Mpumalanga Provincial Director at BroadReach

Purpose of the position

• The Mpumalanga Provincial Director is a senior level position reporting to the Chief of Party (COP) and is accountable for overall leadership of BroadReach South Africa’s PEPFAR program support to the Mpumalanga Provincial DoH Management. The role will offer support to the Provincial Department of Health in ways of targeted training, establishing forums, SOPs, Operating guidelines, overall quality and usage of data and strategic annual planning processes.

 Key Accountabilities
In your role as Key Provincial Director, you will:

• Achieve the required results
• Deliver all APACE project interventions, ensuring the highest quality and standards, for the Mpumalanga provincial support in partnership with DoH counterparts
• Provide effective transformational leadership
• Provide provincial leadership in strategic planning, including the development of annual work plans and budgets; help guide and oversee the alignment of the budget to expected results; and review annual budgets and develop quarterly reports
• Support and provide direction of strategic planning processes including, Provincial Health Plan, PIPs, and associated budgeting processes
• Provide effective project management and coordinate with departments, units and teams, on other PEPFAR implementing partners, government, PEPFAR agencies and other stakeholders in the province
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks associated with any projects or day to day activities
• Provide effective stewardship and accountability over financial resources o Ensure compliance with USAID rules and regulations, local country laws and BroadReach policies and procedures
• Fulfil reporting requirements
• Support the PHMO request for targeted training of Operation Managers, hospital directors, and provincial directors in Management and Leadership skills
• Assist the PHMO and the Provincial AIDS Council to establish a partner coordination forum to better coordinate the efforts of all partners, including the private sector
• Support translation of SOPs into operational guidelines and ensure successful implementation
• Support provincial supervision, oversight and mentoring for Ideal Clinic manual and checklist adherence at district level
• Establish and train a Quality Assurance team and improve data quality and utilization and strengthen the linkage of data use in the DoH Annual Performance Plan
• Provide coordination support across DoH, DSD, and others
• Provide TA and data utilization support towards development of the PIP 2023-2028
• Support and strengthen the BroadReach brand and reputation
• Represent BroadReach in provincial and national forums to share the successes and experiences from the province
• Participate in key communications internally and externally
• Serve as a brand ambassador and inculcate brand ambassadorship throughout the organisation

Qualifications
Essential qualifications  

• Master level Degree in public health, health administration or business administration with a focus on public health, social sciences or a related field

Desirable qualifications

• Experience with implementing PEPFAR Programmes via USAID or CDC or similar within the South African Context
• Experience implementing HIV/AIDS and TB Programmes within South African Context
• Extensive knowledge and experience with working with Department of Health

 Experience & Skills

• Minimum 15-20 years of senior professional experience in the health sector
• It would be advantageous to have 10 or more years of experience with PEPFAR-funded HIV/AIDS initiatives
• Respected professional in the health space with a significant number of years in a leadership role either at provincial or national level
• Exposure to a variety of business processes such as business planning, reporting, annual performance monitoring, etc.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of the National, Provincial, and District health systems
• Proven ability to establish strong working relationships with a variety of stakeholders including senior government representatives, donors, academic and research institutes, and other high-level stakeholders
• Strong Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Personal Qualities & Behavioural Competencies

• Customer-centred mindset
• Strong operational leadership skills with the ability to foster followership, loyalty, commitment and build high performing teams
• Strong sense of introspection, self-awareness and ability to foster positive working relationships and work collaboratively across the organization to optimize the client experience
• Solutions focused, open minded, creative, innovative whilst being extremely decisive, action and results oriented
• High adaptability and ability to endure failure, learn rapidly from it, get back on track and meet targets
• Socially and culturally respectful, aware, adaptable and adept at finding acceptable and productive ways forward though complex constellations of stakeholders, interests and agendas
• Strong sense of maturity, discernment and able to maintain confidentiality when required
• Strong focus and drive to ensure targets are achieved
• Accountability
• Results Orientation
• Strategic Thinking
• Client Orientation
• Business Acumen
• Project Management

 Capabilities
Winning, Enabling and Delivery of Projects

• Opportunity Development, Capture Management, Proposal Development, Organized, Disciplined, Analytical

People Leadership/Self Leadership

• Selections, Development, Delegation, Example, Self-Confidence, Independently responsible, Curiosity, Change Management

Strategic and Holistic Decision Making

• Governance and legal awareness, Financial acumen, Risk management, Strategic perspective

Relationship Management

• Institutional Representations, Taking the long view, Building common ground, Mutual respect, Responsiveness, Standing for the other, Engagement