Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Country Director provides vision, leadership and direction to ensure the strategic, programmatic, technical, and financial integrity of Jhpiego’s programs in Tanzania. This includes guiding the strategic planning, design and implementation for country programs and achieving the planned results. Country Director works closely with MOH to streamline efforts and ensure complementarities of projects, serves as the primary point of contact for donors including USAID, MOH, stakeholders and partners and is responsible for managing relationships and collaboration with international and local partners. Country Director also ensures timely and cost-effective project implementation, reporting of activities, and 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
• Develop and revise/update as needed Tanzania’s country strategy with objectives, staff roles and responsibilities, outreach, and a plan for overall flow of information and knowledge to and from Baltimore
• Works closely with COPs ensuring that the projects are technically sound, evidence-based and responsive to the needs of the country and donors
• Serve as Chief of Party in temporary or permanent basis as needed
• Mentor, support, supervise and manage a team of highly qualified staff and align their efforts to ensure rapid and sustainable results
• Directly supervises COPs, Directors of HR and Finance, Compliance Officers)
• Take concrete steps to create or promote a safe, respectful and harassment-free work environment. • Provide programmatic and/or technical leadership in the design, analysis, and synthesis of interventions
• Ensure the quality and sustainability of interventions particularly in the areas of VMMC, MNH, CECAP, community mobilization, gender integration and capacity building
• Provide guidance, in collaboration with key staff specialists, to subcontractors and subgrantees and coordinate activities with other agencies
• Ensures that all awards performed on time, on scope and on budget, and raised potential overspending to VP GPO and Director Program Finance in a timely manner
• Ensure preparations and timely submission of all programmatic and financial reports to Jhpiego and donors
• Identify opportunities for new program development and lead efforts to respond to solicitations.

Job Skills: Not Specified

Required Qualifications
• Advanced degree in public health, health administration, public administration, business administration or related degree
• 10+ years of progressively responsible international public health management experience including design, implementation, monitor, reporting, and financial management
• Demonstrated ability to manage large (funding range between $15M+) USG-supported public health projects and budgets
• Experience managing a multi-partner consortium (both international and local NGOs), experience as COP is preferred
• Experience developing successful, replicable and sustainable projects in East and Southern Africa
• Experience designing and managing complex MNH, FP/RH, HIV/AIDS, prevention and care and treatment programs
• Proven leadership skills and expertise in strategic program planning, implementation and management
• Proven experience in leading highly skilled and qualified program, technical and administrative and finance personnel
• 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
• 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
• Previous experience working in southern Africa (experience in Tanzania is preferable) and strong relationships at senior level in the health sector in the country preferred
• Experience leading annual workplans and collaborating on local action plans incorporating national Technical Working Groups directives
• 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
• Capacity for analyzing technical problems and issues that impede efforts to provide improved health care to populations
• Ability to develop technical solutions to these problems/issues and assisting in the design of operational research that could yield appropriate solutions
• A team player accustomed to building team capacity, delegating working teams, and developing communities of learning among host country partners and counterparts
• Ability to travel in Tanzania and internationally
• Fluent in written and spoken English; knowledge of Swahili preferred

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified
Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified
Work Hours: 8

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