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Deputy Project Director - Egypt Osra

The Palladium Group
Cairo, Egypt
Posted 3 years ago
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Company Profile

Palladium is a global leader in the design, development, and delivery of Positive Impact—the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value.

For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of more than 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved—and is committed to continuing to improve—economies, societies and most importantly, people's lives.

Palladium is a child-safe organisation, and screens applicants for suitability to work with children. We also provide equal employment to all employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.

Position Overview

Palladium is seeking a Deputy Project Director 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. For more information on the potential project, please consult the RFI: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=332851.

Reporting to the Project Director, the Deputy Project Director will assist in providing strategic leadership, technical leadership, and oversight to the program. S/he must have an appropriate balance of technical, managerial, and interpersonal skills and experience. The Deputy Project Director must have technical expertise in at least one of the project’s 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.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Assist the Project Director in the implementation of project activities.
  • Provide direct supervision in at least one of the four project areas—improving access to FP/RH services, improving the quality of FP/RH services, increasing demand for FP/RH services, or strengthening health systems.
  • Assist the Project Director to manage project partners, ensuring that partners are fully engaged and participating in the project.
  • When required, serve as the interface between the project, GOE ministries, United States government (USG) entities, Palladium senior management (based abroad), and other relevant stakeholders.
  • If requested to do so by the Project Director, assume responsibility for overseeing the project budget and finances, including budget projections, project spending, and financial performance reporting.
  • When requested, represent the project at relevant professional meetings, working groups, and seminars.
  • Prepare and contribute to analyses, recommendations, briefing notes, white papers, assessments, workplans, and reporting materials for internal and client use.
  • Serve as the Acting Project Director in the absence of the Project Director.
  • Perform additional duties as assigned by the Project Director.

Job Requirements

  • 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 Project Director 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 (preferred) and knowledge of USG regulations
  • Experience working in both the public and private sector (preferred)
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