**_Chief of Party_**
**_Tuberculosis Bilateral Activity in Tajikistan-Proposal_**
**Hours**: Regular/Full-time
**Salary**:Commensurate with required experience and qualifications
**Reports to**: Senior Portfolio Director, Asia/MENA
**Location**: Dushanbe, Tajikistan
**University Research Co., LLC (URC)**
Guided by a strong vision of equitable and resilient systems that respond to people's needs and emerging threats, URC helps countries and local actors to build, implement, and sustain science-driven, scalable solutions.
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.
**Overview**:
URC is searching for an experienced Chief of Party for the anticipated five year 10M-24.99M USAID Tajikistan New Tuberculosis (TB) Bilateral Activity.
The purpose of this five-year project will be to focus on locally generated solutions tailored to the TB response to patients and communities to address the diagnosis, treatment and prevention needs, addressing stigma and discrimination in Tajikistan.
**Responsibilities**:
The Chief of Party leads the Senior Management Team and is responsible for the strategic and technical leadership, financial, management and administrative oversight of the project
Specific roles and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Provide overall strategic vision, technical leadership, and oversight for the project.
- Provide an appropriate balance of technical, managerial, and interpersonal skills to coordinate effective implementation of program activities, including development of a dynamic learning agenda and adaptive management approach.
- Make programmatic decisions and troubleshoot implementation challenges; oversee program data quality compliance, including development of data tracking and monitoring systems USG or donor funding audit standards; and oversee sub-grant development, including compliance with programmatic objectives and URC\donor financial and administrative regulations.
- Responsible for overall financial management and administration of the project; approve local financial transactions and authorize expenditures from local bank accounts; and approve all aspects of project procurement and logistics.
- Serve as spokesperson and advocate, representing the project to the donor, central and local government officials, private sector leaders, and other stakeholders; will represent the project and URC at local, regional, and international fora.
**Qualifications**:
- Master's Degree in Public Health, Public Administration, Medicine, or a related field and a minimum of 7 years of progressively increasing responsibility, working on large-scale, complex international development and public health programs.
- Senior leadership experience on USAID programs of similar size and complexity is required.
Chief of Party or Project Director experience preferred
- At least 10 years of relevant experience working in Tajikistan or within the region, on public health programs in TB, quality of care, infectious diseases or community health, especially experience working with donor-funded projects.
- At least 10 years of relevant experience managing, designing and implementing similar, international, multi-million, donor
- funded programs.
- Supervisory experience involving leadership of professional and support staff; oversight and evaluation of staff performance and deliverables, and contract management.
- Experience in managing USAID and donor-funded projects and reporting.