Project Director at InSupply Health

Responsibilities: 

Strategic Leadership & Project Governance

• Provide overall strategic leadership and direction for the project.
• Translate project objectives and contractual commitments into clear priorities, implementation approaches and measurable results.
• Establish effective governance, accountability, decision-making and performance management mechanisms.
• Provide strategic oversight across participating countries while ensuring interventions are adapted to country contexts and priorities.
• Champion equity, innovation, sustainability, local ownership and value for money.

Country Implementation & Project Delivery

• Provide strategic oversight of project start-up, country planning and implementation.
• Ensure country teams translate project strategy into realistic, prioritised and measurable implementation plans.
• Oversee delivery of agreed milestones, outputs and outcomes within approved timelines, resources and quality standards.
• Ensure effective coordination across country, technical, operational and functional teams.
• Lead timely corrective and adaptive action where implementation deviates from approved plans or expected results.

Government, Consortium & Strategic Partnerships

• Serve as the senior project representative with donors, governments, consortium partners and other strategic stakeholders.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with government ministries, procurement agencies, regulatory bodies, financing institutions and other national stakeholders.
• Promote government leadership, ownership and sustainability.
• Lead effective coordination across consortium partners, ensuring clear roles, accountabilities and delivery expectations.
• Represent inSupply Health in relevant national, regional and international forums.

Financial & Resource Stewardship

• Provide overall accountability for effective stewardship of project resources.
• Ensure resources are strategically allocated across countries, interventions and activities to maximise results and value for money.
• Review financial performance, forecasts, expenditure and material variances and ensure timely corrective action.
• Work closely with Finance and Operations leadership to ensure effective financial controls, forecasting, budget management and donor reporting.
• Ensure personnel, consultants and other project resources are appropriately planned and deployed.

People Leadership & Project Capability

• Lead multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed teams, fostering a collaborative, inclusive and accountable environment.
• Establish clear performance expectations, decision rights and accountability across the project leadership structure.
• Guide, coach and support Project Managers, technical leads and other project leaders.
• Ensure the project has the skills, capacity and leadership capability required to deliver its objectives.
• Promote staff engagement, wellbeing, safeguarding, inclusion and organisational values.

Quality, Compliance, Risk & Safeguarding

• Provide oversight of compliance with donor agreements, contractual obligations, applicable laws and organisational policies.
• Oversee strategic, financial, operational, implementation, safeguarding and reputational risks.
• Ensure high and critical risks have clear owners, mitigation measures and escalation pathways.
• Ensure material compliance issues, audit findings and management actions are addressed within agreed timelines.
• Promote a culture of integrity, accountability, ethical conduct and safeguarding.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning & Evidence

• Provide strategic oversight of monitoring, evaluation, learning and reporting systems.
• Ensure reliable data and evidence inform strategic decisions, adaptive management and resource allocation.
• Monitor progress towards improvements in MNH product access, including on-shelf availability of selected tracer products.
• Lead cross-country learning and knowledge exchange.
• Promote documentation and dissemination of evidence, innovations and good practices to support replication and scale-up.

Sustainability, Scale & Project Development

• Provide strategic leadership for project sustainability, institutionalisation, scale-up and transition.
• Strengthen local systems, government ownership and institutional capacity to sustain results beyond the project period.
• Identify opportunities to leverage complementary investments, partnerships and financing.
• Provide senior-level input into proposals, concept notes, project extensions, partnerships and resource mobilisation opportunities.

Project Reporting, Communication & Close-Out

• Ensure accurate, timely and high-quality donor, technical, financial and management reports.
• Communicate project performance, achievements, financial status, risks, challenges and opportunities to senior management, donors and stakeholders.
• Lead periodic project performance reviews and ensure agreed actions are followed through.
• Provide strategic oversight of project close-out and transition planning.
• Ensure final evaluations, reports, knowledge products, stakeholder handovers and sustainability or transition plans are completed to the required standards.

Qualifications & Experience

Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Public Health, Development Studies, International Development, Supply Chain, Economics or a related field.
• A Master’s degree in a relevant discipline is mandatory.

Professional Qualifications

• Membership in a relevant professional body, such as PMI or an equivalent recognised professional association.
• Professional certification in Project or Programme Management, such as PMP, PRINCE2 or an equivalent internationally recognised qualification, is highly desirable.
• Additional certification in Monitoring & Evaluation, Results-Based Management, Risk Management, Agile Project Management or another relevant discipline is an advantage. 

Professional Experience 

• At least 12 years of progressively responsible experience in global health, international development, health systems strengthening, health supply chains or a related field, including substantial senior project or programme leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience providing strategic leadership for complex, multi-country, donor-funded projects, with accountability for strategy, implementation, budgets, teams, partnerships, compliance and results.
• Experience working with government institutions and public-sector health systems, preferably across multiple countries and operating contexts.
• Strong understanding of health systems and supply-chain ecosystems, including systemic barriers related to access, financing, procurement, policy, data, regulation or service delivery.
• Proven experience leading multi-partner or consortium-based projects.
• Demonstrated experience engaging and influencing donors, government institutions, implementing partners and senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed teams.
• Experience overseeing workplans, budgets, forecasts, risks, contractual deliverables and performance frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience in monitoring, evaluation, learning, evidence generation and adaptive project management.
• Experience in maternal and newborn health, health products, pharmaceutical or medical supply chains, procurement, market shaping or related areas is highly desirable.

Key Competencies

We are looking for a leader who demonstrates:

• Strategic & Systems Thinking
• Multi-Country & Consortium Leadership
• Government & Stakeholder Engagement
• Results & Adaptive Management
• People & Resource Leadership
• Risk, Integrity & Accountability