Senior Project Manager, Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics (FACE) - TFGH

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Description:

The Senior Project Manager at The Task Force for Global Health plays a pivotal role in overseeing and strategically managing a range of complex projects. This position is integral to the training, mentorship, and technical support of the project management team, ensuring that best practices in project management are adhered to consistently. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for guaranteeing that all projects are completed on schedule and within budget parameters. Additionally, this role involves serving as a liaison with funding partner project officers, facilitating effective communication and collaboration.

 

The Task Force for Global Health is an Emory University affiliate located in Decatur, GA. Its eight programs focus on building durable public health systems that serve all people. Focus areas include neglected tropical diseases, vaccines, and health systems strengthening. The Task Force received the 2016 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize–the world's largest award of its kind–in recognition of its extraordinary contributions to alleviating human suffering. 

 

The Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics (FACE), our mission is to catalyze compassion and applied ethics in global health research, practice, and policy, by working to examine and address complex ethical issues that arise in public health practice, globally, and cultivate compassion in global health programs. We are committed to helping practitioners channel compassionate and ethical action in day-to-day decision-making. As part of the Task Force for Global Health, our vision is a field of global health that is compassion-centered, ethically-engaged, and grounded in shared humanity. Our core values, as a program, are: collaboration, compassion, equity & justice, ethical advancement, and humility. We consult and collaborate with many organizations both globally and locally, from the World Health Organization (WHO) and ministries of health, to academic institutions and community clinics. To learn more, visit us at: https://taskforce.org/face/.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES::

• Functions as a senior project manager at The Task Force for Global Health, providing strategic management to various complex projects.
• Trains and provides mentorship and technical assistance to project management staff.
• Ensures that project management is practiced in a consistently high-quality manner.
• Ensures that projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Liaises with funding partner project officers.
• Provides strategic management to various complex projects.
• Establishes priorities, develops work plans, and reports progress based on knowledge of program needs and direction; meets deadlines.
• Manages complex, high stakes projects.
• Manages relationships with competing viewpoints.
• Resolves project issues and challenges.
• Manages and tracks project budgets, including approval of expense reports/invoices.
• Leads project team discussions and meetings.
• May represent and promote their projects at various speaking engagements. Manages project budgets and provides financial reports to program leadership, funders, and other stakeholders.
• Builds and nurtures relationships with leadership, internal project team members, consultants, and external customers by interacting through email, phone calls, meetings, and/or personal visits.
• Participates fully as a member of the Task Force for Global Health by contributing, assisting, and participating in projects, activities, and initiatives as requested by management.
• Performs other related duties as required.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Applicants who have experience and/or a demonstrated interest in global health ethics, research ethics, people-centered approaches to global health (e.g., co-design, human centered design, participatory research methods), and/or organizational well-being will be mostly strongly considered for this position.

Project Management:

• Ensures smooth day-to-day operations and plays a vital role supporting program work by maintaining frequent contact with TFGH programs and external partners regarding needs, deliverables, milestones, contracts, finances, etc.
• Works with the Directors to define the scope of projects; coordinates and supports FACE programmatic activities, in particular, our internally-facing services.
• Establishes priorities, develops work plans, tracks and reports progress.
• Oversees the development, maintenance, and execution of project work plans for internal program activities, as well as research, convenings, and strategic growth.
• Ensures FACE projects meet the deliverables and milestones, and that program-related documents are up-to-date, well-organized, easily accessible to colleagues, and properly safeguarded.
• Manages and tracks project budgets, including approval of expense reports/invoices.
• Provides financial reports to program leadership, funders, and other stakeholders.
• Supports budget management and accounting for the program.
• Provides input on strategic vision and implementation plan for the program
• Assists in the management, tracking and updates of program databases (e.g., Ethics Reviews, CITI)
• Maintains FACE Activity Tracker, leads team discussions on project status and updates, manages action items, and tracks activities across the program.

Internal Ethics Services:

Working closely with the Director, Ethics and Applied Research

• Supports ethics reviews of TFGH projects (non-IRB)
• Supports process improvement and revision of policy and SOPs
• Supports development of educational engagements (e.g., lunch & learns), guidance, and other resources on ethics topics
• Assists with consultations on ethics-related challenges and emerging issues (leads fact-finding and resource development; supports education of staff and dissemination)
• Supports proactive program engagement to continuously assess needs and identify opportunities for improving FACE services
• Co-facilitates upcoming ethical partnership co-design work, which includes qualitative assessment of current partnership experiences, reviewing available resources on ethical partnerships, contributing to the development of a co-design process, supporting the piloting of the process, synthesizing learnings, developing tools to support organizational/program learning and uptake, and facilitating broader dissemination of best practices and other learnings.
• Supports the development of a proposal for a new global health ethics training for TFGH staff, including scope, resources, timeline, etc. If approved/funded, lead as a new initiative at FACE.

Communication & Reporting:

• Develops stylized resources and learning materials for TFGH programs
• Develops externally-facing stylized briefs that synthesize programmatic activities and research outputs
• Creates, manages, and disseminates communications content via multiple channels (e.g., website)

Collaboration and Convening:

• Assists in organizing, facilitation, recording, and synthesis of webinars and workshops
• Builds and nurtures relationships within TFGH and with external partners and stakeholders
• Supports engagement of TFGH program staff to better understand needs and opportunity areas.
• Diplomatically manages and navigates relationships and discussions with competing viewpoints; takes initiative to mitigate and resolve conflicts effectively.
• Facilitates internal team meetings; ensures meetings are well-documented and delivers clear action items/next steps Staff and Program Development
• Continually works to improve knowledge in areas central to the work of FACE, especially ethics, and to learn more about emerging areas of interest (e.g., co-design methodology, emerging ethical issues)
• Pursues opportunities for training and improvement of project management skills
• Contributes to strategic planning and grant development
• Identifies new partnerships in the program’s focus areas
• Overseas student interns, fellows, and practicum students

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participates fully as a member of the Task Force for Global Health by contributing, assisting and participating in projects, activities, and initiatives as requested by management.

TRAVEL:

• Less than 10% domestic and/or international travel is required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• A bachelor's degree and six years of related experience and previous supervisory and program/project management experience, OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• A master's degree is preferred.
• PMP Certification is required or will be attained within twelve months of hire or reclassification.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

 

• Master’s Degree in Public or related degree; and at least eight years of experience specifically related to this position, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• At least four years of experience working in public health, development, and/or academia.
• Demonstrated excellence in organization, writing, and project management.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, especially in cross-cultural settings.
• Prior domestic and international meeting logistics experience.
• Demonstrated ability to expertly manage time and prioritize tasks.
• Demonstrated initiative and ability to work effectively independently.

NOTE: This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home regularly but must be able to commute to Emory University on a flexible weekly schedule based upon business needs.  Schedule is based on agreed upon guidelines of department. This role requires residency in the state of GA. Emory reserves the right to change remote work status with notice to employee.

Additional Details:

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