Chief of Party, Social and Behavior Change Communications (SBCC) project, Tanzania

Job Description

Job title: Chief of Party, Social and Behavior Change Communications (SBCC) project, Tanzania
Department: East Africa
Based in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Reports to the Country Representative, Tanzania

Who we are

We’re Population Services International (PSI), the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. We work to make it easier for people in the developing world to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire by marketing affordable products and services that range from mosquito nets to contraceptives to HIV testing.

There are over 9,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. It’s a diverse group of entrepreneurs and professionals with an unusually wide range of backgrounds - from the medical industry to the music business - all with unique skills we bring to the job.

Join us!

With support from the government of Tanzania and international donors such as USAID, DFID, Global Fund, KfW and private foundations, PSI has worked in Tanzania for almost 23 years. Since 1993, we have implemented social marketing and social franchising programs with behavior change communication to deliver prevention and treatment products and services across a wide range of health areas including Family Planning and Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS, malaria and child survival, and water-borne diseases. PSI is currently the 2nd principal recipient for Global Fund. The program is one of PSI’s top DALY and CYP performer with over 1.7 million DALYS and CYPs annually and an annual budget of over $25 million.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial, dynamic candidates with significant leadership, management and international development experience for the position of Chief of Party for an anticipated USAID-funded SBCC project. This position will be based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, reporting to the Country Representative, with an estimated start date of mid-2016.

Sound like you? Read on.

Your contribution

As the Chief of Party, you will:

• Provide managerial, strategic, and technical leadership to a USAID-funded project focused on innovative state-of-the-art SBCC in the areas of Family Planning/Reproductive Health (FP/RH), Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MNCAH), Malaria, HIV/AIDS, and Tuberculosis (TB);
• Manage relationships with international and national partners and other key stakeholders;
• Provide financial and programmatic oversight to the project, including donor deliverables, reporting, work plan and budgets;
• Ensure high-quality periodic reporting in line with USAID and PSI requirements (Quarterly and Annual Status reports, quarterly financial reports etc.);
• Serve as primary liaison with USAID in Tanzania to report on the project’s implementation;
• Oversee monitoring of project activities and reporting on indicators;
• Manage relations and oversee delivery of activities by members of the project’s consortium;
• Develop external relations, in particular with the government, local NGOs, and the private sector;
• Work with M&E staff to design and implement strategies to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the SBCC programming.
• Ensure sound financial management including programmatic budgeting, spending projections and monitoring of payments.

What are we looking for?

• You have at least 10+ years of demonstrated experience in the design, implementation, and monitoring of a USAID-funded project, preferably an SBCC project and in a director role;
• You have a Master’s degree or higher in business, management or related field;
• You are familiar with U.S. Government regulations (e.g. Federal Acquisition Regulations and Foreign Assistance Act);
• You are a creative, innovative and strategic thinker, with: excellent communication, analytical, organizational, interpersonal and cross-cultural skills; a passion for SBCC; and proven ability to produce results;
• You have demonstrated skills in effectively negotiating with government, donors, other USAID projects, local organizations and partners
• You are able to successfully recruit, train, develop and manage staff;
• You are able to manage agreements and all required programmatic and financial reporting requirements, including sub-grants management;
• You can effectively deal with and resolve conflict;
• You have excellent management skills;
• You are able to perform internal control functions to manage day to day operations of the project.

References will be required.

* This position is contingent on funding.

STATUS

Exempt
Level 6

PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.

What are we looking for?

• You have at least 10+ years of demonstrated experience in the design, implementation, and monitoring of a USAID-funded project, preferably an SBCC project and in a director role;
• You have a Master’s degree or higher in business, management or related field;
• You are familiar with U.S. Government regulations (e.g. Federal Acquisition Regulations and Foreign Assistance Act);
• You are a creative, innovative and strategic thinker, with: excellent communication, analytical, organizational, interpersonal and cross-cultural skills; a passion for SBCC; and proven ability to produce results;
• You have demonstrated skills in effectively negotiating with government, donors, other USAID projects, local organizations and partners
• You are able to successfully recruit, train, develop and manage staff;
• You are able to manage agreements and all required programmatic and financial reporting requirements, including sub-grants management;
• You can effectively deal with and resolve conflict;
• You have excellent management skills;
• You are able to perform internal control functions to manage day to day operations of the project.

References will be required.

* This position is contingent on funding.

STATUS

Exempt
Level 6

PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.

