Country Director

Overview:

Country Director will provide vision, leadership and direction to ensure the strategic, programmatic, technical, and financial integrity of Jhpiego’s programs in Tanzania. This includes guiding the strategic planning, design and implementation for country programs and achieving the planned results.  Country Director works closely with MOH to streamline efforts and ensure complementarities of projects, serves as the primary point of contact for USAID, DFID, MOH, stakeholders and partners and is responsible for managing relationships and collaboration with international and local partners. Country Director also ensures timely and cost-effective project implementation, reporting of activities, and will be responsible for all project deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and strategic direction to ensure programmatic and financial integrity of the program and to achieve project goals, objectives and targets
• Develop and revise/update as needed Tanzania’s country  strategy with objectives, staff roles and responsibilities, outreach, and a plan for overall flow of information and knowledge to and from Baltimore
• Provide oversight of program activities, ensuring that the program is technically sound, evidence-based and responsive to the needs of the country
• Serve as Chief of Party from time to time as needed
• Mentor, support, supervise and manage a team of highly qualified staff and align their efforts to ensure rapid and sustainable results
• Provide programmatic and/or technical leadership in the design, analysis, and synthesis of interventions
• Ensure the quality and sustainability of interventions particularly in the areas of VMMC, EIMC, MNH, CECAP, community mobilization, gender integration and capacity building
• Provide guidance, in collaboration with key staff specialists, to subcontractors and subgrantees and coordinate activities with other agencies
• Ensure preparations and timely submission of all programmatic and financial reports to Jhpiego and donors
• Identify opportunities for new program development and lead efforts to respond to solicitations
• Ensure that ICR and external audit findings are corrected in a timely manner
• Ensure that the Tanzania office complies with Jhpiego program and technical standards
• Ensure the program is working within available resources and that the program is fiscally sound
• Work with Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) staff to ensure M&E frameworks are developed and data/results are effectively tracked
• Work closely with Jhpiego home office staff to ensure effective, timely and coordinated project implementation
• Ensure country compliance with Jhpiego policies and donor rules and regulations as well as all contractual requirements
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships and alliances with USAID, CDC, DFID, other donors, the MOH as well as implementing partners, private sector partners and other key stakeholders to maximize resources and avoid duplication of effort
• Represent Jhpiego’s interests and present progress, achievements and lessons learned to donors and other key stakeholders in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations
• Conduct annual staff evaluations and support professional development for staff

Required Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in public health, health administration, public administration, business administration or related degree
• 10+ years of progressively responsible international public health management experience including design, implementation, monitor, reporting, and financial management
• Demonstrated ability to manage large (funding range between $30-90M) USG-supported public health projects and budgets
• Experience managing a multi-partner consortium (both international and local NGOs)
• Experience  developing successful, replicable and sustainable projects in East and Southern Africa
• Experience designing and managing complex  MNH, FP/RH, HIV/AIDS, prevention and care and treatment programs
• Proven leadership skills and expertise in strategic program planning, implementation and management
• Proven experience in leading highly skilled and qualified program, technical and administrative and finance personnel
• 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
• 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 travel in Tanzania and internationally
• Fluent in written and spoken English; knowledge of Swahili preferred
• Experience leading annual workplans and collaborating on local action plans incorporating national Technical Working Groups directives
• 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
• Ability to develop technical solutions to these problems/issues and assisting in the design of operational research that could yield appropriate solutions
• A team player accustomed to building team capacity, delegating working teams, and developing communities of learning among host country partners and counterparts

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