Chief of Party

Overview:
The Chief of Party (COP) will provide vision, leadership and direction to ensure the strategic, programmatic, technical, and financial integrity for an upcoming USAID project in India. The project will focus on ensuring India’s health system is prepared to prevent and respond to future challenges it faces such as climate change, emerging infectious disease outbreaks, and epidemiologic transition through comprehensive integrated primary healthcare, strengthening the continuum of care offered from the primary to secondary and tertiary facilities, expanded disease surveillance, maximizing the efficiency of public health financing, and increasing private sector engagement to improve health outcomes while reducing out of pocket expenditures. It will operate over a five-year period.

The COP will have the overall responsibility for leadership and management of and reporting on the project activities, making key decisions and solving problems in short timeframes while ensuring operational and program quality and integrity and serving as the first point of interface with USAID on routine and strategic matters.

This position is contingent upon award from USAID. **_Qualified Indian nationals strongly encouraged to apply._**

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide leadership and strategic direction to ensure programmatic and financial integrity of the integrated health project and to achieve rapid and sustained project goals, objectives and targets
- Ensure compliance with the project results and oversight of project activities to achieve the stated objectives
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships and alliances with Government of India, USAID, local organizations and actors, other USG implementing partners, private sector partners and other key stakeholders in India to maximize resources and avoid duplication of effort
- Represent Jhpiego’s interests and present progress, achievements and lessons learned to key stakeholders including Government of India, USAID and implementing partners in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations
- Provide technical leadership in the design, analysis, and synthesis of interventions
- Ensure the quality and sustainability of interventions through different service delivery channels particularly in the areas of infectious diseases and primary health care, health financing, primary healthcare, health systems strengthening
- Participate in relevant technical advisory groups with counterparts and partner institutions
- Lead the annual work planning process in close collaboration with USAID, the project team, and project partners and in consultation with stakeholders and beneficiaries
- Oversee preparation and ensure high quality of project reports to USAID
- Mentor, support, supervise, and manage a team of highly qualified staff and align their efforts to ensure rapid and sustainable results
- Develop and maintain a positive and respectful team culture
- Provide guidance, in collaboration with key staff, to subcontractors and subgrantees and coordinate activities with other agencies
- Write and/or review technical components of materials and publications related to integrated health and its development
- Ensure resources for project implementation are available
- Work with finance and project staff to develop and track project budgets and ensure project is implemented within budget
- Work with Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) staff to develop M&E frameworks and effectively track data and results and establish a culture of data for decision making
- Work closely with Jhpiego home office staff to ensure effective, timely and coordinated project implementation
- Ensure compliance with USAID operational policies and regulations

Required Qualifications:

- Advanced degree in public health, health administration, international health, or a related field
- At least 10 years of experience managing international health projects, including substantial experience managing large, multi-year international health sector development projects (approximately $5M per year) that have implemented successful activities in areas such as infectious diseases, health financing, primary healthcare, health systems strengthening
- Demonstrated experience managing consortiums and building capacity of local organizations
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge in establishing systems and overseeing project start-up
- Deep understanding of the Indian health sector
- Experience hiring and supervising personnel and ensuring they acquire the necessary training and skills to meet evolving program needs
- Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and sustain interpersonal and professional relationships with USAID missions, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, the private sector and other donors
- In-depth knowledge of USAID projects, regulations, compliance, and reporting
- Demonstrated outstand