Deputy Chief of Party at Marie Stopes Ghana

Job Description

• MSG is seeking qualified personnel for an anticipated 5-year USAID-funded family planning activity in Ghana. The goal of the activity is to contribute to the reduction of maternal mortality and morbidity through increased access to comprehensive, voluntary family planning (FP) services to poor and underserved populations in Ghana. MSG is seeking outstanding candidate for the following positions:DEPUTY CHIEF OF PARTY

The Role

• The Deputy Chief of Party (DCoP) will be responsible for the overall technical oversight of the project, including leading technical teams, work planning and reporting. This role will report directly to the Chief of Party and will lead in ensuring technical implementation of high impact, proven interventions and ensuring the project meets stated goals. The successful candidate will assume the responsibilities of the Chief of Party in his/her absence and will coordinate among USAID and key stakeholders, other implementing partners and interact with numerous Government of Ghana institutions and representatives.

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following among other duties:

• Support the Chief of Party to provide technical direction and supervision for all program activities and interventions to ensure integration, coordination, and collaboration across all result areas.
• Ensure that project objectives, outcomes, and deliverables are met and that reporting requirements of the donor are followed.
• Ensure quality activity implementation and employ use of project M&E tools and ensure compliance with donor requirements.
• Promote sustainability of project activities through effective networking, linkages to other programs, capacity building of project staff, and institutional strengthening of partners.
• Provide operational, technical, programmatic, financial and management guidance and support for project activities; identify, consider and resolve issues or problems.
• Oversee and ensure efficient monitoring of subcontracts and grant partners.
• In the absence of the COP, represent the projects to USAID, the government of Ghana, project partners and other stakeholders.

Required Skills or Experience
To succeed in this role, you must have:

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Degrees (MBChB)
• A Masters degree of higher in public health, medicine, management or social sciences or related field.
• Seven (7) years experience managing at a similar level or similar or senior technical advisor level in donor funded programs of similar scope in Ghana or a developing country. Demonstrated capacity to provide management oversight to large complex programs.
• At least 10 years experience working in family planning and sexual and reproductive health, including recent experience and in-depth understanding of the major issues affecting FP in Ghana.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of USAID or other donor planning and reporting systems, operations, programming, structure, and sub-award compliance.
• A proven track record of building teams and fostering collaboration in order to achieve goals, meet milestones and produce high quality project deliverables on time and on budget.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing partnership with local government, donors, multilateral organizations, academia, private sector and local community, preferably in Ghana.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
• This application is open only to Ghanaian nationals or permanent residents with work permits. The position is contingent upon funding to MSG and approval by USAID.