Senior Program Officer
Open Society Foundations
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Location : New York , United States |
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Experience : 5-10 Years |
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Last date of Submission : 10 Dec 2010 |
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Sector : Sustainable Development |
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Compensation : Negotiable |
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Nature of Job : Full Time |
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Job Description |
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- Provide strategic leadership and oversight of the HBMAP Project including refining focus areas and identifying new programmatic opportunities that will advance the advocacy goals of PHP target populations.
- Oversee the development of an annual budget and work plan.
- Maintain ongoing, active relationships with grantees, overseeing the provision of capacity building support where necessary.
- Provide capacity building support to grantees in designing and developing their budget monitoring and advocacy projects.
- Work with grantees to define on-going organizational and project-level capacity building and technical assistance needs.
- Develop requests for proposals and manage the grant review and approval process.
- Coordinate and manage technical assistance support to grantees as needed.
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Qualifications & Experience :
- Master’s degree in a social science e.g. economics, international policy, public policy, public health.
- At least 10 years work experience focusing on advocacy in national and international settings including experience using results of civil society research and monitoring efforts.
- At least five years experience with civil society applied budget work, including national budget research and analysis, capacity building, training, and/or grantmaking.
- Experience supporting capacity development or strengthening of community and/or advocacy organizations.
- An understanding of civil society approaches for conducting advocacy with the results of budget research and analysis.
- Understanding of policy-making and budgetary processes in a range of countries.
An understanding of the health and human rights issues faced by the Public Health Program’s focus populations, including: people living with HIV/AIDS, TB; injecting drug users; people with intellectual disabilities; Roma; the dying; sex workers; and lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender persons.
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