Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Title: Chief of Party – Circle of Hope Reports to: Executive Director
Department: Salary Grade: 12
THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON FUNDING
About Circle of Hope
Circle of Hope (COH) is a Faith Based Organization (FBO) that became operational on 1st September 2005. On commencement COH realized the need to care and provide for the whole person and adopted a family cantered approach. Having identified the existing symbiotic relationships among poverty, prostitution, broken families, street kids, alcohol abuse and HIV/AIDS, COH derived its scope of program activities that included provision of the comprehensive HIV cascade of care services with particular focus on treatment and care for people living with HIV, Home based Care, Orphan and Vulnerable Children, prevention of mother to child transmission program (PMTCT), Community sensitization and awareness campaigns and Income generating activities.
Background
Circle of Hope is recruiting key personnel for an anticipated CDC-funded project that aims to improve HIV prevention, care, and treatment outcomes in target communities by engaging faith-based organizations to provide critical prevention interventions to improve awareness of the HIV epidemic and improve linkage to care and treatment. It will also target primary prevention of sexual violence and HIV among 9-14 year old boys and girls, by focusing on evidence-based activities that prevent sexual violence and any form of coercive, non-consensual, or forced sex; prevention of early sexual debut; and helping communities and families to provide an enabling environment that improves violence and sexual risk reduction, and helps link victims to the justice system
Job Summary:
As the Chief of Party you will provide leadership and overall management of the project to serve the poor and vulnerable in the area of HIV/AIDS. Your leadership, management and technical knowledge will ensure the delivery of high-quality programming and advance the position of COH as a leading agency in HIV/AIDS field. As a senior leader you will proactively manage security and mitigate security risks. .

  Roles and Key Responsibilities:
• Lead all aspects of the development, implementation and consolidation of the project, including sharing how the project contributes to the thought leadership of the industry. Serve as the primary point of contact to CDC as well as public, private and non-government stakeholders.
• Ensure the project is designed and implemented to meet donor expectations in terms of timely and quality results and budget, including strategies for phase out and sustainability. Ensure coordination between program and operations leads.
• Lead all technical and mentorship activities, aimed to improve capacity of community and faith structures to identify and individuals within key populations and refer key populations in HIV/AIDS services implementation.
• Effectively manage senior programming and operations talent. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching and mentoring. Strategically tailor individual development plans and complete performance assessments for direct reports. Oversee the development of staffing plans and the recruitment process of senior staff.
• Manage and mitigate risk through monitoring national and regional issues that may impact staff and programming. Ensure all staff understand and adhere to COH staff safety and security policies and plans and ensure the updating of such plans.
• Promote, uphold and model a commitment to the efficient use of agency and donor resources. Ensure compliance with CDC grants, including financial tracking and oversight of partner budgets, finance, administration and reporting to CDC. Approve program expenditures, budget adjustments, and cost modification requests to donors.
• Oversee the development of communication strategies and materials, complying with donor and CRCOH’ branding and marketing requirements and procedures.
• Coordinate relationships with consortium partner organizations, including organization of review/planning workshops. Contribute to coordination of the roles and activities of staff from other consortium member organizations in implementation in line with COH partnership principles.
• Create and maintain proper conditions for learning. Establish a safe environment for sharing of ideas, solutions, and difficulties and the capacity to detect, analyze and respond quickly to deficiencies. Identify performance gaps and training opportunities for COH and partner staff and ensure the design and delivery of high-quality training and technical assistance
• Network with key HIV/AIDS Zambia agencies and organization

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Strong strategic, analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills, with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment and decisions.
• Strong relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally. Strategic in how you approach each relationship.
• Team leadership abilities with diverse/multi-disciplinary teams. Coaching skills.
• Strong communications and presentation skills; able to develop tailored and persuasive messaging for varied audiences.
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented..

Basic Qualifications
• Medical degree (MD) or advanced degree in public health or management
• Minimum eight years in the developing world in project management positions.
• Experience in coordination of multi-agency programming
• Experience leading international partnerships.
• Strong preference for candidates with at least five years’ experience in HIV/AIDS programming and providing technical assistance to partner organizations.
• Ability to professionally represent COH to host government and other organizations and strong diplomacy skills.

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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