Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 01 Apr 2018
About Us:
Marie Stopes International (MSI) is a global organisation providing personalised contraception services to women and girls. Our local teams of professionals are passionate about the work they do in communities across 37 countries. The services we provide give a woman the power to choose when she has children so that she is free to pursue her plans and dreams for herself and her family.
The primary responsibility of this role is to further MSI’s Goal: The Prevention of Unwanted Births and its mission of ensuring the individual’s right to**: Children by Choice Not Chance.**
The Role:
MSI seeks a qualified Project Director for a three year, multi-million pound sexual and reproductive health programme funded by the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID). The programme is designed to support the goals of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and the regional health bureaus (RHBs) to improve the quality, equity, choice and financing for FP and CAC/PAC services in Ethiopia. Building on the significant SRH achievements of the FMoH, the MSI-led consortium will leverage its track record delivering high quality SRH counselling and services through public and private sector networks in the country. We will work with the FMoH and Regional Health Bureaus (RHBs) to accelerate Ethiopia’s achievement of its FP2020 commitments, by creating systems to ensure service providers are sufficiently trained, mentored, and regularly supported and assessed to have the necessary skills to address unmet need and reach vulnerable and underserved populations.
The Project Director – Family Planning by Choice (FPbC) will report to the Deputy Country Director of MSI in Ethiopia, and will be responsible for the supervision of the full time Technical Director, Task Leads and Grants and Finance Manager.
The Project Director will lead the programme, ensuring that it delivers the expected results and provides value for money to the donor. S/he will be the main point of contact with DFID Ethiopia, the FMoH and manage relationships within the consortium. S/he will have ultimate authority on all aspects of the programme and will ensure that it is implemented with the highest standards of quality and efficiency, working closely with the Country Director and technical teams. S/he will ensure that the programme meets MSI’s internal standards and donor compliance.
This role is subject to the successful award of the contract and the project is due to commence in 2018. The role will be for a minimum of one year and may be extended for the full duration of the project (2 years and 9 months).
About you
To succeed in this role, you must have:
- MPH/MBA/MSc in public health, business administration or related field (essential)
- Significant experience delivering public sector health programmes in Ethiopia at federal and regional level or a similar context at a senior level of management (essential)
- Track record in building and maintaining strong relationships with government, particularly the FMoH and RHBs (essential)
- Demonstrable experience managing large and complex programmes funded by DFID or other institutional donors with budgets of upward of £10 million (essential)
- Significant experience leading consortia and managing local and international implementing partners to deliver results across a range of work streams (essential)
- Proven general management experience in operationally demanding and challenging environments, including recruitment, training and supervision of direct reports (essential)
- Demonstrated capacity to manage financial resources effectively and transparently to achieve maximum impact and value for money (essential)
- Proven knowledge and experience applying DFID compliance and familiarity with DFID terms and conditions, duty of care requirements, etc (desirable)
- Fluent in English and Amharic (essential)
For more information about the role, please view the job framework on our website.
In addition, you will have the right to work in Ethiopia and be pro-choice on children by choice & not chance
Location: Addis, Ethiopia
Closing date: Sunday 1st April 2018 (midnight GMT). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.
Salary: Competitive (ideally we are looking for someone based in Ethiopia but may consider an international assignee for the right person)
How to apply:
To apply, please click here: https://careers.mariestopes.org.uk/vacancy/project-director---srhr-project-ethiopia-344789.html