Management and Operations Director - US-REMOTE-DC

Summary: Serves the role of Management and Operations Director for an upcoming global health Social and Behavior Change award managing cross-functional teams, field support buy-ins, and project activities from award through close-out. Plans and directs schedules and monitors budget/spending. Organizes interdepartmental and cross-partner activities, ensuring completion of the project on schedule and within budget constraints. Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure efficient project implementation. Works closely with management to ensure financial, administrative, contractual, logistical efficiency and compliance. Serves as a liaison between staff and the organization’s administrative and enterprise services to maintain smooth operations between headquarters and field offices.

Accountabilities: Provides support to the Project Director/Chief of Party to ensure the project is implemented in an efficient, compliant, timely and results-oriented manner.

• Manages, implements, and monitors systems, services, staff, and budgets to achieve financial, administrative and project goals.

• Provides timely and accurate financial and project reports to company management and donors as required. Prepares and monitors approved budgets for assigned projects.

• Approves all expenditures relating to budgets.

• Provides project assistance through review or writing of protocols, papers, reports to ensure accuracy and appropriateness.

• Collaborates with the Project Director to proactively identify opportunities for new project initiatives and funding to support them.

• Recruits, orients, and supervises project staff to support project and ensure the completion of programmatic and workforce planning needs are met and achieved.

• Collaborates with staff to ensure that project implementation is managed closely through the development of structured work plans, indicator tracking sheets and approved monitoring plans.

• Provides supervision to project staff to ensure the project remains on budget. Ensures expenditures within each project are monitored monthly, and that well- structured corrective action is initiated and tracked …