Program Officer, Health Workforce

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ghana.

📋 Description

• Oversee day-to-day programmatic and administrative grant management for grantees within a designated portfolio of 3–4 countries.

• Manage investments throughout the entire lifecycle, from planning to close-out.

• Act as the main point of contact for grantees in the assigned portfolio.

• Implement grant management processes, address challenges with implementers, and escalate technical, financial, or compliance issues as needed.

• Assist in the development of grant management tools and resources, such as budget templates, financial reporting templates, and the initiative administration manual.

• Collaborate with country-level planning partners to guide planning efforts, ensure alignment with funding parameters, and monitor progress.

• Oversee due diligence processes, manage document collection, and assist in preparing due diligence reports.

• Evaluate draft concept notes and provide technical and strategic insights.

• Monitor donor feedback and coordinate revision cycles with country partners.

• Conduct regular check-in meetings as implementers create work plans and budgets.

• Compile investment recommendations, which include work plans, budgets, theory of change, and results framework.

• Track planning processes and proactively address bottlenecks.

• Perform routine grantee check-ins, review reports, and address or escalate issues as necessary.

• Monitor execution of work plans and budgets against approved terms.

• Gather and assess narrative and financial reports.

• Maintain portfolio-level tracking dashboards.

• Identify technical implementation issues and support corrective action plans.

• Ensure that contractual obligations are fulfilled at the time of close-out.

• Compile final narrative and financial reports along with deliverables.

• Document lessons learned and outstanding issues for initiative-wide close-out and learning processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in program/grant management, preferably in global health, international development, or donor-funded programs.

• Proficiency in managing multiple concurrent workstreams and relationships with countries, including interactions with government and partner stakeholders, while serving as the primary point of contact for grantees.

• Familiarity with due diligence procedures, grant documentation, and budgeting and/or financial reporting.

• Strong organizational and tracking capabilities.

• Excellent problem-solving skills.

• Expertise in health systems strengthening, public health, community health, health workforce, PHC, MNCH, and/or related areas.

• Knowledge of health workforce and health systems programming in East, West, and/or Southern Africa.

• Experience collaborating with private philanthropies, grant-making, and donor reporting.

• Understanding of the cultural, political, and economic contexts in African countries; lived experience is preferred.

• An advanced degree in nursing, midwifery, medicine, public health, community health, health policy/systems/financing, or a related field is preferred.

• Openness to regular international travel.

• Fluency in English is required.

• Proficiency in French or Portuguese is advantageous.

• Flexibility based on individual circumstances and work authorization eligibility.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities.

• Fairness and mutual respect.

• Commitment to diversity and inclusion.