Abt Associates Inc. is seeking a qualified professional to fill the position of Chief of Party (COP) on the USAID-funded Malawi Health Policy and Systems Strengthening (HPSS) project, based in Lilongwe. HPSS is a 5-year project designed to provide technical support to Malawi’s Ministry of Health to help improve policies, management and leadership, and fiscal responsibility, in a collaborative effort to strengthen Malawi’s health care system. The COP will provide strategic leadership, management and direction for the HPSS project and will work closely with other USAID funded projects, the Government of Malawi and other development partners to achieve the project's objectives. The COP reports directly to the Bethesda-based Portfolio Manager for HPSS.
Specific Responsibilities:
Provide leadership and technical and managerial oversight for the HPSS project and ensure timely implementation and reporting of activities.
Ensure the achievement of results and accountability and ensure that quality of services is maintained at the highest standard, and that all project objectives are met. Provide technical leadership for project strategy and activities focused on policy analysis and development. Provide financial and technical reports to USAID in timely manner, and represent the interests of HPSS and Abt Associates to the technical and contractual clients in USAID. Build and directly manage relationship with USAID/Malawi clients. With members of the project Senior Management Team, adapt and implement management systems with standard operating procedures to administer all activities funded by the agreement, ensuring sufficient financial staff for disbursing all local costs under this project, monitoring and tracking expenditures, and preparing financial reports of project expenditures for submission to USAID. Ensure collaboration with the Ministry of Health, partners, other stakeholders and government representatives. Supervise direct reports with particular focus on their key tasks and project deliverables. Communicate, implement, and assure adherence to project policies, guidelines and values; develop staff skills and knowledge; and facilitate supervisee success and professional development whenever possible. Supervise and manage technical and program inputs of project subcontractors, ensuring adherence to approved scopes of work and budgets.
Qualifications:
Minimum of a Master’s degree in a relevant discipline. Significant (10 years+), senior-level experience designing, implementing, and managing complex health programs with an emphasis on policy and health systems strengthening and leadership and management programs in developing countries. Demonstrated technical depth in at least one of the following areas is preferred but not required: health policy and advocacy or health financing/performance-based financing. Possess outstanding professional reputation and have strong demonstrated interpersonal, written, and oral presentation skills (English required). Demonstrated success managing complex consortia or multi-donor programs is highly desired. Experience building and maintaining partnerships with other projects, local organizations, host country governments, and international agencies.
Abt Associates is seeking candidates for multiple positions. To be considered for any position, an applicant must submit his/her CV and an application letter that provides details of the applicant’s specific qualifications for the desired position to:
In the subject line of the email, write the title of the position for which you are applying. If you wish to apply for more than one position, please submit separate applications for each position. Applications that do not follow these instructions, or that do not meet the stated minimum qualification requirements, will not be considered.
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