Director of International Programmes Uk Visa Sponsorship
Job Description
JOB SUMMARY
Job Purpose
To provide strategic leadership, administration, and direction for the development and widespread implementation of symbiont-based disease control strategies.
Contact, advise, and negotiate new contracts with governments to ensure the wider implementation of these ideas.
Oversee worldwide teams working in two consortia to control dengue virus with Wolbachia and create malaria control through symbionts.
To oversee and coordinate the two consortiums on a daily basis. The postholder will be responsible for coordinating a portfolio of projects, managing and monitoring project budgets, providing thorough project status reports to the PI, and assisting in reporting progress and achievements to the consortium funders.
Main duties and responsibilities
1. Direct the strategic planning process for the implementation of symbiont-based disease approaches and establish the long-term strategic direction of symbiont-based dengue control interventions.
2. Ensure that current programmes satisfy stated objectives and are aligned with stakeholders’ demands.
3. Create a strategic business strategy for a Social Enterprise to promote Wolbachia technology.
4. Create operational plans for Wolbachia interventions in existing and possible new partner nations, including necessary staff training.
5. Assume a senior position in establishing a robust implementation strategy to guarantee that the consortia’s objectives are met, while also leading and managing day-to-day operational and administrative matters.
6. Manage and monitor program budgets to ensure that maximum value is produced for the resources committed while also ensuring continued financial support from funders.
7. Oversee, manage, and administer the consortia’s governance and decision-making structures and mechanisms.
8. Coordinate consortia programmes for foreign meetings and be willing to go to these meetings as needed.
9. Establish, strengthen, and maintain good working relationships with all project partners and program stakeholders.
10. Create communication plans to guarantee effective and transparent communication with partners and communities at intervention sites.
11. Promote the consortia and ensure that national and international scholars understand how to participate in the project.
12. Oversee the consortium’s information-sharing and data management methods and processes.
13. Provide high-level control and supervision to in-country consortium teams in Burkina Faso, Paraguay, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom (more than 70 people).
14. Serve as the primary administrative contact for the consortia with funders and stakeholders, leading the provision of information and reporting on the consortia’s activities and operations.
15. Determine the possibilities for future bids and money generation options.
16. Perform any other necessary duties as ordered by the PI.
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
Qualifications/Knowledge
Essential:
A1 PhD or equivalent in Medical Entomology or a similar field, with extensive professional experience in managerial positions.
A2 Understanding of project management techniques and tools, as well as how to use them in vector control contexts.
A3 Understanding of contractual, legal, and financial issues pertaining to research contracts, cooperation agreements, confidentiality agreements, consultant agreements, service agreements, and other documents applicable to this type of transaction.
A4 Understanding of the academic environment, including the complex interplay of demands, restrictions, motives, and risk/reward positions of academic personnel, schools, and institutions.
Desirable:
B1 A postgraduate or professional qualification in a relevant discipline, such as an MPH (Master of Public Health).
B2 Knowledge of and previous interactions with funders working in this subject.
Skills
Essential:
C1 Demonstrates high-level communication abilities, particularly the capacity to communicate at all levels of government in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs).
C2 Proven report/proposal writing skills with the ability to create reports, presentations, and technical materials for a wide range of audiences.
C3 Demonstrates strong analytical and problem-solving talents, as well as exceptional qualitative and quantitative analytical skills.
C4 Demonstrated proficiency with project management systems, including improved team communications, information, and data sharing.
C5 Capability to multitask, be flexible, and adjust to changing situations.
C6 Demonstrates good networking abilities as well as strong persuading, negotiating, and diplomatic skills.
C7 Demonstrated capacity to communicate and collaborate across organisational and geographic boundaries.
C8 Flexible, devoted, dependable, and passionate approach with the ability to operate as part of a team with employees of all levels. Ability to maintain secrecy.
C9 The ability to employ initiative and imagination to solve issues and develop and evaluate feasible solutions. C10 Ability to work with minimal supervision.
Experience
Essential:
E1. Extensive expertise leading and implementing multidisciplinary collaborative initiatives across several countries.
E2. Experience managing and monitoring programme resources across multiple nations.
E3. Demonstrated experience delivering high-quality operational leadership and direction in a complex, multi-stakeholder, high-profile environment.
E4. Experience supervising staff.
E5. Understanding of the public health funding environment.
E6 Experience collaborating with governments in low- and middle-income countries on vector control programs.
E7 Experience conceiving, planning, and managing large, complicated projects.
E8 Relevant technical competence in medical entomology and communications, particularly in community participation for the implementation of innovative mosquito control approaches.
Desirable:
F1. Experience “on the road” is essential due to foreign travel.
F2. Relevant experience gained in the higher education sector.
Additional Information
Informal queries should be made to Prof Steven Sinkins (steven.sinkins@glasgow.ac.uk).
Terms & Conditions.
This is a full-time position with funding until January 31, 2028 in the first instance.
The annual salary for Grade 9 will range between £57,696 and £64,914.
The University of Glasgow is responsible for ensuring that all personnel are eligible to reside and work in the UK. If you need a Skilled Worker visa to work in the UK, you must first complete the visa route’s eligibility conditions before being awarded a Certificate of Sponsorship.
Please keep in mind that if tradeable points are allowed under the Skilled Worker visa criteria, this post may be eligible for sponsorship. For additional information, please visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.
As a member of Team UofG, you will be part of a globally changing, inclusive community that values ambition, excellence, integrity, and curiosity.
As a respected part of our team, you should expect:
1 A friendly and engaging organisational culture in which your skills are fostered and cultivated, and success is celebrated and shared.
2 An good employment package with generous terms and conditions, including 41 days of leave for full-time employees, a pension (pension handbook: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/payandpensions/pensions/), benefits, and discount packages.
3. A flexible approach to employment.
4 A commitment to your health and well-being, including a complimentary 6-month UofG Sport membership for all incoming University personnel (https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/staff/healthwellbeing/).
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