Project Director

Johns Hopkins University•Milford Mill, MD

About The Position

Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University. For 50 years and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families. Jhpiego leads the Reaching Impact Saturation and Epidemic Control (RISE) project; a multi-country project funded by the U.S. Government to save lives and improve health through integrated, evidence-based approaches to address urgent gaps in lifesaving services. RISE works across all levels of the health system to strengthen the HIV/TB epidemic response, to limit the spread of deadly disease outbreaks through Global Health Security (GHS) programming, and to reduce preventable morbidity and mortality through integrated maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), nutrition, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria services. RISE supports country governments to strengthen essential data systems, supply chain and commodity management, human resources for health, domestic resource mobilization, and other cross-cutting health system functions to accelerate transition to country ownership and self-reliance. In Angola, RISE supports the Government of the Republic of Angola (GRA) in its efforts to end HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. This will be achieved by strengthening the public health system and making measurable progress toward targets across all ages and populations. The project supports the implementation of high-quality, life-saving community-based HIV service delivery, system strengthening and transition towards sustainable integrated programming. The Project Director will represent Jhpiego in Angola and will serve as the in-country lead for the RISE-Angola program. S/he will serve as the primary point of contact with the Government of Angola, the Ministry of Health (MOH) and other government agencies, the US State Department, the RISE global program team, and other project stakeholders and in-country partners. The Project Director will have the overall responsibility for leadership, management, and reporting of project activities across multiple country settings. The Project Director will be responsible for making key decisions and solving problems in short timeframes, ensuring strategic, programmatic, technical, and financial integrity for project activities. The Project Director will serve as the project’s main point of contact with the donor on routine and strategic matters in Angola. The Project Director will also ensure effective organizational management and communication with host country governments and key stakeholders at all levels. Jhpiego is seeking applicants to serve as Project Director/ Country Program Manager.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Public Health or in other health related field.
Nine years of experience is required, including at least five years in progressively senior roles directly related to managing health sector projects, particularly those focused on HIV and other infectious diseases and health systems strengthening.
Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience serving as COP/project director or DCOP or senior-level management.
Solid relationships with government agencies and local institutions; previous experience strengthening capacity of ministries of health and other local stakeholders.
Demonstrated knowledge and skills in financial planning and management, human resources, and procurement, among other management support functions.
Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships with Donor Systems, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector.
Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, and presentation skills in English and Portuguese.
Experience developing strategic plans in cooperation with others who represent a wide range of interests and needs.
Demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic thinking, organizational, team-building, and representational skills and ability to interact with established networks of senior level health professionals.
Ability to travel nationally and internationally.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership and strategic direction to ensure programmatic, technical and financial integrity of the project and serve as the main point of contact to donor and within Jhpiego. The Project Director/ Country Program Manager is ultimately accountable to achieve rapid and sustained goals, objectives, and targets as outlined in the workplan and stay within the budget.
Provide overall vision and leadership to the development of the project workplan and project monitoring framework, in close collaboration with donor, Ministry of Health, and other stakeholders to ensure timely implementation and compliance to the requirements and regulations of the award
In collaboration with RISE Core Team and in-country project team, ensure that project workplan is developed, approved, and aligned with donor scope and budget. The Project Director/ Country Program Manager will collaborate closely with finance staff to review budget and expenses
Provide oversight for all aspects of project implementation, ensuring progress toward expected outcomes and objectives, including but not limited to:
Ensure activities are aligned with the latest scientific evidence on the area of expertise of the project, as well as incorporate innovative implementation approaches for programs;
Ensure activities and approaches are compliant with USG priorities and directives
Identifying and addressing any challenges that may hinder implementation
Designing activities that are tailored to the specific needs and context of Angola and partners involved.
Ensure strong collaboration and engagement with the MOH and stakeholders so that project activities directly support national priorities with an eye towards transition to government.
Represent Jhpiego and RISE project’s progress, achievements and lessons learned to donors, other key stakeholders, and through meetings, conferences, and presentations
Facilitate annual work planning, in close collaboration with Donor, Ministry of Health, implementing partners receiving technical assistance, stakeholders, project team and project sub-partners
Manage and mentor a diverse team of technical, finance, operational and management staff, ensuring an organizational structure with specific roles and responsibilities and a high level of staff morale and retention
Document successes, lessons learned and challenges in implementation along with routine mandatory reporting requirements
Proactively identify funding opportunities for Jhpiego Angola that align with broader country development goals and Jhpiego’s mission.
Develop and write strategic concept notes based on potential and existing funding opportunities.
Serve as the design lead for larger complex opportunities; including identifying key strategic partnerships for opportunities
Proactively meet with funders/donors- government, public and private to generate new business.
Represent Jhpiego’s business development interests at relevant meetings, events and within donor-specific networks
Oversee pre-solicitation proposal preparations and bid planning including; teaming, bid strategy development, development of win themes, contribute to technical design and capacity statements.
Identify relevant organizations to partner with, including public, private sector and local implementing partners
Work closely with his/her supervisor and Strategic Growth & Partnerships Team (SGP) to provide regular analyses of and contribute to in-country SGP opportunities.
Ensure that the Jhpiego Country Office is:
Compliant with all local laws, and with Jhpiego and donor rules and regulations, policies and procedures
Registration is up to date.
Annual statutory audits and financial reports are completed and filed with the appropriate agencies.
Report any incidents (security, legal, etc.) according to Jhpiego policies and procedures
Be a steward and role model of Jhpiego’s internal Culture of Respect; ethics and safeguarding; and organizational values.
Other duties as assigned by the supervisor/ deemed necessary.