Chief of Party - USAID Frontier Health Markets Activity Two - Private Sector Engagement Staff Suppor

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Who We Are
Resonance is a global consulting firm that delivers market-based solutions to address the world’s toughest challenges.
We work with changemakers in the private sector and the international development community to solve wicked problems and promote market opportunity. We specialize in development of partnerships, innovation, sustainable business models, and impact finance that drive impactful results.
Across our work, we integrate diverse voices and perspectives. We promote collaboration across sectors and up and down the chain—from the field to the boardroom. Throughout, we translate client ambition into action and impact on the ground.

Company Description
Resonance is an award-winning frontier market solutions consulting firm based in Burlington, VT, with offices in Seattle and Washington, DC. We catalyze lasting impact through our work with variety of clients including Fortune 500 companies, bi-lateral donors, foundations, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) around the world. We envision a prosperous and just world of thriving markets, healthy ecosystems, and vibrant communities where business, governments, and citizens work together to create a better world for all.

Resonance seeks to catalyze large-scale social, environmental, and economic change by fostering new and dynamic forms of collaboration. We do this by brokering multi-stakeholder partnerships, providing deep analytical insights in emerging markets, and catalyzing transformational impact investments. We strive to merge strategic insight with practical on-the-ground knowledge into an integrated approach that emphasizes results.

We seek candidates who are ready to apply their analytical and problem-solving skills to some of our planet’s greatest challenges in an entrepreneurial, fun, and fast-paced environment. We are looking for passionate and committed people who can work in a highly collaborative environment to deliver results for our clients and stakeholders around the world.

Position Mandate
Resonance is seeking a Chief of Party to lead the anticipated USAID Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Activity Two - Private Sector Engagement Staff Support. FHM Activity Two will provide tailored support to USAID Missions to assess, design, implement, and evaluate health market development and private sector engagement activities. This activity seeks to build mission capacity for private sector assessments, market analysis, and healthy market strategies; activity scoping and design; developing market measurement and monitoring tools; training and skills building around PSE policy and operational plans; building capacity to carry out evaluation of market development and private sector activities and approaches.

Position location is Washington, D.C., with travel expected.

Outcomes / Essential Functions

    • Set the strategic, technical and managerial direction for the project. This includes developing, structuring and maintaining a high quality team of relevant professionals in a state ready to respond and deliver multiple simultaneous activities and buy-ins of different sizes, location and focus; developing, adapting and applying tools for articulating scopes and budgets, client management and communication, common technical services and other related needs; maintaining an environment of flexibility and responsiveness among the project team and company to provide quick scoping and delivery of tasks.
    • