Deputy Director, Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme Delivery Unit (NTD PDU)

Sightsavers is an international organisation that changes lives for the long term. We work in more than 30 countries to eliminate avoidable blindness and support people with visual impairments to live independently. We do what we do because 80 per cent of blindness in the world is avoidable, and we think that’s astoundingly unfair. We do it because p…

Deputy Director, Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme Delivery Unit (NTD PDU)

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Director, NTD Programme Delivery, you will lead programme planning and oversight for Ethiopia and may support other countries as required. You will work closely with government, partners, technical advisers, finance colleagues and country teams to keep delivery on track, resolve complex issues and ensure decisions are informed by accurate evidence.

What you will be doing

• Provide management support and technical guidance to national NTD programmes across the GTEF, RLMF and GiveWell portfolios.

• Lead accurate annual planning, budgeting and in-year revisions with ministries of health and Sightsavers teams.

• Build trusted relationships and consensus across government, donors, consortium partners and implementing organisations.

• Oversee Surgery, Antibiotics, Facial cleanliness and Environmental improvement (SAFE) implementation and alignment with preferred trachoma practices, national NTD strategies, health-system strengthening and sustainability priorities.

• Monitor progress, expenditure, risks, agreements, due diligence, logframes, contract closure and improvement actions.

• Support elimination dossier preparation and transition towards sustainable health-system ownership.

• Manage consultants and international non-governmental organisation (INGO) partners, produce timely evidence-based reports and escalate critical issues appropriately.