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Job description
Project Overview And Role
Palladium seeks a Chief of Party (COP) for the anticipated USAID "Strengthening Agriculture and Regional Resilience (STARR)" activity that spans across all East African Community (EAC) countries (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda), and additional countries in East Africa (Zambia, Somalia, Sudan, Djibouti and Ethiopia). The STARR activity will promote increased agricultural production, investment, trade and resilience to shocks and stresses in the East Africa region by addressing agricultural issues that can mainly be solved on a regional basis. STARR's interventions will be directed through four interrelated project component areas: 1) strengthening cross-border agriculture trade and value chains, 2) improved regional agricultural inputs, 3) strengthening resilience, and 4) strengthening the regional policy environment.
Purpose of Position
The COP will be responsible for the technical and administrative excellence of the activity. S/he will report to Palladium's Home Office Project Director, and will serve as the primary contact for USAID.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical direction and strategy development for implementation of the project (including drafting project work plans), and ensure an integrated vision across components and partners.
- Ensure overall quality and cost effectiveness, and establish and maintain robust and adaptive knowledge management and M&E systems.
- Ensure effective use of resources, on-time delivery of project activity reports and partner deliverables, and overall compliance with USAID regulations and Palladium policies and procedures.
- Work with staff to recruit, hire and manage staff and consultants as needed to carry out activities.
- Work in partnership with Home Office Project Director, engaging in frequent, routine communication so that the home office is aware of both progress and potential issues, and solicit assistance and input as needed to ensure that performance meets or exceeds technical and financial contractual requirements.
- Manage subcontractors, both international and local, to ensure that their performance meets or exceeds technical and financial contractual requirements.
- Serve as the key liaison between USAID, host-country counterparts, project partners, and Palladium.
- Support implementation of Palladium's security protocols and provide leadership in handling security-related issues. Address local staffing and personnel issues related to security.
Requirements
- Master's Degree or higher in economics, food security, regional trade, international development, agriculture, business, or in a closely related field is required.
- A minimum of 12 years of experience working in international development, at least eight years of which have been spent in COP or Team Lead positions, preferably on contracts of similar size, scope, and complexity, dealing with agriculture, regional trade, resiliency, and economic growth.
- Technical expertise in one or more of the following areas: agriculture, value chain development, market linkages, agriculture/rural finance, business enabling environments for agriculture/livestock, cross-border trade, or resilience.
- Experience establishing and strengthening productive and collaborative relationships with government counterparts, local organizations, private sector, and other donor organizations.
- Experience working for large donor organizations such as USAID required; knowledge of USAID contract management, policies, procedures, regulations and reporting requirements strongly preferred.
- Strong leadership, program, organizational management and oral and written communication skills.
- Prior work in the East Africa region is highly desirable, including work on programs focused on cross-border trade in the EAC region.
- Fluency in English is required; knowledge of a local East African language would be an asset.
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Job description
Project Overview And Role
Palladium Kenya is recruiting a Health Finance Officer who will support the USAID-funded Health Policy Plus (HP+) Kenya and East Africa team to support activities related to domestic resource mobilization for health and HIV. In addition, the person will support both national and county government effort to generate evidence to inform prioritization of health and HIV within the Medium Term Expenditure Framework. These responsibilities will require a person with knowledge on national and county governments budgeting and health finance issues, costing, and economic analysis. This is a full-time position based in Nairobi, Kenya and reporting to the Health Financing Advisor.
Responsibilities
- Assess health finance impact and other related health financing studies to improve access to key financial information to determine feasibility and sustainability of scaling up health finance interventions.
- Participate in the design and implementation of technical support activities related to health finance policy in Kenya.
- Stay abreast of key developments in health finance and resource allocation innovations and interventions in Kenya and more broadly in East Africa, in order to inform technical support activities under the HP+ Kenya Field Program and other projects. This includes frequent interaction with the Government of Kenya stakeholders at the national and county levels relevant to this area as well as multilateral partners and donor agencies.
- Interact with internal and external resources and other experts to bring new and ?cutting edge ideas into approaches.
- Provide assistance to others on matters related to topic area of health financing related to research and evaluation and applies relevant methodologies to programmatic issues of importance.
- Represent the projects, company, and programs in the health financing area in Kenyan and regional forums, as well as with others in the professional community and in countries of collaboration independent of technical supervision
- Conduct all work to accepted standards of research ethics
- Perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned
Requirements
The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:
- Significant experience in health economics in the context of Kenya and/or East Africa
- Advanced degree (MA, MSc, PhD) in economics or health economics with academic specialization in health financing or commensurate work experience in health finance
- Experience: With Masters-level qualification in health economics: 3-4 years of experience required, with at least 1-2 years in Kenya. With Doctoral-level qualification in economics or health economics: 1-2 years of experience required, with at least 1 year in Kenya.
- Experience in resource tracking including application of System of Health Accounts, 2011
- Fluency in English required and Swahili preferred
- Sound knowledge of methodologies used in health finance research, cost-effectiveness analysis, quantitative analysis, and statistical/econometric analysis
- Knowledge of relevant literature related to topic area
- Appropriate software skills necessary to conduct research, and to conduct analysis of study data, such as STATA, SPSS, or equivalent
- Strong written and oral communication skills for high-level policy audiences (writing examples may be required)
- Ability and willingness to travel within Kenya and to implement studies on a national basis
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