Project Director at BroadReach

Key Accountabilities

• Provide and develop technical expertise in health ministries to build more efficient and effective systems to prepare for, mitigate, and implement national infectious disease response.
• Provide overall direction for the project’s development and implementation, with technical oversight for all project components and responsibility for ensuring key results are met.
• Lead implementation of project activities and goals, including developing solutions to barriers and ensuring efficient use of resources.
• Serve as the primary point of contact and liaison between project stakeholders and leadership, ensuring strong collaboration with stakeholders, including donor and government counterparts.
• Establish and maintain consistent communication with USAID/Washington, USAID Missions, MOHs, other national health entities and stakeholders, international organizations, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure documentation and dissemination of findings, impact, innovations, and lessons learned.
• Ensure timely and quality completion and submission of all technical and financial deliverables and reports in accordance with donor and national guidelines.
• Supervise and assess the performance of senior project staff, long- and short-term advisors, and consultants. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being and ensure the work environment fosters diversity, gender equality and inclusion.
• Manage relationships with partner organizations, including organization of review/planning workshops. Coordinate the roles and activities of staff from partner organizations in implementation in line with BroadReach partnership principles.
• Support the project team in monitoring the progress and pace of project implementation, assuring that the full potential of the program is realized through the promotion of high-quality work and internal cost controls.
• Use data, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive modeling, and fact-based management to drive decision making.
• Coordinate with finance staff to oversee streamlined operational and financial processes and provide financial management capacity building to client organizations. Ensure compliance with the financial and administrative requirements of the award.
• Manage and mitigate risk through monitoring national and regional issues that may impact staff and programming. Ensure all staff understand and adhere to BroadReach safety and security policies and plans, including COVID-19 protocols.
• Represent BroadReach programming, highlighting innovative work. Oversee the development of communication strategies and materials, complying with donor and BroadReach branding and marking requirements and procedures.
• Identify opportunities and negotiate partnership programs to leverage other donor, governmental, and organizational resources.

Qualifications

Essential qualifications

• At a minimum, a bachelor's degree in management, administration, business, international relations, or a related field.

Experience & Skills

• Minimum of 15 years of relevant management and technical experience implementing infectious disease projects for international donors, in one or more of the following ID focus areas: tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, neglected tropical diseases, and emerging pandemic infections.
• Experience developing and implementing a capacity building program, preferably within Africa, and providing technical assistance.
• Proven experience interacting with other government agencies, host country governments, and international organizations in at least one of the following countries: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, eSwatini, Ghana, Guinea, Lesotho, Liberia, Mali, Madagascar, Niger, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan.
• Minimum of 5 years of staff management experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment. Experience coaching and mentoring senior program staff.
• Technical expertise and experience in designing, optimizing, and implementing infectious disease programming.
• Demonstrated ability to manage donor funded projects, including financial, human resource, compliance and quality assurance components with preference given to candidates with knowledge of USG rules and regulations.
• Track record of relationship building with government actors, health service providers, USG implementing partners, and other relevant partners across all levels of health care system.
• Experience managing and supervising large teams of technical and operational staff.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills as well as strong public presentation skills, including the ability to represent the project to key stakeholders.
• Ability to travel locally and internationally.

Personal Qualities & Behavioural Competencies

• Committed to high standards and continuous improvement
• Good influencing and interpersonal skills with people at all levels
• Confident and comfortable to challenge senior stakeholder thinking
• Ability to operate in a high-pressure environment with conflicting priorities and tight timelines
• Ability to speak and present proposals with conviction
• Resourceful, creative, and innovative approach to work
• Collaborative nature of working across different teams
• Ability to effectively prioritise and plan work
• Good negotiation skills with the ability to navigate and relate at all levels
• Be solution focused
• Ability to build rapport and credibility with stakeholders