Senior Project Manager at Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Management (30%)

• Effectively engages the key partners, including  CHS, the prime awardee, NTLP, county governments, and remains responsive to their requests to ensure alignment during project implementation.
• Ensures efficiency and effectiveness during project implementation. This includes adherence to the project scope, budget and timelines as per the approved work plan.
• Remains informed and knowledgeable of the project environment, the network of stakeholders, constituents, and counterparts, and ensures skillful management of these relationships.
• Works closely with the Senior Global Project Manager in regards to internal coordination and linkages required to achieve technical and administrative management objectives.
• Drafts high quality monthly and quarterly progress reports, and other contractual deliverables, and ensures timely submission to the Prime as per the terms of the Sub-award agreement.
• Works closely with the Finance Manager to ensure timely submission of high quality Monthly and Quarterly Financial reports as per the terms of the Sub-award agreement.
• Supervises and provides guidance to the TB Supply Chain and Pharmacovigilance Technical Advisor.
• Ensures achievements of indicators as described in the Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

Technical  Leadership (40%)

Provide in-country technical oversight and actively participate in activities implantation to    achieve the following program objectives:

• Pharmaceutical management systems strengthening for TB
• Enhance data for decision making
• Capacity building for NTLP
• Active drug safety monitoring
• Strengthen post-market surveillance
• Support interoperability of pharmacovigilance reporting system
• Health systems strengthening
• Organization capacity assessment and resource mobilization
• Develop (update and adapt as needed) and execute Monitoring and evaluation framework, technical strategy, annual work plans as per sub-award agreement
• Provide direct technical leadership and technical assistance, at national and county levels not limited to training, for the implementation of the MSH workplan on Tamatisha
• Monitor the quality of technical support provided by MSH team members
• Develop and review quarterly and annual reports
• Ensure appropriate and timely documentation and dissemination of key results and deliverables for maximum project impact and business development using a variety of communication strategies and media as may be approved by the Prime awardee.

Project Results Management (25%):

• The Program Manager is responsible for achieving required project results through effective project planning and management, technical advising, administration and oversight, monitoring and evaluation and donor relationship management.
• Holds primary accountability for the achievement of results, ensuring quality of services is maintained at the highest standards, and that all project objectives and deliverables are met.
• Safeguards MSH’s reputation by ensuring that financial, contractual, technical, and political integrity is maintained and strengthened.
• Ensure project staffing, structure and reporting relationship are aligned with project needs, local context and available resources.
• Manages and mentors the project team as per MSH policies and guidelines and implements an effective performance-management program including regular check-ins, annual appraisals, supportive supervision, rewards, training, coaching and career development support.

Business Development (5%)

• Identify and keep track of new business opportunities, communicating them to the relevant internal MSH stakeholders.

QUALIFICATIONS

REQUIRED MINIMUM EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• MD, MPH, or master's degree in health related field;
• 8+ years of progressively responsible and related experience in public health program leadership and management
• Relevant and related work experience with international development project management and a public health programming
• Demonstrated successful experience in the management of USAID or other donor projects with a focus on TB prevention and care, and/or pharmaceutical systems strengthening.
• Significant relevant experience in pharmaceutical management systems development and/or supply chain management strengthening in Kenya highly preferred