RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide overall leadership and strategic vision for the project. This includes overall responsibility for assuring that all technical assistance and services provided are technically rigorous, in line with USAID rules and regulations, and appropriate for addressing the objectives of the Activity.
- Function as the primary liaison between USAID and other collaborating agencies on all programmatic, administrative and financial matters related to the project. Serve as the official representative of the project and JSI in matters related to the Activity.
- Direct the program’s localization strategy to ensure locally led activities, tailored capacity strengthening, and engagement of local organizations.
- Provide leadership and oversight of all project technical assistance needs required to achieve the expected outputs of the project, development of scopes of work, recruitment of consultants, and execution of technical assistance and service agreements.
- Supervise and assess the performance of senior staff and ensure supervisory and accountability systems are in place for all long-term and short-term advisors, sub-partners, consultants and staff.
- Provide leadership in developing, implementing, and assessing interventions to increase increased coverage of high-quality, evidence-informed SBC programming and evidence generation across health and development areas.
- Ensure management systems with standard operating procedures are used to implement all activities. Oversee an annual project cycle which formulates comprehensive annual cooperative agreement work plans and budgets, in accordance with the USAID annual planning cycle and assures timely disbursement of funds.
- Oversee all institutional sub-agreements executed under the prime cooperative agreement.
- Ensure all reporting requirements for the cooperative agreement, including quarterly and annual activity reports are produced and submitted.
- Ensure systems and processes for comprehensive and adaptive monitoring, learning and evaluation of the program.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Master’s level education/training or its equivalent in Public Health, Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Economics, International Development, Business Administration, or a related field. Doctorate is a plus.
- At least 15 years of experience managing international programs in low- and middle-income countries and technical experience in one or more of the following areas: family planning, sexual/reproductive, maternal, and child health. Experience with USAID programs is essential.
- At least 5 years of experience in senior-level leadership positions on projects of similar scope and complexity. Demonstrated experience managing multi-partner consortia essential.
- Extensive experience in managing multi-country programs to improve quality of care, local capacity, gender integration, measurement, and/or scale of high-impact interventions.
- Proven ability to form partnerships with governments in low- and middle-income countries, and work with local partners and stakeholders in scaling-up innovative, evidence-informed programming.
- Experience working in partnership with U.S. Government agencies, international donors, or other multilateral agencies. Demonstrated experience in advocacy.
- Fluency in English with strong oral and written communication. French fluency is a plus.
- Proven ability to represent the Project and JSI at external events, technical working groups, and international forums.
