Program Officer

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or its International Equivalent in Health, Nutrition, International Development, Social Science or a Related Field.
  
• A Master's degree in management studies, public health or a related field is preferred.
  
• Project Management Certification is of added advantage.
  
• Typically requires a minimum of 6+ years of relevant experience with projects management principles and practices, 2+ years of line management experience required.
  
• Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency, or private organization.
  
• Previous experience working on global health projects including USG funded programs.
  
• International or domestic (US) program development or project management preferred.
  
• Prior work experience in Global Health Security and other key health areas such as malaria and nutrition, desirable.
  

Project Management:

• Provide support to program management including development of annual workplans, ensuring smooth program implementation, track performance against project timelines, budget, objectives, and deliverables.
  
• Serve as a point of contact and interact independently with project colleagues using good judgment to monitor and address issues in a timely manner and keeping the project team appraised of activity progress.
  
• Coordinate routine and adhoc internal project management meetings, and proactively follow up with various managers to ensure actions agreed upon are accomplished.
  

Project Administration:

• Establishes a communication schedule to update stakeholders, including appropriate staff in the organization on the progress of the project.
  
• Determines the resources (time, money, equipment, etc.) required to complete the project activities.
  
• Develops a schedule for project completion that effectively allocates resources to activities.
  
• Builds and implements or socialize best practices for performing all tasks.
  

Problem Solving & Impact:

• Decisions and actions have serious implications, including delays in project schedules and operations and may affect overall business activities.
  
• Problems are complex and require analysis of situations and data with evaluation of a range of factors.
  
• Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies to select methods and techniques to obtain results.