Engagement Manager / Public health (French Speaker)

Roles and Responsibilities

The Engagement Manager is expected to contribute to the firm's growth and development in a variety of ways, including:

• Delivery Excellence : Understand client requirements, project scope and deliverables; Lead project delivery and client meetings under overall guidance of Senior management; follow Assess-Design-Develop-Deliver-Monitor process in various work modules of the project; project team management and coordination with internal and external stakeholders etc. Also, would manage vendor, Design & Delivery and Data Processing, maintain field schedules, monitoring and communicating deadlines to team; checking programmed questionnaires; monitoring and maintaining progress of fieldwork; specifying deliverable requirements; final review of member deliverables. Contribute to team process improvements.
• Operational excellence : Ensuring project profitability, timely delivery of projects, invoicing and collection, quality & risk management, positive feedbacks from the client, etc.
• Business Development: Identification and development of work opportunities, client requirement analysis, development of EoI/proposals, client presentations, etc.
• Practice Development: Support and lead learning and development initiatives for the team/project/organization.
• Thought Leadership: Manage research, analysis and delivery of thought leadership reports (global and domestic) with guidance from senior team professionals.

As lead, the primary role would be to manage & lead project work streams/modules and client interactions with support from Sr. consultants/ Consultants in team. Additionally, you would be coaching team on technical and management areas.

Language competency

• English: minimum C1 level ((Fluent/Mother tongue))
• French: minimum C1 level (Fluent/Mother tongue)
• Portuguese: B2 level or more would be an advantage

Post-Graduation:

• Master’s in Public Health / Health Administration / Social Sciences / Business Administration/ Economics/ Public Policy / international development,

• Graduation: Any (MBBS/BHMS is desirable)

• Should have relevant experience of 12+ years with a minimum of 5 years in mid-level management roles

• Prior consulting / advisory experience in public health sector in Africa is a highly desirable

• Prior experience of managing large scale projects for government clients and donor agencies

• Excellent project management skills with effective communication and team-management skills

• Strong attention to details, critical and problem-solving skills

• Report writing and PowerPoint development skills

• Excellent understanding of the global health sector

• Willingness to travel and adaptability to change

• Stay informed about research and global trends in our program areas to inform our strategy accordingly.

• Network with other institutions running similar programs to find areas of collaboration and knowledge sharing

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