Program Officer – Ebola
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Job Description
Program Officer coordinating Ebola outbreak response projects for FHI 360, a global health organization. Managing resources, reporting, budgets, partners, proposals, and project delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure project activities are on track with work plans and technical expertise informs project implementation
- Gather information for multifaceted and complicated project activities
- Ensure compliance with internal and external regulations
- Monitor expenditures against budget and maintain confidentiality of project information
- Ensure project completion within budget, scope, and schedule requirements
- Develop and review work plans, prepare presentations, and support project objectives and deliverables
- Coordinate outbreak response resources, including people, consultants, partners, travel, and procurement
- Plan deliverables and lead meetings
- Provide initial review and comments on programmatic reports and annual work plans
- Oversee reporting processes and aggregate reporting for project oversight
- Represent projects at client/funder meetings and external events
- Liaise with clients regarding project planning and task completion
- Serve as project point of contact with partners
- Facilitate communication among projects and internal and external stakeholders
- Monitor partner deliverables and project risks, informing senior managers of issues
- Support outbreak response knowledge management and document approaches and achievements
- Provide context and framing in project reporting
- Ensure appropriate use of the project document management site
- Write position descriptions, participate in staff interview panels, and serve as hiring manager as needed
- Conduct new-hire onboarding on department procedures and administrative processes
- Support business development, capture work, proposal narratives, budgets, and project design
- Lead proposal design aspects and project-level tasks
- Support subaward design and monitoring
- Support project start-up, work planning, budget development, reporting, and problem-solving
- Provide programmatic and financial oversight, including spending rates, subawards, deliverables, and reports
- Review or approve purchase orders, expense reports, and invoices
- Contribute to project budget development and interpret budgets for tracking
- Serve as team lead and mentor lower-level and junior personnel
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree or its International Equivalent in Communication and Social Marketing, Economic Development, Education, Health, Nutrition, Research, Technology and Youth or a Related Fields
- 6+ years of relevant experience with project management principles and practices, ideally supporting outbreak response activities/operations
- Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency, or private organization
- Advanced knowledge of project management and outbreak response concepts and practices
- May have or be in the process of developing content knowledge in global health security outbreaks
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent and demonstrated project management skills
- Ability to influence and collaborate with others
- Ability to analyze and interpret data, identify errors, and prepare reports
- Project Management (PM) Certification preferred
- Working knowledge of a second language, particularly French, is highly preferred
- Ability to spend long hours looking at a computer screen and doing repetitive work on a keyboard
- Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time
- Ability to lift 5–25 lbs.
- Microsoft Office 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Skype/TEAMS, e-mail), office telephone, cell phone, and printer/copier
- Travel requirements of 10%–25%
- All offers of employment subject to reference, criminal record, and terrorism finance checks
- Applicants consent to Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme screening procedures
Benefits:
- FHI 360 contributes 7% of monthly base pay to a money purchase pension plan account
- 18 days of paid vacation per year for US-based full-time staff
- 12 sick days per year for US-based full-time staff
- 11 holidays per year for US-based full-time staff
- Competitive benefits package
- Professional development
- Policies and programs that support a healthy work/life balance
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