Job ID

2023-5531

Location

Other

Category

Global

Employment Status

Contingent Upon Award

Jhpiego seeks a Project Director to support an anticipated five-year, multi-country, USAID-funded project to advance equitable, affordable, and sustainable access to family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) information, products, and services. The project will focus primarily on FP/SRH outcomes, at the system, facility, provider, community, and client levels, and support countries to constructively and creatively address persistent issues related to health access, equity, and quality of care, particularly for youth. Local capacity strengthening, and engagement of local partners and stakeholders in scale-up of evidence-informed and rights-based FP/RH service delivery are central tenets of the project to ensure client dignity, agency, choice, and good health.

The Project Director will oversee a team providing quality technical, operational, and financial oversight for core activities and direct technical assistance and capacity-building support to country-level programs. The Project Director will provide overall strategic leadership and vision for the Jhpiego-led team and will manage long- and short-term technical expertise across all result areas, ensuring the project meets the stated goals and reporting requirements. The Project Director will be responsible for making key decisions and solving problems in short timeframes while ensuring operational and project quality and integrity. The Project Director will serve as the project’s main point of contact with USAID on routine and strategic matters. The Project Director will also ensure effective organizational management and communication with the host country government at all levels, and international partners and agencies. This position is contingent upon award and annual funding from USAID.

• Provide strategic direction, leadership and management oversight for large, complex, multi-country activities with a focus on locally-led and owned capacity-building approaches
• Maintain excellent relationships with USAID and in-country stakeholders and develop rapid responses
• Oversee project work planning, performance management, and strategic communications
• Identify issues and risks related to project implementation in a timely manner and appropriate program adjustments
• Manages a diverse team of technical, operational and management staff, ensuring an organizational structure with specific roles and responsibilities and a high level of staff morale and retention
• Ensure that the project activities are meeting client and stakeholder expectations and that project results are proactively disseminated, and learnings are shared and incorporated to continuously improve
• Provide vision and leadership to the development the project strategic plan, work plan, and project monitoring, in close collaboration with USAID Bureau of Global Health, USAID missions, country ministries of health, and other stakeholders to ensure timely implementation and compliance to the requirements and regulations of the award
• Work closely with the technical and operational staff on setting project priorities and directions, and responding to requests for support from local counterparts
• Coordinate advocacy, demand generation, and policy support across project sites as required
• Lead the formulation of innovative approaches for capacity building, and scale-up project services
• Actively participate in relevant technical advisory/working groups and professional forums representing Jhpiego
• Work with M&E staff to design, and implement a plan to track project data/results to inform adjustments in project implementation
• Document successes, lessons learned and challenges in implementation as well as reports of project activities and results to the project and donor, including routine quarterly and annual reports and other reporting requirements as requested
• Author/co-author abstracts, presentations, and articles for journals and conferences
• Lead strategy and engagement with local implementing partners to build their capacity and to ensure sustainability
• Manage technical contributions of potential subgrantees/subcontractors, including defining scopes of work

• Advanced degree in public health, health administration, international health, or a related field
• Previous experience serving as COP/project director or DCOP or senior-level management
• 10+ years' experience successfully managing large US government, multi-partner, multi-year health and/or capacity development projects (approximately $20 million) in developing countries.
• Direct USAID experience
• At least 5 years’ experience in preparing and managing multi-country, regional, national and sub-national programs focusing on organizational capacity development, preferably within the Family Planning and Reproductive Health sector
• Demonstrated experience leading a capacity-building approach for local actors in the public sector, providing capacity-building assistance at individual and organizational levels
• Demonstrated experience with a mix of practical technical skills in capacity-building topics, including policy/governance, training, technical assistance, and strategic planning
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge in establishing project systems and overseeing project start-up and close-out
• Demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic thinking, organizational, team-building, and representational skills
• Proven track record managing a project team composed of technical experts and fostering teamwork
• Proven track record monitoring budgets and expenses to stay within obligations.
• Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships with USAID Bureau of Global Health, USAID missions, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector
• Expertise in translating research to practice—identifying and adapting best practices to specific project contexts
• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, and presentation skills in English
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Ability to travel internationally to project sites

• MD preferred
• Proficient in additional languages (French, Portuguese)

Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.

Please apply at www.jhpiego.org/careers

Applicants must submit a single document for upload to include: cover letter, resume, and references.

For further information about Jhpiego, visit our website at www.jhpiego.org

Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, other legally protected characteristics or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Jhpiego promotes Affirmative Action for minorities, women, individuals who are disabled, and veterans.

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