PSI is a network of locally based, internationally linked organizations dedicated to achieving consumer-powered healthcare—people-centered health systems that provide high-quality, affordable care wherever and wherever it is required. Our beginnings in sexual and reproductive health have evolved into a more comprehensive goal. Today, we collaborate with the public and private sectors, as well as local communities, to prioritize people’s voices and choices while creating solutions to satisfy their basic health requirements. Over the last 50 years, we’ve helped push boundaries, break taboos, define trends, and find new solutions to complicated global health concerns.
PSI is looking for a project director for a three-year malaria eradication initiative centered in Zanzibar. The project director will be responsible for all areas of the project’s execution, including technical implementation, financial and administrative compliance, and personnel supervision. The job will also be responsible for coordinating with the government, donors sponsoring malaria eradication initiatives in Zanzibar, and other international and national partners to ensure alignment with national and regional objectives, policies, and actions. The project director will be in charge of utilizing evidence to enhance project design and execution, as well as sharing and leveraging learnings to improve outcomes. The project director will be the main point of contact for the project donor.
Responsibilities:
- Program leadership and management responsibilities include financial control, compliance, project management, including coordination with the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, timely implementation, and activity reporting. Ensure that grant operations and sub-grantee management activities are fully in accordance with PSI and donor laws and operations.
- Thought Leadership, Knowledge Management, and Technical Leadership of the Project Provide technical knowledge throughout implementation, ensuring that activities and outputs are technically sound, relevant to local context, and use available resources to fulfill project goals. Actively explore synergies and efficiencies with other funders and implementing partners, with a focus on scaling up and sustaining project activities, initiatives, and systems. Create a strategic external communications strategy and guide the team in sharing and disseminating insights from implementation and research. Represent the project in internal and external forums.
- People management includes organizing and directing the work of project workers and short-term advisers, as well as setting individual performance goals that cascade from project objectives to all project personnel. Offer supervision, training, performance management, coaching, and feedback.
- External representation: Establish and maintain strong and collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders in malaria elimination in Zanzibar, such as the Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Program, the Zanzibar Ministry of Health, and multisectoral actors involved in malaria elimination. Manage frequent strategic interaction with WHO, the Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Committee, and other key stakeholders to ensure the project accomplishes its policy and sustainability goals, as well as consult with other project partners to guarantee project coordination and execution.
- Donor link: act as a link between the Gates Foundation and other donors interested in PMC.
- Internal representation and coordination.
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in MSc, MPH, MBA, MHA, MPA, or equivalent.
- At least ten years of relevant job experience as an entomologist, parasitologist, or epidemiologist.
- It is preferable to have at least 7 years of experience managing global health programs in low- or middle-income countries.
- Ability to evaluate and use regular data, as well as make technical modifications to fulfill project objectives.
- Ability to coordinate and collaborate successfully with a wide range of stakeholders at several locations and levels, including business partners, funders, government officials and bodies, technical specialists, civil society groups, community members and organizations, and project support personnel.
- Strong leadership abilities, as well as a track record of collaborating and working across teams and positions. Ability to convince and encourage individuals and teams.
- Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with a diverse range of partners and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated strategic thinking and planning abilities, with a focus on workplan implementation and oversight.
- Fluent in both English and Kiswahili.
- Excellent writing and presenting abilities.
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How to apply:
Application for the position must include:
- Cover letter demonstrating your suitability for the post based on the specified criteria.
- Detailed curriculum vitae with contact information, email address, and daytime cell phone number(s), as well as three (3) references, one of whom should be your previous employer.
The application will be deemed legitimate if it is sent/received by 1700 hrs on Thursday, October 31, 2024. Please keep in mind that only applicants who have been shortlisted and match the following standards will be contacted. Send your application to [email protected] in MS Word or PDF format. Include the name of the job in the subject line of your email. Please do not include any certifications while submitting online.