John Snow, Inc.
The Director of Institutional Capacity Development will be in charge of all capacity building components of this contract, including technical service delivery capacity building, as well as capacity building for financial management systems. This includes technical oversight of grants under contract to GRZ districts, and any sub-awards to local partners. He/she will work closely with the Director of Monitoring, Evaluation and research to ensure that capacity building activities are appropriately monitored in order to demonstrate effectiveness of the interventions. Additionally, he/she will work with national level GRZ representatives to ensure official GRZ policies are in line with evidence based, international standards, and that these policies are carried out at service delivery points across the districts covered by SAFE.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership on capacity building for HIV program to ensure that activities are designed for maximum impact and sustainability, including development of capacity building and sustainability strategies and plans;
- Provide technical leadership on financial management strengthening at all levels of the GRZ
- Develop and manage the grants mechanism to provide funds to the Zambian government to implement its HIV/AIDS programs at the district level;
- Monitor grant utilization to ensure compliance with the terms and conditions of the contract;
- Provide technical leadership on budget and policy reforms to ensure greater impact of HIV/AIDS programming;
- Liaise with the Zambian government, USAID and other cooperating partners on policy reforms;
- Assist in sustainable domestic resource mobilization for HIV/AIDS financing;
- Examine models of support, specifically looking at how resources are moved into programs and where there has been the biggest impact;
- Coordinate costing activities to feed into the budgeting process of the HIV/AIDS program;
- Identify short- and long-term achievable, sustainable strategies for improving financial systems within Zambia’s health sector, with a focus on decentralization; and
- Assist the government of Zambia to strengthen use of expenditure analysis, economic, and financial data to ensure efficient use of resources across HIV/AIDS service delivery.
Qualifications:
- A master’s degree or higher in public health, public policy, economics, finance, or a related field;
- A minimum of five years of work experience in a relevant field, such as capacity building of local governments, policy and budget reform, tax policy, health care financing, poverty reduction strategies, policies, grant management for host government, monitoring and evaluation and strategic planning, including considerable experience dealing with policy makers at a senior level;
- At least three years of experience working with ministries of health and/or finance is highly desirable, especially experience in leading financial policy frameworks and developing new policies that reflect best practices and up-to-date science;
- Familiarity with public expenditure frameworks;
- Relevant experience in skills transfer and organizational capacity-building;
- Excellent presentation and report writing skills.
To apply: Send an application via email to [email protected]. In the subject line please indicate the position you are applying for; only those applications that reference the position in the subject line will be reviewed. Your application should consist of a cover letter and CV with three references and full addresses and contact information. Please ensure that you mention www.gozambiajobs.com as the source of this job advertisement.
Closing Date: Tuesday, 7 March 2018
Only candidates meeting the minimum requirements will be contacted. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks after the closing date, kindly assume that your application was not successful.
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