Deputy Chief of Party/ Technical Director, SHARP Program at Project HOPE
Employment Nigeria
01-Dec-2016
NIGERIA ,
NGO
Project HOPE - Our mission is to make a positive impact on the global health challenges facing people around the world. Working in collaboration with local governments and other nongovernmental organizations, we are committed to long-term sustainable health care. Our work includes educating health professionals and community health workers, strengthening health systems, fighting diseases such as TB, HIV/AIDS and diabetes and providing humanitarian assistance through donated medicines, medical supplies and volunteer medical help.
POSITION : Deputy Chief of Party/ Technical Director, SHARP Program (Employment), Global Health
Job Description
- We are currently seeking a Deputy Chief of Party/Technical Director in anticipation of the Strategic HIV and AIDS Response Program (SHARP), Nigeria a USAID-funded anticipated multi-year health program.
- This program will focus on improving the quality and effectiveness of high-impact, evidence-based HIV/AIDS interventions to meet state and local government areas' goals and objectives and will cover governance, access, and demand activities across HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis services.
- The deputy Chief of Party/Technical Director will report to the Chief of Party and will be responsible for overseeing management and technical operations.
- The candidate should have extensive experience managing similar projects and should have in-depth technical knowledge and experience in all components of HIV/AIDS program including Prevention, Treatment, Care & Support, PMTCT HIV/TB, OVCs as well as cross-cutting areas such as Health Systems Strengthening (HSS).
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Chief of Party to provide leadership to the program, ensure strategic program direction, and provide high quality technical assistance
- Supervise technical team leaders to ensure high quality and comprehensive technical programming
- Mobilize institutional and project resources, tools, best practices, innovations, technology to deliver a synergistic, evidence based program;
- Liaise with key partners and stakeholders to meet program objectives and deliver results
- Collaborate with technical staff to ensure program activities are designed and implemented according to industry best practices while being tailored to the local context
Minimum Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, or a related discipline.
- Minimum eight years of relevant development experience working as a senior-level manager in public health programs in a developing country
- Demonstrated technical knowledge and experience in all components of HIV/AIDS programming, as well as crosscutting areas like health systems strengthening
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
- Fluency in English.
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