Strategic Programme Director

4 weeks ago

Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom University of Glasgow Full time

Job Purpose

To provide strategic leadership and direction for the development and implementation of symbiont-based disease control approaches. This involves initiating contact with governments, advising, and negotiating new contracts to ensure the wider rollout of these approaches.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Lead the strategic planning process for the uptake of symbiont-based disease approaches and shape the long-term strategic direction of symbiont-based dengue control interventions.
  2. Ensure current programmes meet stated objectives and are aligned with the needs of stakeholders.
  3. Participate in writing a strategic business plan for the formation of a social enterprise to aid the wider rollout of Wolbachia technology.
  4. Develop operational plans for Wolbachia interventions for existing partner countries and potentially for new partner countries, including staff training needs.
  5. Take a senior role in developing a robust implementation plan to ensure the delivery of consortia objectives, leading and managing the day-to-day operational and administrative affairs.
  6. Manage and monitor programme budgets to ensure maximum value is delivered for resources deployed and to ensure ongoing financial support from funders.
  7. Oversee, manage, and clerk consortia governance and decision-making structures and systems.
  8. Coordinate consortia programmes of international meetings and be willing to travel to attend these meetings as required.
  9. Develop, enhance, and maintain effective working relationships with all project partners and stakeholders of the programme.
  10. Develop communications plans to ensure effective and transparent communications with partners and with communities in intervention sites.
  11. Promote the consortia and ensure that national and international researchers are aware of how to engage with the initiative.
  12. Manage consortia information-sharing and data management systems and procedures.
  13. Provide high-level oversight and supervision of in-country consortia teams in Burkina Faso, Paraguay, Malaysia, and the UK (over 70 people).
  14. Act as the principal administrative liaison point for the consortia with funders and stakeholders, leading on the provision of information about and reporting on consortia activities and operations.
  15. Identify potential for additional bids and potential income-generating opportunities.
  16. Undertake any other relevant duties as directed by the PI.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Qualifications/Knowledge Essential:

  • A PhD or equivalent in Medical Entomology or a related field, with a broad range of professional experience in a management role(s).
  • Knowledge of project management techniques and tools and their application in a vector control context.
  • Understanding of contractual, legal, and financial matters in relation to research contracts, collaborative agreements, confidentiality agreements, consultancy agreements, service agreements, and other such documents relevant to this type of transaction.
  • Understanding of the academic environment, including the complex mix of pressures, constraints, motivations, and risk/reward positions of academic staff, schools, and the institution.

Desirable:

  • Postgraduate/Professional qualification in a relevant subject area, such as MPH (Masters in Public Health).
  • Knowledge of and previous interactions with funders active in this field.

Skills Essential:

  • Proven high-level communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels, including high levels of government in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs).
  • Strong report/proposal writing skills with proven ability to produce reports, presentations, and technical documents for a variety of audiences.
  • Proven analytical and problem-solving capabilities with excellent qualitative and quantitative analytical skills.
  • High level of competence with systems designed to support project management; improve team communications, information, and data dissemination.
  • Ability to multitask, work flexibly, and adapt to changing environments.
  • Ability to network effectively with high levels of influencing, negotiating, and diplomacy skills.
  • Proven ability to liaise and cooperate across organisational and geographical boundaries.
  • Flexible, committed, reliable, and enthusiastic approach with ability to work as part of a team with staff at all levels. Ability to maintain confidentiality.
  • The ability to use initiative and creativity to resolve problems and identify and assess practical options.
  • Ability to work under minimum supervision.

Experience Essential:

  • Depth of experience of successfully managing and delivering multi-disciplinary collaborative programmes in multiple countries.
  • Experience of managing and monitoring programme resources across countries.
  • Experience of providing high-calibre operational leadership and direction within a complex multi-stakeholder high-profile context.
  • Experience of supervising staff.
  • Knowledge of the public health funding environment.
  • Experience working with governments in low and middle-income countries on vector control interventions.
  • Experience of developing, planning, and managing large complex projects.
  • Relevant technical expertise in medical entomology and in communications, specifically in community engagement with respect to the implementation of novel mosquito control methods.

Desirable:

  • Experience of operating 'on the road' as international travel will be required.
  • Relevant experience gained within the Higher Education sector.

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