Program Development and Resource Mobilization Officer – Ethiopian Public Health Association
Economics, Health Care
Ethiopian Public Health Association
Ethiopian Public Health Association (EPHA)
The Ethiopian Public Health Association (EPHA) is a health professionals association established in 1991 G.C. that envisions the attainment of an optimal standard of health for the people of Ethiopia. It promotes better health services to the public and high professional standards through advocacy, professional competence, relevant policies, and effective networking. EPHA is committed to improve the health and living status of the people of Ethiopia through the dedicated and active involvement of the organization and its members and through collaboration with stakeholders.
EPHA is an association of public health professionals of varying categories and levels of training. EPHA members are distributed all over the country occupying positions at different levels of health care and management from woreda (district) health office and health facilities to the level of a minister. EPHA members are also in private, government and non-government organizations as are its Executive Board members EPHA is among the strongest professional associations in Ethiopia with a current membership of more than 3000. EPHA has its head quarter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and chapters in different regions of the country. The Association is working closely with its partners and collaborators to facilitate and accelerate activities on the country’s priority public health issues and has years of experience and success in implementing national as well as continental projects.. EPHA has good working relationship with governmental and non-governmental organizations, and universities within the country and abroad.
1. Supporting oversight of grant implementation
- Assist in collecting, relevant information on in-country, regional, and Global resource mobilization and utilization performance from PRs, the Global Fund and other information sources and undertake preliminary analysis.
- Facilitating reporting by the Resource mobilization committee and Ethics and governance committee to the CCM on funding request development, and ethics and governance issues and CCM/E evolution project activities.
- Facilitate the work of the ethics and governance committee in adopting and enforcing the CCM/E code of conduct and conflict of interest policy.
- Record any instances of conflict of interest in CCM/E, Resource Mobilization committee and Ethics and governance committee meeting, and other committee meetings
- Investigation of specific grant management issues that arise. Obtain further clarification or explanation from CCM/E, committees, PRs or external technical experts.
2. Support to capacity building, concept note development, grant renewals and grant closure
- Assist in orientation of new CCM/E members, PRs/SRs, and Resource mobilization, Ethics and governance and other committee members to the Global Fund CCM policy, CCM/E Governance manual, CCM/E code of conduct, and conflict of interest policy.
- Facilitate the implementation of CCM/E Evolution project activities
- Facilitate the capacity building of CSOs and provision of technical assistance to CSOs when necessary and as directed by the CCM/E.
- Enhance the engagement of all CCM constituencies in the Global Fund processes
- Facilitate bi-directional consultations within Civil Society constituencies
- Facilitating processes to elect CCM/E Resource mobilization and ethics and governance committee members and respective leadership.
- Facilitating CCM regular eligibility and performance self- assessment
- Providing advice on the availability of information on Global Fund rules, regulations, and guidelines and in-country program activities and performance.
- Support the CCM to harmonize Global Fund Grant activities with other health sector initiatives through participation in key health sector forums.
- Provide information to support harmonization endeavors and the inclusion of Global Fund activities in national results.
- Identifying and investigating opportunities for resource mobilization to support CCM activities
- Facilitate CCM/E concept note development processes by ensuring compliance with the eligibility requirements, development of roadmaps, identification of stakeholders in accordance with the GF guidelines, engagement plans, and establishment of task teams, adequate documentation.
- Accessing and providing task teams with relevant Global Fund guidelines.
- Developing and implementing CCM/E’s strategic positioning vision and plan in order to ensure alignment with and/or integration into national structures/coordinating bodies and both systematic and formal links with donor partner platforms
- Strengthening CCM/E operations through the introduction of and training on the Code of Ethical Conduct and other guidelines
3. Administrative support
- Provide secretarial support to CCM/E and other meetings (e.g. taking minutes, drafting letters, finding appropriate venue for meetings etc.)
- Organize meetings between CCM/E and resource mobilization and ethics and governance committee with PRs and SRs as requested by CCM/E chair, Committee Chair or Executive Secretary.
- Send invitations and reminders for meetings, site visits and training scheduled by the Secretariat.
- Submit draft minutes to respective chairs for review and verification and submit final copy to CCM/E Secretariat.
- Maintain the attendance sign in sheets for the CCM/E, Resource mobilization committee, Ethics committee, ad hoc committee or relevant Task Force membership and prepare an Excel file that shows attendance at each meeting.
- Provide administrative and logistic support to any Task Force set up to deal with specific technical aspects of funding request and other proposals development.
- Making arrangements for Resource mobilization and Ethics and governance committee meetings, including preparing and distributing the agenda and issuing meeting notices.
- Updating CCM governance documents and terms of reference for committees and working groups and task teams.
4. Supporting documentation and communication
- Provide advice on the availability of and, where appropriate, repackaging information on Global Fund and other donors funding opportunity to CCM/E, PRs, SRs and other relevant stakeholders
- Maintain filing system (physical and electronic) of all CCM/E related documents
- Share key evaluation studies whose findings relate to the Global Fund grants (national program mid-term review, on-site data verifications feedback from LFA, etc.)
- Identify successes, best practices, lessons learned and make recommendations as to how these can be adopted across implementers/grants.
- Assist in updating and maintenance of an interactive website for the CCM/E.
- Any other related duties as may be assigned or delegated by the CCM/E Executive Secretary
- Represent the CCM/E Secretariat at key events and forums at national level
- Accomplish any other duty as requested by the CCM/E Executive Secretary
- CCM/E Secretariat may revise the job description of the Program Development and Resource Mobilization Officer as needed
No. of Position:
Responsible to: CCM/E Executive Secretary
Duration: One year with possible extension of the contract depending on satisfactory performance and availability of funding
Required
- Graduate Degree in Public Health, Health Economics, or similar relevant field
- At least 7 years’ proven experience in program development and resource mobilization in a national or international organization.
- Program management experience and working experience of Global Fund grat at least two years is required.
- Familiarity with the Global Fund grant and its policies and funding opportunities
Desirable
- Knowledge in Public Health programs relevant to HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
- Excellent Information Technology skills with mastery of MS Office, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint,
- Ability to regularly update and maintain a website
Skills
- Ability to compile, analyze and interpret complexity of programmatic and financial information
- Ability to supervise and train others including staff and organizational stakeholders
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-orientated environment and to juggle multiple tasks
- Ability to interact and communicate with all levels of national government, NGOs, private and development sectors
- Superior presentation skills
The Program Development and Resource Mobilization Officer will be supervised on a day-to-day basis and report to the CCM/E Executive Secretary.
Negotiable
