Project Director

International Medical Corps (IMC)

Emergency Relief

Closing date: 30 Aug 2009
Location: Sudan - Juba

International Medical Corps mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide.

By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

International Medical Corps has been operating in South Sudan since XX and as a member of a team implemented the SHTP I program.

International Medical Corps is seeking Project Direction (Chief of Party) candidates for an upcoming Sudan Health Transition Project – Phase 2 (SHTP –II), implemented by Management Sciences for Health, Inc.

(MSH) under the United States Agency for International Development contract. Through SHTP II, the USAID health program of assistance to the government and the people of Southern Sudan will focus on the following results:
- Expanded access/availability of high impact services and practices
- Increased Southern Sudanese capacity to deliver and manage services
- Increased knowledge of and demand for services and healthy practices

Specific duties include:
- Set the monthly, quarterly, annual and project duration strategy.
- Ensure that the strategic directions, project benchmarks, accountability and internal control standards are established and exercised.
- Ensures that the results oriented directions, targets, deliverables and standards of care are communicated and agreed with the team and in consultation with the Management Sciences for Health (MSH) country leadership and when required with the United States Agency of International Development (USAID), other partners and stakeholders.
- Ensure that project elements are conceptualized and the team members and consultants understand their roles and responsibilities and are properly trained to implement the project tasks in compliance with all the project requirements of USAID, MSH and IMC.
- Ensure that technical deliverables and monitoring and evaluations plan are designed, agreed, and match the project requirements and ensure that all the project information and benchmarks are achieved in a most transparent way and properly reported.
- Ensure that the project team and consultants are properly trained, roles and responsibilities are properly assigned and the team is able to implement the project agreed deliverables.
- Provide sound day to day leadership in recruitment, training, programmatic and fiscal operations, performance evaluation of the project and staff.
- Conduct monthly deliverables and project practices review.
- Ensure that contract, finance and grants administration functions are in full compliance with provisions of the agreement with MSH.
- Ensure that the project financial projections, expenditures and internal audit functions are in full compliance with the contract provision, MSH, IMC and the USAID requirements.
- Ensure that fiscal and program documentation processes flow.
- Ensure full coordination and collaboration is established wit the MSH team, the State, Country Ministry of Health and Primary Health Care Centers is established. Lessons learned and approaches are communicated, captured and reported.

Skills Required:
- Masters Degree, or a PhD in Public Health, Health Administration or other relevant field.
- A minimum of 10 year progressive relevant international experience.
South Sudan health program management experience preferred.
- Experience in the geographic/cultural region of the project needed.Progressive leadership in management and proven ability to lead and motivate multidisciplinary, multicultural team.
Ability to establish and ensure ongoing effective collaboration with the MSH team, ministry officials, and other MSH and USAID implementing partners.
- Proven experience setting up standards, communicating a project strategy, manage project deliverables, performance monitoring and evaluation.

How to apply
go to website http://www.imcworldwide.org