Role title: Chief of Party – USAID Better Health

Location: Kathmandu, Nepal

Contract type: Fixed 5-year contract, position contingent upon funding.

Salary: Competitive, commensurate with experience.

Person specification:

• Extensive experience providing technical, strategic and program management oversight to major multi-year and multi-partner complex programs in Nepal and/or South Asia as a Chief of Party or Team Leader.
• Demonstrated experience working to strengthen governance and accountability mechanisms in devolved or federated government structures as well as enhancing national local cooperation.
• Strong understanding of Nepal’s health sector including key context and trends relevant to health systems strengthening. Relevant networks at the municipality, provincial and federal levels.
• Strong external liaison and negotiation experience fostering partnerships between Government and other stakeholders, including at provincial and municipality level, and building national and sub-national capacity. Familiarity with government practice and protocol.
• Significant experience and a track record of successful leadership and management of teams based in multiple locations. Previous experience leading a team of highly skilled, multidisciplinary staff to leverage joint management support, and empowering team members to deliver high quality work.
• Experience managing teams in high-risk environments.
• Demonstrable experience of working with USAID and familiarity with USAID practice and protocol with a proven ability to represent organizations and program with USAID. Significant experience with USAID planning and reporting systems, operations, programming, and structure.
• Experience in managing budgets effectively with oversight on spending while providing regular oversight on issues related to risk and audit.
• Experience of risk management and mitigation in a program context.
• Commitment to equal opportunities.
• Commitment to the project’s and Options’ principles of Safeguarding, Do No Harm, and to creating an enabling policy environment for voluntary family planning.
• Awareness and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Fluency in written and spoken Nepali is preferred.
• University degree in a relevant subject. 

Benefits:

• Options offers a competitive benefits package.

Other information:

• Options is dedicated to equal opportunity for all and recognises that every individual is unique. Whilst we always seek to embrace individual differences and celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we also want to ensure that every team member is suited to their role and that they are given the best opportunity to succeed.
• Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment.

Source: Merojob

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