Job Description

Agency

Aga Khan Health Services

Salary

Salary and package to attract the best candidate

Region

South Asia

The requirements

Qualification, Experience & Skills Required:

• Hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Public Health, Social or Management Sciences, or a related field.
• Have 2 + years of experience coordinating or managing field-based activities on health, or community programs.
• Are excellent at Project Management
• Can manage multiple tasks, teams, and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Have experience working with community health initiatives.
• Communicate clearly, document consistently, and follow through on issues.
• Thrive on responsibility, structure, and delivery.

AKHS is committed to reducing our impact on climate and the environment and have set ourselves the goal of striving for net-zero carbon operations by 2030. All staff are expected to take part in making this a reality. The Project Coordinator, accompanied with his/her Line Manager(s) is expected to identify and understand which aspects of his/her work have most impact on the environment, and define tasks, work, and personal goals within his/her work plan to reduce these impacts and bring AKHS closer to net zero.

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.

The position

Aga Khan Health Service, Pakistan invites applications from qualified, experienced, and dynamic candidates for the position of Project Coordinator – Elderly Care Project based at Community Health Program, Karachi.

The Project Coordinator will play a central role in the implementation and supervision of the elderly care project. The position is responsible for leading and supporting the field team, ensuring the timely achievement of project objectives, and maintaining a strong focus on quality results. The role also emphasizes fostering teamwork, accountability, and donor satisfaction. In addition, the Project Coordinator will provide ongoing monitoring and technical support to ensure project activities are implemented effectively and in alignment with established goals and standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Actively participate in the overall implementation of all the elderly care project activities in Karachi
• Supervise the field team and deal with their day-to-day project related matters
• Ensure achievement of project objectives and quality delivery with a strong focus on timely and quality results, teamwork, participation, empowerment, accountability, and donor satisfaction
• Act as technical support for the department as required to ensure performance according to the project's desired objectives and outputs
• Ensure timely progress towards planned outputs and results; keep implementing partner and other staff appraised of progress and issues; make recommendations to solve problems and take the lead in implementing agreed-upon actions
• Prepare presentations and participate in project review meetings to track progress and move forward as per agreed plans
• Conduct compliance monitoring visits to project site
• Strong academic writing skills to prepare written analyses, reports, activity descriptions, success stories, and other documents as required
• Coordinate with relevant departments to ensure effective support to field-level activities, and to provide accurate information to the field regarding regulations to foster project implementation
• Data compilation and analysis (quantitative and qualitative) as per project requirements I l. Ensure synergy and linkages between health activities and other programs
• Ensure adherence and compliance with donor policies and procedures
• Comfortable in traveling to field sites in Karachi and across Pakistan for partners and donor’s meetings, on need basis.
• Perform any other task assigned by the Line Manager.