• Employer: Jhpiego

• Job Time: Full-Time

• Job Type: Contract

• Place of Work: Addis Ababa, Addis Abeba - Ethiopia

• Deadline: December, 20/2024 (14 days left)

Overview

The Regional Program Manager is a point person for Jhpiego in the region and provides management oversight for HWIP activities in the region. The Regional Program Manager coordinates the planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of project activities in the region. S/he represents the program and maintains excellent relationships with RHBs, Woreda health offices,s and health teaching institutions in the region. The regional manager supervises regional staff including, but not limited to, education and capacity building and HRM advisors and officers. S/he works collaboratively with Addis Ababa-based HWIP key personnel to ensure results are achieved.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Leadership

• Provide leadership to a team of Regional Education and Capacity Building Advisors, HRM Advisors, and support staff

• Provide leadership in health workforce improvement setting high standards for program implementation;

• Promote teamwork across and within the regional office;

• Participate in and lead the development of work plans, and implementation, monitoring, and reporting of project activities and results.

• Represent HWIP in the region and maintain excellent relationships with the RHB, woreda health offices, universities, regional health science colleges, and other regional counterparts

Program Management & Implementation

• Oversee overall program management to develop implementation plans, make budgetary decisions monitor implementation of activities, and ensure that program deliverables are met.

• Provide technical assistance, on-the-job training, and mentoring to counterparts at the regional health bureau and health training institutions to address gaps in the education and training of health workers, human resources for health management, leadership and governance, and evidence-based decision-making.

• Work closely with regional chapter offices of health professional associations to lift their capacity and profile in the region.

• Supervise HWIP regional staff and provide technical mentoring and support.

• Monitor activities, outputs, and results of programs and produce data to enable dynamic decision-making and continually inform mid-course corrections and follow-up while working closely with the Directors, Technical, Program, and Admin support staff.

Business Development

• Support the development of strategies for Jhpiego Ethiopia, including technical direction for achieving human resource for health capacity building and service delivery goals as well as management effectiveness.

• Support Jhpiego Ethiopia in reviewing proposals and write-ups, and pursuing business development opportunities, nurturing relationships with potential in-country partners, donors, and the business community.

Knowledge Management and Sharing

• Identify programmatic successes, challenges, and lessons learned, and document these for internal use, and external audiences;

• Liaise with Jhpiego technical experts to ensure that program strategies and interventions are technically sound and evidence-based.

• Ensure sharing of information and knowledge among field staff as well as from Baltimore, and explore community of practices (CoPs) on different competency areas;

• Represent Jhpiego in professional circles.

Job Requirements

• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines, and intense pressure to perform;

• Effective communication in English, Amharic, and local language (written and oral) with strong presentation and writing skills; regional working language is desirable.

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with national and international staff and partners, and be flexible;

• Computer Literacy (Word, Excel,l and PowerPoint);

• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

Education & Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in Public health, Health service management, Health education, or other relevant area

• Minimum of 7 (seven) years of experience in managing health programs in an NGO setting with international donors and familiarity with the Ethiopian Health Development Sector;

• Experience in higher education leadership, curriculum design, facilitating education and training

• An in-depth understanding of the human resource for health issues in the country;

• Understanding of health workforce improvement approaches and strategies

• Knowledge of additional regional language(s) is advantageous

NOTE: All staff members of Jhpiego, regardless of the level of their responsibilities, are expected to:

• Model Jhpiego’s mission and values.

• Participate in the business development processes.

• Contribute to knowledge sharing and transfer.

• Make responsible decisions that ensure time and cost efficiency and accountability.

• Engage in team activities, adopt a team spirit, take responsibility for assigned action items, and provide feedback as necessary.

• Prioritize tasks to meet program and organizational objectives.

• Please mention your current earnings on the motivation letter

• The basic starting Salary per year ranges between 22,966 to 33,563 USD (subject to income tax and pension contribution)

How to Apply

Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.

Apply using THIS LINK

Applicants must submit a single document for upload to include: a cover letter, resume, and references.

For further information about Jhpiego, visit our website at www.jhpiego.org

Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer