Global Chief of Party I – Health Systems Strengthening Project

🕒 July 28

🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Catholic Relief Services

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1943

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Logistics

Catholic Relief Services is a global humanitarian organization that eases the suffering of and provides development assistance to people in need in over 100 countries. As the official international relief organization of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, CRS focuses on emergency response, health, agriculture, education, and justice and peacebuilding. Their work is guided by Catholic values and the organization aims to serve the poor and vulnerable, regardless of race, religion, or nationality.

📋 Description

• Lead all aspects of the development, implementation, management and evaluation of the CRS project, including sharing how the project contributes to the thought leadership of the health and development sectors. • Ensure the project is designed and implemented to meet donor expectations in terms of timely and quality results and budget, including strategies for phase out and sustainability. • Ensure coordination between program and operations leads. Ensure the CRS program quality standards are adhered to per MEAL policy and procedures. • Coordinate Country Program Project leads, ensuring effective contribution to global objectives, sharing lessons learned across CPs, and enabling appropriate global support. • Coordinate relationships with consortium partner organizations, including organization of review/planning workshops. • Effectively manage senior programming and operations talent across the project. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching and mentoring. • Manage and mitigate risk through monitoring national and regional issues that may impact staff and programming. • Promote, uphold and model a commitment to the efficient use of agency and donor resources. • Oversee the development of communication strategies and materials, complying with donor and CRS’ branding and marketing requirements and procedures. • Create and maintain proper conditions for learning. Establish a safe environment for sharing of ideas, solutions, and difficulties and the capacity to detect, analyze and respond quickly to deficiencies.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in health systems strengthening, international development, International Relations or a relevant technical area. Master’s preferred. • 8 years’ relevant management and technical experience. • 5 years’ experience managing donor funds, including multi country grants. Strong knowledge and experience in budget management. • 2 years of staff management experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment. Experience coaching senior program staff. • Recognized leader in sector as demonstrated by peer reviewed publications, conference presentations etc. • Experience engaging partners and strengthening partnerships. Knowledge of CRS partnership strategy a plus. • Demonstrated experience of successful program management, including management of complex, high-value, multi-activity projects, with complicated logistics. • Ability to represent and present at high levels. • Experience in MS Office package (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio), Web Conferencing Applications, and information and budget management systems. • Strong strategic, analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills, with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment and decisions. • Strong relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally. Strategic in how you approach each relationship. • Team leadership abilities with diverse/multi-disciplinary teams. Coaching skills. • Strong communications and presentation skills; able to develop tailored and persuasive messaging for varied audiences. • Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented. • Fluent in English (French language is a plus but not required). • Must be willing and able to travel up to 35% of time to limited resource locations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, life insurance, vision, and a generous retirement savings plan.