Program Manager: Accra - Jhpiego

Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with the John Hopkins University.  For 50 years and over and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families. Jhpiego works with health experts, governments and community leaders to provide high-quality health care for their people. Jhpiego develops strategies to help countries care for themselves by training competent health care workers, strengthening health systems and improving delivery of care.

Jhpiego designs innovative, effective and low-cost health care solutions to ensure a level of care for women and their families. These practical, evidence-based interventions are breaking down barriers to high-quality health care for the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Job Description

Reports to: Country Director 

Job Location: Accra 

Project Overview

Jhpiego, in collaboration with The Latter-Day Saints Charities seeks to use a collaborative approach to implement a project aimed at improving and sustaining the capacity of secondary-level hospitals and their referral hospitals, in the Eastern and Greater Accra Regions to care for maternal and newborn complications at birth, and small and vulnerable newborns. 

The Program Manager will support rapid start up, implementing and reporting for the project, including work planning; technical and program support to teams and working groups, report writing, financial oversight and sub-award management; operations and administration.

The PM will work closely with clinical staff, support staff, home office, and donor to ensure success of the project.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop detailed implementation plans and budgets, submit for review and approval with clear team accountability aligned with program proposal, in close collaboration with internal and external team players 
• Harness human, material and financial resources appropriate for the program
• Maintain an overview of project budget (regularly monitor budget versus actual (BVA) expenditures) and proactively develop timely solutions to project’s under and overspends in line with organization and donor requirements 
• Ensure continuous monitoring of program activities, as well as timely and accurate evaluation and reporting of progress toward the achievement of program goals and objectives
• Supervise and manage a team of highly qualified staff; align their efforts with program goals
• Coordinate technical inputs from a number of different international technical experts and support international advisors to better understand the local context for the project
• Monitor and supervise short- and long-term consultants contributing to program efforts
• Contribute to establishing, maintaining, and improving active and regular working relationships with government authorities, donors and other partner agencies 
• Utilize learning from the field to contribute to improvement of project, development and implementation of other programs/projects and advocacy initiatives 
• Provide timely program updates to Country/Project Director, relevant departments and US-based backstopping teams
• Present progress, achievements and lessons learned to key stakeholders including Ghana Health Services and other relevant partners. 
• Develop program risk mitigation plans along with teams for smooth implementation of program, identifying delays and informing Technical Director 
• Troubleshoot to prevent and resolve potential problems and review outputs for quality control
• Ensure that project reports and publications are of a high quality and produced on time in line with agreed deadlines
• Support management of project KM including contributions to developing and maintaining a project intranet site, dissemination of project deliverables
• Support external communications efforts including development or review of success stories, articles, blog posts, or other external communications products

Required Skills or Experience

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experiences, Skills and Abilities

• MPH or equivalent advanced degree 
• At least 7 years’ related experience managing donor funded projects or research studies, or other work relevant to the position (e.g., developing or implementing programs, working in health/development sector, overseas experience, working with donor or multilateral agencies, business development, or grants management)
• Certified in PM@Jhpiego (Jhpiego’s internal project management curricula) or PMD Pro, or will be within 60 days of hire
• Experience implementing USG programming strongly preferred
• Experience supervising and mentoring staff
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to work proactively, organize and manage own work and assist others to do the same
• Prepared and submitted on time high quality reports for donors/funders
• Managed partners as part of a consortium
• Successfully developed, analyzed, and reviewed budgets
• Successfully developed work plans in collaboration with multiple partners
• Understanding of global health, development program and financial management principles
• A commitment to responsiveness and to supporting a positive team culture
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Have experiences working in targeted province; speaking local language is an added value 
• Ability to travel within the country

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

• Model the Jhpiego mission and values
• Participate in the business development process
• Contribute to the knowledge sharing and transfer process
• Make responsible decisions that result in time and cost containment and clear accountability 
• Participate in multiple teams, adopt team spirit, take responsibility for action items assigned, and provide feedback as needed
• Multitask, be able to manage competing priorities, and be able to prioritize in order to meet program and/or organizational objectives

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