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Career Opportunities: Chief of Party (13282)
Req Id 13282 - Posted 10/09/2014 - Ethiopia - International Health
Organization Overview
The International Health Division is committed to the improvement of health and healthcare delivery around the world. Serving both the public and private sectors, our efforts include health policy research and evaluation, health promotion and disease prevention, health finance, and health systems management. Our impact is felt in policies that ensure healthcare access for women, children, and individuals with special needs, in strengthening health infrastructures, and HIV/AIDS solutions.
Abt Associates, Inc. works in partnership with private sector entities, the Federal Ministry of Health and Regional Health Bureaux in Ethiopia to increase public awareness and access for at-risk individuals to HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis prevention, diagnosis and treatment services. With funding from USAID and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), interventions to strengthen the private health sector will be expanded in geographic scope and content over the next five years. The Private Health Sector Program will expand access to affordable packages of essential, quality health services through private health care providers, and will be carried out in close collaboration with Abt’s Health Sector Financing Reform Project (also funded by USAID), as well as other US and donor-supported initiatives in the Ethiopian health sector.
Abt Associates, Inc. is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Chief of Party (CoP) for the Private Sector Health Program. Specific responsibilities include:
Minimum Qualifications
Abt Associates is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse workforce. Abt Associates provides market-competitive salaries and comprehensive employee benefits.
The International Health Division is committed to the improvement of health and healthcare delivery around the world. Serving both the public and private sectors, our efforts include health policy research and evaluation, health promotion and disease prevention, health finance, and health systems management. Our impact is felt in policies that ensure healthcare access for women, children, and individuals with special needs, in strengthening health infrastructures, and HIV/AIDS solutions.
Abt Associates, Inc. works in partnership with private sector entities, the Federal Ministry of Health and Regional Health Bureaux in Ethiopia to increase public awareness and access for at-risk individuals to HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis prevention, diagnosis and treatment services. With funding from USAID and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), interventions to strengthen the private health sector will be expanded in geographic scope and content over the next five years. The Private Health Sector Program will expand access to affordable packages of essential, quality health services through private health care providers, and will be carried out in close collaboration with Abt’s Health Sector Financing Reform Project (also funded by USAID), as well as other US and donor-supported initiatives in the Ethiopian health sector.
Abt Associates, Inc. is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Chief of Party (CoP) for the Private Sector Health Program. Specific responsibilities include:
- Provides strategic direction and technical leadership to produce project results, as well as overall management of the operational, financial, and administrative aspects of the project.
- Assures articulation of strategic vision to staff, partners, and USAID, aligning those individuals and others in support of the vision.
- Assures that the full potential of the program is realized through the promotion of high quality work and internal control.
- Translates project goals and objectives into implementable strategies and plans.
- Provides strong technical and managerial leadership across project activities.
- Identifies opportunities to create and strengthen partnerships and alliances.
- Promotes teamwork and collaboration across the project and with counterparts in public and private sectors.
- Clarifies roles, delegating responsibilities to senior staff, communication expectations for work and contribution to project activities.
- Maintains productive working relationships with key USAID clients and project counterparts, and reports to the Portfolio Manager in Abt Associates’ home office.
- Represents Abt Associates’ corporate interests in country
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of 15 years’ senior-level experience in designing and managing health and HIV programs in sub-Saharan countries of which 7 years in leadership position
- Minimum of a Master's degree in public health (with an advance degree in public health preferred)
- Demonstrated experience of USG and PEPFAR
- Demonstrated capacity to build and maintain productive working relationships with a wide network of partners and stakeholders (positively interacting with government agencies, host country governments and counterparts, and international donor agencies)
- Prior USAID project management experience is desired
- Demonstrated experience of USG and PEPFAR
- Prior USAID project management experience is desired
- Previous experience as Chief of Party or deputy chief of party in project with comparable size and complexity
- Experience and good understanding of the private health sector and private sector approaches in developing countries
- Experience in training and clinical medicine is preferred
Abt Associates is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse workforce. Abt Associates provides market-competitive salaries and comprehensive employee benefits.
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