Specific Responsibilities
Leadership
 Provide global strategic leadership in eye health across the entire organization and
lead strategic planning efforts in this regard. Identify future role of Helen Keller in
improving access to essential eye health services, beyond our current activities, and
actively pursue opportunities to resource this.
 Under the umbrella of Helen Keller’s strategy, identify most promising program models
for cataract and refractive error and lead development of scale-up plans in appropriate
geographies.
 Lead process to develop the global eye health budget during annual budget process.
 Lead establishment of a global plan for staff training, orientation, and development in
eye health that fosters organizational learning across eye health projects and across
regions.
Program Management and Quality Assurance
 Provide leadership and support to field teams to implement cutting edge programs
across the eye health portfolio and identify lessons learned for dissemination within
Helen Keller and the global eye health community.
 Ensure that the quality, impact, scale and cost-effectiveness of all our eye health
programs meet our management and program standards. Work with other Helen Keller
experts to support further development and refinement of these standards.
 Lead eye health program monitoring and evaluation to strengthen existing systems to
ensure they are state-of-the-art.
 Proactively collaborate with other experts within Helen Keller working on nutrition and
neglected tropical diseases programs to identify ways to integrate field programs to
enhance impact, data collection efforts, reach and cost-effectiveness.
 Assure the accurate and timely reporting of eye health program quality results via our
Strategic Metrics.

Business Development
 Lead new business opportunities to proactively grow our eye health portfolios in Africa,
Asia and the US that meet long-term funding needs for the national program efforts that
we support, in line with visionary scale-up plans.
 Direct eye health resource mobilization to ensure that technical applications are of the
highest quality.
Representation
 Coordinate our internal network of eye health expertise and complement that with own
areas of expertise to ensure that we maintain a position of technical excellence and
prominence in the global eye health community.
 Ensure Helen Keller maintains and builds our leadership position in strategic eye health
technical groups.
 Provide overall coordination of the strategic eye partnerships with which we are already
engaged and complement these partnerships with own network of partners to help
advance our mission in eye health.
 Provide strategic direction for promoting Helen Keller’s eye health results in peer review
or industry journals and ensure that Helen Keller is appropriately represented and
presents at key international meetings.
Qualifications
 A minimum of 15 years relevant professional hands-on experience supporting eye health
field programs including at least 5 years at a leadership level; plus MPH (PhD or
equivalent medical degree preferred), or equivalent combination of education and
experience.
 Must be a recognized global expert in eye health with a broad mastery of the multiple
aspects of eye health and an ability to stay current with trends in the sector.
 Proven track record leading successful eye health business development and proposals
efforts that have secured substantial funding from government, non-government and
private foundation sources.
 Strong technical skills, as evidenced by strong track record of peer-reviewed
publications and presentations at international conferences.
 Demonstrated experience with:
o quality assurance approaches and essential tools required;
o addressing barriers to access of eye health, including gender inequities.
 Excellent working knowledge of regional eye health landscapes in Africa and Asia
regions. Knowledge of the US eye health landscape is an advantage.
 Demonstrated ability to undertake high-level representation and advocacy, including
ability to make effective and persuasive speeches and presentations in English on
complex topics to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
 Excellent oral and written English required. Ability to read, analyze and interpret complex
documents and to summarize information succinctly – both verbally and in writing—
using an engaging style. French language skills are a strong advantage.
 Excellent interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence, including the ability to exercise
diplomacy and tact as demonstrated through previous roles that required communication
with a broad and diverse set of partners, such as government, civil society, international
organizations, the local community and political leaders.
 An ability to work in challenging and changing environments, to find solutions to
emerging challenges, and maintain balance when under stress.
 Ability to foster a creative, professional, “open door” management culture; to empower
colleagues to fulfill their potential; and to encourage staff to challenge assumptions.

Respect for all persons regardless of religion, ethnicity, class or gender, comfortable
working in a diverse environment, and with a demonstrated commitment to high
professional ethical standards.
 Ability and willingness to:
o flex work hours to accommodate multiple time zones, as needed.
o travel at least 25% to visit programs, meet donors and engage in partnership
meetings.
 Demonstrated knowledge of the application of information technology to Helen Keller
program areas. Knowledge of software used to prepare presentations and other work
documents (e.g. Microsoft Office Suite).
 Personal commitment to Helen Keller’s mission and goals and the values embodied by
our co-founder: courage, integrity, rigor and compassion.
 Helen Keller requires all US staff and staff who travel internationally to be fully
vaccinated against COVID-19, whether or not they have had COVID.
Compensation
The midpoint of the salary range for this position is $132,500 with a minimum of $106,000 and a
maximum of $159,000. Actual salary will vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant
experience, salary of internal peers, and functional specialty.