Management and Operations Director – Integrated Health Systems Strengthening | Washington, DC, United States of America | 2024

Summary:

Chemonics seeks a Management and Operations Director for the USAID Integrated Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) activity. This global activity will accelerate countries’ Health System Strengthening (HSS) efforts and achieve sustainable, equitable, and resilient health systems through locally-led, evidence-driven, and context-specific approaches to HSS. The primary goals are to advance primary health care (PHC), accelerate progress toward universal health coverage (UHC), and improve health outcomes. Investments in HSS help USAID reach its priority global health goals of preventing child and maternal deaths, controlling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and combating infectious disease, which directly contributes to strengthening global health security. A strengthened and accessible health system is necessary to yield high-quality health services, which are essential for achieving sustainable improvements in health, promoting economic growth, and overall democratic development. The activity will achieve its goal by aligning with and advancing relevant USAID initiatives and frameworks including the Vision for Health System Strengthening 2030 , the Bureau for Global Health’s Primary Impact initiative, and the Global Health Workforce Initiative, among others.

The Management and Operations Director will oversee management and operations of the project as a whole. S/he will possess a deep command of management processes generally, and USAID reporting and compliance requirements specifically, and demonstrate an ability to produce quality results on schedule. S/he will supervise a team of management specialists and support the Project Director to ensure that the activity meets stated goals on schedule and adheres to reporting requirements.

Responsibilities include:

• Leads management and operational oversight for large, complex, multi-country health systems strengthening activities and multiple country buy-ins
• Provides overall direction and supervision of other operational staff as a member of the senior management team and monitors programmatic, financial and administrative performance of the project
• Coordinates with the Project Director, technical staff, and country buy-ins to ensure accurate, timely and on budget delivery of program goals
• Works alongside the Project Director to ensure the quality and timely development of budgets for country-buy ins and core activities
• Oversees development and submission of any financial or compliance related deliverables or reporting requirements to USAID
• Directs project recruitment efforts and ensures timely hiring of key staff at the central level, as well as coordinating recruitment at the country level as needed
• Ensures compliance of subawards and agreements, develops systems and templates to track subawardee budgets within the larger project budget
• Provides capacity building to local and regional partner network as needed for organizational capacity, serves as a resource to core partners and local and regional partners to ensure budgetary and regulatory compliance
• Responsible for supporting quality implementation of day-to-day project activities, including financial accountability, staffing, work planning, and reporting
• Represents the project director, as necessary, to USAID, implementing partners, host country governments, project stakeholders, and counterparts in the public and private sectors.
• Liaises with USAID, consortium partners, and country stakeholders as required
• Anticipates and identifies issues and risks related to project implementation in a timely manner and enacts appropriate adjustments.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as required.

Qualifications:

• An advanced degree in business, management, finance, international development, public health, or a related field with at least ten (10) years’ experience in global public health and development, including senior-level management positions and experience managing large (>$20 million dollars) and complex (at least two health and development technical areas) portfolio, including implemented by multi-partner consortia, OR a Bachelor’s degree in business, public health, or a related field with at least fifteen (15) years’ experience in international health and development, including in senior-level management positions and experience managing large and complex projects implemented by multi-partner consortia.
• At least five (5) years’ experience managing operations for health and development programming and activities within and across LMICs. In-country experience managing operations for large and complex USAID programs in the LMICs is preferred.
• Demonstrated record of recruiting, managing, and developing personnel for large and complex USG-funded projects.
• Demonstrated record of overseeing/managing USG funding support to country-based, non-governmental organizations/civil society organizations to design and implement health and development programming.
• Demonstrated experience in providing technical assistance to management and operational capacity building in new and/or local USAID subawardees or equivalent capacity-building experience funded by the U.S. Government.
• At least five (5) years’ experience managing the reporting and compliance requirements for large health and development contracts/subcontracts or agreements/sub-agreements that serve clients in LMICs funded by the U.S. Government
• Experience interacting with U.S government agencies, including overseas offices
• Effective English oral and written communication skills is required, ability to interact professionally in one or more other languages is preferred