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Pathfinder Overview
Pathfinder International is driven by the conviction that all people, regardless of where they live, have the right to decide whether and when to have children, to exist free from fear and stigma, and to lead the lives they choose. Since 1957, we have partnered with local governments, communities, and health systems in developing countries to remove barriers to critical sexual and reproductive health services. Together, we expand access to contraception, promote healthy pregnancies, save women’s lives, and stop the spread of new HIV infections, wherever the need is most urgent. Our work ensures millions of women, men, and young people are able to choose their own paths forward.

Chief of Party, Health Services Delivery Activity

Burkina Faso Main

Program Description:
Health Services Delivery (HSD) Activity – Burkina Faso will contribute directly to the overarching goals of RISE II by improving access to quality health services and strengthening ownership and management of health services by communities, in partnership with citizens, local government, and service providers. HSD seeks to build off of the successes of RISE I and incorporate key lessons learned to achieve greater impacts on health, family planning and nutrition outcomes and enhance the sustainability of institutions and interventions both at national and peripheral levels.

Chief of Party:
The Chief of Party (COP) is expected to bring forth the strategic vision and leadership to ensure successful implementation. The COP will have overall responsibility for management, operations and coordination of all HSD-Burkina activities. S/he should have effective leadership and strategic planning skills, excellent management experience, outstanding interpersonal skills, expertise in public health management in Africa, and strong written and oral communication skills to fulfill the diverse technical and managerial requirements of HSD-Burkina Faso’s program description. S/he will have principal representational responsibility to USAID and others. S/he will also have experience interacting with local governments, international organizations, other development projects and Chiefs of Party, and other key stakeholders.

This position is based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and is contingent on funding; this position is subject to USAID approvals.

Minimal Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
* A Master’s degree or higher in Public Health, Business Administration, International development, or similar field from an accredited university/college is require
* 15 years of demonstrated experience in implementing, leading, and managing development programs is require Substantial experience in senior leadership position in Francophone West Africa is strongly preferred.
* Prior experience as a COP, Deputy COP or equivalent of a complex project is require
* Familiarity with USAID rules and regulations is strongly preferred.
* Supervisory experience over multicultural teams of similar scope and size is require
* Deep knowledge of family planning (FP) and reproductive health principles, nutrition, and MCH clinical practices and services of programs, including quality improvement, program strategies and indicators.
* Experience working in insecure or conflict-prone environments, work relief, security management, threat assessment, and in risk communication, is preferred.
* Additional training in management, leadership, strategic planning, food security, risk and security management, is strongly preferre
* Demonstrated team player with visionary leadership and decision-making authority.
* Demonstrated leadership skills in working collaboratively with other donors, host country institutions, and international organizations.
* Experience in developing program work-plans, budgets, managing implementation, staff and short-term technical assistance.
* Demonstrated ability to lead a project team and achieve results.
* Excellent representational and communication skills, written and oral proficiency in English and French.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership
* Provides strategic direction of all project activities. Develops and updates the project strategic plan, ensuring that programmatic directions are technically sound, evidence-based, and consistent with USAID priorities.
* Ensures the project achieves the greatest possible impact including providing the necessary leadership to inspire and motivate the project team to implement performance objectives and mandates in a timely and cost-efficient fashion and meet the highest quality standards and value for money.
* Ensures project compliance with USAID rules/regulations and Pathfinder SOPs, including technical guidelines pertaining to FP compliance
* Together with other members of the country leadership team, leverage non-USAID funds to support expanded program activities.
* Supervises and lead the senior management team (SMT) composed of other key personnel positions and representative from the sub-recipients
* Supervise/mentor/coach senior project staff members to reach their full leadership potential and create a culture of learning and knowledge sharing.
* Coordinate the sub-recipients, overseeing their implementation, and ensuring their capacity is built.

Program Management
* Develops a framework for learning and create an organizational culture of learning and knowledge sharing.
* Oversees development of project knowledge products and communications that showcase the project’s impact and promote them broadly.
* In collaboration with the MEL Advisor provide leadership and direction to ensure robust monitoring and evaluation strategies, frameworks, plans, systems and indicators to capture and monitor/evaluate project resources, performance and results.
* Oversees the management and the planning of the security, ensuring that appropriate security guidelines and procedures are established, maintained, updated regularly, and adhered to by staff. Monitor the security situation and provide leadership for staff in emergencies.

