Senior Project Officer Southern Africa Health

6 days ago


Pretoria, South Africa Panagora Group Full time

**Job Information**:
Industry
- USAIDCity
- PretoriaState/Province
- GautengCountry
- South AfricaZip/Postal Code
- 0002HIghest Level of Education
- Master's DegreeWork Experience
- 7-10 years- Panagora Group is a social enterprise dedicated to providing high-quality, high-impact international health, development, and learning consulting. We are a dynamic woman
- and employee-owned small business partner focused on market-based and integrated local solutions that strengthen country capacity and independence; and on learning, communications, and technology solutions to accelerate and heighten impact. As a small business, we are able to implement novel and innovative approaches using highly participatory approaches to mobilize community, civil society, and government energy in defining and owning solutions, and to promote inclusive development that benefits all groups.

**Background**:
The **Technical Support Services (TSS) Activity** helps USAID/Southern Africa and Regional Health Office (RHO) to address technical priorities and develop creative, innovative solutions to strategically allocate resources, strengthen connections with partners, and replicate best practices and effective program models. Through the TSS contract, Panagora Group augments capacity by providing technical, operational, and administrative support to USAID’s largest health portfolio. TSS deploys advisors in response to USAID requests for priority work with government stakeholders, implementing partners, and/or other entities. TSS supports Health Office staff and teams to integrate creative solutions into routine work. TSS also provides international and local expertise for surge support, as needed, for USAID Program Cycle requirements, planning, development, outreach, communications, and Health Office human resource functions.

**Description** **of** **Position**:
The Senior Project Officer Southern Africa Health Programs (Team Lead) will coordinate strategic planning and management across TSS projects to support USAID/South Africa and USAID regional health offices (including but not limited to RHO, Eswatini, Lesotho, and Mozambique) to meet critical program objectives. S/he will lead the development and coordination of strategies across various TSS projects to determine where program and operations resources are needed and then work to recruit, deploy, and manage technical experts to fill those gaps. S/he will be responsible for coordinating TSS’s support to USAID including project scoping, detailed SOW development, quarterly and annual work planning and budget development, and recruiting and managing technical experts to respond to identified challenges or gaps. The Senior Project Officer Southern Africa Health Programs (Team Lead) will integrate innovative solutions to all projects, and leverage what has worked previously and adapt approaches to integrate lessons learned and to customize solutions to the unique needs of each Health Office, building relationships with various teams and key stakeholders, promoting efficient and effective ways of working and sustainable knowledge transference from technical experts to health office teams.

**Position** **Responsibilities**:
The Senior Project Officer Southern Africa Health Programs (Team Lead) will carry out the following activities:

- Develop and implement a strategy to assess and prioritize critical program and operations staffing needs for USAID’s South Africa and RHO Health Office(s).
- Leadership and overall management of Site Support including the management of a core team of highly skilled technical experts tasked with health facility level support, working with the USAID C & T team in identifying gaps and promoting best practices, across five District Support Partners (DSPs).
- Assist in defining project scope and priorities, involving all relevant stakeholders, and oversee the utilization and development of appropriate management and communication systems to provide rapid and effective support.
- Implement Panagora TSS’s technical assistance approach for assigned Health Offices and projects (based on needs and requests) to achieve USAID’s strategic priorities. This will be done by project managing long
- and short-term staff as well as subcontractors located in the region and the US.
- Liaise with various stakeholders at all levels of local government, donors and implementing partners in the southern Africa region.
- Facilitate and support Panagora’s adaptation of effective approaches and activities for the RHO and USAID/Mozambique, leveraging our expertise in technical service delivery, strategic information, virtual learning, and program management.
- Oversee recruitment to expand Panagora’s bench of global technical, program, and operations professionals with expertise across the Health portfolio, including the use of innovative and effective online/virtual and in-person (where appropriate) recruitment activities and events.
- Coordinate technical experts’ o



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