibility for operations budget management.
  • Serve as senior operations external liaison; negotiate all large scale contracts; vet partnerships and manage external operations relationships.

Qualifications and Requirements

  • University degree in management or development field; Master Degree in development perspectives or MPH is an advantage
  • Minimum of Five years of administration or operations experience, preferably in international projects, with demonstrated increasing responsibility.
  • Strong ability to manage and empower a diverse team focuses on many priorities.
  • Experience managing budgets and financials.
  • Comfort with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and need to juggle competing demands in a fast-paced and challenging work environment.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Strong organizational skills and operational and business analytics thinking.
  • Proven ability to exercise good judgment, demonstrate political astuteness, and tact.
  • Prior experience working in Africa and in resource poor settings, a plus.
  • Interest in social justice and health care issues.

Organizational Profile

Partners In Health (PIH) is an international health organization relentlessly committed to improving the health of the poor and marginalized. PIH partners with local governments to build local capacity and works closely with impoverished communities to deliver high-quality health care, address the root causes of illness, train providers, advance research, and advocate for global policy change.

PIH currently has implementation programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Sierra Leone and Navajo Nation. Through our partnership with Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, we support a wide range of programs in dozens of other countries around the world.

Partners In Health is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Position Title: Program Director (PIH-Lesotho)

Reports to: Executive Director PIH Lesotho

Location: Lesotho

Job Responsibilities

  • Ensure appropriate staffing. Oversee hiring, training and supervising of employees. Help to develop organizational structure with appropriate chains of command and supervision for all positions
  • Implement protocols/policies for standardizing daily operating procedures;
  • Ensure the integrity and completeness of all representations of PIH's financial condition in Lesotho
  • Track all expenses per budget allocating expenses to appropriate programs and donors.
  • Provide regular progress reports on project goals per strategic plan. Assist with financial, narrative, and oral reports to PIH leadership and donor organizations. Confer with all funding agencies in Boston and elsewhere to ensure financial issues are managed appropriately
  • Support and build capacity among the operational managers and staff.
  • Understand the immediate-term and long-term operational strategy, in order to ensure that the operations infrastructure appropriately enables that strategy.
  • Partner with the Ministry of Health, local government, and other public sector and non-profit organizations and community leaders to ensure well-integrated processes and procedures
  • Create efficient transport and procurement operations, including developing protocols/policies for standardizing daily operating procedures for stock management, procurement, transport, and infrastructure.
  • Provide in-country coordination for large purchases, alongside the Boston-based operations and clinical team, including international procurement.
  • Oversee safety, security and crises management plans and implementation.
  • Design and implement systems for everyday staff and clinical operations -- staff and patient travel/accommodations, communications, etc.
  • Oversee risk assessment activities for violations of the code of conduct.
  • Oversee construction projects design/implementation processes; ensure projects adhere to budget/timeframe on deliverables.
  • Take responsibility for operations budget management.
  • Serve as senior operations external liaison; negotiate all large scale contracts; vet partnerships and manage external operations relationships.

Qualifications and Requirements

  • University degree in management or development field; Master Degree in development perspectives or MPH is an advantage
  • Minimum of Five years of administration or operations experience, preferably in international projects, with demonstrated increasing responsibility.
  • Strong ability to manage and empower a diverse team focuses on many priorities.
  • Experience managing budgets and financials.
  • Comfort with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and need to juggle competing demands in a fast-paced and challenging work environment.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Strong organizational skills and operational and business analytics thinking.
  • Proven ability to exercise good judgment, demonstrate political astuteness, and tact.
  • Prior experience working in Africa and in resource poor settings, a plus.
  • Interest in social justice and health care issues.

Organizational Profile

Partners In Health (PIH) is an international health organization relentlessly committed to improving the health of the poor and marginalized. PIH partners with local governments to build local capacity and works closely with impoverished communities to deliver high-quality health care, address the root causes of illness, train providers, advance research, and advocate for global policy change.

PIH currently has implementation programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Sierra Leone and Navajo Nation. Through our partnership with Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women's Hospital, we support a wide range of programs in dozens of other countries around the world.

Partners In Health is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

2017-11-18

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