Project Director, Karachi - Jhpiego

Overview:

The Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) is a global, USAID Cooperative Agreement to introduce and support high-impact health interventions with a focus on 24 high-priority countries with the ultimate goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths within a generation. In Pakistan MCSP will be working on Accelerating Family Planning in Pakistan (AFPP) to quickly accelerate the achievement of: 1) Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) objectives in Pakistan and 2) USAID/Pakistan’s Ending Preventable Maternal and Child Deaths (EPCMD) objectives in the area of Family Planning (FP). MCSP/AFPP is a one year project and will be working in three provinces of Pakistan- Sindh, Punjab, and Baluchistan in close collaboration with USAID/Pakistan and USAID/Pakistan implementing partners.

Jhpiego seeks a Project Director (PD) for MCSP/AFPP. The PD will provide strategic technical to the program and will be responsible for the strategic, programmatic, technical, and financial management of the program. The PD will work closely with program and the technical personnel to ensure that resources are applied appropriately (e.g. human, financial and material). Responsibilities include providing FP technical direction to the program design and implementation, work closely with other program partners, supervising program staff for service delivery and capacity building, overseeing annual work planning, field implementation and reporting of project activities. The PD will ensure the high quality of the program in general and FP service delivery in particular. She/he will provide oversight to the FP guidelines/standards/curricula development, clinical training, service delivery, supportive supervision, and monitoring and knowledge management and ensure that the service delivery targets are met in a timely manner.

 Responsibilities:

• Provide technical and programmatic leadership and oversee the strategic planning of activities in support of the program goals and objectives, including the determination of program priorities and appropriate technical initiatives.


• Coordinate the work of all team members, including other partner organizations in the consortium, with their designated counterparts within donor, the government, as well as private sector partners and other key stakeholders in Karachi, Pakistan to ensure effective technical assistance and the smooth implementation of activities.


• Advise local counterparts on technical issues and participate in relevant advisory and/or working groups with counterparts and partner institutions


• Provide leadership in the design of interventions, ensuring that interventions are technically sound, evidence-based, include high impact practices and are sustainable


• Represent Jhpiego and the program in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations


• Coordinate and monitor all human, financial and material resources of program to ensure successful implementation


• Lead the work planning process in close collaboration with donor, government, program team and program partners.


• Guide the analysis, synthesis and reporting of program outputs and results with M&E team.


• Mentor, support, supervise and manage FP program team and align their efforts in concert with program goals to ensure rapid and sustainable results.


• Oversee the development of training curricula and quality improvement systems in family planning


• Write and/or review technical components of materials and publications related to program and its development


• Ensure resources for program implementation are available


• Work with finance and project staff to develop and track project budgets


• Work closely with Jhpiego home office staff to ensure effective, timely and coordinated project implementation


• Ensure program and technical compliance with donor

Required Qualifications & Experiences:

• Medical, nursing or midwifery degree with at least 10 years of experience in managing or working in family planning programs


• Advance degree/course in public health, health administration, or other relevant management field


• Demonstrated strong technical and programmatic knowledge and experience in family planning. Additional knowledge and experience of working in maternal health programs are preferred.


• Minimum 5 years previous experience working in Pakistan, with good understanding of local health system and family planning gaps and opportunities, and solid relationships at government agencies


• Significant networking and partnership building skills, including ability to access with leaders in health and development fields


• Demonstrated ability to translate research to practice—identifying best practices and adapting them to project realities


• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform


• Proficiency in word processing, and Microsoft Office.


• Fluent in written and spoken English


• Excellent facilitation, oral and written communications skills


• Ability to travel nationally 30% of the time


• Pakistani nationals strongly encouraged to apply


• Contract duration will be of 1 year

Note: Only shortlisted candidate will be considered for an interview. The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.