Disease Fund Manager

The Disease Fund Manager is responsible for a specific disease portfolio, HIV/AIDS, TB or Malaria, within the Nigeria, DRC and India Country Teams. The Disease Manager contributes achieving grant management success, leveraging partnerships and the delivery of results for the disease portfolio. This role will be required to travel extensively across portfolios up to 40% a year.

Key Responsibilities

Under the guidance of the Senior Fund Portfolio Manager and as a key member of the Country Team, the Disease Fund Manager is responsible for:

- Program Management: Reporting to the Senior Fund Portfolio Manager, the Disease Fund Manager manages disease specific input at all stages of the grant management cycle with the support of the ‘Country Team’ (the basic organizational framework for working with portfolio and embedded functional support staff to provide recipients with grant management supervision and support across the Global Fund’s portfolio). Specifically, s/he engages in country dialogue and guides the Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCM) and in-country partners to help identify future funding needs, and timing of funding requests; manages the grant negotiation processes; leads ongoing monitoring and assessment of grants including disbursement of funds, and ensures risk mitigation measures are implemented in respect of the disease they manage. Ensure sustainable responses for epidemic control driving successful portfolio transition.
Define the portfolio strategy ensuring integration of the Human Rights and Gender agenda.
- Stakeholder Management: Liaises with Assurance providers; builds operational and strategic relationships with country stakeholders and other partners to ensure the appropriate investment of funds, taking into consideration national strategies and context; manages partnerships with governmental, non-governmental, civil society, private sector, key affected populations and multilateral partners at country level and coordinates internal partners from functional teams including monitoring, procurement, legal and finance.
- People Leadership: The Disease Manager will supervise an S/PO and provide them with mentoring and coaching. S/he will encourage open, constructive dialogue and provide counsel and motivate, define objectives and deadlines.
- Risk Management: Regularly assesses risks that affect the portfolio and recommends, employs and monitors risk-based strategies to mitigate them.
- Subject to change by the Executive Director at any time at his/her sole discretion._

**Qualifications**:
Essential:
Advanced university degree in finance/economics, public or business administration, development studies, health economics, public health or related field; or an equivalent combination of academic/professional qualifications and experience.

Experience

Essential:

- A minimum of 7 years’ experience in program/project development and management, including design, implementation and financial management aspects;
- Proven success working in complex multi-stakeholder environments, requiring decision making abilities with limited information available and under tight deadlines;
- Experience working in-country or with (multiple) countries on program development; or experience working on a Country Team or equivalent.
- People management or mentoring experience.

Desirable:

- Experience in international development;
- Experience in development grant or loan management;
- Work experience in any of the following areas an asset: Monitoring & Evaluation, National Health Systems, Corresponding disease component Program Co-ordination i.e. work experience on an HIV, TB or Malaria disease program, fiduciary/financial issues.

Competencies

Languages:
An excellent knowledge of English and preferably a good working knowledge of French or one of the following: Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Knowledge of other languages would be an asset (dependent on the regions and portfolio requirements).

Technical Competencies:

- Financial Management: knowledge of project financing and financial processes; ability to prepare, justify and manage budgets; monitoring expenditures and using cost-benefit thinking to set priorities.
- Project Management: expert level of project management in complex multi-sectorial projects; and the ability to gather relevant input, analyze data/facts from appropriate sources and learn from best practice to inform project design. Ability to make sound decisions with varying levels of information and define the long term vision or strategy; regularly uses advanced analytical skills to determine the way forward or outcomes.
- Grant Preparation: Ability to lead and coordinate the portfolio analysis prior to engaging in a country dialogue with appropriate in-country stakeholders in preparation for the funding request development and submission; provide expert advice on the design of funding requests including implementation, planning and budgeting; provide early input on the