Build and maintain highly collaborative working relationships with counterparts in other HCP Cureblindness offices, including regional offices, national offices and headquarters.
● Foster a positive and productive organizational culture in alignment with HCP Cureblindness global culture and values.
● Achieve and exceed organization goals for training, infrastructure, patient care and prevention.
● Instill operational and business management rigor in the organization, in the areas of scorecard, analysis, reporting, financial accountability, partner relationship management, and day to day operations.
Regional/Global Leadership
● Develop and lead regional strategy for HCP Cureblindness, identifying pathways to best contribute to advancing our mission of elimination of needless blindness through capacity building, infrastructure, patient care and
.● Manage country leadership and operations.
● Develop comprehensive understanding of regional eye care climate, barriers and opportunities.
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● Drive strategic relationship development to serve our long-term needs with government officials, key opinion leaders, hospitals, NGOs and the public.
● Collaborate closely with regional and technical leads to set goals, priorities and performance metrics.
Program & Partner Strategy
● Evaluate partnership opportunities to expand geography, scope and scale of HCP’s work in the region.
● Serve as a member of the global programmatic leadership team, shaping global strategy in collaboration with other regional and programmatic team members.
● Collaboration with the program’s team leads to enable programmatic consistency and shared learnings across countries.
● Cultivate strong donor relationships in the region and partner with Development and Marketing to develop funding proposals and donor reports.
● Partner with global functional leads on HR, Finance, Compliance and Administration to ensure regional alignment.
Other Responsibilities:
● Other duties as assigned, dependent on organizational needs and employee skills.
● All employees are expected to work as a team and to contribute to any activity that will promote the success of the organization.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:
● Passion to represent the program; to create and maintain effective working relationships with hospital partners,
NGOs, subject matter experts, government personnel and donors from a variety of sectors.
● Demonstrated ability to lead people and projects to achieve outstanding results; willingness and ability to seek creative solutions to deliver impact even if a path is not initially clear.
● Ability to represent and communicate an idea, a project, or an organization in any medium and to a variety of audiences, including blog posts, email, team meetings, speaking engagements, and pitch meetings, to name a few.
● Collaborative approach to working with others to accomplish organizational and team goals and objectives.
● Ability to quickly understand new, often clinical or technical, concepts at an appropriate level for this role.
● Commitment to excellence demonstrated through production of high output of work, both in terms of quality and quantity.
● Willingness and ability to work across multiple time zones, including participating in morning and evening calls.
● Willingness and ability to travel globally up to 30% of the time.
Education and/or Equivalent Experience:
● Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 10 years’ experience in global health or development program management or equivalent combination of education and experience.
● Proven experience in the introduction and scaling of global health capacity building programs in low and middleincome countries.
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● Experience managing and leading a diverse team of geographically distributed employees in a matrixed environment. Established cultural competency in partnering with racial, cultural and linguistically diverse groups.
● Demonstrated success in grants management, project management and donor reporting; experience with multilateral/bi-lateral USAID-funded projects is preferred.