Website FHI 360
JOB OPPORTUNITY
Locations: Kathmandu, Nepal
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: Requisition – 2023200015
Deputy Chief of Party
The Deputy Chief of Party (DCoP) is responsible for overall technical and management oversight of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-supported Momentum Private Healthcare Delivery (MPHD) Nepal project with the guidance and support from the Chief of Party (CoP). S/he will oversee all aspects of project implementation, including program quality, personnel, including financial management.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and management oversight to the project.
- Support to the CoP to oversee all aspects of project implementation, including program quality, personnel, and financial management.
- Provide oversight and technical direction to design, plan, deliver, monitor, document, and disseminate results to achieve the project goals.
- Ensure timely and adequate implementation of project activities, deliverables execution, monitoring and reporting of the project. Support in sub-award modification of implementing partner and ensure compliance monitoring and safeguard of project assets including data safety and security in line with the FHI 360 guideline.
- Manage a team of program and technical staff and work closely with the private and public sector actors including regular collaboration with the Family Welfare Division (FWD) for implementation of the project.
- Lead technical and organizational capacity strengthening of implementing partner and ensure high quality implementation of the project interventions.
- Explore innovative approaches including digital solutions reaching the unreached adolescent population with family planning (FP)/reproductive health (RH) information and services.
- Provide guidance to the implementing partner regularly to strengthen technical and managerial capacity appropriate to the local context.
- Regularly monitor and support subordinates and project staff to ensure technical and managerial capacity building of the private sector service providers and facility owners to deliver quality, and client-centered services to adolescents and young people.
- Maintain close coordination with the government stakeholders, donors, external development partners, and other key local stakeholders, which include other FP partners including the private sector actors and donor.
- Review global and regional developments regularly particularly in public private partnership on FP/RH including good practices and lessons learned and provide regular technical updates to the project staff, government counterparts, and collaborating partners.
- Proven ability to work efficiently and effectively in virtual/digital environment and in different time zones across the globe.
- Represent FHI 360 Nepal in the external meetings among the stakeholders and partners.
- Perform other related duties as assigned by the CoP and Country Director
Requirements:
- Master’s degree in public health or social sciences or other relevant subject or its international equivalent, with five to seven years of experience of managing health projects especially managing FP/RH program engaging private sector health facilities and pharmacies is highly desirable.
- Three to five years’ experience in the managerial position such as Deputy Project Director/Deputy Chief of Party or equivalent with experience in programmatic and financial management, compliance and quality assurance of donor-funded program and working with non-governmental organization (NGO), experience in handing USAID projects will be preferrable.
- Experience in the national FP/RH program including health financing, system strengthening, private sectors engagement and public private partnership.
- Capable to manage diverse team and able to maintain the team spirit and creating positive work environment.
- Experience in working effectively across various teams within the project and organization, and building and sustaining positive working relationships with NGOs, private sectors, government and other stakeholders.
- Proactive in managing multiple tasks, managing and working in virtual work environment, and flexible and open for managing time for working with different teams in different time zones as needed
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, communication, team building and management, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent oral and written English and Nepali including documentation skills.
Final deadline for application is 5:00 p.m. January 18, 2023.
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