Job description - pdf, 23Kb

HLSP are a leading provider of consultancy services, program management and policy advice in the health sector working to strengthen health systems, reduce poverty and respond to HIV and other communicable diseases.

HLSP specializes in health systems and public health, including Reproductive & Child Health and HIV. It has governance, poverty, gender equity and institution building as core competencies of all staff, backed by full time specialists in these areas.

Consultancy:
We work for international agencies and governments and other global health partners on short-term technical assignments. We manage technical resource centers for DFID and AusAID, which provide short-term technical advisory services.

Program management:
We manage long term projects and programs on behalf of international partners and have considerable experience in managing and delivering these programs in complex environments as well as providing short term inputs into these.

The HLSP Institute:
We share lessons from our work and contribute to debate on global health and development practice through the Institute.

HLSP has been working in the health sector in low and middle income countries for over 20 years, working in around 30 countries at any one time. We have over 100 senior technical and administrative staff and more than 2,000 Associate Consultants. We also work in the UK through Mott MacDonald Health UK.

HLSP is the international health unit of the Mott MacDonald Group

We're an employee-owned management, engineering and development consultancy serving the public and private sector around the world. Mott MacDonald is a £1 billion business which spans 140 countries with over 14,000 staff working in all sectors from transport, energy, buildings, water and the environment to health and education, industry and communications.

In the developing world Mott MacDonald is working hand in hand with funding agencies not only in support of sustainable health services, but also to provide clean water, sanitation, primary education as well as energy and infrastructure.

Our geographical network spans across Africa, Asia Pacific, Asia Subcontinent, Central and South America, Europe, the Middle East and North America – which means we can bring our skills and resources much closer to our clients, wherever they or their projects are based.

Mott MacDonald in North America

Growth and diversification continue to characterize our North American business which serves a range of public and private sector clients in sectors such as transport, education, energy and international development.

Hatch Mott MacDonald
With over 2000 staff in more than 60 US and Canadian cities, our North American infrastructure operation, Hatch Mott MacDonald, continues to expand in the aviation, highways, tunnels and bridges, rail and pipeline, and water and environment sectors.

Mott MacDonald in energy
Our Boston-based US energy specialists have a strong track record spanning three decades in the power engineering industry. Current projects include designing large renewable and sophis-ticated fossil fuel generating plants and transmission systems.

Cambridge Education
Our specialist education consultancy has partnered with over 2,000 schools in more than 40 districts across 15 states of the USA. With access to all of our regional offices across the US and Canada, we have the resources and capacity to respond to local, state and national initiatives as they arise.

International development
Mott MacDonald’s Washington, DC-based international development services team supports Mott MacDonald’s global services to development agencies such as the US Agency for International Development, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank in efforts to reduce poverty and promote sustainable economic development worldwide.

Why HLSP and Mott MacDonald want to develop their presence in the US?

We want to establish a health capability in Washington to facilitate growing business with the international aid and foundation-funded activities of the health sector with US-based agencies.

We have well established relationships with several of the leading US providers of technical services to USAID and other development agencies, and we are able to lead as well as support US-funded development programs. In the health sector we are looking to secure business with USAID, PEPFAR and certain Foundations.

How we will do this.

We already have an office in Washington with Technical Specialists in Water, Sanitation & Environment; and in Education. We are now looking to recruit a Senior Specialist in Health whose key tasks over the first two years are described in the Job Description.

NB Applicants must have the right to live and work in the USA and will be resident in Washington where the role is to be based.

Please send a CV and covering letter to andy.pitts@hlsp.org
Closing date for applications is 28 February.

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HLSP is an Equal Opportunities employer.