Management Sciences for Health: Short - Term Technical Assistants
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Management Sciences for Health
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The Building Local Capacity for the delivery of HIV Services in Southern Africa Project (BLC)) is a USAID funded programme of Management Sciences for Health (MSH). MSH save lives and improves health by helping public and private organisations throughout the world to effectively manage people, medicines, money, and information. MSH staffs are highly regarded for their technical expertise, integrity, and commitment to making a lasting difference in health. We live our mission to save lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
The BLC project currently operates from the regional office in Pretoria, South Africa and country operations in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland, implementing a portfolio of projects clustered around three focus areas; HIV Prevention, care and support for orphans and vulnerable children and provision of community based care.
The BLC Project seeks the services of Short-Term Technical Assistants (STTA) in the following fields:
- Capacity building;
- Project management;
- Monitoring and evaluation;
- Financial management;
- Business development.
This is a short-term consultancy contract based in South Africa.
Responsibilities:
- Complement the activities of a team of BLC capacity building staff to provide technical assistance to governmental and civil society partners as detailed in the project’s implementation plans;
- Facilitation of training workshops and provision of technical support will be results oriented and facilitated in a manner that enables the BLC partners to achieve their organisational development and programmatic objectives.
- Specialisation in multiple or any management system such as planning, human resources management, monitoring and evaluation, data collection and use, quality assurance, finance, business development;
- Experience and skills in project management, leadership development, governance and strategic planning;
- Communications, facilitation and organisational skills;
- Ability to develop programmes to training staff of partner organisations in their respective areas of specialisation;
- Graduate degree in international public health, international development, public policy, public administration, management, social sciences or a related discipline;
- Programmatic, technical, and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with professional colleagues in a broad range of indigenous governmental organisations and NGOs;
- Interpersonal, verbal and written communications, teamwork and partnering abilities;
- Ability to produce results in diverse cultural, social, and language contexts;
- Computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite;.
- Fluency in oral and written English;
- Knowledge and work experience in the Southern African region will be an advantage;
- Experience in providing STTA;
- Willingness to travel within the region.
Please quote the source of this advertisement in your application - NGO Pulse Portal.
For more about the Management Sciences for Health, refer to www.msh.org.
For other vacancies in the NGO sector, refer to www.ngopulse.org/vacancies..
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