GHS-Project Manager

The Project Manager – Global Health Security (GHS) provides overall leadership, coordination, and management of EpiC’s GHS activities in Cambodia. The position is responsible for planning, implementing, and monitoring a comprehensive GHS work plan aligned with national priorities and donor requirements. The Project Manager works closely with the Ministry of Health (MOH), national and sub-national, the U.S. Department of State, and other implementing partners to ensure EpiC’s contributions effectively address priority gaps in GHS.

The position provides strategic, technical, and operational oversight of GHS interventions; ensures high-quality implementation and reporting; manages GHS-related budgets and subcontracts; and serves as a key liaison among government, donors, and local and international partners.

Accountabilities:

Project Management:

• Manages and oversees the development of projects from initiation to completion.
• Manages capacity-building project staff in coordinating and implementing project activities, delivering quality and accountability.
• Develop and deliver a project management plan that encompasses all the details of a project to team members.
• Provide guidance and monitoring to project staff, ensuring clarity on project plans and priorities, and fostering effective teamwork.
• Develops best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Defines project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals and strategic vision of management.
• Develops and delivers project plans, documentation, training, presentations and budget proposals to management and staff.
• Identifies and resolves project issues, implementing improvement plans to ensure the project stays on schedule and within budget.
• Evaluates the progress of the project regularly.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for GHS-related coordination with the Ministry of Health, National and sub-national program, provincial and operational district health authorities, and other government counterparts.
• Coordinate closely with the U.S. Department of State, and other implementing partners to ensure complementarity, synergy, and non-duplication of efforts.
• Represent EpiC in national and subnational technical working groups, coordination meetings, and partner forums related to GHS.
• Builds, develops, and nurtures partnerships are essential to the project's success.
• Manages the operational and tactical aspects of multiple projects in a matrix environment.
• Oversee entire projects with focus on minimizing risk across multiple projects, monitors budgets, and scope to ensure the successful execution of project deliverables and the completion of the project.
• Manages the development of project teams to ensure compliance with policies and procedures and develops and implements process improvement plans.
• Identifies partnerships, opportunities, and information to present to management, helping to achieve the company's strategic goals.
• Keeps abreast of the latest strategies, tools, and terminologies used in project management worldwide to adopt and increase productivity.
• Leads sub-award design and is responsible for sub-award monitoring.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Project Administration:

• Establish a communication schedule to update stakeholders, including relevant staff within the organization, on the project’s progress.
• Determine the resources (time, money, equipment, etc.) required to complete the project.
• Develop a schedule for project completion that effectively allocates the resources to the activities.
• Builds and implements or socializes the best practices for performing all tasks.
• Review the project schedule with senior management and all other staff that will be affected by the project activities; revise the schedule as required.
• Determine the objectives and measures upon which the project will be evaluated at its completion.
• Execute the project according to the project plan.
• Author reports on the project for management and for funders.
• Communicate with funders as outlined in funding agreements.
• Develops best practices and tools for project execution and management.

Financial Management:

• Monitor and approve all budgeted project expenditures in consultation with Associate Director of Finance.
• Manage all project funds in accordance with established accounting policies and procedures.
• Ensure that all project financial records are up to date.
• Prepare financial reports and support documentation for funders as outlined in the funding agreement.

Personnel Management:

• Coaches, mentors, and manages project team to ensure quality, efficiency, and compliance with project and company standards/policies.
• Provide guidance and monitoring to project staff, ensuring clarity on project plans and priorities, and fostering effective teamwork.
• Manages the development of project teams to ensure compliance with policies and procedures and develops and implements process improvement plans.
• Develop tools and techniques for delegating tasks according to the skills and evaluate the performance of all team members.
• Ensure that all project personnel receive an appropriate orientation to the organization and the project.

Applied Knowledge & Skills:

• Works independently and with other agencies to build local community acceptance.
• Comprehensive knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures with project management, process development and execution.
• Strong knowledge of project management software and other technologies.
• Strong negotiator and problem solver.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated project and personnel management skills.
• Ability to influence, motivate, and collaborate with others.
• Ability to adapt and resolve problems/issues to bring project to completion.
• Creating and Managing Systems and Processes.
• Recognizes the need for standardization and balances client and organization needs in systems design.
• Anticipates the effects of process change on people while optimizing task efficiency and simplicity.

Problem Solving & Impact:

• Decisions and actions have serious implications with delays in project schedules and operations and may affect overall business activities.
• Problems are complex and require analysis of situations and data with evaluation of a range of factors.
• Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies to select methods and techniques to obtain results.

Supervision Given/Received:

• Manages staff and external project members to achieve goals and vision of project from initiation to completion.
• Coordinates project plans, budgets, training, and resources with management to achieve strategic goals.
• Reports to Associate Director, Infectious Disease and Global Health Security.

Education: **

• Minimum of a master’s degree (or higher) in public health, international development, or a related field, with a preferred focus on infectious disease and GHS.