Various Positions

FHI 360 Nepal Office

Vacancy Announcement

FHI 360 is a global organization that mobilizes research, resources, and relationships so people everywhere have access to the opportunities they need to lead full and healthy lives. With collaborations in over 60 countries, we work directly with local leaders to advance social and economic equity, improve health and well-being, respond to humanitarian crises, and strengthen community resilience. We share data-driven insights and scalable tools that expand access and equity so communities can effectively address complex challenges, respond to shocks, and achieve thriving futures.  

FHI 360 has been working in Nepal since 1993. Together with the Government of Nepal (GoN), civil society, and the private sector, FHI 360 works collaboratively in the areas of HIV, family planning (FP)/reproductive health (RH), health security and one health, nutrition, COVID-19 response, procurement, and supply chain management, local capacity strengthening, civil society and media strengthening, governance reform, and the environment and climate change. 

We request applications from qualified individuals for the positions mentioned below: 

1.     Project Director (This position is a re-advertisement. Candidates who previously applied need not apply)

The Project Director (PD) will lead the project, directing all activities and staff, and serve as the main contact for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Nepal and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)- and the USAID-supported EpiC Project global team. The PD will represent the project to donors, government, and the development community, including key population organizations, networks, and non-government organizations (NGOs). Additionally, the PD will contribute to regional and global technical learnings of the EpiC Nepal Project, and oversee strategic planning, program execution, technical leadership, communication, partner relationships, knowledge sharing, and financial/human resource management. 

Key Responsibilities

• Direct overall project vision, design, planning and implementation.
• Ensure internal management systems for contracting, recruitment, and delivery move rapidly to respond to the demands for service delivery on the ground.
• Foster innovation and new ideas for better targeted, and more cost-efficient and effective strategies to reach key populations and retain them in services.
• Develop, manage and maintain strategic partnerships among a variety of stakeholders, partners, governments, civil society and donor organizations.
• Ensure that targets agreed upon with USAID are met, on budget and on time.
• Identify opportunities and negotiate partnership programs to leverage other synergistic donor, governmental and organizational resources.
• Supervise technical, management and operations, strategic behavioral communications, and strategic information staff to carry out activities designed in cooperation with USAID.  In so doing, ensure activities are fully accomplished, meet expected technical and management quality standards, and are delivered on schedule.
• Lead development of annual work plans for timely submission to and approval by USAID to implement those plans.
• Serve as the primary contact to the global EpiC Project team based in Washington DC.
• Serve as primary point of contact with USAID Nepal staff and ensure communications flow smoothly between project and USAID Nepal by maintaining a collective approach towards key issues.
• Oversee technical reviews, including outside evaluations if any, and manage indicated changes in program direction and focus.
• Ensure solid and regular communication and engagement with both core and other strategic partners, providing them technical guidance and oversight to ensure optimal participation in the project. 
• Oversee monitoring and evaluation systems, ensuring that program is adequately monitored, and that evaluative thinking is incorporated appropriately into the program wherever possible.
• Guide technical and organizational capacity building initiatives with local partners and senior staff to ensure delivery of high-quality training, technical assistance, and reports.
• Represent the project in advancing evidence-based and innovative key population strategies and approaches on a global, regional and local level.
• Serve as a member of the FHI 360 Nepal Office’s Senior Leadership Team and provide input and assistance to the management of the country program, develop country program strategy, business plans, operational plans and budgets.  

