Position
Overview:
Chief of Party (COP)
provides vision and leadership to ensure the strategic, programmatic,
technical, and financial integrity of the 5-year, $73 million,
USAID/Tanzania-funded Sauti Project implemented by Jhpiego with partners
EngenderHealth, Pact and NIMR/Mwanza.
The Sauti Project
supports the Ministry of Health, Community Develop
ment, Gender, Elderly and
Children (MoHCDGEC), the Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS), and civil
society organizations to operationalize state of the art high quality biomedical,
behavioral and structural interventions for key and vulnerable populations
including female sex workers, men who have sex with men, and adolescent girls
and young women aged 15-24. The project works at the community level to improve
access to HIV prevention, treatment and care, and family planning (FP) services
and to address gender norms and prevent gender-based violence (GBV). The Chief
of Party guides the strategic planning, design and implementation of the
project and is responsible for achieving the planned results set out for the
program. S/he serves as the primary point of contact for USAID, MoHCDGEC,
stakeholders and partners to ensure the program is rooted within national HIV
prevention and FP priorities, and leads the Sauti Technical Advisory Group – an
advisory board of national and international leaders in key and vulnerable
populations. S/he oversees multiple public-private partnerships that ad value
and cost-share to the program. The Chief of Party ensures timely and
cost-effective project implementation, reporting of activities, and is
responsible for all project deliverables. The Chief of Party oversees a large
team of highly qualified staff working in 11 regions of Tanzania.
Responsibilities:
Provides
leadership and strategic direction to ensure programmatic and financial
integrity of the program to achieve rapid and sustained project goals,
objectives and targets
Ensures
the program is technically sound, evidence-based and responsive to the needs of
the country/region its people and donors
Ensures
that Sauti Technical Advisory Group meets on a regular basis to provide
technical guidance and feedback to the program
Ensures
compliance with the program agreement results and cost-share requirements
Develops
and maintains strong working relationships and alliances with USAID, various
Government of Tanzania ministries as well as implementing partners, civil
society organizations, private sector partners and other key stakeholders
Represents
Jhpiego’s interests and present progress, achievements and lessons learned to
USAID, MOHCDGEC, and key stakeholders in public and professional circles
through meetings, conferences, presentations, and information circles
- Oversees
and develops new public private partnerships to advance the project’s
strategic goals. - Provides
technical leadership in the design, analysis, and synthesis of
interventions - Ensures
the quality and sustainability of interventions in technical areas such as
HIV testing and counseling, linkages to care and treatment, behavioral
interventions, structural interventions, family planning, integration,
gender equity and capacity building - Oversees
Sauti’s research agenda - Advises
counterparts on technical issues and participate in relevant technical
advisory groups with counterparts and partner institutions - Leads
the annual work planning process in close collaboration with USAID,
MOHCDGEC, project team and project partners - Motivates,
mentors, supports, supervises and manages a team of highly qualified staff
and align their efforts to ensure rapid and sustainable results –
including up to 8 direct reports and more than 150 indirect reports. - Provides
guidance, in collaboration with key staff specialists, to subcontractors
and subgrantees and coordinate activities with other agencies - Writes
and/or reviews technical components of materials and publications related
to the program and its development - Ensures
resources for program implementation are available - Works
with finance and project staff to develop and track project budgets - Works
with Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) staff to develop M&E
frameworks and effectively track data/results - Works
closely with Jhpiego home office staff to ensure effective, timely and
coordinated project implementation - Ensures
compliance with USG and Jhpiego operational policies and regulations
Qualifications:
- Advanced
clinical degree and/or Master’s degree in public health or a related field - 8+
years’ experience as Chief of Party of large USAID funded programs with
multi-partner consortium (both international and local NGOs) - Demonstrated
ability to manage large (funding range between $30-75M) USG-supported
public health projects and budgets - Technical
expertise in a combination of HIV prevention, care and treatment for key
populations and adolescents - 10+
years of professional, progressively more responsible, management
experience in international public health programs - Experience
developing successful, replicable projects in East Africa - Experience
designing and managing complex HIV/AIDS, prevention, care and treatment
programs, particularly those focusing on key and vulnerable populations - Experience
integrating FP and TB into HIV, MCH or other health programs - Experience
integrating gender equities and norms into programs - Proven
leadership skills and expertise in strategic program planning,
implementation and management including leading annual workplans,
incorporating national Technical Working Groups directives, and
collaborating on local action plans - Ability
to build capacity and collaboration between governmental and non-governmental
partners and other project implementers - Experience
designing and supervising activities with a facility/community interface.
Has experience building the capacity of community based organizations to
implement project activities - Understanding
of USG donor’s regulations and compliance, reporting requirements, and
health strategic framework - Ability
to communicate effectively, instilling trust and confidence. Excellent
interpersonal and written and oral presentation skills - Ability
to work in a complex environment charged with multiple tasks, short
deadlines and intense pressure to perform - Capacity
for analyzing technical problems and issues that impede efforts to provide
improved health care to populations; developing technical solutions to
these problems/issues and assisting in the design of operational research
that could yield appropriate solutions - Team
player accustomed to building team capacity, delegating working teams, and
developing communities of learning among host country partners and
counterparts - Ability
to travel in Tanzania and internationally - Fluent
in written and spoken English, Swahili language skills are a “plus”
Please apply at www.jobs-jhpiego.icims.com
