Director for Integrated Mental Health

Overview

We are looking for an exceptional Director for Integrated Mental Health (initially in Southern Africa) to lead a remarkable, change-making, life-saving program.

In partnership with Anglo American and Right to Care, we are launching a pilot to undertake maternal mental health checks within infant immunization programs. We want to show the impact that can be achieved when we integrate mental health interventions and pay for it on the basis of performance/outcomes. Starting in South Africa, then scaling across the region (and beyond!), and into other health interventions, our director will lead this growth, driving performance and bringing governments and funders along with us.

We are looking for an inspirational, performance-focused leader with international experience of managing service delivery in challenging contexts. You will be comfortable starting small and growing to become global. This is essentially a start-up, so you will be very comfortable getting your hands dirty. But we are ultimately looking for global impact, so you will already have an international understanding and network. Fund raising (i.e. philanthropy and international development and government money) is going to be a huge part of your job. Our Directors must lead their own fund raising efforts, in order to mobilize the required resources to scale the program.

Objectives & candidate profile

Main objectives:
• To ensure the timely and effective mobilization of the pilot programs, overseeing their design and rollout to deliver maximum performance/outcomes;
• To ensure systems are in place to manage this performance (including the outcomes and also assurance and the payment administration);
• Rapidly, to capture and disseminate the story of our outcomes (and our outcomes contracting), to raise additional funds, to extend the scale and scope of the initiative;
• To recruit, support and nurture the team of Contract & Performance Managers who will drive the performance of each program;
• Building on your existing network, in the region and beyond, to access funds and create new opportunities to implement mental health integration into primary care across Southern Africa and growing from there;
• To be a member of the HBGI senior management team, with shared oversight and ownership of our whole performance and all the lives we look to positively impact.

Candidate profile:

HBGI is looking for the following background, experience, skills and personal culture:
• You need be an agile thinker, who can work both analytically and creatively. You will almost certainly have a very strong academic background, having studied at one or more of the world’s leading universities.
• You will have brilliant English written skills. You will be a great communicator and ‘story teller’. You can speak fluently, articulately and compellingly. You will be a confident and convincing public speaker.
• You have a real eye for detail. You don’t compromise in order to achieve goals. You always strive to deliver excellence, achieving the most positive impact possible for the people your services are touching. You don’t see that there is any contradiction in delivering the highest possible quality and quantity.
• You have a willingness and ability to challenge the status quo in order to focus on what really matters for people accessing services. And you are comfortable working with ambiguity.
• You will really ‘get’ what we mean by performance and outcomes. You will be able to demonstrate how you have mobilized and managed programs that really emphasized this. Ideally these programs will have used performance-based contracts, but we understand that this is a bit niche.
• You have raised money before, ideally across philanthropists, international development donors and governments. This is a huge part of this role at HBGI. The success of the project depends on your ability to do this. You will have existing contacts/networks. You will have great credibility with potential funders/donors. You will know how to plan and project manage this.
• You have experience of procuring and managing subcontractors who actually delivered the frontline services. You oversaw and positively challenged their performance, constantly looking for improvement (i.e. more outcomes for more people).

Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer; joining a Senior Management Team comprising Finance, Assurance, Chief Medical Officer, Chief of Staff, Business Development, and Project and Outcomes Funds Directors.

Location: Home-based with regular travel. For the first two years at least, your operations will be based within southern Africa (e.g., South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique or Eswatini). To get this up and flying, you must have high credibility across Southern Africa.

Salary: starting up to $200,000 per annum FTE, negotiable and depending on experience and location, or equivalent day rate (plus pension contributions and health insurance, and 33 days of leave growing to 38 – only applicable to those who are employed as a member of staff).

Please also note that we are open to and will consider applicants to work on either an employee or consultancy basis. You may want to offer your service as a consultant initially (possibly part-time), moving to employee (and full-time) status as you grow the program. We ask that you make your preference clear in your initial application.

Other benefits and terms of employment: please refer to full job description on our website. https://www.hbgi.org/job-openings

If you are submitting an application, please read this advertisement in full AND refer to the full job description at https://www.hbgi.org/job-openings and respond as directed. Failure to do so will mean that we must sadly disregard your submission.