ABOUT LAST MILE HEALTH
Founded by survivors of Liberia’s civil war, Last Mile Health (LMH) (known in Liberia as Tiyatien Health) is committed to saving lives in the world’s most remote villages.Working in remote communities cut off from even basic life-saving health services, LMH is building a health system that reaches everyone—by bringing health care to villagers’ doorsteps. LMH trains community members to be health practitioners for their villages and connects them with rural health clinics to offer every person access to the care they deserve. These Frontline Health Workers are able to prevent, diagnose, and treat the top ten most life-threatening health conditions. LMH plans to leverage this experience to help the Liberian government design, deploy and sustain a national network of community health workers that can have a transformative impact on maternal and child health outcomes in remote communities.
Over the past year, the Ebola virus outbreak has devastated Liberia and has tragically demonstrated that weak, inequitable health systems leave everybody vulnerable. To match a historic crisis with a historic response, LMH has partnered with Boston-based Partners in Health (PIH) to launch a significant expansion of LMH’s model, integrated with a package of Ebola treatment and hospital strengthening efforts led by PIH. The goal of this project is to deploy a comprehensive health system—from life-saving essential primary care services in remote communities all the way to strong inpatient Ebola and tertiary care in regional hospitals—for approximately 150,000 rural Liberians.
LMH is working with the Government of Liberia to rapidly achieve zero Ebola caseswhile restoring health services and rebuilding the health system. LMH is helping direct new sources of funding towards a major health system rebuilding effort that will strengthen community health systems, starting with an ambitious expansion of community health workers to serve every remote community in Liberia.
GENERAL POSITION SUMMARY:
The Partnerships & Development team is playing a critical role in identifying new areas of collaboration and leveraging new resources to expand the scope and impact of LMH’s transformative work in Liberia. In the face of the Ebola crisis, the Partnerships & Development team is accelerating its priorities to position LMH to make a lasting, significant contribution to the lives of those in Liberia’s most remote communities. The Partnerships & Development team is growing its operation to enable it to secure more funding from multilaterals, engage new institutional funders, encourage disaster response funders to support underlying country-owned health system strengthening plans and improve communications to reinforce LMH’s role as a thought leader in the global health community.
The Deputy Director of National Partnerships will lead LMH’s efforts to establish new national partnerships and grow existing ones. This individual will serve as a strategic link between LMH’s portfolio of planned and existing Health Systems Planning and Implementation Projects and our broader partnership strategies – critically identifying new opportunities to expand LMH’s work through contract revenues of national private and public sector partners.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Work alongside Director of National Partnerships and project teams to identify new in-country partnership opportunities, support negotiations with potential partners and formalize partnership arrangements.
- Assist Director of National Partnerships, Country Director and Director of Public Partnerships in development and preparation of concept notes, capability statements, summary documents and other materials.
- Promote relationships with existing in-country collaborators and partners, participate in and provide coverage to stakeholder meetings.
- With support from Director of National Partnerships, develop and update in-country fundraising strategies, targets and performance indicators over the medium and long-term.
- Share ownership and creation of a core set of partnerships resources (inc. Salesforce) and standard operating procedures with Director of National Partnerships.
- Provide detailed updates to Director of National Partnership and Director of Public Partnerships on status of in-country public sector and private sector partnerships to improve synergies between headquarter and in-country based Partnerships & Development staff.
- Maintain a detailed understanding of donors and implementing partners within Liberia and assist Country Director and senior project leadership to identify new collaboration opportunities and share partner intelligence with headquarters-based Partnerships & Development staff.
REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:
REPORTS DIRECTLY TO: National Partnerships Director
WORKS DIRECTLY WITH: Liberia leadership team and project staff
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s degree, MBA, MPH, MS or similar degree preferred
- At least 5 years experience managing partner relationships in a developing country context, experience specific to global health preferred
- Demonstrated previous success in fund acquisition through increasing contract revenues
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and relationship-building qualities
- Ability to work independently with limited structural support
- Successful and proven negotiation, communication and organization skills
- Generosity of spirit, sensitivity/diplomacy, and willingness to make sacrifices in service of the mission
- Commitment to health and social justice
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including across cultures and backgrounds
- Experience working closely with employees recruited in a post-conflict or resource-poor setting
- Flexibility and ability to handle multiple tasks at one time in time-sensitive manner
- Comfort working with a casual but high-performing team
- Willingness to occasionally travel to current and prospective field sites
- High degree of English fluency required
SUCCESS FACTORS:
A successful Deputy Director of National Partnerships will possess strong strategic and critical thinking skills to expertly navigate a diverse partner landscape in Liberia and help LMH capitalize on profitable new partnerships. With limited existing in-country revenues, the Deputy Director of National Partnerships will need to be entrepreneurial and proactive, knowing when to leverage support from the Director of National Partnerships, Country Director and senior leadership in Liberia, as well as the Chief Development Officer and Chief of Staff based in the United States. This individual will invest in deepening their knowledge of program strategies and activities to conceive potential opportunities for collaboration and formalize these partnerships to develop new contract revenues.
Commitment: 40 hours/week
Location: Monrovia, Liberia
Compensation: Salary commensurate with experience; housing, R&R and medical benefits available
Apply: Please submit your CV and cover letter via the Last Mile Health website. Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
