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John Snow Incorporated Vacancy for a Country Program Officer
John Snow Incorporated (JSI) is a public health research and technical
assistant firm dedicated to improving the health of individuals and
communities throughout the world.
It manages the USAID/DELIVER PROJECT
and the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) project in the Nigeria
office.
We are recruiting to fill the below position:
Job Title: Country Program Officer, Nigeria
Location: Rosslyn, VA
Deadline Date: Open until the position is filled.
Starting Date: 09/08/2015
Job Description
- The USAID | DELIVER PROJECT is a worldwide program managed by
John Snow, Inc. and funded by the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID).
- They are an integral member of a three-person team (Regional
Manager (RM) and Finance and Administration Manager (FAM)) that provides
support to and management of the Nigeria field office implementing the
donor's program.
- He/she works under the supervision of a regional manager and in
close collaboration with the Malaria and Reproductive Health and Family
Planning technical advisors assigned to the Nigeria portfolio of
activities.
- The project is scheduled to end September 2016 thus close-out
and transition activities will be a major focus for this country
portfolio.
- The project strengthens the supply chains of health and family
planning programs in developing countries to ensure the availability of
critical health products to customers.
- The Nigeria Country Program Officer (PO) backstops country
operational and technical development activities managed from the
Washington DC office.
- The Nigeria Country Program Officer provides day-to-day
operational support, facilitates ongoing communication, routine budget
and activity monitoring, and coordinates the technical activity
implementation of the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT’s Nigeria field office.
Responsibilities
Country team operational management:
- Manages routine communications between the home office and the
field office including coordination of routine home office country team
meetings.
- Facilitates communications between country teams, field offices
and other project teams/technical resources (supply operations, task
order advisors, supply chain systems strengthening, capacity building,
etc.).
- In collaboration with the RM, coordinates and provides input to workplan development and monitoring.
- Assist the RM to review the implementation of technical
activities against workplan goals, establish milestones, and identify
corrective actions as necessary to ensure workplan objectives are
achieved.
- Assists with administration and logistical arrangements for training and conferences.
- Represents the RM in his/her absence.
- Participates in short term technical assistance (STTA) missions as needed.
- Maintains project technical files.
- Arranges shipping of supplies and equipment and routine mailings.
- Facilitates and participates in the development of, and/or the
timely completion/review of, country program and technical reports.
- Assists RM with dissemination of information on country
innovations, program results and lessons learned, and provides
information for the project website and other management information
systems.
- Attends country-related technical meetings, seminars, and
debriefings, acting as team's representative when appropriate, and
reporting key information to team members.
- Supports country team in facilitating collaborative relationships with partner organizations, donors and clients.
- Assist FAM with financial and administrative management of
country and team activities; provides technical input to developing
sound and up-to-date financial projections that reflect workplan
activities.
Short-term technical assistant support to the Nigeria office:
- Serves as primary contact for STTA activities for field offices.
- Coordinates development, technical review, and approval of scopes of work for STTA activities.
- Submits STTA requests to STTA manager for discussion at Resource Allocation (RA) meetings.
- Represents country team at the RA meetings as needed.
- Facilitates processes for international consultants; including
development of the consultant contract, communicates SOW, travel
arrangements, deliverable sign-off, and submission of a completed
expense report.
- Manages subcontractor work order process for program initiatives.
Direct support to the Nigeria country program operations:
- Provide guidance on contractual rules and regulations.
- Provides ongoing training and mentorship to the SCOD staff to
improve their budgeting, planning, and subcontractor management
capabilities.
- Facilitates international travel arrangements for project
counterparts including: visa processing, travel advances and travel
insurance for DELIVER-sponsored travel, if necessary.
- Serves as the interface with project contracts unit and the
field office on technical procurement when assigned; assist with
development of field-based subcontracts; monitoring completion of
subcontract deliverables; facilitating actions for other USAID approvals
(e.g. waivers).
- Review all contracts prepared by the Supply Chain Operations
Department (SCOD), ensuring appropriate vendor award procedures have
been followed, budget is accurate, and the activity supports workplan
objectives and the strategic goals of the project.
- Serve as the liaison between the Senior Contracts Administrator,
Task Order Finance Managers, RM, and SCOD to troubleshoot issues and
create consensus.
- Works with the Malaria Technical Manager and the in-country
Malaria program team to evaluate and forecast supply chain warehousing
and transportation capacity needs.
- When necessary prepare RFPs for warehousing and transportation services and manage the proposal review and selection process.
- Serves as point of contact for time-sensi.
Qualifications
- Master's Degree or equivalent work experience in the field of international family planning, health, or development desired.
- Ability to work independently and manage various projects in a team setting, with minimal supervision.
- Strong organizational and communication skills.
- Experience with USAID highly desirable.
- Authorization to work in the US required.
- Developing country experience desirable.
- Interest in health, population, and/or development issues.
- Excellent written and verbal English language skills.
- Ability to work comfortably in the MS Office package.
Remuneration
Salary commensurate with experience.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online