Chief of Party USAID Employment Placement - Population Services International (PSI)

Organization: Population Services International (PSI)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Population

Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing

organization, with a mission to measurably improve the health of poor and

vulnerable people in the developing world by influencing their behavior, principally

through social marketing of family planning and health products and services,

and health communications. PSI has programs in more than 60 countries and works

in malaria, HIV, reproductive health, child survival, and tuberculosis. PSI’s

core values are a belief in markets and market mechanisms to contribute to

sustained improvements in the lives of the poor; results and a strong focus on

measurement; speed and efficiency with a predisposition to action and an

aversion to bureaucracy; decentralization and empowering our staff at the local

level; and a long term commitment to the people we serve.

PSI

hopes to win the mandate to implement an anticipated 5-year USAID-funded Uganda

Sanitation Program. The project will focus on sustainable improvement to the

quality, access and supply of water and sanitation services and improve hygiene

behaviors in Uganda.

Job Summary: The Chief of Party will manage the in-country

management and implementation components of the program aimed at sustainable

improvement to the quality, access, and supply of water and sanitation services

and improvement of hygiene behaviors in Uganda.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• The applicant will serve as the overall
  
  technical lead and institutional liaison for the contract and provide the
  
  main administrative oversight


• Provide technical expertise in developing and
  
  executing sustainable business models for sanitation service delivery,
  
  including research on existing markets and barriers to growth


• Act as the main point of
  
  contact/representative of the project to USAID/Uganda and AOR


• Ensure the effective use and coordination of
  
  USAID resources and the compliance of the financial systems and controls
  
  with USAID standards


• Lead internal and external program planning and
  
  reporting including annual work planning with sub-award partners


• Ensure that cross-cutting themes such as
  
  gender and youth are fully integrated into programming


• Work closely with in-country staff and
  
  regional WASH teams to ensure clear, strategic direction in technical
  
  areas


• Facilitate senior level policy and dialogue
  
  with the Ministries of Health, Urban Planning, Ministry of Water and
  
  Environment, Ministry of Education, donors and partners


• Actively contribute to supporting the design
  
  and diffusion of innovative business models and commercialization of
  
  technologies for sanitation service delivery in Uganda, including
  
  providing effective guidance and support to technical members of the
  
  in-country management teams and staff assigned to the project


• Develop and manage a team that includes
  
  members of diverse backgrounds, including finance, marketing, engineering
  
  and product design in order to successfully co-create and support
  
  sustainable models for sanitation service delivery


• Develop business plan outlining financial
  
  sustainability of the initiative


• Ensure sound financial management including
  
  programmatic budgeting, spending projections and monitoring of payments


• Ensure high-quality periodic reporting in
  
  line with USAID and PSI requirements

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The ideal candidate for the USAID Chief of
  
  Party vacancy should hold a Master’s degree or higher in environmental or
  
  civil engineering, public health, business, governance or a related field


• At least ten years’ experience successfully
  
  implanting projects in water and sanitation, local governance, or private
  
  sector capacity building for improvement of water and sanitation services
  
  and behavior change promotion


• The COP should have significant leadership,
  
  management and international development experience; a demonstrated track
  
  record in successfully managing government relations; a commitment to
  
  capacity building; a strong interest in private sector approaches to
  
  development; and experience successfully implementing market-based approaches.


• Broad knowledge and understanding of the
  
  state of the Uganda WASH sector including Ugandan water supply and
  
  sanitation issues


• Progressively responsible experience,
  
  including: direct supervision of staff; quality evaluation of staff
  
  performance and deliverables


• Demonstrated ability to develop and
  
  communicate a common vision among diverse partners and the ability to lead
  
  multi-disciplinary teams


• Demonstrated experience leading large donor
  
  supported programs in strategic planning, management, supervision and
  
  budgeting


• Strong experience and commitment to
  
  developing markets for sanitation


• The successful candidate will be a creative,
  
  innovative and strategic thinker, and will have: excellent communication,
  
  analytical, organizational, interpersonal and cross-cultural skills; a
  
  passion for private sector approaches to development; and proven ability
  
  to produce results


• Demonstrated ability in the concepts,
  
  principles, methods and techniques of delivering market-based approaches
  
  to sanitation preferred


• Demonstrated skills in effectively
  
  negotiating with host governments, donors, UN agencies, other USAID
  
  projects local organizations and partners


• Demonstrated knowledge of USG grant
  
  implementation


• Ability to manage agreements and all required
  
  programmatic and financial reporting requirements, including sub-grants
  
  management


• Ability to perform internal control functions
  
  to manage day to day operations of the projects


• Excellent interpersonal and communication
  
  skills, both oral and written


• Excellent management skills


• Fluency in English required


• References will be required


• Must be authorized to work in the United
  
  States.  N.B. PSI will not consider
  
  work visa sponsorship for this position [subject to legal eligibility
  
  requirements]

All

suitably qualified candidates who wish to join Population Services

International in the aforementioned capacity should apply online at the web

link below.