Job ID

2024-6453

Location

RW-Kigali

Category

International Positions

Employment Status

Full-Time

Reporting to the Country Director, the MCGL HRH Project Lead will provide program and technical leadership and coordination of project planning, implementation and monitoring to ensure it delivers on increasing pre-service education to boost the quantity and quality of significant health care workers in Rwanda. 

The MCGL HRH Chief of Party will have the overall responsibility for leadership and management and reporting of project activities in Rwanda. S/he will be responsible for making key decisions and solving problems in short timeframes while ensuring operational and program quality and integrity. The Chief of Party will serve as the project’s main point of contact with USAID/Rwanda, MOH and MCGL technical and global leadership on routine and strategic matters. S/he will also ensure effective organizational management and communication with the host country government at all levels and international partners and agencies.  Application deadline 12th August 2024.

Recruitment will happen on rolling basis. 

• Provide leadership and strategic direction to ensure programmatic and financial integrity of the project and to achieve rapid and sustained goals, objectives, and targets.
• Bring regional and global best practices in HRH programming to the project that are evidence based and proven to help accelerate HRH goals.
• Continually reinforce and reaffirm the aims of this USAID field buy in to build capacity of relevant stakeholders to succeed in implementing its project goals and activities, and demand ways of operating and working from both local and global project advisors that are consistent with those goals.
• Ensure the project is technically sound, evidence-based, and responsive to the needs of countries, its people and donors.
• Advance goals of locally led development and work closely to strengthen capacities of local institutions, primarily the University of Rwanda, College of Medicine and Health Sciences (UR/CMHS), Institut Catholique de Kabgayi (ICK), East African Christian College (EACC), and Kibogora Polytechnic (KP), Rwanda Nursing and Midwifery Council, and Rwanda Agency for Accreditation and Quality in Healthcare (RAAQH).
• Ensure compliance with the terms of the award and organizational compliance and adherence to policies and guidelines.
• Represent Jhpiego and the project’s progress, achievements and lessons learned to donors, other key stakeholders, and through meetings, conferences, and presentations.
• Provide technical leadership and ensure the quality and sustainability of interventions.
• Ensure USAID guiding principles e.g. Locally led development, Sustainability, inclusive development and Diversity Equity Inclusivity, gender equality, Private Sector Engagement to name some, are woven into project implementation approaches.
• Negotiate working agreements with the Ministry of Health to outline terms of mutual accountability in delivering results to USAID and hold both parties accountable to the letter and spirit of those agreements or to review and to review and renegotiate them as needed.
• Lead work planning process with the project team, and in close collaboration with USAID, MoH, and health directorate offices, key stakeholders, partners, and ensure effective resource planning and utilization.
• Responsible for the overall management of the project budget and ensure the project delivers on time, on scope and on budget.
• Oversee the preparation, and timely submission of quality project reports to donor, inclusive of both Mission level reporting and contributing to global reporting requirements.
• Participate in relevant HRH technical working groups and other knowledge exchange forums and provide technical leadership and guidance as required.
• Mentor, support, supervise and manage a team of highly qualified staff and align their efforts to ensure rapid and sustainable results.
• Lead and motivate the project team, ensuring high levels of performance across all areas, fostering a culture of critical problem solving, innovation and strategic thinking.
• Provide guidance, in collaboration with staff, to sub-grantees and partners to ensure they deliver on their scope.
• Work with Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) staff to develop M&E frameworks and effectively track data/results, and provide strategic inputs to the project’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) agenda.
• Work with finance and project staff to develop and track project budgets.
• Coordinate efforts with the country team lead to ensure alignment with organizational strategy, mission and goals.

• Master’s degree in health administration, medicine, nursing, health sciences, public health, public policy or administration, or a related field; and a minimum 10+ years HRH work experience in a senior level position overseeing large and complex awards.
• Prior experience in HRH programming, which included pre-service education strengthening.
• Proven ability to facilitate and negotiate complex agreements with diplomacy, while remaining focused on end results
• Experience working with subgrantees, local and international and knowledge of capacity development approaches for government entities, preservice institutions and for locally led development.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills and ability to translate data into action and communicate results to wide ranging audiences.
• Intimate understanding of health and preservice and HRH in Rwandan contexts
• Experience hiring and supervising personnel and ensuring they acquire the necessary training and skills to meet evolving project needs.
• Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships with USAID, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs and CSOs
• Previous experience working on USAID-funded projects, matched with an in-depth knowledge of USAID regulations, compliance and reporting requirements.
• Expertise in research to practice—identifying and adapting best practices to specific project contexts.
• Excellent skills in facilitation, team building, and coordination
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in regional and national projects and technical staff.
• Ability to travel nationally and internationally.

Application submission deadline: 17th October 2024 .

Qualified Rwandan nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.

Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.

Please apply at www.jhpiego.org/careers  (icims.com)

Applicants must submit a single document for upload to include: cover letter, resume, and references.

For further information about Jhpiego, visit our website at www.jhpiego.org

Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, other legally protected characteristics or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Jhpiego promotes Affirmative Action for minorities, women, individuals who are disabled, and veterans.

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