Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, December 29, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
REF/CDC/Project Director/12/22.

Main purpose of the job
Amref Health Africa is seeking a qualified Project Director to lead the project of the anticipated CDC- funded activity titled Transitioning and Integrating Laboratory Services for High-Quality HIV Diagnosis, Care, Treatment, and Monitoring to the Ministry of Health (MOH) to Sustain Achievement of the 95-95-95 Goals in Zambia under PEPFAR.
The Project Director will be responsible for the day to day management of the project in line with Amref Health Africa policies and in compliance with USG and CDC rules and regulations. The Project Director will ensure timely and efficient achievement of the objectives of the projections by coordinating Technical Assistance activities, planning, stakeholder meetings, budgeting and program implementation.

Duties and Responsibilities.
• Provide leadership and strategic direction to achieve programmatic and financial sustained outcomes and targets.
• Develop and maintain a strong working relationship with CDC, and other stakeholders.
• Participate in national laboratory meetings providing thought leadership on sustainable approaches for implementing laboratory services.
• Ensure compliance of project implementation to the terms of the award.
• Represent Amref and Project’s progress, achievements and lessons learnt to CDC, MoH, provinces, and other key stakeholders in meetings, conferences and relevant for fora.
• Collaborate with clinical implementing partners to strengthen clinical- laboratory interface at national and country levels.
• Guide the analysis, synthesis and reporting of outputs and results in collaboration with the M&E team.
• Work with finance and project staff to develop and track budget.
• Write and /or review project outcomes and publication.
• Closely monitor project progress towards achieving the set targets.
• Supervises and provides technical and administrative support to project staff.

Required Qualifications
Education Requirements
• Master’s Degree in Medical Laboratory Science, Public Health or a related field.
Experience Required
• At least Seven (7) years’ experience in project management, planning, monitoring and evaluation preferably in health programs, at least Five (5) years of managing laboratory programs at national levels;
• Demonstrated expertise in HIV/AIDS prevention (particularly support testing for surveillance, prevention, treatment and care of HIV, TB, and related opportunistic diseases);
• Demonstrated success managing and leading technical and administrative teams for USG funded programs – CDC experience strongly desired;
• Experience in client relationship management, developing program work plans, developing program budgets, managing program implementation, and managing and supervising staff;
• Proven ability to work with senior government and donor officials.

Skills and Competencies
• Strong leadership skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a multicultural team.
• Able to work under pressure and on multiple tasks.
• Dynamic, self-motivated and able to demonstrate initiative.
• Portrays knowledge of basic principles of human resource management.
• Strong team player.
• Excellent networking skills
• Strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrate high levels of integrity Strategic.
• Conflict management skills.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education: Associate Degree

Job application procedure
If you are interested, please send your application to Recruitment.Zambia@amref.org  so as to be received on or before 10 January 2023. Your application should include a cover letter detailing why you are the best fit for the position, and a CV with relevant skills and experience. The subject of the email should reference the position you are applying for and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Duly note that Amref Health Africa does not require applicants to pay any money at whatever stage of the recruitment and selection process and has not retained any agent in connection with recruitment. Although Amref may use different job boards from time to time to further spread its reach for applicants, all open vacancies are published on our website under the Vacancies page and on our official social media pages. Kindly note that official emails from Amref Health Africa will arrive from an @amref.org address.
Amref Health Africa is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Amref Health Africa is an equal opportunity employer and has a non-smoking environment policy.



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