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 Chief of Party to provide overall strategic leadership and oversight
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 Chief of Party
(COP) will have an appropriate balance of technical, managerial, and
interpersonal skills and experience. S/he shall have a deep understanding of
the overall goals and objectives of the Expanding Family Planning Options
program and be able to articulate the strategic vision for the project. S/he
will have experience interacting with host country agencies, including central
and local government, development partners, civil society, and community-based
organizations.
Key
Responsibilities
- Provides
strategic direction of all project activities. Develops and updates the
project strategic plan, ensuring that programmatic directions are
technically sound, evidence-based, and consistent with USAID priorities. - Ensures
that project performance objectives and mandates are implemented in a
timely fashion and meet the highest quality standards. - Serves
as the senior representative for the Project to USAID, host country
government agencies, development partners, and civil society
organizations. Cultivates and strengthens positive, productive
relationships and ensures that Pathfinder is consistently viewed as an effective
implementing partner achieving project targets. - Together
with other members of the leadership team, seeks to leverage non-USAID
funds (such as multinational corporations and foundations) to support
expanded program activities. - Directly
supervises senior Project staff members such as the DCOP, Director of
Family Planning Service Delivery, Director of Financial Management and
Operations, and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor. - Ensures
systems are established to measure accomplishments, track work in progress
and use of project resources, and evaluate impact of services provided by
implementing partners. - Works
closely with Project staff, and with implementing agencies and their
respective long-term advisors, to design and operationalize an annual
project planning cycle, which formulates comprehensive, integrated annual
project workplans and budgets. - In
collaboration with the Director of Financial Management and Operations,
establish and maintain the ongoing financial and grants operations, ensuring
compliance with Pathfinder’s policy and USAID contract provisions. Conduct
monthly reviews to ensure accountability of all project activities as well
as the accurate and timely reporting of finance deliverables. - Works
with Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor to provide leadership and
direction to M&E strategies, frameworks, plans and indicators to
capture project performance and results. Leads a periodic implementation
review process to monitor progress and to identify specific actions that
may be needed to achieve expected results. - Manages
and coordinates activities of subcontractors and partners to create
synergy and ensure that project responsibilities are carried out in
accordance with donor regulations. - Selects,
hires, and supervises staff; assigns roles and responsibilities, manages
performance. - In
coordination with the Pathfinder Contracts Officer, contract with and
manage local individuals/organizations for identified tasks according to
donor and Pathfinder procedures. Negotiate consultancy agreements and
develop capacity of local partners in mandated program areas. - Partner
successfully with Pathfinder’s Program Director and Headquarters
financial, technical, and operations officers by providing accurate and
timely reporting and updates on the project progress. - Ensure
that appropriate security guidelines and procedures are established,
maintained, updated regularly, and adhered to by staff. Monitor the
security situation and provide leadership for staff in emergencies.
Basic
Requirements
- A Master’s
Degree in public health with five (5) years of experience (in addition to
the below requirement of 10 years) in a related field of study; OR a
Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study with seven (7) years of
experience (in addition to the 10 years requirement noted below) in a
related field of study - Ten
(10) years of progressively increasing responsibility working for
multi-faceted sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programs; - Professional
experience working in a senior management position for donor funded health
projects; - Experience
interacting with host country agencies, including central and local
government, development partners, civil society, and community-based
organizations is essential. - Demonstrated
team player with visionary leadership. - Demonstrated
leadership skills in working collaboratively with other donors, host
country institutions, and international organizations. - S/he
shall have depth and breadth of technical expertise and experience, a
solid professional reputation, interpersonal skills and professional
relationships. - Familiarity
with U.S. government policies and legislative requirements relating to the
use of family planning funding is useful, but not required. - Experience
in developing program work-plans, budgets, managing implementation, staff
and short-term technical assistance. - Excellent
representational and communication skills, written and oral proficiency in
English, and verbal communication skills in one or more local languages. - Demonstrated
ability to lead a project team and achieve results - Travel
throughout the project area in Uganda and to the US will be required.
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