Deputy Chief of Party- USAID/Ukraine Furthering Health Reforms (FHR) Activity

Deputy Chief of Party- USAID/Ukraine Furthering Health Reform in Ukraine (FHR) Activity

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Project Overview & Position

The Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) is a full-time position for an upcoming award in Ukraine that seeks to furthering health systems reform in support of Ukraine’s health systems reform project started in 2016. The main purpose of this activity is to improve health outcomes and to improve health system

accountability and transparency in Ukraine, leading to improved equitable access to quality

services, optimized use of scarce resources, mitigation of corruption across the health system, and ultimately expanded universal health coverage (UHC) for the people of Ukraine with reduced financial hardship on patients. This activity will likely be achieved through improving access, quality and efficiency of health services: increasing efficiency and transparency of managing and financing of care and modernizing the obsolete service delivery system. The DCOP ensures integration and coordination on all components, under the direction of the COP, and with the Technical Advisors, s/he will coordinate with relevant Government of Ukraine stakeholders to ensure effective technical integration and collaboration across all project components related to health sector reform. This position will be based in Kiev and is contingent upon contract award to Palladium.

Reports to: Chief of Party

Duration: 5 years

Location: Kiev, Ukraine

Key Responsibilities

• Provides leadership, strategic guidance, vision, and management to technical advisors, consultants, and partner organizations.
• Provides overall technical guidance and management of all program activities necessary to achieve objectives, outputs, and products to ensure meet requirements in terms of quality, schedule, and budget.
• With the COP, oversees the design, development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of the program’s multi-year strategy and annual work plans.
• Supports the COP to ensure effective technical integration and collaboration across all project components related to health and financial sector reform to add value to the system reforms and better sustain health, financing, and economic reforms to establish high-quality service delivery.
• Supports overall planning, design and management of program and technical teams to ensure effective program implementation.
• Manage the technical components of the program, monitor, evaluate, and ensure the effectiveness of interventions and activities, and compile program reports.
• Supports project planning, contributes technical expertise to ensure Ukraine’s Furthering Health Reform project implementation and provides quality assurance of deliverables, with a focus on results and financial accountability across all project activities.
• Lead and manage staff professional development to build their capacity and strengthen competency and professional development.
• Ensures the strategic and functional integration of all technical areas as well as strong collaboration with donors, other implementing partners, and counterparts.
• Coordinates with other local USAID representatives, USG projects, as well as other development partners to ensure collaboration, integrated approach, and complementarity of the interventions to add value to the health systems reform to better sustain health reforms and high-quality service delivery.
• Provides technical support to USAID/Ukraine, other implementing partners, National Health Service of Ukraine (NHSU), MOH, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment and harmonization with other programs, where appropriate, including public/private sector partnerships.
• Leads and advises on best governance principles, including ownership, inclusiveness, transparency, accountability, integrity, and ethical standards.
• Ensure reflect high technical quality and are in line with the project’s scope of work, and approved work plan.
• Represents the project to USAID, senior policymakers, and in professional and donor forums.
• Serve as acting chief of party when the COP is unavailable.

Candidate Requirements

• Master’s Degree or higher in health, health economics, social sciences, international development, or in a related field.
• Minimum six years of experience implementing activities addressing health system reform, with a minimum of four years of experience in: public financial management, public sector reform, health reforming, health systems strengthening (HSS) and/or service delivery, and significant experience in project management under USAID funding.
• Prior experience in working with international donors in Ukraine, Central and Eastern Europe, or the former Soviet Union. Familiarity or experience with Ukraine health system is a plus.
• Demonstrated progressive managerial experience for a complex portfolio that includes activities related to health reform, public financial management, and/or public sector reform.
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills and ability to lead and motivate multidisciplinary, and multicultural teams.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with USAID, host-country governments, key stakeholders and other development partners.
• Demonstrated experience developing and communicating a project vision, aligning key stakeholders around the vision, and assuring the vision is translated into an efficiently implemented program.
• Familiarity with US Government regulations (e.g., Federal Acquisition Regulations and the Foreign Assistance Act).
• Demonstrated strong facilitation, written and oral presentation skills.
• Demonstrated problem solving, analytic, financial, and evaluative skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to effectively and efficiently perform multiple tasks and balance competing priorities often within a required timeframe.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office.
• Ability to respond and adapt quickly to changing requirements and competing demands.
• Must be willing to live and travel within Ukraine.
• Ability to take initiative and/or respond independently to situations.
• Fluent writing, reporting, and oral presentational skills in English is required, and professional comprehension of Russian or Ukrainian is preferable.

Both nationals and international candidates with regional or Ukraine-specific experience are encouraged to apply.

Palladium is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion. Should you require any reasonable adjustments to a selection process due to disability or any other cricumstance, please email our team at [email protected] and we will endeavor to make any reasonable adjustments to our process.