Organizational Representation and Collaboration
* Serves as the senior representative for the Project to USAID, host country government agencies, development partners, and civil society organizations. Cultivates and strengthens positive, productive relationships and ensures that Pathfinder is consistently viewed as an effective implementing partner achieving project targets
* Collaborates closely with senior Project staff, and with implementing agencies and their respective long-term advisors, to design and operationalize an annual project planning cycle, which formulates comprehensive, integrated annual project workplans and budgets.
* In collaboration with the Finance Director, establish and maintain the ongoing financial and grants operations, including monthly pipeline reviews to ensure accountability of all project activities as well as the accurate and timely reporting of finance deliverables.
* In coordination with the Pathfinder Contracts Officer, contract with and manage local individuals/organizations for identified tasks Including managing and directing activities of subcontractors and partners to create synergy and ensure project activities are carried out in accordance with donor and Pathfinder rules/regulations.
* Partner successfully with Pathfinder’s Program Director and Headquarters financial, technical, and operations officers by providing accurate and timely reporting, updates on the project progress, monitor quality of project implementation, and coordinate provision of relevant technical assistance based on project needs.

Pathfinder International is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status. Pathfinder International does not charge candidates Recruitment or Application fees for any position, to which they may apply globally.

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Pathfinder is driven by the conviction that all people, regardless of where they live, have the right to decide whether and when to have children, to exist free from fear and stigma, and to lead the lives they choose.

Since 1957, we have partnered with local governments, communities, and health systems to remove barriers to critical sexual and reproductive health services. Together, we expand access to contraception, promote healthy pregnancies, save women’s lives, and stop the spread of new HIV infections, wherever the need is most urgent.

Our work ensures millions of women, men, and young people are able to choose their own paths forward. Change lives with us.

OUR VISION

Pathfinder envisions a world where everyone has access to contraception, where there are zero new HIV infections, where no woman dies from preventable pregnancy-related complications, and where everyone leads a healthy sexual and reproductive life.

OUR MISSION

We champion sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide, mobilizing communities most in need to break through barriers and forge their own path to a healthier future.

OUR VALUES

Respect: Everything we do is built on a foundation of understanding and respect for the values, beliefs, knowledge, and capabilities of our staff, our local partners, and the people we serve.

Courage: We go where others often won’t—among the most marginalized populations, in the most challenging environments, and in the hardest-to-reach regions—and do what others often don’t—confronting obstacles head-on and challenging the status quo—to achieve our mission.

Collaboration: We embrace diverse perspectives and disciplines, joining with partners at the local, national and global levels towards a common vision and the realization of transformational change.

Innovation: Our staff and partners seek out the most effective solutions, piloting new approaches and adapting current practices to respond to the ever-evolving nature of our work and the communities we serve.

Integrity: We earn the trust of donors, partners, governments, and the people we serve by rigorously measuring performance, sharing our results, and holding ourselves accountable.

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0 USD Ouagadougou CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Pathfinder International

Pathfinder Overview Pathfinder International is driven by the conviction that all people, regardless of where they live, have the right to decide whether and when to have children, to exist free from fear and stigma, and to lead the lives they choose. Since 1957, we have partnered with local governments, communities, and health systems in developing countries to remove barriers to critical sexual and reproductive health services. Together, we expand access to contraception, promote healthy pregnancies, save women’s lives, and stop the spread of new HIV infections, wherever the need is most urgent. Our work ensures millions of women, men, and young people are able to choose their own paths forward.

Chief of Party, Health Services Delivery Activity

Burkina Faso Main

Program Description: Health Services Delivery (HSD) Activity - Burkina Faso will contribute directly to the overarching goals of RISE II by improving access to quality health services and strengthening ownership and management of health services by communities, in partnership with citizens, local government, and service providers. HSD seeks to build off of the successes of RISE I and incorporate key lessons learned to achieve greater impacts on health, family planning and nutrition outcomes and enhance the sustainability of institutions and interventions both at national and peripheral levels.

