About Last Mile Health:
Founded in 2007 by survivors of Liberia’s civil war, Last Mile Health (LMH) 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 is leveraging 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 across the country.
In March, Liberia reached zero Ebola cases. As the country begins to shift from urgent Ebola response to restoration, LMH is working with the Liberian government torestore health services and rebuild 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 plays 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. As Liberia cautiously begins to recover and rebuild after 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 Partnerships & Development Manager will lead in-country efforts to steward existing philanthropic relationships and engage new partnerships to fulfil the team’s goals of garnering financial, operational and technical support to achieve LMH’s objectives. The Partnerships & Development Manager oversees LMH’s award management system, developing effective, targeted and timely proposals and reports that effectively communicate LMH’s work to existing and prospective funders. In collaboration with the Partnerships & Development team, the Partnerships & Development Manager will design, build, and manage systems that will facilitate strong and fruitful relations with a broadening range of funders.
While demands placed on the team are high, these demands are accompanied with support and collaboration to ensure successes are consistently achieved and shared. Within this team, the Partnerships & Development Manager reports to the US-based Director of Private Partnerships & Communications and directly supervises the External Communications Coordinator.
Essential Job Functions:
- Coordinate with LMH’s in-country teams and the Partnerships & Development team to gather up-to-date programmatic input and develop compelling proposals aligned with organizational priorities
- Develop and manage systems that strengthen communications across teams to ensure consistently effective and timely fulfilment of reporting requirements
- Manage LMH’s institutional funder portfolio, tracking reporting requirements and progress on commitments
- Support the Director of Private Partnerships & Communications and the Director of National Partnerships to cultivate and steward relationships with existing and prospective funders and implementing partners
- Supervise the External Communications Coordinator, drawing support for grants and communications materials to funders
- Prepare presentations, prospecting materials, concept notes, and program materials for internal and external use
Reports to: Director of Private Partnerships & Communications
Supervises: External Communications Coordinator
Team: Partnerships & Development
Knowledge & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required; Master’s preferred
- Experience managing a portfolio of grants from varying types of funders
- Experience living and working in a resource limited setting is preferred, but not essential
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and ability to develop clear and persuasive materials under tight deadlines
- Strong interpersonal skills and relationship-building qualities
- Ability to work as part of a team located in multiple sites and willingness to travel between sites
- Strong organizational skills and flexibility to handle multiple tasks at once
- Commitment to advancing health and social justice
- High degree of English fluency required
Success Factors:
A successful Partnerships & Development Manager will swiftly gain the trust of LMH’s national and international staff, demonstrating commitment to LMH’s aims, and expertise in fulfilling these through their work to oversee the award management system in Liberia.
The Partnerships & Development Manager will ensure that critical performance and impact information is efficiently collected and communicated to existing and prospective funders, will thoughtfully and respectfully participate in LMH Liberia leadership meetings, and will ably manage the External Communications Coordinator.
Commitment: 40 hours/week, for 12 months minimum (24 months preferred).
Location: Monrovia/Zwedru, Liberia, with regular travel to field sites.
Compensation: Salary commensurate with experience; housing, R&R and medical benefits available.
Submission Instructions:
Please submit your CV and cover letter via the Last Mile Health website.
You will be informed within three working days whether or not LMH would like to interview.
Pending the success of this initial interview, writing extracts, then a follow-up interview will be requested, and an offer will be made to the preferred candidate.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, until March 30th.
