Deputy Chief of Party / Technical Director

About Us

GOAL has responded to the world’s main humanitarian crises since its founding in 1977, working with susceptible communities in 15 nations throughout the globe with a devoted crew of three,500 personnel. Whereas GOAL continues to be an agile first-responder to humanitarian crises, it’s also dedicated to working with susceptible communities to assist them survive crises and help them on the highway to restoration.

Overview of the position

GOAL seeks a Deputy Chief of Celebration/Technical Director for the five-year, USAID-funded Strengthening Built-in Well being Providers Exercise (SIHSA) in Sierra Leone. The exercise goals to advance and maintain improved well being outcomes for Sierra Leoneans with a give attention to, however not restricted to kids beneath 5, pregnant and postpartum ladies, youth and particularly adolescent women, and ladies and youngsters residing in hard-to-reach areas with restricted entry to well being companies.

SIHSA seeks to construct a sustainable and resilient well being system response to bettering entry, high quality and effectiveness of household planning (FP), reproductive well being (RH), maternal, new child and little one well being (MNCH), adolescent well being, and malaria companies. As well as, SIHSA goals at strengthening communities’ energetic engagement for community-driven options to enhance well being outcomes.

Observe: This place is topic to award and funding from USAID. Sierra Leonean Nationals are inspired to use. Application deadline date is 15/04/2024**

Tasks

The Deputy Chief of Celebration/Technical Director (DCOP) will function the venture’s technical chief, chargeable for offering the imaginative and prescient and making certain high quality implementation of the venture. The DCOP will help the Chief of Celebration (COP) as wanted, appearing as delegate and finishing up duties assigned to make sure correct administration of the exercise. Past technical obligations of main the vary well being system technical actions targeted on maternal, new child and little one well being, household planning, reproductive well being, adolescent well being, and malaria, the DCOP will handle the efficiency of senior and mid-level employees overseeing these technical actions, making certain that there’s a shared imaginative and prescient for venture actions and outcomes, addressing implementation challenges and inspiring the sharing of greatest practices and venture successes. The DCOP may have a key position in making certain there’s a tradition of studying, information alternate, innovation and capability strengthening. The DCOP may even have a task in participating with consortia companions, well being system actors, USAID and nationwide and district authorities. In collaboration with the COP, the place of DCOP will present high quality assurance of the venture, offering programmatic and monetary monitoring and oversight, making certain program actions and deliverables are met in a well timed and environment friendly method alongside prime quality reporting.

Particular person Specification

The Deputy Chief of Celebration/Technical Director is predicted to have the next expertise and {qualifications}:

• Grasp’s diploma in worldwide improvement, public well being, enterprise or comparable
• A minimum of 6 -8 years of expertise implementing and managing donor-funded tasks in growing nations and dealing in consortia.
• A minimum of 5 years’ expertise implementing well being strengthening tasks of an identical scale/scope to SIHSA within the areas of maternal, new child and little one well being, household planning, reproductive well being, adolescent well being, and malaria, in Sierra Leone or in different comparable growing nation settings.
• Familiarity with the U.S. Authorities administrative, administration and reporting procedures and methods.
• Potential to construct sturdy relationships and partnerships throughout a variety of various stakeholders.
• Sturdy oral and written communication and presentation expertise in English are required.

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