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Chief of Party, USAID/Egypt OSRA

About Palladium:
Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 3,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

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This Opportunity:
Palladium is seeking a Chief of Party (COP) for an anticipated USAID-funded family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) project, which is anticipated to begin in 2022. The USAID/Egypt Osra (Family) Activity will support and contribute to the Government of Egypt’s (GOE) National Population Strategy (NPS) 2015–2030 and the three-year National Program to Plan Population Growth (2021-2023). The potential program will strengthen high impact practices in family planning and incorporate innovative, promising approaches to improve family health outcomes.

The Osra COP will provide overall strategic leadership, technical leadership, and oversight to the program. S/he must have depth and breadth of technical expertise and management experience in implementing comprehensive family planning and reproductive health projects in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The COP must have expertise and experience in one or more of four technical areas – improving access to FP/RH services, improving the quality of FP/RH services, increasing demand for FP/RH services, or strengthening health systems. S/he must have the requisite management expertise, interpersonal skills, and established professional relationships to successfully oversee the implementation of the project. In addition, s/he must have the capacity to successfully interact with agencies in-country, including central and local government, development partners, civil society, and community-based organizations.

You and Your Career:
If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have expertise in FP/RH services, strengthening health systems we are interested in hearing from you. We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start. We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Assume overall responsibility for project management and implementation of project activities.
Provide overall leadership to the four project areas—improving access to FP/RH services, improving the quality of FP/RH services, increasing demand for FP/RH services, and strengthening health systems.
Manage project partners and project staff, ensuring that they are fully engaged and participating in the project.
Serve as the main interface between the project, GOE ministries, United States government (USG) entities, Palladium senior management, and other relevant stakeholders.
Oversee the project budget and finances, including budget projections, project spending, and financial performance reporting.
Manage communications and collaboration with other programs in Egypt.
Represent the project at relevant professional meetings, working groups, and seminars.
Prepare, contribute to, and provide oversight of analyses, recommendations, briefing notes, white papers, assessments, workplans, and reporting materials for internal and client use. Ensure timely and high-quality submission of deliverables.
Key Competencies Required:
Experience implementing large-scale family planning and reproductive health projects
Experience working in Egypt and/or the broader Middle East North Africa (MENA) region
Experience and facility with developing strategic plans, workplans, and/or activity plans for large service delivery programs in the MENA region
Extensive, progressively increasing work responsibilities in public health, with significant experience in a senior leadership position on a project that is implemented on a similar scale and in a similar context as Egypt
Strong supervisory experience
Strong, demonstrated oral and written communication skills in English and Arabic (MSA and Egyptian dialect), with a high comfort level with writing and presenting data and information in a compelling way to a variety of audiences, and the ability to communicate effectively across technical disciplines and with non-technical audiences. Strong communication skills are key, as the COP will hold ultimate responsibility for the quality and timeliness of project reporting and communication efforts.
Strong, demonstrated analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
Experience interacting with agencies in a host country, including central and local government, development partners, civil society, the private sector, and community-based organizations
Experience with oversight of local capacity development efforts
Experience working with local partners to ensure adherence to all sub-award requirements
Experience working on USAID-funded projects and knowledge of USG regulations
Experience working in both the public and private sector (preferred)

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