Temporary Program Director

POSTING: Temporary Program Director DURATION: January 2022-May 30, 2022 LOCATION: remote based in East Coast US timezone REPORTS TO: Vice President, Programs POSTING DEADLINE: This position will close at 9:00am EDT, Monday, November 21 SALARY: The annual base salary for New York City, US is $125,000-$135,000.

ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW

The END Fund is the world’s leading collaborative philanthropic investment vehicle dedicated to controlling and eliminating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). NTDs are parasitic and bacterial infectious diseases – including intestinal worms, river blindness, trachoma, schistosomiasis and lymphatic filariasis – that affect over 1.7 billion people globally. The END Fund’s vision is to ensure people can live healthy and prosperous lives free of the risk of NTDs and has set out to accomplish this by:

– Mobilizing and investing resources for maximum impact,

– Advocating for innovative, integrated and cost-effective NTD programs; and

– Facilitating philanthropic and private sector engagement to end these diseases.

By engaging a community of activist-philanthropists and taking a systems approach, the END Fund works in collaboration with governments, local and international NGOs, pharmaceutical companies, and academic partners on the global campaign to control and eliminate the most prevalent NTDs by 2030.

Since our founding in 2012 through 2021, with our partners, the END Fund has provided over 1.2 billion treatments for NTDs worth more than $1.5 billion. In 2021 alone, we reached more than 118.2 million people with more than 193.7 million NTD treatments. The END Fund works globally in 25 countries, with a primary emphasis in Africa.

You can learn more about the END Fund here.

ABOUT THE END FUND’S PROGRAMS TEAM

The Programs team is responsible for sourcing, designing, managing, supporting, and monitoring the END Fund’s project investments, which totaled more than $30 million in 2021 across three programmatic sub-funds: the Flagship Fund, the Deworming Innovation Fund, and the Reaching the Last Mile Fund. In 2022, the END Fund is honored to operationalize a new programmatic investment fund called the ARISE Fund in collaboration with founding partners the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, and the ELMA Foundation.

THE OPPORTUNITY

The END Fund is seeking a Temporary Program Director to provide maternity leave coverage for 4-5 months from January-May 2023. This role is remote, working on a distributed team that communicates regularly via Zoom and Slack.

The Temporary Program Director will be responsible for the following:

-Provide direct implementing partner management of 3 projects (1 in Somalia and 2 in CAR)

-Prepare annual plans and budgets with IPs, monitor project progress and spending, review reports, input data into Salesforce (SF), prepare disbursements,

-Liaise with partners and collaborators including MOH,

-Prepare Annual Project Reviews (APRs),

-Develop new partner agreements as needed

-With support from the two Flagship Directors, assess possibilities of expansion into new countries/geographies

-Conduct analysis of new opportunities for the FF, providing recommendations to VP, Programs and the Flagship Directors

-Provide direct program management as mentioned in ‘Point 1’, to new countries added to the Flagship Fund

-Prepare FF reports for donors with a full fund scope; Includes coordination between team members to obtain country specific detail

-Support general project management, including: preparing sections of board reports, conducting regular planning and strategy meetings, and strategic overviews.

-Support resource mobilization (as regularly requested). Includes country specific proposal writing.

-Strengthen processes as needed including data systems, due diligence, coordination with other departments, support the conduct of internal program evaluations

– Follow up on the Mali evaluation planned for this year.

-Participate in internal working groups as needed.

-Provide BCC/WASH insight as needed internally.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduate degree in international development, public health or a relevant discipline
• At least 8-10 years’ experience in international development practice in low-resource countries
• At least 5-8 years’ experience working on neglected tropical diseases
• Grant Management experience: Grant and program management of allocated END Fund programs including but not limited to:ensuring deliverables are met, milestones and timeline are adhered to, finances are monitored, conducting comprehensive due diligence assessments of potential implementing partners Completion of detailed project and program reports
• Strong collaborative team working experience; able to function both independently and as a team player.