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About the Organization

About PSI: PSI is a leading global health organization with programs targeting malaria, child survival, HIV and reproductive health. Working in partnership within the public and private sectors, and harnessing the power of the markets, PSI provides life-saving products, clinical services and behavior change communications that empower the world's most vulnerable populations, in over 65 countries to lead healthier lives. Over 150 staff in the Washington D.C headquarters, 100 overseas expatriate staff and almost 8,000 local staff work to execute PSI’s critical and innovative programs worldwide. Health Impact and Donors: PSI has a unique focus on measurable health impact much like successful corporations measure profitability. Measuring the results of PSI’s health interventions isn’t as simple as counting lives saved. PSI employs an entire team of researchers to continuously evaluate PSI performance against evidence-based objectives and verifiable indicators. Such strict measurement of PSI performance is what sets the organization apart from others in the field and feeds into the design of innovative, targeted and cost-effective interventions. By utilizing the DALY (Disability Adjusted Life Year) system, PSI estimates that in 2009 alone, its programs directly prevented more than 156,000 HIV infections, 2.6 million unintended pregnancies, almost 150,000 deaths from malaria and diarrhea and 19 million malaria episodes. In addition, roughly 25,000 patients were treated for TB. With a focus on decentralized management and local experts, innovative programs and successful benchmarking, PSI is proud of its long term commitment to serve those most in need. PSI is supported by several major donors including: governments of the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands; the Global Fund, various United Nations agencies, private foundations, corporations and individuals. Areas of PSI focus: HIV: PSI has HIV programs in over 60 countries around the world. Interventions, which include social marketing of HIV products and services and targeted HIV communications, are based upon a commitment to produce measurable health impact and an emphasis upon rigorous research and evaluation. Although condom social marketing and targeted communications remain the cornerstones of PSI's work to address the HIV pandemic, country programs also implement an increasingly comprehensive range of interventions in response to the changing needs of specific country contexts and populations. PSI is increasingly implementing innovations such as male circumcision services and targeted communications for concurrent sexual partnerships and injection drug use interventions. TB: Tuberculosis (TB) is a curable and preventable illness, yet it remains a major cause of death worldwide. It is one of the biggest killers of women of reproductive age and the most common cause of death among people living with HIV/AIDS. PSI provides a variety of innovative TB and TB/HIV-related services, engaging private providers in diagnosis and treatment and integrating HIV counseling and testing with TB services. It also creates innovative behavior change communications campaigns to increase awareness of TB and TB/HIV and to promote healthy behaviors. Child Survival: Vulnerable children are one of PSI’s most important target groups. According to the WHO, nearly 10 million children under the age of five die each year – more than 1,000 every hour. Tragically, about two-thirds of child deaths are preventable through practical, low-cost interventions. PSI works to improve child survival by helping developing countries address water-borne diseases such as diarrhea, malaria, pneumonia and HIV with prevention and treatment education and products. PSI’s child survival programs improve the health and save the lives of children under five in more than 30 countries. Reproductive Health: In over 30 countries throughout the world PSI empowers women and couples to lead healthier lives by providing access to innovative family planning and maternal health products and services. Every year, there are more than 60 million unintended pregnancies and more than 500,000 women die from pregnancy-related causes. In 2008 alone, PSI prevented an estimated 3.1 million unintended pregnancies and 15,000 maternal deaths, and enabled millions of couples to plan their families. Over the past three decades, PSI has expanded the contraceptive methods in its portfolio from male condoms and oral contraceptives to include injectable contraceptives, intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUD), emergency contraception pills, implants, female condoms, voluntary sterilization, and fertility awareness methods such as the Standard Days Method using Cyclebeads®. PSI’s RH platform has also grown to address maternal mortality through the prevention of post-partum hemorrhage and sepsis, and the prevention of unsafe abortion. Clean Water: Access to clean water is a challenge in almost all of the countries PSI operates in. Increasing awareness of water borne diseases and accessibility to treated water are a core part of PSI’s efforts across its health areas. PSI and its many partners are working together to promote the Safe Water System, a water quality intervention that employs proven, easy-to-use and inexpensive solutions such as household water treatment appropriate for the developing world. Household water treatment and safe storage ensures that each sip of water is safe to drink. Household water treatment can be adopted quickly, inexpensively, at national scale in both development and emergency situations, making an immediate difference on the lives of those who rely on transporting to and storing water in their homes. Malaria: PSI provides malaria control support to national Ministries of Health in over 30 countries worldwide. PSI tailors its malaria control programs to the unique environment in each country and the needs outlined by the Ministry of Health to achieve the Abuja Targets and MDGs. PSI’s malaria control programs include delivery of insecticide treated mosquito nets, pre-packaged malaria treatment, behavior change communications and operational research.