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Chief of Party

Position Summary: Pact seeks a Chief of Party (COP) for an anticipated USAID Health program in Ukraine. Recruitment is contingent upon successful award of the project. S/he will be responsible for: meeting the project's objectives; interfacing directly with USAID; managing national staff; and developing and maintaining good working relationships with host government officials, local and international partners, local community groups, and other stakeholders. Joining an existing Pact country office, the Chief of Party will be responsible for implementing a large Health program in Ukraine.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
• Rapid roll-out and supervision of field office activities. This includes hiring and management of field staff, subcontractors and consultants, detailed workplanning, technical training and mentoring of staff as required, and other standard implementation activities;
• Oversight of financial management and procurement;
• Planning, quality assurance and supervision of program monitoring, evaluating, and reporting;
• Oversight of design and implementation of capacity-building activities with partners, beneficiary groups and other stakeholders;
• Technical leadership and oversight of program activities
• Oversight of delivery, management, and monitoring of subgrants;
• Serving as Pact liaison to USAID and partners in the field;
• Coordination with appropriate stakeholders in all aspects of project planning, monitoring, and implementation;
• Performing other duties as assigned;
• Performing all work safely and maintaining a safe working environment.

Qualifications:
• Demonstrated experience in project implementation and management;
• Experience managing staff and ability to coach and mentor team members;
• Working knowledge of donor regulations, including USAID rules and regulations;
• Experience managing a consortium of international NGOs
• Experience working on HIV/AIDS prevention programs and institutional strengthening in Ukraine or similar environment;
• Experience in strengthening government health systems and collaborating with host-country government health strategies
• Proven experience in increasing donor commitments to a portfolio including leadership in design and marketing of future programs
• Subgrant management experience preferred;
• Experience with monitoring and evaluation best practices preferred;
• Fluent English language skills, both written and spoken.
• Fluent Ukrainian and/or Russian

Education and Experience Requirements:
• Advanced degree required in Health or relevant focus area
• 5-10 years (of which 3 are in a leadership position) progressive experience in activities related to HIV/AIDS services;
• 5-10 years (of which 3 are in a leadership position) progressive experience in international development project management;
• Minimum 3 years experience working in a developing country;
• Prior Chief of Party experience an asset.

Disclaimer: This job description summarizes the responsibilities assigned to the position; however it does not contain an all-inclusive list of responsibilities. Periodically, employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor.

Please go to http://www.pactworld.org and complete an online application.