Containers to Clinics (C2C) Program Manager position
Full Time, Starting June 2011
The Organization
Containers to Clinics is committed to reducing maternal and childhood morbidity and mortality rates by ensuring that women and children in underserved populations have access to high-quality primary health care. We are a non-profit organization that deploys shipping containers retrofitted into state-of-the-art, sustainable health care clinics and collaborate with local non-profit and government organizations to provide comprehensive services, including clinical, lab, pharmacy and programming for women and children. As a result, we create access to low-cost, basic health interventions during the critical months surrounding birth and the first five years of life when women and children are most vulnerable. Driven by the belief that such interventions can significantly reduce maternal/childhood mortality and the successful pilot of its flagship container clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, C2C is committed to replicating and scaling this new clinical model to meet the overwhelming demand for access to basic reproductive and early childhood health care in underserved areas around the world.
The Position
C2C’s Program Manager inhabits the entire scope of planning and execution for our partnership development, site selection, clinic installation, monitoring and evaluation protocols, and program development. The Program Manager works directly with the organization’s leadership, including the President, Director of Operations and Director of Development and Partnerships in addition to the staff of our local partners. C2C currently has a clinic in Port au Prince, Haiti and is planning a late 2011 deployment to northern Namibia.
Responsibilities:
– Direct and oversee all programming at C2C clinics, including:
• Serving as direct supervisor for in-country Project Coordinator;
• Managing Project Coordinator’s work plans and outputs;
• Monitoring clinic facility performance, including preventive maintenance;
• Performing initial and periodic needs assessments with local partner to determine programming and other operating shortfalls
• Designing and directing programmatic activities at clinic facilities, including executing M&E protocols, health education programming, and other non-facility related activities, to be determined;
• Serving as point-of-contact for partner organizations in-country; building and maintaining strong, productive relationships with existing and new partners.
• Managing, in conjunction with the Director of Operations, aspects of new clinic installation, including site evaluation, partner due diligence evaluation, program capacity of potential partners, and logistics required for clinic deployments
– Manage C2C’s M&E protocols, including:
• Developing new indicators and measurements for program evaluation;
• Compiling M&E reports for C2C executive team and donors;
• Providing support to partner organizations M&E officers;
• Executing and analyzing existing protocols;
– Participate in strategic planning and organizational growth plans
– Fulfill administrative functions required of job description, including occasional administrative support for fundraising activities.
Qualifications:
– 3-5 years relevant work experience, including but not limited to:
o Roughly two years experience in public health programming in developing countries, strongly preferred;
o Experience in monitoring and evaluation and community health education, preferred;
o Experience managing external relationships with partner NGOs, vendors, and stakeholders
– Excellent interpersonal skills; demonstrated ability to perform in cross-cultural environments with sensitivity and appreciation for local norms
– Strong analytical skills; candidates must be comfortable performing needs analyses with local partners and finding creative solutions for capacity shortfalls
– Outstanding written and oral communication skills (writing sample required)
– Ability to work independently and self-direct; commitment to accuracy, timely outputs, attention to detail
– Enthusiasm, patience, and creativity
– Commitment to C2C’s core values: respect, participation, diversity, equity, and humility
– French language skills preferred, but not required;
– Willingness to travel to international project sites for a total of two months of every year
– C2C does not presently maintain a central office. New hire must be willing to work from home and travel to staff meetings in the greater Boston area
– New hire must be available to travel to Haiti in June as part of the on-boarding process.
Compensation: Compensation package is competitive and commensurate with experience
Location: Greater Boston preferred. Please send resume, cover letter, writing sample, and salary requirements to info@containers2clinics.org, with the following subject line: “Program Manager Position”.
Deadline: June 15, 2011
