About Ohio State Global One Health 

Ohio State Global One Health, LLC (Ohio State GOH, LLC) is an affiliate entity of The Ohio State University working on a range of Global Health Security related projects targeting laboratory, surveillance, and one health workforce capacity strengthening through applied education, training, and research throughout Ethiopia. Ohio State Global One Health works various Ministries, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Regional Health Bureaus, Universities and other research institutions. 

About the Opportunity 

Ohio State Global One Health is seeking for Chief of Party (COP), Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP)/Technical Director (TD), Senior Advisor (MEL Manager) and Finance and Operations Manager to support an anticipated five-year USAID-funded project intended to reduce the impact of infectious disease outbreaks on morbidity and mortality through building a resilient One Health surveillance, diagnostics and workforce development capacities. The Health Security Activity (HSA) will achieve this through strengthening Ethiopia’s capacity to detect infectious disease outbreaks early, supporting the subnational laboratory systems to diagnose resistant and zoonotic pathogens and building a one health workforce to respond to any emerging or re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks. The location for all positions will be in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and the employment type will be full-time one-year contract with a possibility of annual renewal depending upon the availability of funds and successful performance. The employment will be pending on receipt of funding from USAID upon submission of proposal.

Key Responsibilities:

The Finance and Operations Manager will be expected to develop and manage the project financial plan to include monitoring and reporting systems that meet US Government requirements and manage grant and contracting activities. The Finance and Operations Manager should also be involved and lead the value for money and other cost-effective/costing analysis that will be required under this award to monitor financial expenditure and Activity results.

Job Requirements

Education:

• At least Master’s Degree in Management, Accounting, Finance or related social science fields with significant years of experience in financial management.

Knowledge and skills:

• Strong background on finance, compliance, accounting, and auditing, including financial planning, monitoring of subcontract compliance and management and the establishment of internal controls; demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork, and planning skills

Experience:

• At least 10 years of proven experience in finance, administration and operations support to the U. S. Government-funded projects or other international donor funded activities.

Language:

• Fluency of English in reading, writing, speaking (Level IV) is required and additional fluency in Amharic will be preferred. Applicants may propose an alternate key personnel structure if it will yield greater achievement of the Activity’s objective and most importantly the projected results.

How to Apply

• Interested applicants should send their letter of application and CV within 5 working days of the vacancy announcement through THIS LINK application portal.

• Each applicant should include at least three (3) professional references for each written within the last five (5) years

• Applications (together with CV) and reference letters should be sent as one pdf file on one email message. Multiple emails might be rejected.