Senior Project Officer Southern Africa Health Programs (Team Lead) at Panagora Group

Position Responsibilities: 

The Senior Project Officer Southern Africa Health Programs (Team Lead) will carry out the following activities: 

• Develop and implement a strategy to assess and prioritize critical program and operations staffing needs for USAID’s South Africa and RHO Health Office(s). 
• Leadership and overall management of Site Support including the management of a core team of highly skilled technical experts tasked with health facility level support, working with the USAID C & T team in identifying gaps and promoting best practices, across five District Support Partners (DSPs). 
• Assist in defining project scope and priorities, involving all relevant stakeholders, and oversee the utilization and development of appropriate management and communication systems to provide rapid and effective support. 
• Implement Panagora TSS’s technical assistance approach for assigned Health Offices and projects (based on needs and requests) to achieve USAID’s strategic priorities. This will be done by project managing long- and short-term staff as well as subcontractors located in the region and the US. 
• Liaise with various stakeholders at all levels of local government, donors and implementing partners in the southern Africa region. 
• Facilitate and support Panagora’s adaptation of effective approaches and activities for the RHO and USAID/Mozambique, leveraging our expertise in technical service delivery, strategic information, virtual learning, and program management.
• Oversee recruitment to expand Panagora’s bench of global technical, program, and operations professionals with expertise across the Health portfolio, including the use of innovative and effective online/virtual and in-person (where appropriate) recruitment activities and events. 
• Coordinate technical experts’ onboarding/offboarding and ongoing engagement and management, including leveraging their skills and expertise in other areas of work across TSS. 
• Serve as the point of contact and supervisor for short- and long-term secondees to USAID; this includes coordination and management, approval of timesheets and other administrative functions, completing annual performance reviews, and other duties as assigned. 
• Working closely with the Deputy Chief of Party: Technical and Operations, collaborate with all TSS tasks and team leads to leverage solutions and approaches implemented across the various tasks to rapidly implement those solutions in assigned projects, scaling up TSS activities in TSS project supported countries. 
• Responsible for supporting quality implementation of day-to-day project activities, including budgeting and financial accountability, staffing, quarterly and annual work planning. 
• Other activities as assigned, including potential to lead on Localization, Prevention, Care & Treatment, and other project areas based on needs. 

Requirements

Qualifications: 

• Master’s Degree or MBA in program/project management, organizational development, public health, social science, or a related field. 
• 6-8 years’ progressive responsible management experience. 
• Experience with USAID/USG, local southern African government stakeholders and implementing partners. 
• Demonstrated experience in developing excellent stakeholder relationships. 
• Demonstrated experience working with long-term staff, consultants, and a multidisciplinary and multicultural team. 
• Demonstrated experience managing complex field-based projects. 
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with individuals from diverse professional backgrounds. 
• Excellent communications, report writing, and presentation skills in the English language. 
• Analytical thinker and high attention to detail.