Program Manager

Orbis is a global non-profit organization headquartered in New York that works to prevent and treat avoidable blindness through hands-on training, public health education, and improved access to quality eye care, through partnerships with local health care organizations. Since 1982, Orbis has been a pioneer in global eye health, and has worked in 92 countries. Orbis’s story began with our first Flying Eye Hospital, a fully-equipped mobile teaching hospital on board an aircraft. In addition to our Flying Eye Hospital programs, we have long-term programs in countries including Bangladesh, China, Ethiopia, India, South Africa, Vietnam and Zambia – with additional programs in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. In Vietnam, Orbis has been working in Vietnam since 1996 and Country Representative Office was established in Hanoi in 2003.

To support the expansion of ORBIS’s programs in Vietnam and the growing of the organization, we are seeking an experienced and qualified Vietnamese national candidates to fill the positions of PROGRAM MANAGER.

Main responsibilities:

The Program Manager is responsible for document the best practice and scaling up the successful of “Diabetic Retinopathy Management Program” in the more regions where there is a high prevalence of diabetic as well as other provinces/ hospitals where there is a demand. In conjunction with Country Director and Program Director, the Program Manager will be in charge to move the initiative toward its goal, translate it into concrete action plan, mobilize the resource and undertake day-to-day management of the project to ensure proper coodination of the program implementation among relevant stakeholders (endocrine sector, eye care sector, public health management) to the achievement of project outputs; producing timely reports - financial and progress reports- as required Orbis and donor reporting systems, monitoring and tracking the progress of a project, gather best practices and lesson learned for organizational sharing and learning; identifying and remedying the problem encountered in implementation, or overcome barriers to project success.

Qualifications/ Experience and Key Competencies:

• Educated to degree level in a Medical field. Master’s degree in a Public Health field is desirable. If not, otherwise 5-7 years of practical working experiences in a senior or executive position of the medical and/or public health organizations.

• Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience working in public health. Part of that experience must be in the field involving Project/Program management as well as multi-partner co-ordination

• Experience in conducting needs assessments and program design;

• Excellent oral communications and conflict resolution skills.

• Excellent writing skills (in both English and Vietnamese), with ability to analyze & synthesize project outputs & relevant findings for the preparation of quality project reports;

• Good knowledge of health issues and health system.

• Capacity to promote and maintain partnership and networking and mobilize resources.

• Ability to manage programs/projects in strategic planning, results-based management and reporting;

• Solid knowledge in financial resources and human resources management, contract, asset and procurement, general administration;

• Ability to interact across a wide spectrum of people. Maturity and confidence in dealing with senior and high-ranking members of national and international institutions, government and non-government.

• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to build, promote and maintain cooperation solid relationships with internal and external partners;

For further details, please refer to attached JD.

Applicants should send their CVs and covering letters in English either by email or by post to the following address:

Orbis International in Vietnam

R303-304, E4B Building, Trung Tu Diplomatic Compound

#6 Dang Van Ngu Street, Hanoi, Vietnam

Email: [email protected]

Closing date for applications: Tue, 5 May 2020, with interviews afterward.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.