Requirements

• Master's degree in public health, behavioral and social sciences, or a related field with five to seven years of experience in managing public health programs (HIV preferred), or a bachelor's degree with over seven years of experience as mentioned above. 
• Experience in managing large, complex and high-quality HIV service delivery project that focus on local capacity in support of key populations and people living with HIV together with leading the development of technical innovations. Experience in managing USAID- and PEPFAR-supported projects preferred.
• Experience in working in an international non-governmental organization managing diverse team to implement public health programs—preferably with a focus on HIV service delivery.
• Experience in leadership in establishing and maintaining positive working relationships and partnerships with major stakeholders including governments, the Global Fund and UN agencies, partners, and key population and people living with HIV constituency led networks.
• Experience in overseeing all aspects of projects preferably USAID-supported projects, including program and financial management, human resources, compliance, and quality assurance.
• Experience in negotiating annual work plans and guiding program, technical, financial and administrative teams to complete objectives/activities on time within budget while meeting high quality standards.
• Experience in strategy development, capacity strengthening, localization, strategic communications, public relations, policy advocacy and media engagement.
• Proactive in managing multiple tasks, managing and working in the virtual work environment, and flexible and open to managing time for working with different teams in different time zones as needed. 
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, communication, coordination and collaboration, team building and management, and problem-solving skills. 
• Excellent oral and written English and Nepali including documentation skills.

2.     Deputy Project Director 

The Deputy Project Director (DPD) will assist the EpiC Nepal Project Director in oversight of the program and technical resources for the EpiC Nepal Project. The DPD under the guidance and support from the Project Director, will provide technical leadership for program design, planning, implementation, monitoring; ensuring quality; strategic behavioral communication (SBC), and strategic information (SI) for EpiC Nepal Project activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Review, ensure and provide support for timely implementation of EpiC Nepal Project workplan activities, strategies and approaches, performance monitoring and evaluation plan (PMEP), environment mitigation and monitoring plan (EMMP) with high quality.
• Manage the development of sub-agreements, contracts, amendments and annual work plans including activities, budgets and implementation plans and monitor subprojects to ensure that implementation is conducted in a timely and technically sound manner.   
• Review and ensure that sub-agreements, contracts and amendment documents meet the program and technical requirements and maintain quality assurance before execution by EpiC Nepal Project Director.   
• Prepare program reports (such as monthly/quarterly/semi-annual/annual/end of project), briefs and other communication and reporting requirements for FHI 360, donors, and Government of Nepal.  
• Ensure that all programmatic reporting is accurate, timely and meets EpiC Project, FHI 360, Government and donor requirements.  
• Provide support and guidance to ensure that country program and subproject work plan activities are conducted as planned, targets and technical requirements are met, and deliverables completed in accordance with requirements, and are as per the national guidelines and project’s standard operating procedures.
• Support EpiC Nepal Project Director to ensure appropriate levels of technical assistance in program operations from EpiC headquarter in timely manner, and to ensure EpiC Nepal’s technical quality, expertise and contribution is shared widely with headquarter, donors, government and collaborating partners.  
• Keep updated on state-of-the-art global technical advancements in public health, continuum of HIV prevention, care, support and treatment services and research to apply to ongoing EpiC Nepal project activities.  
• Facilitate and ensure supportive supervision and monitoring are regularly planned and implemented and ensure issues and actions identified from the supervision visits are shared and addressed in time. 
• Provide oversight to supervise the day-to-day work of the program, technical, social and behavior change, strategic information unit’s and supply chain management activities including coordination with COVID-19 emergency response, contract & grants, and administration units.
• Review project’s progress tracking on regular basis and ensure that the project’s achievements are on track. Ensure routine project data are regularly analyzed, visualized and used for program improvement.
• Ensure capacity building needs of implementing partner agencies (IPs) are reviewed regularly and capacity building activities are planned, implemented and monitored.
• Work with relevant EpiC Nepal Project and FHI 360 Nepal Office staff for communications and public relations to coordinate publications, documentation and dissemination of EpiC Nepal project activities, successes, good practices and lessons learned.
• Ensure effective management and monitoring of program through field visits, regular EpiC Nepal program and technical team meetings, review meetings, annual and quarterly work plan meetings.  
• Provide support to PD to maintain project’s visibility and coordination at national, provincial and district level
• Perform other duties as assigned by the EpiC Nepal Project Director or Country Director, FHI 360 Nepal Office.   

