Program Officer II - Health Programs

About the Role

This Program Officer II (PO II) position supports several global health projects funded by the U.S. Government and other donors across a portfolio of countries within a geographic region. The projects span a range of technical focus areas, including HIV, global health security and outbreak response, maternal and child health, and malaria. The Program Officer II provides programmatic management, operational coordination, and administrative support across a portfolio of 2-5 countries and/or project components for multiple projects. The PO II works closely with country teams, technical staff, and U.S.-based project leadership to support project start-up, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates specific components of projects, supports planning and implementation.
• Contributes to detailed planning, develops plans for specific project components.
• Manages tasks related to specific project areas, ensures timely completion.
• Prepares detailed reports, documents project activities, and tracks progress.
• Communicates with stakeholders on specific project aspects, provides regular updates.
• Coordinates small teams or work groups within project, ensuring collaboration.
• Provides support to project management, delivers presentations, and leads meetings.
• Researches and provides inputs for project design by supporting other team members.
• Synthesizes existing information and data into an overarching summary of progress on key project activities.
• Tracks trends in the project area and collects more sophisticated data.
• May conduct new hire onboarding on department procedures and administrative processes.
• Participates in external events related to project and/or technical area.
• May serve as a mentor to other team members.
• Monitors compliance with project policies and procedures within specific areas.
• Identifies risk within specific project areas, proposes mitigation strategies.
• Assists in ensuring project SharePoint site is used appropriately by project team.
• Liaises with the funder by supporting administrative tasks and assisting with the coordination of the contracting process; serves as the contact regarding administrative task assignments.
• Monitors subawardees for specific project components, ensures compliance with terms.
• Supports the management of the budget for specific project components, optimizes resource use.
• Reads and interprets budget to understand tracking and suggest budget items/approach for tasks.
• In collaboration with Financial Analyst/Manager, reviews expense reports, invoices, and purchase orders prior to project and finance management approval.
• Collaborates with field office on financial transparency on purchase orders input into country office finance system of record to ensure purchases align with workplans and budgeted activities.
• Drafts sub-award packages and reviews sub-award package and provides comments before submission for approval.
• Manages the pre-award assessment process.
• Liaises with subcontractors; facilitates partner/sub-award communication related to task completion and planning.

Requirements

• Full understanding of project/project management concepts and practices.
• Basic knowledge of the technical area of the project.
• Task level knowledge and working knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures with project design.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English required.
• Strong and demonstrated project/project management skills.
• Ability to problem solve and implement corrective action as needed.
• Ability to prepare reports and provide information to management in a timely manner.
• Articulate, professional, and able to communicate in a clear, positive fashion with funder and staff.
• Must be able to read, write, and speak fluent English. Proficiency in French or Spanish preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or its International Equivalent in Civil Society, Communication and Social Marketing, Economic Development, Education, the Environment, Gender, Health, Nutrition, Research, Technology and Youth or Related Fields.
• Project management certification preferred.
• Typically requires a minimum of 4+ years of relevant experience with project management principles and practices.
• Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency, or private organization.
• Experience managing and/or supporting complex USG contract/acquisition mechanisms strongly preferred.
• International or Domestic (US) Program Development or Program management preferred.

Physical Demands

• Typical office environment.
• Ability to spend long hours looking at computer screen and doing repetitive work on a keyboard.
• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
• Ability to lift/move up to 5 lbs.

Technology to be Used

• Personal Computer/Laptop
• Microsoft applications (i.e., Office 365, SharePoint, Zoom/Teams)
• Cell phone/mobile technology
• Standard office equipment

Travel Requirements

10% - 25%

Pay

US-based hiring salary range: USD 65,000 - 75,000 annually. International hiring ranges will differ based on location.

FHI 360 contributes 7% of monthly base pay to a money purchase pension plan account.

Benefits

• All US-based staff working full-time (40 hours/week) receive 18 days of paid vacation per year, 12 sick days per year, and 11 holidays per year. Paid time off is reduced pro rata for employees working less than a full-time schedule.