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Hours: Full-time
Location: HQ Chevy Chase Remote
Salary: Commensurate with required experience and qualifications
Reports to: Executive Vice President, Technical Programs
University Research Co., LLC (URC)
- Established in 1965, URC offers a range of technical expertise to empower governments, communities, and service providers toward strengthening their own health and social systems and improve service quality. We aim to expand access to and improve the quality of services, addressing maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health; global health security and infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria; reproductive health and family planning; nutrition and water, sanitation, and hygiene. In our interactions with each other and our clients, we stay true to our values for transformative change by focusing on:
- Creativity:by unleashing our creativity, we enhance engagement and interaction to improve problem-solving.
- Collaboration:not only our work towards the same vision and mission instill staff with a strong sense of purpose, but also enables us to complement each other's skills and allocate work to maximize everyone's strengths.
- Accountability:we hold ourselves responsible for accomplishing goals, completing assignments, and making decisions.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion:we embrace the importance of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, where our leadership and staff model behavior that enriches our organization, demonstrates respect for all people, and supports opportunities for all staff.
- Transparency:we understand that when employees deeply trust one another and their leaders, they will be more engaged in their roles because they will not be worried about unfair treatment.
Project Overview:
URC is seeking an experienced Project Director to lead the anticipated, five-year, USAID Global Resilience Against Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (GRAD TB).
The anticipated GRAD TB project will have an estimated award ceiling between $50M and $99M with a global scope of work that will entail concurrent operations in multiple countries. The is project designed to scale up and improve management of DR TB in USAID supported countries, with a focus on expanding access to high quality treatment services. It will provide specialized technical assistance to enhance the quality of DR-TB program in TB priority and Global Fund Technical Assistance countries.
Responsibilities:
The Project Director's responsibilities will include the overall planning and coordination of the Cooperative Agreement's activities including the work of any sub-recipients in the Agreement. Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Strategic leadership and vision in the development and implementation of strategies and approaches aimed to support Ministries of Health/ National TB Programs' capacity to provide access to high quality services across the TB continuum of care.
- Administrative, programmatic, and managerial oversight to all aspects of the project to ensure that all interventions are technically sound and appropriate, and executed to meet USAID performance standards.
- Monitor the implementation of activities, including progress toward achieving stated objectives and benchmarks with high-quality and on-time performance.
- Ensure technical capacity of staff and provide technical assistance and backstopping when required.
- Achievement of project goals (meeting or exceeding expected project targets and deliverables on time and within budget) as per project and client(s) approved workplan;, monitoring, evaluation, and learning plan; and gender action plan.
- Work with regional and country directors to cultivate and maintain effective dialogue and relationships with project client(s), beneficiaries, partner(s), coworkers and other local regional, and international stakeholders.
- Recruit and supervise staff and short-term technical assistance to meet evolving project demands; provide mentoring and skills building to local staff and key local counterparts.
- Act as the project's primary representative to USAID.
- Establish and maintain highly collaborative working relationships with USAID, government counterparts, and all other stakeholders, including key internal and external stakeholders, beneficiaries, subcontractors, and partners.
- Ensure documentation and dissemination of findings, impact, innovations, and lessons learned.
- Ensure timely, high-quality, and complete submission of work plans, quarterly and annual reports, M&E reports, financial reports, and any other reports required by USAID.
- Ensure that all activities are undertaken in full compliance with URC standard operating procedures, USAID policies and regulations, and national policies and laws.
- Promote sustainability of project activities with effective networking, linkages to other programs, capacity building of project staff, and institutional strengthening of staff.
Qualifications:
- Education: MD required. Master in Public Health or similar advance degree, preferred.
- Senior leadership experience on donor funded projects of similar size and scope. Experience implementing multi-country US Government projects required, USAID project management strongly preferred.
- At least 15 years' experience designing or implementing donor funded projects,
- Experience and expertise in the field of Drug Resistant TB diagnosis, prevention, and treatment in low and middle income countries. Experience in multiple countries and regions preferred.
- Experience working with host country government agencies, particularly National TB Programs, governments, international organizations and local nongovernmental organizations..
Physical Demands
- This position operates in a professional office environment and routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
- This position would require opening filing cabinets and bending or standing on a stool and may require the ability to lift files/folders/boxes, as necessary.
- Ability to travel to Washington, DC at least four times a year, or as required by the donor, required.
- In addition to travel to Washington, DC, this position may require travel up to 20% of the time to domestic and international locations with varying distances, duration, and modes of transport.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Unless otherwise specified, CVs will be retained in our database in anticipation of other opportunities.
URC is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
We value and seek diversity in our workforce.
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