The COP responsibilities include the followingSI
- Overall responsibility for assuring that all assistance and services provided under the cooperative agreement are technically sound, in line with USAID rules and regulations, and appropriate for addressing the objectives of the activity.
- Serve as the official representative of the organization in matters related to the SIHSA cooperative agreement.
- Supervise all institutional sub-agreements executed under the prime cooperative agreement.
- Function as the primary liaison between the USAID, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation for Sierra Leone, and other collaborating agencies on all pragmatic, administrative and financial matters related to the program.
- Design management systems with standard operating procedures that can be used to implement all activities to be undertaken with funds provided in the cooperative agreement.
- Design and oversee an annual project cycle which formulates comprehensive annual cooperative agreement work plans and budgets in accordance with the USAID annual planning cycle and assures timely disbursement of funds.
- Arrange for and oversee local financial staff who will be responsible for disbursing all local costs under this project, monitoring and tracking expenditures, and preparing financial reports of project expenditures for submission to USAID.
- Manage and supervise project staff in the identification of all project technical assistance needs required to achieve the expected outputs of the agreement, development of suitable scopes of work, recruitment of consultants, and execution of technical assistance and service agreements.
- Supervise the work and assess the performance of all long term and short term advisors, subpartners, consultants and staff.
- Coordinate and identify with the project staff training needs and opportunities to support the project.
- Ensure the preparation of all documents required by the cooperative agreement, including quarterly and annual activity reports.
- Liaise directly with JSI’s US-based backstopping team on both technical and financial implementation matters.
QUALIFICATIONS
- At least master’s level education/training or its equivalent in Public Health, Economics, International Development, Business Administration, or a related field.
- At least 10 years of successful prior experience working with non-government organizations or in the private sector on the development and/or implementation of health programs, international development projects, or similar programs focused on improving service delivery
- Prior experience in the management of professional and financial resources on a similar scale.
- Significant previous experience in the implementation of health system strengthening, public health, or development programs in Sierra Leone and/or the West Africa region is an advantage.
- Familiarity with the private sector environment and procedures in the implementation of donor assisted projects.
- Conversant in service delivery implementation challenges and opportunities of Family Planning, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health (FP/RMNCAH) and malaria services at the central, district, and facility levels
- Excellent organizational, analytical, oral, and written English communication skills
- Must be based in, or willing to relocate to Sierra Leone for the duration of the activity.
- Sierra Leonean nationals strongly encouraged to apply.
