Job title: Deputy Director, Adolescents 360 (Deputy Project Director, Multi-Country I)
Department: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Reports to: Director, Adolescents 360
Timing: December 2021 / January 2022 start
Travel: Up to 25% travel when COVID restrictions ease (Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, USA, UK)
Location: Any A360 country (Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria)*
Who are we?
We’re Population Services International (PSI). For 50 years we’ve been striving to make it easier for people around the world to lead healthy lives and plan the families they desire by making quality health products, services and information more affordable and accessible. PSI is using its global presence and 50+ years of experience to help reimagine healthcare. We are working to shape market systems, shift policy and funding, and strengthen global capacity to better support consumer empowered healthcare.
There are over 5,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. We are a group of entrepreneurial development professionals with a wide range of backgrounds and experience. All with unique skills that we bring to the critically important work that we do.
Join us!
With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, A360, PSI’s flagship adolescent program, has partnered with young people and government health systems to design, pilot and scale adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) interventions which position contraception as a tool to achieving girls’ self-defined goals. In 3½ years of implementation it has supported over half a million adolescent girls adopt modern contraception. A360 has now embarked on an ambitious new phase which will focus on making adaptations to support contraceptive continuation, strengthening the enabling environment for ASRH, providing more substantive economic empowerment opportunities for adolescent girls, and embedding A360’s approaches in the government health systems in which we work. Cutting across this will be a comprehensive research and learning agenda designed to advance ASRH evidence and practices.
A360 is seeking a Deputy Director to assume responsibility for the day-to-day operations of A360, including the line management of the two Senior Program Managers, who oversee the global project’s program management and technical units respectively. Global team members are based in Kenya and in the US. The Global team coordinates the program, manages the donor relationship, and provides technical assistance to country teams. This individual can be based in Ethiopia, Kenya or Nigeria but must have the right to work in that location; PSI cannot support work visas and is not offering an international package of benefits.
The Deputy Director will:
Interested? Read on.
Your contribution
o Oversee the work of the program management unit which is responsible for the day-to-day management of the budget and financial reporting.
o Ensure the country teams are being supported by both their country offices and A360’s global support team to manage their budgets effectively.
o Work with country leads and the Senior Program Manager (Program Management) to identify financial, compliance and governance issues and risks and bring recommendations to the Director.
o Work to ‘connect the dots’ between individual countries. Help leverage the benefits of being a global program rather than individual country-specific projects.
o Work with country leads and the Senior Program Managers to identify programmatic issues and risks and bring recommendations to the Director.
o Oversee the work of the program management unit which is responsible for producing donor deliverables, complying with donor deliverable deadlines, and day-to-day management of sub awards.
o Work with country leads and the Senior Program Managers to identify compliance, governance, and sub-award relationship management issues and risks and bring recommendations to the Director.
o Work with the project’s leadership and the technical unit to develop, evaluate and refine the program strategy.
o Oversee the work planning processes of the Senior Program Managers.
o Be responsive to the requests from donors and exercise good judgement when deciding if and how to push back.
o Oversee the Senior Program Manager (Program Management) to produce donor deliverables.
o Review all donor deliverables and ensure they are responsive to the donors’ interests, high quality, technically sound, clear, concise, and timely.
o Oversee the Senior Program Manager (Technical Services) on the development of the technical strategy, knowledge translation strategy, and knowledge products.
o Review all knowledge/learning products and ensure they are tailored to the intended audience, technically sound, clear, and concise.
o Support the Director manage the donor relationship, including attending monthly donor calls, quarterly leadership calls and the annual program review and hosting site visits.
o Oversee the management of internal and external partners by the Senior Program Managers.
o Support the Director represent A360 in external fora, including technical working groups and regional / global conferences.
o Oversee the Senior Program Managers relationships with internal partners, including the Quality of Care, Evidence and Insights, and Digital teams.
o Support the Director to identify opportunities for A360 to provide thought leadership, aligned with the program’s purpose and PSI’s global strategy.
o Support the Director to optimize A360’s use of its global advisory panel.
o Keep abreast of the latest literature on ASRH and ensure key learning is shared across the global and country teams.
o Support new business development as appropriate.
What are we looking for?
Our ideal candidate will possess:
The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:
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