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Background
Accelerating the Sustainable Control and Elimination of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (ASCEND) is a new programme, funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to achieve progress towards global targets for the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). NTDs are a group of infectious diseases that thrive in poor and often rural settings, affecting 1.6 billion of the world’s poorest people and causing disability, disfigurement, stigma and death. ASCEND will focus on five NTDs: lymphatic filariasis; onchocerciasis; schistosomiasis; visceral leishmaniasis; and trachoma.
ASCEND will deliver a range of key interventions for the control and elimination of NTDs in line with national strategies, while ensuring a strong health systems approach is applied. ASCEND will also work to strengthen relevant building blocks of national health systems, supporting countries to provide the prevention, detection, treatment and surveillance activities necessary to maintain the reduced disease burden in the longer term, and to prevent disease resurgence.
Crown Agents Limited has been appointed as the lead contractor for implementation of Lot 1 of ASCEND which focuses on twelve countries in Southern and East Africa and South Asia. These are: Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Malawi, Ethiopia, Uganda, Zambia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and India.
Scope of work
The Contracts and Compliance Manager will manage the contracting of implementing partners and ensure contracts delivered are fully compliant. Specific responsibilities will include managing the contracting pipeline from Request for Proposals (RfP) to Service Agreements or Letters of Agreement, onboarding of new contracts and managing the contracts to completion, liaising closely with Country Leads and Regional Managers.
Responsibilities:
The main responsibilities of the Contract and Compliance Manager role will include:
Contracting Ministries of Health
Implementing Partner (IP) procurement and Contracting
Contracts management
Reporting:
On a day to day basis, the Contract and Compliance Manager will report to the Senior Contracts and Compliance Manager and will be expected provide updates and reports directly to the Fund Management Lead on a weekly basis.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES:
Academic Qualifications
Advanced degree in relevant discipline; international development; Health; Grants Management, Procurement or Law is preferred
Technical Skills
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