Project Director, Dakar, Senegal

Requisition Number: 15-0009

Post Date: 2/9/2015

Title: Project Director

City: Dakar

Position Type: Direct Employment

Description: Why Choose IntraHealth

For 35 years, in 100 countries, IntraHealth International has empowered health workers to better serve communities in need. IntraHealth fosters local solutions to health care challenges by improving health worker performance, strengthening health systems, harnessing technology, and leveraging partnerships.

As a global champion for health workers, IntraHealth International advocates for the role of the health worker as critical in saving lives and helping the world to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. We partner with governments, NGOs, the private sector, and other organizations to foster policies that empower health workers to better serve communities in need.

SUMMARY OF ROLE

The Project Director will provide overall leadership and technical excellence for the sustainable implementation and scale up of an innovative Informed Push Model (IPM) for managing family planning logistics in Senegal. The project's technical support will strengthen the Government of Senegal's supply chains for contraceptives, including forecasting, procurement, distribution, management information systems, quality assurance, storage and infrastructure, and medical waste disposal with a focus at the health center level. The director will provide program management, financial oversight, and ensure timely implementation and reporting for this project. S/he will assume day-to-day technical and managerial responsibilities, working closely with the Senegal Ministry of Health (MOH), donors and implementing operators, and other stakeholders. The Project Manager will supervise the senior technical and operations project staff. S/he will report to the IntraHealth Senegal Country Director.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Ensure that the project delivers results and safeguard overall performance, including management and oversight of technical, operational, and administrative staff.
• Contribute to project strategy and develop and implement annual program work and management plans in line with that strategy.
• Develop and maintain relationships with DSRSE, PNA, and regional and district officials to ensure collaboration and coordination for the project.
• Develop and contribute to implementation of sustainable transition of IPM model to government over course of project
• Continually monitor and manage program activities and troubleshoot issues rapidly and responsively to drive program performance
• Prepare, assess and implement risk mitigation plan
• Ensure that data required for demonstrating program impact and lessons learned are collected, analyzed and integrated into program monitoring and evaluation systems.
• Lead strategic meetings with regions, DSRSE, PNA, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure project compliance with BMGF, Merck for Mothers and IntraHealth guidelines, timely submission of high quality project financial and technical deliverables such as monthly and quarterly reports.
• Conduct daily project management, process project-wide issues, delays or changes, and track and report on project progress and status.

Requirements

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education & Experience

1. Master's degree in Business Administration/Industrial Engineering/ Logistics/Supply Chain Management or related discipline with 10 or more years of professional experience managing large multi-faceted programs or operations. Relevant commercial sector experience will be considered.
2. Significant experience in West Africa and Senegal preferred.
3. Significant expertise in managing complex projects within a multi-partner, multi donor environment.
4. Strong interpersonal skills and accomplishment in strategic visioning, leadership, networking, and problem-solving as well as the ability to be flexible, creative and responsive.
5. Proven knowledge of logistics, product distribution, and supply chain issues and trends
6. Familiarity with government health system a plus
7. Strong verbal and written communication skills in English and French required
8. Ability to build productive and proactive relationships with donors, government ministries, NGOs, and private sector groups.

Competencies

Accountability - Holds self and others accountable for all work activities, research and personal actions and decisions; follows through on commitments and focuses on those activities that have the greatest impact on meeting measurable high quality results for IntraHealth's success. Exercise ethical practices, respectful words and behaviors, and equitable treatment of others in all activities.

Innovation - Develops new, better or significantly different ideas, methods, solutions or initiatives that result in improvement of IntraHealth's performance and meeting objectives, results and global commitments.

Service Excellence - Knowledge of and ability to put into action customer service concepts, processes and techniques to access internal and/or external client needs and expectations and meet or exceed those needs and expectations through providing excellent service directly or indirectly.

Organizational Stewardship - Approaches role and duties as a primary caretaker and steward of the organization, encourages a cooperative environment that focuses on placing the organization's interests and success first before his/her's, another individual, department or team.

Client Relationship Management - Knowledge and ability to determine and satisfy current client needs and maintain a partnering relationship with staff at all levels; includes influencing, communicating, presenting, facilitating; build and manage new relationships and collaborative alliances.

Strategic Thinking - Applies organizational knowledge to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for IntraHealth while recognizing, anticipating and resolving organizational challenges. Ability to develop organization- and industry-specific expertise and apply sound decision making processes to reach productive resolutions that translates strategy into actionable business plans.

Business Acumen - Knowledge, insight, and application of business concepts, tools, and processes that are required for making sound decisions in the context of IntraHealth's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations; including supporting, identifying, assessing, and/or securing new business for the organization.

Effective Communication - Understands effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language (English and French) appropriate to the audience; and receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate professional communication behaviors