Chief of Party: The Chief of Party (COP) is expected to bring forth the strategic vision and leadership to ensure successful implementation. The COP will have overall responsibility for management, operations and coordination of all HSD-Burkina activities. S/he should have effective leadership and strategic planning skills, excellent management experience, outstanding interpersonal skills, expertise in public health management in Africa, and strong written and oral communication skills to fulfill the diverse technical and managerial requirements of HSD-Burkina Faso’s program description. S/he will have principal representational responsibility to USAID and others. S/he will also have experience interacting with local governments, international organizations, other development projects and Chiefs of Party, and other key stakeholders.

This position is based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and is contingent on funding; this position is subject to USAID approvals.

Minimal Requirements

Minimum Qualifications: * A Master’s degree or higher in Public Health, Business Administration, International development, or similar field from an accredited university/college is require * 15 years of demonstrated experience in implementing, leading, and managing development programs is require Substantial experience in senior leadership position in Francophone West Africa is strongly preferred. * Prior experience as a COP, Deputy COP or equivalent of a complex project is require * Familiarity with USAID rules and regulations is strongly preferred. * Supervisory experience over multicultural teams of similar scope and size is require * Deep knowledge of family planning (FP) and reproductive health principles, nutrition, and MCH clinical practices and services of programs, including quality improvement, program strategies and indicators. * Experience working in insecure or conflict-prone environments, work relief, security management, threat assessment, and in risk communication, is preferred. * Additional training in management, leadership, strategic planning, food security, risk and security management, is strongly preferre * Demonstrated team player with visionary leadership and decision-making authority. * Demonstrated leadership skills in working collaboratively with other donors, host country institutions, and international organizations. * Experience in developing program work-plans, budgets, managing implementation, staff and short-term technical assistance. * Demonstrated ability to lead a project team and achieve results. * Excellent representational and communication skills, written and oral proficiency in English and French.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership * Provides strategic direction of all project activities. Develops and updates the project strategic plan, ensuring that programmatic directions are technically sound, evidence-based, and consistent with USAID priorities. * Ensures the project achieves the greatest possible impact including providing the necessary leadership to inspire and motivate the project team to implement performance objectives and mandates in a timely and cost-efficient fashion and meet the highest quality standards and value for money. * Ensures project compliance with USAID rules/regulations and Pathfinder SOPs, including technical guidelines pertaining to FP compliance * Together with other members of the country leadership team, leverage non-USAID funds to support expanded program activities. * Supervises and lead the senior management team (SMT) composed of other key personnel positions and representative from the sub-recipients * Supervise/mentor/coach senior project staff members to reach their full leadership potential and create a culture of learning and knowledge sharing. * Coordinate the sub-recipients, overseeing their implementation, and ensuring their capacity is built.

Program Management * Develops a framework for learning and create an organizational culture of learning and knowledge sharing. * Oversees development of project knowledge products and communications that showcase the project’s impact and promote them broadly. * In collaboration with the MEL Advisor provide leadership and direction to ensure robust monitoring and evaluation strategies, frameworks, plans, systems and indicators to capture and monitor/evaluate project resources, performance and results. * Oversees the management and the planning of the security, ensuring that appropriate security guidelines and procedures are established, maintained, updated regularly, and adhered to by staff. Monitor the security situation and provide leadership for staff in emergencies.

Organizational Representation and Collaboration * Serves as the senior representative for the Project to USAID, host country government agencies, development partners, and civil society organizations. Cultivates and strengthens positive, productive relationships and ensures that Pathfinder is consistently viewed as an effective implementing partner achieving project targets * Collaborates closely with senior Project staff, and with implementing agencies and their respective long-term advisors, to design and operationalize an annual project planning cycle, which formulates comprehensive, integrated annual project workplans and budgets. * In collaboration with the Finance Director, establish and maintain the ongoing financial and grants operations, including monthly pipeline reviews to ensure accountability of all project activities as well as the accurate and timely reporting of finance deliverables. * In coordination with the Pathfinder Contracts Officer, contract with and manage local individuals/organizations for identified tasks Including managing and directing activities of subcontractors and partners to create synergy and ensure project activities are carried out in accordance with donor and Pathfinder rules/regulations. * Partner successfully with Pathfinder’s Program Director and Headquarters financial, technical, and operations officers by providing accurate and timely reporting, updates on the project progress, monitor quality of project implementation, and coordinate provision of relevant technical assistance based on project needs.

Pathfinder International is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status. Pathfinder International does not charge candidates Recruitment or Application fees for any position, to which they may apply globally.

2019-11-04

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