Project Manager, STRIDES

Job Summary:

The STRengthening Infectious disease DEtection Systems (STRIDES) Activity builds upon the U.S. Government’s Global Health Security (GHS) and other global health investments to enhance diagnostic networks and surveillance capabilities in partner countries. Through STRIDES, the United States extends its support for life-saving activities to address the urgent need to improve infectious disease detection, surveillance, and data systems for priority diseases that pose public health risks for outbreaks, while also providing emergency response support when outbreaks occur. In doing so, STRIDES aims to halt outbreaks before they spread by supporting human and animal health systems to provide quality, sustainable services. STRIDES also advances cross-sectoral efforts to identify, manage, and respond to infectious disease threats; detect and prevent further outbreaks; and build trust in a country’s disease detection and surveillance structures.
 

STRIDES is seeking up to nine (9) qualified Project Managers to support the implementation of activities across its portfolio. The Project Manager coordinates the entire project lifecycle, from initiation to closure, ensuring that all project goals are met on time and within budget. This role involves comprehensive oversight and collaboration of project planning, budgeting, resource allocation, and risk management. The Project Manager is responsible for overseeing sub-award execution, ensuring compliance, and maintaining strong relationships with sub-awardees. They coordinate the project team, provide strategic guidance, and ensure effective communication with all stakeholders. The Project Manager also ensures adherence to organizational policies, donor requirements, and legal standards, while overseeing monitoring and evaluation to incorporate lessons learned into future projects and plans. A key aspect of this role is proactive risk management to ensure the project’s success.

FHI 360 anticipates hiring up to nine (9) Project Managers, including one (1) based in Thailand and one (1) based in the Southern or Western Africa region. Other PMs can be based globally where FHI 360 is registered, with a preference for individuals based in the United States.      

Accountabilities:

Project Management:

• Coordinates and ensures the development of projects from initiation to completion based on the established project scope, goals, and deliverables.

• Develops and manages the project workplan, assigns tasks in workplan in accordance to established project RASCI, and ensures overall progress

• Oversees documentation and reporting, ensures accuracy and presents updates to stakeholders

• Leads stakeholder communication, ensuring alignment and addressing concerns

• Develop and deliver a project workplan encompassing all the details of a project to the team members, including a project RASCI that clearly outlines the roles and responsibilities of every function within the project.

• Coordinate project team members to ensure project objectives and deliverables are met, fostering a collaborative work environment.

• Provide guidance and monitoring for project staff, ensuring clarity over project plans and priorities, and encouraging effective teamwork.

• Develops best practices and tools for project execution and management.

• Evaluates the progress of the project on a regular basis.

• Builds, develops, and grows partnerships with internal and external partners vital to the success of the project.

• Ensures budgets are reflective of the activities in the project workplan and reforecast as changes are made to the workplan and in alignment with the scope of the project

• Manages the operational and tactical aspects of multiple projects in a matrix environment.

• Manages the development of project teams to ensure compliance with policies and procedures; also, to develop and implement process improvement plans.

• Keeps abreast of the latest strategies, tools and terminologies used in project management worldwide to adopt and increase productivity

• Ensure proper donor and organizational approvals are obtained prior to work being completed.

Risk Management:

• Proactively identify potential risk that could impact project successes, including financial, operational, technical and external risks.

• Evaluate the likelihood and impact of identified risks and prioritize them based on severity

• Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies, including contingency plans to address potential issues befor