- Full time contract to January 2022
- Based in Suva, Fiji.
- Some travel to Fiji's outer Islands will be required
The Program
The Fiji Program Support Facility (the Facility) was established in 2017 to support and implement Australia’s aid programs such as health, education, Australia Awards and governance in Fiji. The Facility also supports the Australia Awards and education programs in Tuvalu. The Facility integrates cross-cutting themes, including gender equality, disability inclusion, climate change, emergency preparedness and response and civil society engagement, across sectoral programs. In particular, the Facility seeks to strengthen program outcomes by better addressing the needs of targeted beneficiaries including those who are often marginalised.
The Australian Government is supporting Fiji’s health sector through the Australia’s Support to the Fiji Health Sector Program (the program) working with the MHMS.
The program’s high-level objectives are:
· Better curative and preventative health services (e.g. service quality, Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs), communicable diseases and maternal & newborn services); and
· Strengthening health systems (e.g. planning, finance, workforce and information).
The funding for the program is approximately AUD20million over 5 years to January 2022 and delivered through a range of activities (interventions) to achieve the program’s objectives where activity implementation modalities include technical advice, procurement of technical services and goods, capacity building and training support, support to Ministry led initiatives and innovations and grants to civil society organisations (CSOs).
The Position
The Team Leader (TL) is responsible for leading and managing the Health program to achieve high quality and sustainable results to support MHMS’s strategic priorities and DFAT’s bi-lateral relationship with the Government of Fiji (GoF). This requires the TL to maintain highly effective working relationships with MHMS leadership and the DFAT team led by the Development Counsellor. The TL sets the strategic direction of the program in close collaboration with DFAT and MHMS and is responsible for delivering the program through the full program life cycle.
The TL will be a member of the Facility’s Management Group (MG) and Program Performance Group (PPG), will be a champion for cross-cutting themes and accountable for ensuring compliance with DFAT and the Facility/Coffey organisational and operational policies and procedures across the program.
The Person
Critical to your success in this role is strong and credible skills and experience in health systems strengthening, public health and/or primary health care, and the ability to use this to guide strategic planning and engagement with government.
The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in senior management of health programs in developing countries, preferably in the Asia-Pacific region. The successful candidate will also have proven experience in program management, including planning and implementation for results, leadership of teams of national and international staff of diverse backgrounds, financial management, reporting and work planning.
We seek an outstanding and highly motivated individual with excellent relationship management skills and broad experience liaising at a strategic level with governments and other donors, and providing advice to senior policy makers in counterpart ministries/departments...
The position is classified as Discipline Category C Job Level 4 under the DFAT Adviser Remuneration Framework. To learn more, please visit https://www.dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/Pages/adviser-remuneration-framework
How to apply:
How to Apply
To apply for this position or to view a detailed position description, please visit www.coffey.com/careers and search for job number 498526. Please note that applications will only be accepted via the online application process on Coffey Careers.
Applicants are required to submit a cover letter to support their application and provide responses to the following selection criteria:
Provide examples to demonstrate your successes in managing senior management of health programs in developing countries preferably in the Asia-Pacific region and/or in a donor funded environment.
Provide examples of your success leading teams of national and international staff of diverse backgrounds including successful team building, capacity building and performance management.
Provide examples liaising at a strategic level with governments and other donors, provision of advice to counter-part ministries/departments, senior policy makers and in policy analysis for health sector development initiatives.
For any enquiries, please contact IDEV.HRServices@coffey.com and quote the job reference number 498526.
Applications close: Thursday, 5 November 2020 at 5:00pm (Suva)
This program is managed by Coffey, a Tetra Tech company, on behalf of the Australian Government.
Coffey is an equal opportunity employer of choice and is committed to child protection.
