**Chief of Party, USAID/Madagascar Arakisa**
**About Palladium**:
Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.
**This Opportunity**:
Palladium is seeking a Chief of Party (COP) to lead an anticipated five-year USAID-funded project intended to support the Government of Madagascar in building sustainable, resilient, and interoperable health information systems (HIS) to enable access, analysis, and use of quality data to improve the health and well-being of all Malagasy.
The Chief of Party will provide overall leadership, management, and technical direction of the program, ensuring an integrated vision among different components and actors. They will be responsible for meeting the project’s technical objectives through high-quality implementation, managing financial resources, program staff, and partnering agreements, maintaining strong collaborative working relationships with the Government of Madagascar and local partners, and managing monitoring, evaluation, and learning, including client reporting. The COP will represent Palladium and act as the principal liaison for USAID, the Government of Madagascar, other donors, community and non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. The position will be based in Antananarivo and is contingent upon award and USAID approval.
**Location**: Antananarivo, Madagascar
**Primary Roles and Responsibilities**:
- Providing technical direction and guidance for all project activities, ensuring program activities are technically sound, responsive, and appropriate.
- Developing, managing, and maintaining strategic partnerships with USAID, Government of Madagascar, other U.S. government agencies and projects, host-country governments and counterparts, international donors, multilateral organizations, and local partners.
- Serving as the primary point of contact for USAID/Madagascar AOR and Government of Madagascar and ensuring smooth communication flow.
- Managing and supervising the work of technical and program management staff and consultants, facilitating strong communication and coordination with and between all team members.
- Leading the development of annual work plans and budgets for timely submission to and approval by the client and ensuring that agreed activities and targets are fully accomplished, meeting expected technical and management quality standards and delivering expected results on schedule and on budget.
- Ensuring appropriate and timely documentation and dissemination of key results and deliverables. Producing technical, quarterly, and annual reports in line with reporting guidelines and deadlines.
- Overseeing strategic communication activities to highlight and disseminate good practices, successes, and lessons learned from project implementation.
- Providing oversight of project subcontractors and sub-grantees, ensuring quality and timeliness of deliverables, and facilitating regular communication and coordination to encourage maximum participation in the project.
Identifying opportunities and negotiating partnership programs to leverage synergistic donor, governmental, and organizational resources.
- Ensuring effective contract implementation in strict compliance with contract clauses, adherence to Palladium and USAID’s guidelines and procedures.
- Ensuring effective internal systems for program delivery; results tracking and reporting; staff recruitment, mobilization, and retention; and contracting and financial management to respond to dynamic program needs rapidly and efficiently.
- Performing any and all other project-related tasks as required by the Project Director in Palladium HQ.
**Essential Criteria**:
- A master’s degree in a related field of study, such as public health, information systems, information sciences, health informatics, digital health, data science, or a related field.
- A minimum of 10 years of experience leading and managing operational, project management, and administrative duties for USAID or U.S. Government-funded projects, or other internationally funded programs.
- Significant professional experience in fields related to the successful implementation of this project, such as national health information systems development and implementation, digital health strategy implementation, and data management and use.
- Proven experience working in partnership with the Government of Madagascar, particularly the Ministry of Health.
- Proven ability to build and manage effective partnerships and communicate a common vision among diverse partners to achieve m