Country: Uganda
Closing date: 28 Dec 2016
Pathfinder Overview
Pathfinder International is a global leader in sexual and reproductive health. We place reproductive health care at the center of all that we do—believing that it is not only a fundamental human right, but is critical for expanding life opportunities for women, families, communities, and nations, and paving the way for transformations in environmental stewardship, decreases in population pressures, and innovations in poverty reduction. Pathfinder provides women, men, and adolescents with a range of quality health services—from contraception and maternal care to HIV prevention and AIDS care and treatment. Pathfinder strives to strengthen access to family planning, ensure availability of safe abortion services and post-abortion care, advocate for sound reproductive health policies, and, through all of our work, improve the rights and lives of the people we serve.
Program Overview
Pathfinder is seeking a Deputy Chief of Party for the Uganda Expanding Family Planning Options program. The USAID’s Expanding Family Planning Options program will focus on increasing FP service options and improving quality of FP services in the public and private sectors as well as building demand for modern contraception. This activity will be complemented by linkages to and coordination with other USAID/Uganda activities including health communications and systems strengthening activities as well as contraceptive commodity procurement.
Position Purpose
The Deputy Chief of Party is responsible for overseeing all programming, including ensuring the technical quality of services. The Deputy Chief of Party works with sub-partners to decide on targets, oversees the development and execution of community action plans, monitors the implementation of the work plans, works with the Deputy Chief of Party to facilitate operational capacity building initiatives, directly facilitates technical capacity building, and supports coordination with local government and other key partners. The Deputy Chief of Party directs and supervises senior program staff and consultants.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Technical Leadership
- Lead the technical design and implementation of project strategies, create a realistic and donor-repsonsive timeline, and continuously evaluate project progress towards achieving organizational strategic goals.
- Be fully conversent on best practicies globally to develop and adapt for the Uganda setting.
- Provide technical leadership to project staff and partners in support of project objectives.
- Collaborate with headquarters and all partners to ensure programming aligns with agency mission and vision and that project best practices and lessons learned are shared for agency-wide dissemination
- Utilize a participatory approach to developing and updating the project strategic plan, ensuring programmatic directions are technically-sound, evidence-based, and consistent with international standards.
- Provide technical assistance and capacity building to local partners in support of sustainable impact
Program Managment
- Assist the COP in the successful programmatic and technical implementation of the project including the timely completion of high-quality work plans, accurate reports, and other mandated deliverables.
- Assist the COP in monitoring project progress vis-a-vis expected objectives, utilizing tools and methods developed by Pathfinder, and ensuring effective usage of resources and compliance with donor requirements.
- Oversee subgrantees/subcontractors ensuring quality implementation of programming and achievement of agreed upon objectives and targets in accordance with established schedules and timelines.
- Document technical components of materials and project achevements for communications materials such as annual reports, brochures, and website updates.
- Identify, select, manage performance of, and mentor project staff ensuring professional and capacity building; facilitate necessary international technical assistance to promote project goals and objectives.
- Support other country programs, provide technical assistance, and foster cross-country collaboration.
Organizational Representation and Collaboration
- Assist COP in addressing technical and programmatic issues related to the project.
- Liaise with donors, partners, host government agencies, and other key stakeholders to share progress, accomplishments, and challenges to ensure dissemination and incorporation of best practices.
Cultivate strong relations with headquarters to achieve organizational goals and provide periodic updates to staff worldwide on the progress, challenges, successes, and lessons learned in managing the project.
Serve as COP, assuming overall field responsibility for project, in absence of the COP, as necessary.
Basic Requirements
- Master’s Degree in a related field of study with three (3) years of professional exposure working in mid to senior management position (in addition to the below requirement of 5 years).
- Minimum of five (5) years of mid to senior level experience in designing, implementing or managing large, complex, sexual and reproductive health programs in/for developing countries.
- Must have demonstrated leadership qualities, depth and breadth of management expertise and experience.
- At least 5 years of supervision experience.
- Demonstrated experience in successfully fulfilling performance objectives, including the timely implementation and reporting of donor-funded program activities.
- Demonstrated experience planning, designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating projects
- Experience managing USAID-funded health programming.
- Comprehensive knowledge of the health context and structural issues in Uganda including socioeconomic, institutional and policy issues that are related to essential services in population, health, and nutrition.
- Proven ability to create and maintain effective working relations with senior Government personnel, international organizations, NGO partners, host country governments, and U. S. Government Agencies.
- Experience working with public and private partners and stakeholders at all levels (national to community).
- Proven ability to manage, motivate, and mentor staff at all levels and create a positive team environment.
- Experience working with complex programs involving short deadlines, multiple tasks, in coordination with multiple partners, to achieve expected results.
- Excellent diplomatic, interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
- Expert computer skills in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Fluency in English, and verbal communication skills in one or more local languages.
- In-country travel to field operations required with occasional travel to headquarters as necessary.
Please Note: This is a five year position contingent upon project award and funding.**Pathfinder International is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.**
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