Acting Project Officer Care

**Job Information**:
Industry
- USAIDCity
- PretoriaState/Province
- GautengCountry
- South AfricaZip/Postal Code
- 0002HIghest Level of Education
- Postgraduate DegreeWork Experience
- 5-7 yearsThe Project Officer: C&T will coordinate strategic planning and management across TSS projects to support USAID/South Africa’s Care and Treatment team, and/or others as assigned, 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, quarterly and annual work planning and budget development, and recruiting and managing technical experts to respond to identified challenges or gaps. The Project Officer: C&T 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 USAID, 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.

The Project Officer: C&T will carry out the following activities:

- Management and coordination of activities related to TSS’ support to the C&T team including the management of a core team of highly skilled technical experts tasked with supporting USAID implementing partners. 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.
- Liaise with various stakeholders at all levels of local government, donors and implementing partners as assigned.
- Support with 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.
- Management of secondee(s) under assigned project areas.
- Coordinate technical experts’ onboarding/offboarding and ongoing engagement and management, including leveraging their skills and expertise in other areas of work across TSS.
- Participate in client-facing meetings and communication, including Panagora-USAID project meetings, weekly and bimonthly updates, and quarterly reports. Coordinate additional or ad hoc updates to USAID on request.
- Working closely with the Senior Project Officer Southern Africa Health Programs & Deputy Chief of Party: Technical and Operations, collaborate with all TSS tasks and team leads to leverage solutions and approaches implemented across the various tasks to rapidly implement those solutions in assigned projects, scaling up TSS activities in TSS project supported countries.
- Support quality implementation of day-to-day project activities, including budgeting and financial accountability, staffing, quarterly and annual work planning.
- Other activities as assigned.

**Requirements**:

- Postgraduate Degree in program/project management, organizational development, public health, social science, or a related field or relevant experience.
- 6-8 years’ progressive responsible management experience.
- Experience with USAID/USG, local southern African government stakeholders and implementing partners.
- Demonstrated experience in developing excellent stakeholder relationships.
- Demonstrated experience working with long-term staff, consultants, and a multidisciplinary and multicultural team.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex field-based projects.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with individuals from diverse professional backgrounds.
- Excellent communications, report writing, and presentation skills in the English language.
- Analytical thinker and high attention to detail.
- Experience working across the African continent.

Panagora Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran disability or genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law in employment.