Sr. Hub Director, Latin Languages Hub

Overview

Jhpiego is seeking a Senior Hub Director to provide regional strategic guidance and leadership, support Jhpiego's West and Central Africa country teams to successfully achieve their country specific strategic growth plans and objectives.  The Senior Hub Director promotes Jhpiego mission and vision throughout the region, building and sustaining strategic partnerships and encouraging a OneJhpiego philosophy by establishing systems for country teams to share lessons and resources and identify and resolve issues. They also, promote a culture of curiosity and innovation within the hub, and will supervise a reasonable number of country leaders as appropriate.

 

Additionally, the Senior Hub Director will provide country-level leadership in their home country (in their role of Country Director), guiding the vision, leadership and strategic direction at the national level. The Senior Hub Director  will maintain strong partnerships with national Ministries of Health, donors, local partners, and ensure implementation of country’s locally-led development strategy. The Senior Hub Director  will also oversee the programmatic, technical, and financial integrity of Jhpiego’s programs in their country and ensure they comply with government, donor, JHU and Jhpiego policies and procedures. 

Responsibilities

Hub Leadership and Coordination

• Leads collaborative efforts to define terms of reference for the Hub for effective, efficient and sustainable operation along with clear objectives and indicators.
• Promotes a culture of respect, continuous learning, open sharing and innovations among hub teams.
• Facilitates routine meetings with country directors/country program managers in the Hub to ensure that successes and experiences are shared across countries and the appropriate linkages are made between countries. 
• Identifies country-based focal points for the identified sectors (e.g., HR, finance, technical, M&E, KM, LLD, NPD, etc) who will work together to map human resources within the Hub that can be utilized to support other country teams.
• Facilitates problem resolution for escalated issues raised by CDs/CPMs and focal points in the region, working with US global support departments as needed.
• Establishes an environment of knowledge-sharing across Hubs (in partnership with other Regional Hub Directors and/or US colleagues, as appropriate.
• Serves on Jhpiego leadership team to shape and define organizational-level priorities from the perspective of the countries and hubs.

Regional strategic vision, growth, innovations, and external relations

• Facilitates the design of regional/hub strategies with Country Directors and others in the Hub Region, ensuring strong alignment with Jhpiego’s global strategy and vision.
• Helps to establish priorities and identify strategic positioning opportunities (e.g., new technical and program innovation for testing).
• Promotes strategic thinking and innovations across the hub.
• Manages strategic Hub annual workplan and budget to meet priorities and address identified organizational needs and stay within budget.
• Enhances Jhpiego’s positioning with partners and donors throughout the Hub (e.g., conference participation, webinars, meetings, publications, leadership skills, etc.)
• Expands Jhpiego’s network of partnerships throughout the Hub (local, country, regional, global).
• Represents Jhpiego’s mission, vision and interests to donors and other key stakeholders in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations and complies with Jhpiego standards for submission of communication deliverables.
• Provides support to Countries, as needed, to develop their country specific strategies for impact, growth and partnerships including new program development and positioning and buy-ins for global projects.
• Supports new program development across the hub in collaboration with Country Directors, by providing input into new program development opportunities that cut across multiple countries in the hub, tracking trends across the countries, conducting capture visits, serving as technical lead, reviewing proposals, mobilizing technical resources, etc.

Country Office Leadership (in their own country in the role of Country Director)

• Provides overall strategic leadership and vision to the Jhpiego Country Office.
• Provides strategic direction to ensure programmatic and financial integrity of all projects and to achieve rapid and sustained goals, objectives and targets.
• Develops, revises and/or or updates the Country Strategy aligned with overarching organizational strategies and frameworks as needed. 
• Ensures that all Jhpiego activities are in line with country priorities and incl