Requirements

• Masters’ degree or its international equivalent in public health, management, social science or other relevant fields.
• Five to seven years of experience managing large, complex health service delivery projects among key populations together with leading the development of technical innovations 
• Solid experience working in a non-governmental organization (NGO) – preferably with a focus on HIV prevention, care, support and treatment service delivery among key populations and PLHIV.
• Demonstrated leadership in building and sustaining positive working relationships and partnerships with NGOs, government and partners.
• Proven track record of increasing responsibility to oversee all aspects of USAID-funded projects, including financial, human resource, compliance and quality assurance components.
• Demonstrated experience negotiating annual work plans and directing teams to complete objectives/activities on time within budget while meeting high quality standards.
• Exceptional communication and relationship management skills with a range of stakeholders.
• Track record in innovation, information and communication technology (ICT) and quality service delivery.
• Excellent problem solving, program management and implementation skills.
• Maturity and ability to maintain composure under stressful situations and tight deadlines.
• Ability to travel to the field 20-30 percent of the time.  
• Proven ability to work efficiently and effectively in virtual/digital environment
• Proactive in managing multiple tasks, managing and working in the virtual work environment, and flexible and open to managing time for working with different teams in different time zones as needed. 
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, communication, coordination and collaboration, team building and management, and problem-solving skills. 
• Excellent oral and written English and Nepali including documentation skills.

3.     Strategic Information Specialist-DHIS2 Support

The Strategic Information Specialist-DHIS2 Supports is responsible for supporting strategic information (SI) system of EpiC Nepal through technical support in effective management of DHIS2-based HIV Care and ART Tracking System aka One National HIV Information System (ONHIS) managed by Ministry of Health and Population of Nepal and Mero Data of FHI360 Nepal.  The role involves supporting EpiC Nepal's SI Unit in monitoring project activities, data collection, dataset preparation, analysis, and reporting. The specialist will ensure the effective functioning of DHIS2 systems in collaboration with NCASC and HIV stakeholders, while also building capacity for USAID/PEPFAR partners in using the DHIS2 system

Key Responsibilities

• Customize DHIS2 system based on user feedback and reporting requirements, track feedback and error logs, and ensure software version control.
• Administer and maintain DHIS2 Tracker, optimize performance, manage backups, ensure security.
• Provide technical support, and manage data tasks like record deletion, quality checks, and report generation.
• Develop and implement SOPs to ensure data confidentiality and security and ensure adherence by implementing partners.
• Support SI unit during conduction of trainings, mentorships, TAs and other capacity building activities to supported facilities and IPs to ensure availability of quality and timely data for reporting and use in decision making.
• Developing standardized programming and data documentation, entry, analysis and visualization procedures relevant to the program data systems.   
• Assists in writing proposals, abstracts, success stories, manuscripts etc. by providing technical data-related sections and participating in work plan development.  
• Assists in the development of data procedural protocols, updates, and reviews and participates in project scheduling.  

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Health Informatics, or related field. 
• Minimum of 3-5 years of DHIS2 customization, implementation, and management in any project. 
• At least 5 years of experience in web and mobile applications using Java programming language and related technologies.
• Familiarity with client/server or multi-platform application development. Must be highly skilled in the use of JavaScript, Angular, HTML 5, CSS, and XML. 
• Familiar in data visualization software such as PowerBI, Tablue, and data analysis software such as R Studio, Python.
• Proactive in managing multiple tasks, managing and working in the virtual work environment, and flexible and open to managing time for working with different teams in different time zones as needed. 
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, communication, coordination and collaboration, team building and management, and problem-solving skills. 
• Excellent oral and written English and Nepali including documentation skills.

Interested eligible Nepali candidates are request to apply for this job on the link https://www.fhi360.org/careers

The final deadline for application is 5:00 p.m. October 18, 2024

Only short-listed candidates will be invited for written tests and oral interviews. FHI 360 reserves the right to reject any or all applications received without explanation.