Director: Programs For The Cds Program
Pretoria Area, South Africa
• Director in the Capacity Development and Support Program, South Africa’s largest USAID funded OVCY program, reaching 200,000 OVC • Program and stakeholder management for 20 sub-awardees implementing social, economic & healthcare projects for USAID/PEPFAR funded programs; in HIV/AIDS, DREAMS, OVCY, AGYW, ECD, HTS, GBV and youth economic empowerment portfolios• Technical lead for a Youth Economic Empowerment OVC project; entrenching HIV prevention and economic strengthening, known-status and driving youth employment, entrepreneurship and learnership placements • Actively communicate, engage and support the local USAID mission with OVCY standard operating/ implementation practices, technical input and best practice sharing for local USAID partners• Spearheading and coordinating internal and sub-awardee strategic planning, annual work/operational planning and routine annual/quarterly reporting• Spearheading project-life-cycle management for OVCY projects: funder engagement; program design; implementation and monitoring; risk management; budget coordination and data tracking• Actively provide technical support for regional PEPFAR and FHI 360 programs (eSwatini, Lesotho, Mozambique); organisational capacity building programs, OVCY implementation and regional DREAMS coordination• Member of the FHI 360 Technical Expert Network and active contributor to local FHI 360 business development, technical planning and workshops; 2019 FHI 360 Dakar Global Technical Workshop, local PEPFAR Task Team and South African Journey to Self-Reliance