Overview
Job Title: Program Manager, Vector Link
Based in: Washington, DC
Reports to: Senior Program Manager, Malaria and Sanitation
Department: Malaria/WASH
Who we are
Population Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. We are a diverse group of over 5,000 entrepreneurial development professionals located in over 40 countries committed to making it easier for all people to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire. PSI is using it’s 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.
Join us!
Working across 23 countries in sub-Saharan Africa as well as Cambodia, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative’s (PMI) VectorLink Project is equipping countries to plan and implement safe, cost-effective and sustainable life-saving malaria vector control interventions with the overall goal of reducing the burden of malaria. Proven to reduce malaria illness, severe disease, and death due to malaria in endemic areas, insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) protect people while they are sleeping from the bite of mosquitoes. PMI VectorLink supports ministries of health to achieve and maintain universal coverage of ITNs, delivered through all available channels. In some of the most remote areas of the world, PMI VectorLink is building capacity for evidence-based policy and decision-making, social and behavior change communication (SBCC), and monitoring and evaluation to increase ITN access and use. To date, PSI has supported activities in 20 countries under the VectorLink project.
We are looking for a Program Manager to provide wide-ranging operational, technical, and project management support to the PMI VectorLink project. The Program Manager will supervise a team of staff supporting the VectorLink project and collaborate closely with the wider Malaria team. The position works with country teams, headquarters technical and service departments, as well as subcontractors, to ensure project objectives and deadlines are met with high quality standards and in compliance with donor requirements. The position ensures the programmatic and financial health and technical quality of the project. The successful candidate will demonstrate advanced knowledge or provides specialized subject matter support in a technical or functional area (e.g., a health area or specific program management skillset). The position also supports country, project, or departmental leadership with donor relations. The Program Manager is also responsible for supporting donor relations and external communications. Finally, this position will contribute to the development of technical documents and presentations for internal and external audiences.
Responsibilities
Your contribution
- Monitors and ensures smooth operational and programmatic implementation and technical quality of the VectorLink project including monitoring workplans and deliverables, and subcontract management in coordination with immediate team members, network member or global project team members, and global technical and service departments.
- Provides financial management support to department and network member/country project teams, including preparation and tracking of project, country, and team budgets, project spend, and review of financial reports.
- Assists or leads on new business development opportunities, including development of strategy and technical proposals.
- Leads recruitment, training, and ongoing performance management of staff.
- Provides specialized training or technical support in at least one technical or functional area and/or contribute to departmental/organizational initiatives, and oversee related knowledge management.**Qualifications**
What are we looking for?
- Bachelor’s Degree (or international equivalent) in a related field required
- Master’s Degree (or international equivalent) in a related field preferred
- At least 7 years (degree can be substituted for years of experience) required
- At least 1 year of people management experience preferred.
- Knowledge of international development, international donor priorities and/or health areas required (such as DFID, USAID, CDC, KFW, corporate and foundation donors).
- USAID contracts experience required.
- Excellent written, verbal, and cross-cultural communications skills. French language skills required.
- Malaria experience a plus.
- Strong, proven skills in Excel, budget management and monitoring, and strong financial acumen.
- Excellent analytical/problem solving skills .
- Project and staff management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.
- Ability to multi-task and work effectively in a fast-paced team environment.
- Ability to work effectively independently and within diverse teams and contexts.
- Highly organized, diligent, reliable, and a self-starter.
- Ability to revise and improve processes to improve efficiency.
- References will be required.
- The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States. N.B. PSI will not consider work visa sponsorship for this position.
The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:
Measurement:You use hard evidence to make decisions and guide your work. You set clear goalposts in advance and explain clearly if you need to move them.
Pragmatism: You’ll strive to deliver the best possible result with the resources available. You won’t be paralyzed by a need to make things perfect.
Honesty:You own your mistakes and are open about your shortcomings – it’s the only way you’ll learn and improve.
Collaboration:You’ll quickly establish a mental map of whom you can rely on for what, on your team, at headquarters, and in our country offices – if you try to do it all yourself, you won’t succeed.
Trust:You accept limits to your sphere of control and give colleagues the benefit of the doubt.
Commitment:You are in it for the long-haul and want to grow with the organization, just like PSI serves its consumers and partners with host-country governments through thick and thin.
PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.
ACCESSIBILITY NOTICE: If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process due to a physical or mental disability, please send an email to: newhiresupport@psi.org or call (202)785-0072.
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