Deadline: Ongoing
The FHI 360 is currently inviting applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Project Director, Alive & Thrive based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions.
Key Job Responsibilities
The Project Director performs the following functions-
- Plan, direct, and coordinate A&T country program in Burkina Faso to ensure goals and objectives are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters.
- Identify opportunities to ensure that A&T’s program in Burkina Faso is scaled up and sustainable. This can be done through policy or partnership initiatives with government and NGO partners at national and regional/local level.
- Facilitate communication among government and implementing partners engaged with A&T to scale up program activities, including quarterly meetings of a national network or alliance of stakeholders committed to scale up breastfeeding interventions in Burkina Faso under the umbrella of the government.
- Develop annual work plans, monitoring plans, and budgets to meet project goals and ensure compliance with FHI360, FHI Solutions, and donor policies.
- Prepare program reports for A&T supported activities in Burkina Faso. Serve as an active participant in A&T team meetings to provide updates, reports and feedback.
- Act as a key link between the Burkina Faso stakeholder and the A&T/HQ team.
- Identify and arrange for short term TA from A&T/HQ to strengthen existing activities of scaling up breastfeeding and related interventions in Burkina Faso.
- Facilitate and ensure the development, pre-testing and printing of high quality, field-rested and adapted job aids, supervisory tools, advocacy briefs and IEC materials under the supervision of A&T/HQ.
- Assist other stakeholders engaged in Burkina Faso to scale up breastfeeding and complementary feeding in the strategic use of data to achieve high impact at scale through interventions such as multi-channel communication, community mobilization and advocacy interventions and tools based on past A&T experience, as adapted for Burkina Faso.
- Ensure high quality documentation as per the plans developed by A&T.
- Maintain close coordination and dialogue with key stakeholders in the national IYCF alliance, in other sectors, implementers at province and district levels in all regions of the country as well as others in government, NGOs, UN, bilaterals and institutions involved in IYCF and related programs and policy development.
- Facilitate site visits of A&T staff and consultants in Burkina Faso, collaborate with other team members and consultants working with A&T to ensure technical quality and Identify relevant technical inputs, documents, papers, feedback from Burkina Faso to A&T/HQ.
- Provide lessons learned, success stories, and other materials for monthly and quarterly reports for the project. Research and write reports and project materials.
- Oversee financial management of the A&T/Burkina Faso program, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, budget monitoring, and compliance with FHI 360 policies and procedures in all financial, contractual, and procurement activities.
- Work closely with the Finance Manager and relevant HQ staff to prepare, track, and monitor annual budgets.
- Other tasks as needed.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Medical or social sciences advanced degree (masters or post-graduate level or higher is essential) in public health, behavior change communication, nutrition, medical/nursing sciences or related development studies.
- A minimum of 8 years of experience in design, implementation, management, capacity building related to improving health/nutrition/behavior change indicators including planning and analysis, training and services delivery programs.
- Fluency in written and oral French and English.
- Excellent reputation in teamwork and facilitating dialogue and communications among diverse institutions and sectors
- Demonstrated experience and high acceptability in working with government, NGOs and donors in Burkina Faso or Francophone West Africa.
- Demonstrated experience in successfully working across sectors (other than health) with senior government authorities, academic experts, national health partners, preferably in Burkina Faso or West Africa.
- Proficiency in the use of MS Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel etc) and the Internet.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted through online process.
For more information, please visit FHI 360.
