Project Manager - RSV Vaccination Readiness

World Vision; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

World Vision in Ghana seeks a Project Leader to drive strategic management across six workstreams, ensuring sequencing from national systems readiness to district and community implementation for RSV vaccine introduction. You will align with the RMNCAHN plan and Ghana's immunization roadmap while coordinating with MOH, GHS, and global partners.

Lead national readiness assessments, budgeting, data integration, and reporting to ensure timely rollout and government readiness for vaccine deployment.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across six project workstreams.
• Lead the development and regular review of the project workplan.
• Ensure readiness across national, subnational, and community levels for RSV vaccine introduction.
• Align project with Ghana RMNCAHN and national immunization strategies.
• Engage with MOH, GHS, EPI, and partners to co-design and implement activities.
• Oversee readiness assessments, budgeting, data systems, and monitoring dashboards.

Job description

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children's life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

1. Project Leadership and Strategic Management

Provide strategic and operational leadership across all six project workstreams, ensuring coherent sequencing from national and subnational systems readiness through to district, facility, and community-level implementation.

Lead the development and regular review of the project workplan, ensuring activities are appropriately sequenced, resourced, and aligned with the national RSV vaccine introduction timeline.

Maintain a clear focus on the project's core objective: that Ghana's policy, regulatory, supply chain, workforce, data, and community systems are ready for maternal RSV vaccine introduction before the vaccine arrives.

Ensure the project contributes to WVG's broader maternal and child health strategy and to Ghana's RMNCAHN Strategic Plan.

2. Government and Stakeholder Engagement

Serve as WVG's primary relationship manager with the Ministry of Health, the Ghana Health Service, the EPI programme, and the Family Health Division, ensuring all project activities are co-designed and implemented through government structures.

Represent WVG in the national maternal immunization technical working group and in relevant RMNCAHN, EPI, and SDG 3 policy fora.

Build and maintain productive working relationships with WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, PATH, Gavi, Dodowa Health Research Centre, IHI, MIRNAA, and other development partners working on RSV or maternal immunization in Ghana.

Manage the relationship with the Pfizer Foundation, including timely reporting, communication, and compliance with grant conditions.

Support MOH and GHS to engage regional and global forums, including WHO AFRO and the World Health Assembly, on Ghana's RSV readiness progress.

3. National and Subnational Systems Readiness

Oversee the national readiness assessment using the Gavi IRMMA framework, covering policy, EPI integration, ANC platforms, cold chain, workforce, and data systems.

Coordinate WVG technical support to MOH for the update of national maternal immunization guidelines to explicitly include the RSV vaccine, and for the revision of the vaccination introduction roadmap from national to district and community levels.

Support the development of a costing structure for RSV introduction, including district- and community-level delivery costs, so the Ministry is financially prepared for rollout.

Oversee cold chain and supply chain readiness work, including assessment of capacity at clinics and service delivery points, and identification of bottlenecks in vaccine distribution, stock management, and waste management.

Ensure HMIS and DHIMS2 review and integration activities are completed so that maternal immunization data can be tracked through government systems from the outset.

Support development of readiness dashboards and scorecards for government teams to monitor progress across all domains of RSV vaccine deployment.

4. Formative Research and Barrier-Responsive Interventions

Oversee the design and implementation of the formative research programme across at least 10 programme districts, including KAP surveys, focus group discussions, key informant interviews, health facility readiness assessments, ANC register reviews, and GIS geographic access mapping.

Ensure the barrier analysis and prioritisation process is conducted with GHS, DHMTs, and community representatives, and that findings are translated into practical, piloted interventions across the seven barrier domains.

Manage the research-to-policy transfer process, including the validation workshop with MOH and GHS, the mid-project policy brief for the national TWG, and the co-branded Ghana Maternal Immunization Readiness Toolkit.

5. Community ReadinessandDemandGeneration

Oversee community-level readiness activities, ensuring these are sequenced after national and subnational systems readiness is established.

Coordinate engagement of village chiefs, queen mothers, faith leaders (including through Channels of Hope in both Christian and Muslim contexts), Daddies Clubs, and Mother-to-Mother Support Groups to build community acceptance of late-pregnancy health-seeking and the RSV vaccine.

Oversee ANC defaulter tracking and follow-up systems linked to the 28-week RSV vaccination eligibility threshold, including CHW training and SMS reminder system design.

6. Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

Lead the development and implementation of the project monitoring and evaluation plan, linked to GHS data systems including DHIMS2 and ANC facility registers.

Manage the learning agenda, including quarterly learnin