Sr. Program Officer
- Employer
- Johns Hopkins University
- Location
- Maryland, United States
- Salary
- Salary Not Specified
- Date posted
- Nov 2, 2021
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Classified title: Sr. Program Officer
Role/Level/Range: ACRP-4-MF
Starting Salary Range: Commensurate With Experience
Employee group: Full time
Employee subgroup (FLSA Status): Exempt
Schedule (hours/days): 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Personnel area (School): Academic and Business Centers
Position Type: New
Org unit name and #: Jhpiego
Department name: Global Programs
Reports to (Job title): Reports to (Job title): Sr. Program ManagerGeneral summary/purpose:
The Senior Program Officer will work in close collaboration with the Senior Program Manager for Portfolio 1, Country Director, Chief of Party and Finance Manager to manage country operations for Guatemala and support a large USAID-funded project in the country.
The Senior Program Officer is responsible for ensuring that good project management practices and tools are being used to stay on scope, schedule, budget for the project. The Senior Program Officer is responsible for managing relationships with subrecipients and the donor.
Specific duties & responsibilities:
- Serve as program lead for new proposal development for Guatemala, Ecuador and other countries in the portfolio as needed including providing budget inputs, conducting budget reviews, and developing management plans and support
- Develop concept notes and respond to donor requests for additional funding under project
- Start-up new project for Ecuador in close coordination with global project teams
- Liaise with GPO POs and country office PMs to plan for and monitor project scope, track and manage project management standards, and troubleshoot issues and delays
- Monitor finances and compliance with Finance Manager
- Coordinate development and submission of donor deliverables (reporting, continuing applications, etc.)
- Monitor country office operations and provide support to country team for implementation of policies and procedures
- Proactively identify and share risks with SPM and GPO management
- Present project achievements, management, and financial information through the Portfolio review
- Report out internally on project accomplishments, including responding to NPD and communication needs
- Ensure teams are complying with PM@Jhpiego (Jhpiego’s internal project management curricula requirements
- Fluent Spanish language skills
- MPH or relevant experience
- Certified in PM@Jhpiego (Jhpiego’s internal project management curricula) or PMD Pro, or will be within 60 days of hire
- 7 years’ experience developing or implementing international health programs
- Successfully managing large complicated public health projects (e.g., multiple partners, difficult donor relations, low in-country capacity) by at least 2 different types of donors, including one USG donor in multiple countries with experience:
- Submitted high quality reports submitted on time to donors
- Managed partners as part of a consortium
- Developed, analyzed and reviewed budgets
- Analyzed expenses, variances, accruals, and pipelines
- Successfully started up a new project
- Successfully developed work plans
- Successfully closed out a large project
- Successfully supporting new program development for multiple proposals
- Provided significant inputs to proposals as program lead – including budget inputs and writing sections of proposal
- Strong problem solving and decision-making: identifying the problem; locating, gathering, and organizing relevant information; generating alternatives; choosing a solution; implementing the solution
- Understanding of global health, and international development program/financial management principles, operations
- Strong ability and experience supervising and mentoring staff
- Strong ability and experience organizing and conducting training and capacity building
- Strong communication and presentation skills: developing communication products (success stories, FB posts, briefs, PowerPoint presentations), writing skills, and presenting skills
The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.
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