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Organization Name: International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC)
Location: Regional / Global
Apply email: Not Specified
Start Date: 05 Oct 2018, 12:57 pm
Closing Date: 21 Oct 2018, 12:00 am

Partnership Officers


Is this You?

You are a people-person and know how to work well under pressure with people from different cultural backgrounds in various time zones. You have excellent project management skills and know how to handle competing priorities well. You are flexible yet efficient and are able to excel in a constantly changing external environment like advocacy, that often requires frequent strategy adjustments. You are passionate about international solidarity and working with civil society in developing countries. You thrive when new challenges arise and take initiative to get processes in place to start up a new project. – THEN APPLY!

Job Description

ITPC is seeking two Partnership Officers for a project aiming to remove intellectual property (IP) barriers to market entry of affordable anti-HIV, HCV and TB generics in middle-income countries. The project will be implemented in partnership with eight partner organizations covering seventeen developing countries. As the project lead, ITPC will provide financial & technical support to partner organizations so that they can carry out their advocacy campaigns and interventions to remove IP barriers and improve access to treatment. The Partnership Officer will form part the team leading this innovative 3-year project which is part of ITPC’s Make Medicines Affordable campaign.

Partnership Officers report directly to ITPC’s Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines Lead. There are no geographical restrictions on where this post is based, however applicants in the GMT time zone will be preferred.
 
Main Responsibilities
Develop and manage partnerships with country partners, as well as with their local staff assigned to the project
Serve as the focal point for all partners and provide necessary support to implement and monitor activities including:
integrate the project into their overall work o update their activities and work plans
establish resource needs for the project
where needed, help draft job descriptions, candidate profiles for local project staffand consultants
integrate country-based staff into the project’s overall international team
Oversee project delivery at country-level
Ensure remote supervision, operational follow-up and technical support for country-based implementers, via regular communication and site visits when needed
Manage financial support to partner organizations for project implementation in countries
Ensure project partners meet project deadlines in terms of financial management, reporting and monitoring & evaluation
Experience
Undergraduate degree or minimum of 5-years relevant experience in a project management role in the nonprofit, philanthropic sector or related field is required.
Grantee management experience (programmatic, technical & financial) with organizations from developing countries is required.
Preferred experience includes:
Knowledge on intellectual property, access to medicines and more generally theresponse to the three epidemics (HIV, HCV or TB)
Campaign and advocacy
Multi-country project management
Skills Matrix

ESSENTIAL
DESIRABLE
Project management, schedule- and milestone-tracking
Highly numerate with budget

monitoring skills
Experience of working in a busy environment with

multiple demands



Strong attention to detail



Tolerance for ambiguity; adaptability; ability to move a

project forward in a changing and uncertain

environment

Ability to manage own workload and successfully

prioritizes accordingly



Flexibility to work in a dynamic environment and to

multi-task; problem solving



Excellent computer skills, particularly MS Office

package (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)



Strong written and oral communication skills in English
Other languages are a plus. The

project involves Spanish,
 



Portuguese, French, Russian and

Thai speaking countries


Comfortable working collaboratively both in-person &

virtually (using Zoom, Skype and other tools).



Excellent inter-personal skills and ability to work with
Experience building and developing
colleagues from different cultural backgrounds and
a project team
perspectives (Inter-culturalism (teams embedded in

different cultures/countries)


Persons living with HIV and/or HCV and who are from key affected populations are strongly encouraged to apply.

Compensation

ITPC provides a competitive salary package based on candidate’s experience and skills.

To Apply

Send resume with cover letter to admin@itpcglobal.org with the subject line “Partnership Officer
– Application: LAST NAME, First Name” no later thanOctober 21, 2018.No phone calls please,only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Job Email id: admin(at)itpcglobal.org