Country Project Director, Francophone Africa: Management Sciences for Health

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Country Project Director
Francophone Africa

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) saves lives and improves health by helping public and private organizations throughout the world to effectively manage people, medicines, money, and information.  Working from more than 30 country offices and our Arlington, Virginia and Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. headquarters, our staff from 65 nations is highly regarded for its technical expertise, integrity, and commitment to making a lasting difference in health.  We live our mission to save lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. 

OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES: The Chief of Party will have technical and management responsibility for a large, complex integrated health project and its staff, in addition to serving as MSH's representative to USAID, relevant government agencies (including the Ministry of Health), other donors and multinationals, technical agencies and other participating organizations as required.  The Chief of Party will have overall responsibility for addressing contract-related issues, including ensuring that MSH's financial controls and systems comply with generally accepted accounting practices that meet USAID standards, and that all activity-procured materials and equipment are safeguarded and prudently and responsibly used.  The Chief of Party will be responsible for overall implementation of the project and will provide general program and technical direction and ensure the completion and submission of all project deliverables.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES: Vision, Strategy and Planning: 1. Ensure congruence of values, mission, strategy, structure, systems, and daily actions.  2. Oversee the development and implementation of strategies and work plans that focus on integrated health systems strengthening, sustainability, feasibility, cost effectiveness, and achievement of the required results.  Assure integration of technical strategies with each other, and with the overall operational strategy of the project.  3. Ensure that all work planning is completed collaboratively with counterparts and partner organizations.

Project Management and Implementation/ Delivery of Technical Results: 1. Provide overall leadership of the team and direction of all technical and administrative operations under the contract.  Take the lead in responding to changes in the operating environment and making decisions on reallocation of program resources, adjusting functional and reporting relationships as appropriate.  2. Ensure the high quality, within-budget, and on-time delivery of interim and final results agreed upon with the donor.  In collaboration with USAID, partners and key stakeholders (including the MOH), periodically evaluate progress towards the completion of project deliverables to verify alignment with strategic directions and defined targets.  3. Ensure that the program has adequate staff to carry out high-quality work and that staff are recruited and hired in accordance with local, donor and MSH requirements.  4. Ensure collaboration with partners, donor, and stakeholder representatives.  5. Serve as a technical resource in area(s) of expertise, including policy dialogue, as time allows.  6. Provide for and ensure that project field offices have adequate security and emergency plans in place. The operational elements of the development, implementation, and dissemination of the plans may be delegated, but overall responsibility for the security and safety of MSH personnel and property remains with the COP.

Relationship Management: 1. Cultivate, manage, and strengthen positive, productive relationships with USAID, Ministry of Health, other governmental agencies, partners, other cooperating agencies, NGOs, etc.  2. Serve as the primary representative of MSH with, and liaison between, USAID, MOH, and other collaborating agencies on all administrative and financial matters related to the project.  3. Ensure consistently effective, timely responses to donor and other key stakeholder inquiries and concerns.  4. Together with the MSH/Cambridge, maintain good working relationships with all partners and sub grantees to assure that the project receives the full benefit from their specific areas of expertise.

Financial Management: 1. Together with the Finance and Administration Specialist, adapt and implement management systems with standard operating procedures to administer all activities funded by the contract.  2. Ensure there is sufficient financial staff for disbursing all local costs under this project, monitoring and tracking expenditures, and preparing financial reports of project expenditures for submission to USAID.  3. Monitors budgets and controls costs based on sound financial and accounting principles, MSH guidelines, and USAID requirements.

Supervision: 1. Supervise direct reports with particular focus on their key tasks and project deliverables.  2. Supervisory responsibilities include, but are not limited to, meeting with supervisees on a regular basis to discuss issues, track work progress, provide guidance and support, and ensure consistent quality of work performed; conducting performance planning and reviews; communicating, implementing and assuring adherence to MSH and project policies, guidelines and values; developing staff skills and knowledge; approving time sheets; and facilitating supervisee success whenever possible.  3. Ensure existence across the project of adequate supervisor-employee relationships which support professional development and mentoring, and address problems in a timely manner.  4. Manage and supervise the project staff in the identification of all project technical assistance needs required to achieve the expected outputs of the contract, develop suitable scopes of work, recruit consultants, and execute technical assistance contracts.  Supervise the work and assess the performance of all long-term and short-term advisors and consultants.

Monitoring and Evaluation: 1. Oversee development of a project monitoring and evaluation plan and guide the implementation of that plan throughout the project.  2. Oversee the selection and utilization of appropriate indicators that are directly linked to, measure and report progress against required results.  3. As needed, ensure the establishment of baseline measures for all indicators.  4. Ensure appropriate, timely, and accurate monitoring and evaluation of people and project work.  5. Ensure that project reports are completed and submitted on time and with high quality.  6. Oversee the documentation of the results and lessons learned from this project and the dissemination of this information within and beyond the project.

Quality Assurance: Ensure the integration, consistency, and high quality of the direct and sub-granted work under the project.

Business Development: 1. In coordination with in-country MSH leadership, identify, assess, and communicate to the home office a range of in-country funding opportunities for expanding existing or bidding on new work that matches MSH capability with in-country need, and/or that supports the establishment of MSH in-country offices and programs.  2. Create favorable circumstances for new and current donors to be interested in MSH.  3. Identify potential candidates for future work with MSH.  4. Participate in proposal strategy development as needed.  5. Other duties as required.

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Minimum of a Master's degree in public health, social sciences, international development, or other closely related field.  2. Minimum of 10 years’ experience in the implementation and management of international development projects with combined experience in 2 or more of the following areas: primary health care; maternal children and neonatal care; family planning/ maternal, newborn, and child health; nutrition; malaria; tuberculosis; neglected tropical diseases; HIV/AIDS, water/ sanitation/ hygiene (WASH); and health systems strengthening.  3. Previous experience as a Chief of Party.  4. Demonstrated capacity to build and maintain productive working relationships with a wide network of partners and stakeholders.  5. Experience in community development.  6. Demonstrated knowledge of USG, PEPFAR, Presidential Malaria Initiative and procedures pertaining to activity design/ implementation, monitoring and evaluation.  7. Broad understanding of public health and, in particular, knowledgeable in the area of primary health care.  Knowledgeable about the relevant socioeconomic, institutional and policy issues related to this area of work.  8. Demonstrated English and French language skills (FS-3 level or higher).  9. Previous work experience in Francophone Africa required.  10. Willingness to travel within the country as needed.

Management Sciences for Health is an equal opportunity employer offering employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship, physical or mental handicap, or status as a disabled or Vietnam Era veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces.

TO APPLY: for this position, please visit the Employment Opportunities section of our website at www.jobs-msh.icims.com.  If you cannot apply online or have difficulty doing so, please email an explanation of your problem to iRecruit...@msh.org.

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