JOB VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Scope of Work

POSITION: Chief of Party (COP)

PROJECT: Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Engage

LOCATION–Monrovia, Liberia

Chemonics seeks a Chief of Party for the USAID FHM Engage project in Liberia. This position will be the primary point of contact in Liberia for all USAID-funded FHM Engage activities and future scopes of work. This position will be based in Monrovia, Liberia. We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.

1. Program Overview

As USAID’s flagship private sector health project, Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Engage envisions a world in which health markets are responsive, equitable, resilient, and driven by consumer needs. To meet this vision, FHM Engage – led by Chemonics and its core partners, co-technical lead Results for Development, Pathfinder, and Zenysis – catalyzes the adoption of fresh, contextually-relevant pathways in health market development by building on existing structures and offering strong behavioral, technical, and managerial approaches. FHM Engage’s robust partner network includes 16 local, regional and international partner organizations. While supporting local market actors to build upon current government and donor investments, we also use systems thinking to understand the market system, identify root causes of market under performance, and develop context-specific and locally informed strategies and solutions to systematically change market environments and health market financing. FHM Engage works in 7 intermediate result areas, namely: Stewardship, Health Financing, Rules & Regulations, Market Intelligence, Supply (Services), Supply (Products), and Demand.

2. Principle Duties and Responsibilities

Based in Monrovia, and reporting to the FHM Engage Project Director, the Chief of Party is a senior leadership position that assumes overall responsibility for FHM Engage in Liberia. The Chief of Party will manage a small efficient team of 5 including an Immunization Specialist, Health Information Systems Specialist, Operations Specialist, Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Specialist, and Access to Finance Lead. The role will require a balance of technical and operations work. The technical work will focus on introducing and developing a market systems approach to private sector engagement in Liberia across all country activities. The operations work will include supporting the delivery of the work through local and regional network implementation partners.

Illustrative duties and responsibilities include:

Systems Thinking

• Applying market systems thinking as a more sustainable way to engage, support, and increase the role of the private sector in the delivery of FP and other healthcare.
• Catalyze engagements with local and international private-sector actors, civil society, social entrepreneurs, governments, development agencies, and host-country governments to develop a

common vision for priority health problems, co-design local solutions, build the resilience of local partner institutions, and build health market systems that can respond to future challenges.

Develop local partner ecosystem

• Establish and maintain highly collaborative working relationships with the Government of Liberia, USAID/Liberia, along with relevant in-country stakeholders; serve as the primary point of contact for USAID and as the principal liaison with USAID staff, institutions, and country partners to exchange information and develop professional relationships.
• Promote sustainability of project activities with effective networking, linkages to other programs, capacity building of project staff, and institutional strengthening.
• Provide coaching and mentoring support to implementation partners for market facilitation activities.
• Support the project’s transition of activities to local partners by fostering and facilitating a learning and communicative environment.

Supportive Management

• Provide overall leadership, management, and strategic technical direction of the program, ensuring an integrated vision among different components and actors. Responsible for overall quality control and maintaining a focus on achieving results. Serve as the project’s primary liaison with USAID Liberia, international and regional partners, sub-recipients, and host-country government officials, including actively managing client expectations. Represent the project at periodic meetings with stakeholders to report on planned activities and actions, including implementation status.
• Act as primary liaison with the Chemonics Washington D.C. office in technical and managerial matters.
• Recruit and manage an in-country team that has the correct technical skill mix and work style to achieve activities objectives. This includes long-term staff as well as short-term consultants. • Contribute to the continued evolution of a positive and collaborative team culture that affirms diversity, equity and inclusion. Supervise, coach and support professional development of project technical and administrative staff, ensuring staff are successfully managing project activities and operations. In cases when performance issues arise, take immediate action in accordance with Chemonics policies and procedures to address and resolve the issues. Inform the FHM Engage Project Director of all programmatic developments, staffing issues, and any challenges that may arise during implementation.
• Ensure that activity work plans are developed and completed in a timely fashion and within budget. Ensure that activity reporting is done in a comprehensive and timely manner. • Proactively use monitoring and evaluation data to adjust programmatic approach and strategies, modify work plans and implementation activities as needed, to ensure the program remains on schedule and meets results.
• Identify cost share opportunities and oversee implementation of cost share manual, including tracking and reporting.
• Ensure compliance with USAID regulations and Chemonics policies and systems. • Other duties as assigned.

Location of Assignment

The location of assignment is Monrovia, Liberia.

Supervision and Reporting

The Chief of Party will report to and be supervised by the FHM Engage Project Director

3. Job Qualifications

• Advanced degree in public health, social work, management, organization development or related field.
• At least 10 years of professional experience in managing global health or related projects including developing and implementing work plans, controlling budgets, and managing a diverse team of local and international staff
• Demonstrated leadership experience on a USAID-funded project required, preferably as chief of party/project director or deputy chief of party
• Proven capacity acting in a high-level representative role and working with different stakeholders, including US and local government officials, and private sector actors • Experience managing complex relationships with a variety of stakeholders in a multiple partner consortium, including host governments at different levels; experience mentoring staff and working with international and national consultants and staff
• Demonstrated leadership, versatility, integrity, and creativity.
• Excellent administrative, organizational, and written and verbal communication skills. • Must be authorized to work in Liberia.

4. Application instructions

Please send an email with your CV and cover letter attached with “Chief of Party” in the subject line to : Recruitment-Liberia-FHMEngage@chemonics.com by October10, 2023. No telephone inquiries, please. Chemonics will contact finalists.

Chemonics is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factors.