About GX Foundation:
GX Foundation was founded in 2018 in Hong Kong as a response to the Belt and Road Initiative for International Cooperation. It is a tax-exempt charity. The name GX is derived from the Chinese word“共享”, pronounced “Gong Xiang”, meaning “sharing”. Leveraging Hong Kong’s institutional and talent advantages, GX Foundation is a unique non-governmental, non-profit organization specializing in executing humanitarian medical aid in foreign countries.
Our short-term objective is to complete the cataract blindness elimination projects in Lao, Cambodia, Djibouti, Mauritania, and Senegal, and to implement vector borne disease control projects in Timor-Leste and other Belt and Road countries. In the medium to long term, GX Foundation aims to become a humanitarian NGO of global influence in the international public health and medical aid sector. GX is headquartered in Hong Kong. Most of the staff are Hong Kong residents.
Key Responsibilities:
- Implement GX medical humanitarian programs in project countries along the Belt & Road
- Oversee project implementation, financial and administration oversight, reporting, budgeting, and monitoring and evaluation of project
- Prepare high quality and timely programme progress reports, including documentation of successes, data analysis for indicator aggregation and reporting, summary of qualitative results
- Supervise oversea and Hong Kong project teams
- Make recommendations to assist on identifying or selection of medical deliverables in collaboration with other departments
- Proactively build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external counterparts (Oversea, Mainland China and Hong Kong)
- Allocate resources and supplies as to ensure staff and volunteers can complete their responsibilities to their highest potential
- Provide analysis and recommendations to improve the project process
- Ensure the project products the specific results in the annual workplan(s)
- Ensure staff receive regular support, supervision and performance appraisals
- Manage or participate in staff recruitment as needed for the project
- Other duties assigned by Chief Executive Officer
Job Requirements:
- Advanced degree holder (master’s degree or above)
- At least 8 years’ experience of managing projects with multiple partners especially government agencies.
- Experience in leadership position managing health related programs in the developing countries is an advantage
- Experience working in NGO, ideally in a program’s role is a plus
- Good understanding of mainland context / experience working with mainland government is also plus
- Proven ability to write technical reports, program documents, and deliver presentations (in English and Chinese)
- Good diplomatic, management, and communication skills to liaise and advocate with counterparts
- Strong ability to complete multiple assignments concurrently whilst balancing competing priorities and meeting deadlines
- Fluency in English and Mandarin with strong ability to master communication across multiple stakeholders of the projects
- Capacity with working in other language is a plus. Language ability such as French, Spanish and Arabic are preferable
- Outstanding problem-solving skills with “can-do” spirit and innovation mindset
- Excellent ability to engage and influence others across all levels of the organization and other stakeholders, ability to develop and report on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) s to measure the success of project management processes
- Strong capability and handle uncertainties and emergencies in the field
- Strong passion and commitment to serve people in need
- Well-organized, detail-oriented, and visionary leader with high integrity
- Willingness to travel to region / countries with resource scarcity in Southeast Asia, Africa and other region.
- Candidate with clinical experience with working knowledge of medical terminology and clinic operation is an advantage.
- Candidate with less experience may be considered as Assistant Project Director
How to apply
If you are interested in this position, please click the ‘Apply’ button below to apply online or send your CV to jay.lee@gxfoundation.hk. All information provided will be treated in strict confidence and used solely for recruitment purposes.
Applicants who do not hear from us within 2 weeks from the date of application may consider their applications unsuccessful, and their information will be destroyed within 6 months of receipt.