Deputy Chief of Party/ Technical Director, SHARP Program (Employment), Global Health at Project Hope

Job Description

• We are currently seeking a Deputy Chief of Party/Technical Director in anticipation of the Strategic HIV and AIDS Response Program (SHARP), Nigeria a USAID-funded anticipated multi-year health program.
• This program will focus on improving the quality and effectiveness of high-impact, evidence-based HIV/AIDS interventions to meet state and local government areas' goals and objectives and will cover governance, access, and demand activities across HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis services.
• The deputy Chief of Party/Technical Director will report to the Chief of Party and will be responsible for overseeing management and technical operations.
• The candidate should have extensive experience managing similar projects and should have in-depth technical knowledge and experience in all components of HIV/AIDS program including Prevention, Treatment, Care & Support, PMTCT HIV/TB, OVCs as well as cross-cutting areas such as Health Systems Strengthening (HSS).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Chief of Party to provide leadership to the program, ensure strategic program direction, and provide high quality technical assistance
• Supervise technical team leaders to ensure high quality and comprehensive technical programming
• Mobilize institutional and project resources, tools, best practices, innovations, technology to deliver a synergistic, evidence based program;
• Liaise with key partners and stakeholders to meet program objectives and deliver results
• Collaborate with technical staff to ensure program activities are designed and implemented according to industry best practices while being tailored to the local context

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, or a related discipline.
• Minimum eight years of relevant development experience working as a senior-level manager in public health programs in a developing country
• Demonstrated technical knowledge and experience in all components of HIV/AIDS programming, as well as crosscutting areas like health systems strengthening
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
• Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
• Fluency in English.