Director, Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics (FACE) - Global Health

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Description

This position directs the Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics (FACE) program at the Task Force for Global Health (TFGH). The Director of FACE serves as the lead for the TFGH’s initiative on global health ethics and compassion and advises the President/CEO, Executive Team, and TFGH Programs on ethical issues facing the organization and its programs.

The TFGH is an Emory University affiliate located in Decatur, GA. Its eighteen programs focus on building durable public health systems that serve all people. Focus areas include neglected tropical diseases, vaccines, and health systems strengthening. The TFGH received the 2016 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize–the world's largest award of its kind–in recognition of its extraordinary contributions to alleviating human suffering.

The Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics (FACE) was established at the TFGH in 2018 to promote ethical practices, provide ethics support to Task Force programs (‘internally-focused’ roles), and provide thought leadership to the global health community in the areas of ethics and compassion (‘externally-focused’). Today, FACE works to examine and address complex ethical issues that arise in public health practice globally, and to cultivate and operationalize compassion in global health programs, health facilities and organizations, and national health systems. As part of the TFGH, FACE aims to bring ethics and compassion to the center of day-to-day decision-making in global health. FACE advances this mission by raising awareness, building individual and organizational capacity (e.g., through consultation and training), and generating evidence (e.g., through research). FACE works closely with many partners, including the World Health Organization (WHO), governments, university-based scholars, global health program leaders, and scientists engaged in research on compassion and human flourishing, among others. FACE receives funding from the Office of the President (OOP), as well as from multiple external funders for specific projects. Over the last six years, the FACE team has developed a unique set of skills, capacities, and contacts needed to attend to the increasingly complex human dimensions of global health. By leveraging innovative and cross-disciplinary approaches, FACE helps to address important gaps and challenges in global health, including in mass drug administration, public health research, the provision of support and training for the public health workforce, building quality universal health care systems, and moving toward greater localization and equity. See the FACE website for more information: www.taskforce.org/face.

This position has primary responsibility for leading the work of the TFGH in the field of global health ethics and for developing a robust program in global health ethics and compassion. In addition to creating and managing the programmatic portfolio, the Director has primary responsibility for strategic leadership and management of ethics- and compassion-related projects at the TFGH. This position serves as the principal investigator on scientific studies and investigations of ethics in global health and is responsible for convening symposia, conferences, and working groups on topics related to global health ethics and compassion. The Director builds and maintains strong positive relationships with scientific and technical staff at the WHO, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory University and other academic institutions, major funding partners, and other scientific collaborators. The Director serves as a primary technical resource to programs at the TFGH on ethical issues. S/he remains informed of ethics- and compassion-related scholarship, curriculum development, and research and is consulted by Emory University, WHO, and other partners to provide scientific and technical expertise.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
 

• Develop, advance, and manage a unique program in global health ethics and compassion.
• Identify and pursue funding opportunities to expand program reach and impact.
• Identify opportunities for synergy and collaborate closely with domestic and international institutions on global health ethics, compassion, and related issues of importance to the TFGH.
• Provide expert advice to the CEO/President and Executive Leadership Team of the TFGH on ethics-related questions and challenges.
• Consult with, and provide guidance to, TFGH programs on ethical issues in global health practice, including, but not limited to fair and equitable partnerships.
• Provide management and supervision of FACE program staff.
• Assist the CEO/President and Executive Leadership Team in developing and implementing processes to engage staff on core TFGH values.
• Facilitate gatherings, meetings, and retreats on ethics and/or compassion for TFGH staff and programs.
• Present scholarly papers on global health ethics or compassion at national and international conferences and meetings and publish papers on these topics in the peer-reviewed literature.
• Give presentations on global health ethics and related topics to professional and lay audiences.
• Oversee and further develop the research ethics review activity for the TFGH.
• Contribute to development of curricula and training materials on ethics and compassion for students in a broad range of global health-related disciplines.
   

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
 

• Administer and monitor program budgets.
• Oversee related special projects.
• Participate fully as a member of the TFGH leadership team by contributing, assisting and participating in ongoing TFGH meetings and initiatives, including but not limited to annual planning and budgeting and such other duties as assigned by management.