Uganda: Chief of Party, Uganda - until August 2017

About Us:

Marie Stopes International is a global organisation providing personalised contraception and safe abortion services to women and girls. Our local teams of professionals are passionate about the work they do in communities across 37 countries. The services they provide give a woman the power to choose when she has children so that she’s free pursue her plans and dreams for herself and her family.

The primary responsibility of this role is to further MSI’s Goal: The Prevention of Unwanted Births and its mission of ensuring the individual’s right to**: children by choice, not chance.**

The Role:

The Chief of Party (CoP) will lead the USAID-funded Long Term Family Planning (LTFP) Bridge activity project. The LTFP project is implemented to provide measurable improvement in access to affordable voluntary family planning at health facility and community levels. By addressing gaps in service provision and helping to meet the current demand for contraception, LTFP affords access to high-quality FP services to those most in need, especially vulnerable women and men in rural and disadvantaged communities, young people and those living in poverty with financial and social barriers to accessing services.

While the key responsibilities outlined below relate to all programmatic activities the post will have significant additional responsibilities for the successful delivery of the LTFP project, as outlined in the below section.

This is a currently vacant position and is a high priority requirement – please do apply as soon as possible. The assignment will last up until the end of August 2017.

About you:

To be considered for the role you will have:

• USAID Chief of Party experience
• Demonstrable experience in managing U.S. Government and other donor funded programming (health and family planning programming a distinct advantage
• Proven knowledge and experience applying U.S. Government assistance rules and regulations, including family planning compliance
• Demonstrable ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with U.S. Government and development partners
• Extensive international work experience with demonstrable success working in a senior management role (preferably developing countries) and will have had experience of growing the business
• Proven general management experience in operationally demanding and challenging environments (to include recruitment, training and supervision of teams)
• Proven experience of change management, including identifying required change, leading the change programme and ensuring change is embedded and sustained
• Experience designing and delivering strategic and annual business plans
• Financial management experience, including internal controls and accountability, ideally managing an enterprise or organisation that keeps an annual balance sheet and whose financial performance is tracked though profit and loss accounts
• Strong experience managing organisations with clearly defined output indicators and demonstrated capability to improve their bottom line
• Demonstrable experience of generating, tracking and analysing management information and client data to inform management decision-making
• Previous experience identifying and sharing best practice and encouraging innovation within dispersed teams
• Proven experience of building lasting relationships with key external stakeholders, e.g. government or donor stakeholders in order to deliver tangible results

For more information about the role, please view the job framework on our website.

In addition you will have the right to work in the UK and be pro-choice on abortion.

Location: Uganda

Closing date: 29^th January 2017 (midnight GMT). Please note that this is an URGENT requirement so we will interview on a rolling basis. Please ensure to apply as soon as possible if you’re interested.

Salary: £ competitive p/a.

All nationalities are encouraged to apply.

Please click this link to apply : https://careers.mariestopes.org.uk/vacancy/chief-of-party-uganda---until-august-2017-299478.html