Job Vacancy @ Partners in Health – Senior Project Manager (Sierra Leone)

Job Description

Job title:                                                  Senior Project Manager, Infrastructure – Nationals only

Work Location:                                        Kono District, Sierra Leone

Department:                                              Infrastructure

Reports to:                                                Director of Infrastructure

Line Management:                                  Project Manager, Infrastructure; Superintendent, Infrastructure

Duration of Contract:                              Twelve (12) Months with possibility of extension

Application Status:                                  External Advert

Organization Profile:

Partners In Health (PIH) is an international health organization relentlessly committed to improving the health of the poor and marginalized. PIH partners with local governments to build local capacity and works closely with impoverished communities to deliver high-quality health care, address the root causes of illness, train providers, advance research, and advocate for global policy change. Our delivered services in the field are based in our partnership with the Governments and Ministries of Health and the support to education, training and mentorship to Health care workers and students is one of our pillars for the Health care system strengthening.

PIH currently has implementation programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Sierra Leone and Navajo Nation. Through our partnership with Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, we support a wide range of programs in dozens of other countries around the world.

Partners In Health (PIH) began supporting the government of Sierra Leone in response to the Ebola epidemic in October 2014. Recognizing the large need for continued investments in the health system after Ebola, PIH is committed to long-term health system strengthening in support of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS), guided by the same principles as our emergency response and our work around the world: public sector accompaniment, integrated and comprehensive services, social justice, nimbleness and flexibility, partnership, community ownership, and evidence-based interventions. In the aftermath of the epidemic, PIH is committed to supporting the delivery of comprehensive health services in Sierra Leone, from the community level to the health center and to referral hospitals.

Position Overview:

The primary responsibility of the Senior Project manager is to oversee all aspects of infrastructure projects ensuring completion within schedule, budget, safety, and quality.

PIH seeks individuals committed to the mission and values (see PIH Values) of the organization to join the team.

Project Team Leadership

• Provide overall leadership and direction to project team throughout duration of project
• Oversee and provide guidance to junior project staff, ensuring capacity building and career development
• Provide day-to-day supervision, job assignments, and priority management for project staff

Design Phase Management

• Responsible for leading design team selection
• Responsible for progressing project through design completion that satisfies project needs, donor expectations, and defined budget

Project Management Responsibilities 

• Write and negotiate subcontracts
• Work with superintendents and foremen to plan, organize and direct activities related to planning and construction
• Responsible for ensuring project is executed in a way that
• Assist the project staff in resolving scope problems with subcontractors
• Manages anticipatory and reactive change management processes minimizing financial and schedule implications
• Schedule – Proactively monitor the progress of the project through updated schedules until project completion
• Safety – Responsible for ensuring project is following project safety policies
• Quality Control – Responsible for developing project quality control plan, working with junior staff to perform initial and periodic inspections
• Project Risk Management – Responsible for analyzing project-wide risk and creation of risk mitigation plans
• Interpret and explain plans and contract terms to administrative staff, workers and clients
• Laisse with outside vendors; EDSA, SLRA

• Manage project to be within set budget
• Develop and maintain project financial projections for review and presentation to PIH Sierra Leone leadership on a monthly basis
• Handle billings and contract management for subcontractors and suppliers

Schedule

• Responsible for maintaining project overall schedule
• Work with internal operations and clinical team to establish project schedule priorities

Reporting

• Prepare monthly reports detailing project financial status, schedule, quality and safety updates
• Contractor management & project buyout status

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment:

At Partners In Health, we are committed to ensuring that those who benefit from our work- including our patients, families and community members – as well as our staff are treated with dignity and respect and protected from sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Partners In Health’s PSEAH policy. Partner In Health will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.  By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures

Technical Competencies

• Bachelor’s Degree in construction management, architecture/engineering, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 8 years’ of construction management or related experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel
• Proficient in Microsoft Word
• Proficient in Microsoft Outlook
• Experience using pdf editor, i.e., Bluebeam, Adobe
• Knowledge of construction safety practices

Managerial Competencies

• Experience leading a team towards the successful completion of complicated construction projects within set budget and schedule
• Experience working with external design teams, external contractors, material vendors

Behavioral Competencies

• Committed to putting PIH values first
• Committed to continuous learning
• Consistently delivers work in an ambiguous environment
• Able to communicate well (written and verbal) with outside vendors
• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
• Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities
• Able to work effectively in a team and meet deadlines

Social Justice:

We are a global health and social justice organization that responds to the moral imperative to provide high-quality health care globally to those who need it most. We strive to ease suffering by placing patients at the center of all care, bringing the benefits of modern medicine to all

Method of application:

Interested candidates are required to apply through our website: www.pih.org/employment.   In your application, please ensure to include names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers of three (3) referees not later than 12:00pm GMT (Midnight) on Monday 11th July 2022