What You’ll Do

• Support Last Mile Health and International Rescue Commission (IRC) in providing strategic and technical leadership and direction, defining and implementing activities to achieve the greatest impact toward project goals and objectives;
• Provide financial and operational management that optimizes resources through sound budgets, consistent financial tracking, and timely submission of reports to the donor.
• Ensure project delivery meets all standard operational policies and procedures;
• Support reporting to USAID through both formal and informal debriefings, annual and semi-annual reports;
• Assist Last Mile Health and IRC in maintaining active and cooperative relationships with all key stakeholders, including government officials, project partners, other implementing agencies, and related institutions;
• Support Country Director to represent the project and the organization in public, as assigned, and support the distribution of information about project achievements and lesson learned; and
• Support project staff by creating and maintaining a work environment that promotes teamwork, trust, mutual respect, and empowers staff to take responsibility

What You’ll Bring

• Advanced degree (PhD or MA or MPH ) from an accredited university in social sciences, international development, or related field; equivalent experience may be substituted for graduate degree;
• Progressive years of experience in managerial roles on similar programs in developing countries, including substantial supervisory experience.
• Experience with projects designed to support national community health programs, expand health/WASH services, and increase uptake of high-impact interventions in family planning, immunization services, maternal neonatal and child health, and prevention and treatment of malaria;
• Significant previous experience managing operations for similar programming;
• Experience working in the Liberia and/or West Africa preferred;
• Previous experience with USAID-funded programs preferred;
• Substantial experience as a sub-grantee required;
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to develop relations with local counterparts, donors, and other stakeholders;
• Demonstrated innovation and success in staff capacity building and in participatory, flexible, and gender-sensitive programming and implementation;
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written; and
• Fluency in English required.

You’ll Impress Us If

• You have experience on projects designed to support national community health programs, expand health/WASH services, and increase uptake of high-impact interventions in family planning, immunization services, maternal neonatal and child health, and prevention and treatment of malaria.

• You have significant previous experience working with bilateral or multilateral country-level health programming.
• You have strong communication skills, both oral and written; and
• You have experience working in Liberia and/or West Africa.
• You have previous experience with USAID-funded programs

Compensation Information

At Last Mile Health, we strive to reward our employees equitably and transparently. This means that we pay our employees based on a clear and consistent methodology and without regard to the identity or personal relationships. We have made this model fully transparent so that everyone has access to all information related to compensation. We hope this helps you better understand Last Mile Health’s values and commitments to our employees. We look forward to answering any questions you may have during the hiring process.

Before applying to this role, please take a moment to learn more about our approach to compensation and how compensation works in each of the countries where we operate. Please find the link to our compensation model and benefits overview below: