Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, January 16 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Team Management
• Provide and spearhead technical leadership for the entire team across the programme
• Oversee and ensure all programme progress towards achieving programme outcomes and impact
• Manage technical staff to ensure targets are met and associated deliverables are produced on time and of high quality
• Ensure inputs from technical advisors and short-term consultants are of high quality and achieve best value for money
• Establish a one team approach built on positive collaboration across the consortium

Programme Delivery and Technical Leadership
• Act as lead point of contact on all technical programme delivery aspects – from design and implementation to close out and evaluation
• Represent and act as an ambassador for TDDAP2 and Palladium both internally and externally at relevant meetings, events and workshops and actively seek opportunities for collaboration
• Lead on strengthening of International Health Regulations (IHR) capacity in Africa and driving African ownership and leadership of health responses
• Provide technical guidance on strengthening regional institutions to build national capacity in global health security
• Engaging with CSOs to identify and monitor disease risk, focussing on surveillance and misinformation
• Drive and instill a One Health approach across the programme’s technical interventions
• Incorporate and sustain a focus on gender, equity, disability and social inclusion
• Lead the development and quality assurance of all programme workplans, reports and reviews
• Oversee and provide technical inputs towards managing and monitoring of programme budgets and financial performance

Stakeholder Management
• Lead and ensure strong working relationship with the FCDO and other relevant UK government departments
• Build, maintain and nurture strong partnerships with WHO AFRO, WAHO and Africa CDC towards improving regional health security
• Regularly engage and share lessons with other UK funded programmes and their wider health portfolio to ensure a strategic and collaborative approach to accelerate progress
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders at regional, national and community levels, facilitating cross-country collaboration and sharing of best practices

Key Competencies Required:
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in a senior leadership or programme management capacity, including designing, delivering and evaluating complex regional health programmes
• Masters Degree or higher in Public Health or other relevant field
• Demonstrated technical health expertise in health systems strengthening, health security, One Health, infectious disease, amongst others
• In-depth knowledge of the African health security architecture
• Deep familiarity and experience working in health environment in Africa – particularly across Malawi, Uganda, DRC, Ghana and/or Kenya
• Strong financial, operational, problem solving and donor management skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Strong interpersonal skills and clear ability to demonstrate leadership of large teams remotely
• Experience in coordinating and collaborating with diverse set of stakeholders across Africa and UK
• Deep knowledge of health systems at regional, national and community level
• Experience working on other donor funded programmes, preferably with FCDO

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:
• Previous experience in epidemic response and preparedness (e.g. in emergency operation centers – EOCs, or conducting or participating in JEEs or after-action review exercises)
• Proficient in French, or have worked in francophone Africa
• Have worked with or within multilateral organization's (WHO, World Bank, AfCDC)


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

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