At Chemonics, we believe our mission of helping people live healthier, more productive, and more independent lives is driven by our commitment to service—service to our mission, to our beneficiaries, to our clients, and to our staff. From our founding in 1975, we have worked in more than 150 countries to
Health Finance Director
Responsibilities include:
- Oversee the integration of a results-focused approach to improving service delivery and governance and financing in the DRC health sector, creating an evidence base for any knowledge gaps related to health finance
- Implement technical activities to increase transparency and oversight in health service financing and administration at the provincial, health zone, facility, and community levels
- Improve availability of innovative financing approaches
- Provide technical inputs to the chief of party and deputy chief of party to support health finance decision-making and programming
- Oversee the coordination with operations team and field offices to procure resources needed to accomplish health finance objectives, including short-term technical assistance and specialized organizations
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in a relevant field required
- Minimum of ten years of experience in health financing or results-based programming required
- Minimum six years of experience in management or a leadership position required
- Demonstrated experience supervising complex and challenging field operations and developing programs in fragile, transitional, or developing countries
- Strong interpersonal and oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
- Fluency in English and French required
Director of Finance and Administration
Responsibilities include:
- Oversee finance and administration, including operational decision-making
- Ensure support teams including administration, finance, and logistics function efficiently to support project implementation
- Participate in management meetings and maintain positive relationships with DRC government officials, partners, and implementing partners
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in business, finance, accounting, or a related field required; or bachelor’s degree and 15 years of experience
- Minimum 10 years of experience, including at least eight years of overseas, in financial management of large, complex, donor projects; demonstrated experience with funds control, monitoring of fraud and abuse, and success in managing subcontracts and subgrants with international consortiums including local organizations and NGOs
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
- Experience in the Africa, particularly West and Central Africa and DRC or other fragile and conflict-affected country preferred but not required
- Foreign Service Institute Level IV proficiency in French and Level III proficiency in English
Operations Manager
Responsibilities include:
- Oversee logistical and operational activities, human resources, and procurement
- Manage finances and subcontracts
- Collaborate with the technical leads to monitor project activities
- Support the development of annual work plans, budgets, and performance plans
- Collaborate with the technical leads to ensure timely and quality technical and financial deliverables and reports
- Train and supervise the finance, grant management, and procurement teams
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field
- Minimum five years of relevant experience in administrative and financial management of large, complex projects, including two years in international development
- Understanding of USAID policies and procedures regarding financial management and reporting, procurement and tracking systems, subcontract oversight, and grants management required
- Demonstrated experience supervising complex and challenging field operations and developing programs in fragile, transitional, or developing countries
- Strong interpersonal and oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
- Fluency in English and French required
Technical Directors
Responsibilities include:
- Provide technical leadership, management, and implementation of the project in the health zones covered by the designated office
- Coordinate with provincial Congolese government stakeholders, relevant counterparts, and implementing partners to coordinate activities and facilitate monitoring and reporting
- Identify issues and risks related to project implementation in a timely manner, and suggest appropriate project adjustments
- Liaise between the project office and the administrative office in Kinshasa and provide reports to the chief of party and USAID contracting officer representative
- Ensure the project meets stated goals, outcomes, benchmarks, and reporting requirements
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in a relevant field required
- Minimum 10 years of experience implementing health programs required
- Minimum six years of experience in management or a leadership position required
- Experience in crisis or conflict-affected environments required; demonstrated ability to work across cultures and in complex environments
- Experience in project implementation, strategic planning, and implementation required
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
- Fluency in English and French required
Regional Finance Directors
Responsibilities include:
- Oversee project finance and operations activities in project offices
- Direct financial analysis and management of their respective regional office
- Provide guidance to financial staff using budget monitoring and analytical tools and systems to ensure accuracy, maximize efficiency, and enhance performance
- Support the technical director and serve as the regional office’s first point of contact to the director of finance and administration
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree or higher in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field
- Minimum ten years of relevant experience in administrative and financial management of large, complex projects, including at least eight in international development
- Experience managing USAID or other donor development programs preferred; familiarity with Federal Acquisition Regulations
- Demonstrated ability in developing and managing large budgets
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
- Fluency in English and French required
Monitoring and Evaluation Director
Responsibilities include:
- Collect, analyze, and process monitoring and evaluation data, assisting in monitoring and reporting against project performance indicators and results
- Develop methods and milestones to monitor the project’s progress
- Contribute to program strategy to ensure that activities and assignments are carried out as planned and the program objectives are being achieved
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field required
- Minimum six years of experience in program monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
- Demonstrable skills and experience in development of M&E tools, data analysis, data use, and assessments
- Experience working with USAID M&E systems highly preferred
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with demonstrated ability to write technical reports required
- Experience working on a health project preferred
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
- Fluency in English and French required
Compliance and Risk Manager Director
Responsibilities include:
- Establish procedures and tools that ensure compliance; review project financial, procurement, and personnel documents to ensure compliance; and oversee financial and procurement transactions
- Provide oversight of financial, procurement, administrative, budget, and personnel management, and work closely with the home-office project management unit in the overall financial management of the contract in accordance to USAID policies and regulations
- Establish standards and procedures to ensure that the compliance programs throughout the project are effective and efficient in preventing, detecting, identifying, and correcting noncompliance
- Ensure compliance with Chemonics’ organizational policies, procedures, and internal controls
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in finance, administration, or a related field; or equivalent experience
- Minimum seven years of experience conducting auditing, procurement, finance, management, or legal activities, especially for USAID projects
- Demonstrated knowledge of U.S. government and USAID regulations, policies, and compliance requirements related to international assistance programs
- Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire a multidisciplinary team, under difficult and challenging circumstances to achieve targeted results
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
- Fluency in English and French required
Private Sector Liaison
Responsibilities include:
- Participate and engaging n management meetings and maintain positive relationships with DRC government officials, partners, and implementing partners
- Identify and implement activities to reduce the level of donor financing, by increasing host-country ownership through such mechanisms as host-government financing or private sector engagement
- Build on existing communication channels and technologies and build partnerships with other USAID and other donor projects and the private sector to enhance the effectiveness of behavior change and development communications knowledge and information sharing
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field required
- Minimum six years of experience identifying opportunities for private sector engagement or engaging the private sector on donor projects
- Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire a multidisciplinary team, under difficult and challenging circumstances to achieve targeted results
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
- Fluency in English and French required
Method of Application
Please send electronic submissions of your CV and cover letter to [email protected] by February 28, 2017. Please include “Private Sector Liaison” in the subject line. No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted.
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