Position Vacant: Operations Director Asia Pacific Region

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Asia Pacific Bureau AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Positions Vacant for AHF Asia Pacific Region requires " Operations

Director "

Location: New Delhi INDIA Application Deadline: 25 December 2008

Submission instructions:

To apply please e-mail your cover letter,

resume, salary history and contact details of three professional

referees to chinkholal.thangsing@... or by regular mail to:

AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Asia Pacific Bureau

S 345, Panchsheel Park,

New Delhi 110017, India

Web: www.aidshealth.org

About AHF: AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is the largest non-

profit, non-governmental HIVAIDS organization established in 1987 in

the United States. AHF specializes in providing HIVAIDS medical care

and currently serves over 86,000 patients globally regardless of

their medical insurance status or ability to pay currently providing

services in 23 countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, South Africa, Latin

America and Caribbean. AHF is dedicated to its mission of

providing " cutting edge medicines and advocacy regardless of the

ability to pay " .

Job Description:

Key qualifications:

• A Medical Graduate/MD/Post graduate in Preventive and social

medicine/Master of Public Health from a recognized University;

• A minimum of five years experience in related work experience

and human and organizational capacity development and high level,

operational, multi faced program management and team management.

HIVAIDS treatment experience would be an added advantage;

• Proficient in operational strategy, skills in planning,

design and project management including proposals writing, reporting,

and monitoring and evaluating interventions, programming and budget

designing;

• Excellent relational and communication skills including great

sense of diplomacy and discernment and personal commitment towards

population and beneficiaries.

• Ability to work in a multi cultural environment, a team

player, service-minded and able to work under pressure with good

communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to interact and work

with health professionals, national counterparts, nongovernmental

organizations and international agencies.

• Must possess an adequate computer skills including use of

internet/ e-mail application and MS-Office software, such as Word,

Excel, PowerPoint, etc.;

Roles and Responsibilities:

Operations Director's main responsibilities:

Under the Asia Pacific Bureau Chief direction and supervision the

Operations Director is responsible for managing and coordinating AHF

Asia Pacific programmes in our intervention areas. The roles and

responsibilities include:

• To ensure the coordination of all operational aspects of

projects implementation, follow up and reporting, monitoring and

evaluation with attention to organisational commitment, relations

with local authorities and NGOs, partners and collaborators.

• To ensure projects pertinence and quality of their

implementation, general coherence, consistency of delivery of

services, projects.

• To actively participate to the operational strategy

(orientations and project proposals) design with the Bureau Chief.

• To manage and train staff involve in direct operations,

technical support coordinators.

• To ensure proper management of the logistics department,

application of AHF security rules by all personnel.

• To collaborate closely with program managers, coordinator for

project proposal development, resource acquisition, follow up, data

compilation, regular and timely reporting, budget design and follow

up.

Activities

• Supervises the programmes implementation in the provinces and

report on activities and the general HIVAIDS related situation to

the Bureau Chief;

• Ensures the programming of activities on a annual, quarterly

and monthly basis and organise findings and results of activities,

project follow up data collection;

• Ensures that relevant data are collected, cross check

information and produce timely reporting;

• Designs and follow individual action plans for program

coordinators and technical support coordinators and appraise the

performances and achievements on a regular basis;

• Designs and ensures the enforcement of projects'

implementation plans and design indicators and work closely with the

Monitoring and evaluation staff related to program impact studies and

general outcome;

• Ensures timely submission of monthly funds requests by

Program coordinators and submit them on time to the Bureau Chief for

final approval;

• Ensures good maintenance, use and allocation of logistics

means, and maintain good communication system and network to ensure

regular flow of information between the country offices and the

various departments within the bureau;

• Participate and take an active part in the design and

implementation of the quality insurance process;

• Identifies opportunities for developing AHF program

activities, business plans consistent with program strategy,

evaluation and monitoring department, methodology, data collection,

training etc.

• Others as assigned.

Additional Information

• A probation period of six months.

• AHF is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

It does not discriminate against employees or applicants on the basis

of race, color, sex, gender, religion, creed, national and ethnic

origin, age, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, or any

other legally protected status.

• Selected candidate must be available to begin work in

January/February 2009.

• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for

interviews.

Compensation and benefits:

• Compatible

Dr Chinkholal Thangsing

AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Asia Pacific Bureau

S 345, Panchsheel Park,

New Delhi 110017, India

Web: www.aidshealth.org

e-mail: chinkholal.thangsing@...