Senior Project Manager, Focus Area Compassion and Ethics; FACE - TFGH

Position: 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.

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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…