Program Delivery Team Manager at eHealth Systems Africa

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the discovery, development, and drive execution of high priority strategic business initiatives and programs across the organization.
• Serve as a resource and lead for a portfolio of 20-30 short and long term projects focusing on lab management, vaccine delivery, research, value chain of biofortified crops, and others.
• Work directly with organization leadership, provide leadership to project planning to define scope and objectives of programs and utilize strong project management skills, stakeholder management experience, networking, and communication skills
• Lead the team of up to 30 people comprising of program and project managers, assistant project managers and coordinators.
• Develop and maintain an up to date work plan for project implementation to effectively manage project progress and ensure timely completion of project deliverables, adhering to project timeline and budget.
• Oversee the contractual requirements and financial management for programs. Ensure budgets are tracked against contract milestones.
• Track key performance indicators and create reports and presentations to be delivered to funding agencies and all relevant stakeholders.
• Serve as a resource to project managers for all inquiries, and issues resolutions for project management, contract budget and remediation, and regulatory document preparation.
• Establish relationships and collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and enhance processes, leverage existing content and materials, identify interdependencies and common issues, and share leading practices across initiatives.
• Supervise, mentor, and build the capacity of assigned Project Management staff.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of ten years of project management experience within private or non-profit sectors. Experience working in international development, global public health, and donor funding settings is an advantage.
• Bachelor's degree in a business field from an accredited college or university; Master's degree, Prince 2 or PMP is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to execute and successfully achieve objectives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with aggressive timelines.
• Excellent organizational, presentation, communication and meeting facilitation skills.