Infrastructure Professionals Enterprise (IPE) is a leading international development sector consultancy firm with offices in India and UK. IPE has been working with International support agencies like ADB, World Bank, DFID, USAID, JBIC, JICA, UNICEF, UNDP, DANIDA, African Capacity Building Foundation-Zimbabwe and GTZ across South Asia, South-East Asia, parts of Africa and Middle East. IPE brings with it experience of successfully implementing projects in India, Indonesia, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Palestine, Jordan, Ghana, Bhutan, Vietnam and United Kingdom etc. Our pool of resources with staff strength of over 100 professionals and a database of over 300 experienced professionals bring together from diverse disciplines including architects and engineers, urban and regional planners, development experts, information technology experts, health and nutrition experts, environmental experts, sociologists, finance and institutional experts, economists, accountancy and management experts, sociologists, anthropologists, etc.
IPE offers exiting opportunities for world-class talent like you. If you think out-of-box and want to push the boundaries of excellence we are the preferred destination for expert solutions. You can expect to work on global full life cycle projects in a truly international environment.
Director Health & Health Sector Specialist
Position based at New Delhi
Essential:
•Knowledge of issues related to health and nutrition, gender, HIV/AIDS, women's health sexual and reproductive health issues etc.
•Demonstrated experience in consultancy background.
•Worked extensively at least 15-20 years within the healthcare industry.
•Experience in wining new business and answering tenders.
•Ability to develop, manages, and administer comprehensive programs.
•Have an ability to build strong and lasting relationships
•Able to negotiate internally to get best outcomes.
•Able to coach and mentor more junior consultants.
•Strong project and programme management skills.
•Experience in process design, business case development and organisation design.
•Skills and experience in managing staff and managing country offices.
•Advanced degree in health, population, demography, social sciences or related field.
•Experience in fundraising, donor relations, and strategy and proposal development.
•Must have a business development slant.
•Have an extensive exposure of working nationally and internationally for health issues with international donor agencies such as ADB, World Bank, UNICEF, DFID etc.
Task:
•Provide inspirational leadership to a team of 25-30 national staff and international consultants in implementing projects, ensuring high team performance and individual accountability.
•Generating new Business.
•Ensure rigorous adherence to the Project Cycle for ongoing health sector projects.
•Take a lead in building alliances, coalitions and networks for the sector based projects and advocacy, especially in relation to appropriate nutritional health, health funding strategies, and pro-poor focused projects etc.
•Play a lead role in coordination mechanisms to support the harmonisation of strategies and approaches in different regional project and the efficient use of collective resources.
•Commission externally-resourced research into health-related subjects, ensuring the outputs contribute to agreed national (and global) advocacy strategies
•Build strong working relations with Ministry of Health and Social Welfare officials at national and county levels, providing sound, evidence-based technical advice.
We also have positions opened for Programme Manager- Health; Programme Manager– Public Finance Management; Health Procurement Expert; Governance / Policy /OD Expert; Monitoring & Evaluation Expert; Rural Development Expert:
For further details of job description and application process please visit www.ipeglobal.com. Last date of sending profile is 25th March 2008.
IPE Global is an equal opportunity employer.