Project Manager – Health and Nutrition DAMAL Project – Garowe, Puntland, Somalia

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

International Assignment – Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Overall Leadership

• Provide overall leadership and technical direction for the Contractor’s work
• Plan, organize, and monitor all of the project activities
• Ensure that environmental and social safeguards requirements as outlined in the C-ESMP are implemented and reported on

Quality Assurance

• Provide quality assurance for all activities
• Coordinate different PHS delivery activities to ensure continuity between activities
• Closely monitor activities of any sub-contractors (if used, with agreement from the FMoH and WB)

Stakeholder management

• Serve as the point of contact between the Contractor and the Government as well as partners
• Engage with the MoH’s PMT on review of deliverables and technical conversations to ensure high quality essential health service delivery
• Work with Government and partners to troubleshoot and proactively address challenges

Staff management

• Manage all staff responsible for delivering the project in the region
• Ensure staff are appraised regularly and feedback mechanism in place and updated;
• Develop capacity plans and ensure they are resourced;
• Undertake Disciplinary measures when required.

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS

• University degree with post graduate degree (MPH, MBA, or MPA).
• A minimum of ten-years full time experience of managing health service delivery projects
• Experience managing essential health service delivery in Somalia is strongly preferred
• A minimum of five years of experience working in fragile contexts. Experience working in Somalia is strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience establishing management systems for health service delivery
• Experience with health service quality improvement preferred
• A minimum of eight years of experience with staff and project management
• Excellent management and leadership skills
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative analytic skills
• Strong diplomacy skills
• Excellent communications skills including the ability to synthesize complex information for use across different audiences in both written and oral form
• Substantial experience working with Governments and partners in fragile contexts.
• Experience with Somalia’s Government at the Federal and State levels is preferable
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to execute complex tasks in a timely manner
• Willingness to travel to remote areas

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local and International Applicants (IA’s) Accepted

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