One PIH Rwanda Partnerships Manager at University of Global Health Equity (UGHE): (Deadline 30 June 2023)

Description

ROLE PROFILE:

Title:  One PIH Rwanda Partnerships Manager

Reports to:  Director of Partnerships & Development (UGHE) and the Deputy Executive Director IMB

Location:  Kigali, Rwanda

Definition:

OnePIH Rwanda: In this JD, OnePIH Rwanda represents the interest of PIH Rwanda known also as Inshuti Mu Buzima (IMB) and UGHE an initiative of PIH. To ensure cross site collaboration and synergy across both entities working to enhance the external engagement, visibility, content, and messaging of OnePIH in Rwanda.

Position Overview:  
The One PIH Rwanda Partnerships Manager, is responsible for managing OnePIH Rwanda cross site high level visits in Rwanda (PIH senior leadership, donors, academic partners, external stakeholder/public sector) at IMB clinical sites (Rwinkwavu, Kirehe and Butaro) as well as UGHE campus in Butaro. This role is critical to ensuring OnePIH Rwanda coordination in collaboration with the office of the IMB Executive Director, and the office of the Vice Chancellor’s, PIH Boston, as well as with respective point persons/relationship managers as needed. Reporting to the Director of Partnerships at UGHE, the person in this position serves as the central contact for visits in Rwanda. The One PIH Rwanda Partnerships Manager will be primarily involved with the partners’ visit program design, planning, strategy and implementation for a robust, inclusive, engaging, and effective program aimed at instilling fluency in global health and OnePIH Rwanda interventions among partners. She/he will represent the organization in donors’ engagement and work regularly in collaboration with others outside the organization to that end.

Responsibilities:

• Visit Planning and Management (60%)
  • Partner with teams across PIH and UGHE to develop and track the visit program to Rwanda; work with PIH development teams/Relationship Manager.
  • Accompany high-level visitors throughout the program, ensuring high level experience and interaction
  • Manage and track requests and plans for high level visits to all Rwanda sites and ensure seamless coordination across sites
  • Oversee planning and implementation of all visits (logistics and itineraries, interest matching, …) in coordination with IMB, UGHE, staff and health facilities leaders
  • Provide summary reports of high-level visits and share with key/point persons, including advice on any needed follow-up and updates to visitors.
  • Support collaboration with IMB and UGHE staff including synergies and utilization of OnePIH Rwanda resources dedicated for partnerships and visits
  • Maintain high-quality working relationships with board members, institutional leadership, and other stakeholders across a complex organization.
  • Keep up with trends in global health and OnePIH Rwanda interventions.
  • Enhance key visitors’ experience by updating Policies and guidelines (waiver, checklists…)
• Donor Engagements (40%)
  • Support OnePIH Rwanda high-level events follow-up, coordinate travel, and assist with varied clerical duties as needed.
  • Organize high-level meetings by preparing materials and coordinating any necessary scheduling, material distribution, and follow-up.
  • Manage assigned portfolio to grow the donor prospect pipeline and increase annual giving; cultivate existing donor relationships and establish new relationships to advance fundraising goals.
  • Maintain good portfolio hygiene by regularly qualifying donors to identify those who should transition to a major giving portfolio.
  • Develop and implement strategies for the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of current and new donors, including contribution to proposals writing and donors’ reports
  • Instill fluency in global health and OnePIH Rwanda programmatic activities and goals among partners.
  • Assume responsibility for projects as assigned by the Director; perform other relevant duties as needed to support OnePIH Rwanda experience goals. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred.
• Requires at least 3-5 years of experience in a nonprofit development role, preferably within higher education, healthcare, multicultural, or global organizations.
• Experience with donor engagement / experience
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills; demonstrated cultural competency
• Demonstrated problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Knowledge of donor database software; Raiser’s Edge experience strongly preferred.
• Command of Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Demonstrated project management skills; ability to manage complex projects from creation to completion; ability to plan and prioritize multiple projects.
• Ability to safeguard confidential and sensitive information with the highest discretion.
• Ability to be entrepreneurial, goal-oriented, and proactive.
• Demonstrated poise, tact, integrity, and professionalism.
• Ability to work in a flexible, team-oriented environment; ability to collaborate with colleagues in various geographies and across time zones in a culturally diverse and complex organization.
• Ability to work evenings and/or weekends, as needed.
• Ability to travel, especially domestically and in rural areas
• Interest in health equity strongly desirable.

Organizational Profile

https://www.pih.org/country/rwanda

Known locally as Inshuti Mu Buzima, (IMB) PIH has worked in Rwanda since 2005, helping the government fight HIV, improve maternal and child health, and bring integrated, high-quality health care to more than 860,000 people across Burera, Kayonza, and Kirehe districts Partners In Health (PIH) is an internationally recognized non-profit organization whose mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in healthcare. PIH works globally to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need and to serve as an antidote to despair. In 2005, PIH began working in Rwanda at the invitation of the Government of Rwanda and is known locally as Inshuti Mu Buzima (IMB). PIH began an effort to strengthen the public health systems in rural Rwanda in three rural districts (Kayonza, Burera and Kirehe) whose infrastructure was decimated in the aftermath of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi.

Since then, PIH-IMB has developed impactful, innovative, scalable healthcare delivery models, several of which have been scaled by government to serve the entire country’s population. Today, each PIH-supported hospital is envisioned as a Center of Excellence for one of the following Clinical Areas of Focus: Oncology; Maternal-Neonatal-Child and Adolescent Health; and Non-Communicable Diseases, Mental Health and Surgery. Through investment in cross-cutting priorities at the district level covering our health systems strengthening values of the 5Ss (Staff, Stuff-tools and resources, Space-Infrastructure, Systems, and Social Support), each PIH-IMB supported District offers a model of opportunity to the rest of the country in the delivery of the highest quality of care and being exemplar. Through close partnership with the Ministry of Health, the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC), and District authorities, PIH-IMB works nationally to advocate for evidence-based policies aimed at improving access to higher quality healthcare for all Rwandans.

One of PIH main flagships in Rwanda is the University of Global Health Equity.

https://ughe.org/

University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) is a new kind of university focused on training the next generation of global leaders in health care delivery.

The university launched in Rwanda in September 2015 with its flagship degree program: the Master of Science in Global Health Delivery.

Through an academic experience uniquely rooted in the values of equity, students are empowered to both ease suffering at the bedside and drive transformational, systemic changes to the health system. UGHE is committed to an exceptional educational experience rooted in dynamic and engaging courses prioritizing a high degree of faculty mentorship and experience-based learning.

UGHE is an initiative of Partners In Health (PIH), an internationally recognized non-profit organization whose mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. In over nearly three decades of operating alongside public sectors in countries around the world, PIH has developed a model to deliver high quality health care to some of the world’s most marginalized communities. Nowhere has this impact been more profound than in Rwanda, where Inshuti Mu Buzima—PIH’s sister organization—and our government partners have driven innovation for a decade.

Members of the UGHE community are tenacious and resolute in our drive to attain social justice, make common cause with those in need, listen to and learn from others, and operate with honesty and humility as we uphold academic integrity and intellectual curiosity. The University of Global Health Equity seeks individuals committed to these values to join the team.

Commitment to Safeguarding and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Sexual Harassment:

At UGHE, we are committed to ensuring that those who benefit from our work- including community members – as well as our students, contractors, staff and visitors to our campus are treated with dignity and respect and protected from sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment and any form of systemic abuse, whilst reducing risk and vulnerabilities. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with UGHE’s policy. UGHE will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of fraud, harassment, sexual harassment and any form of systemic abuse or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.  By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.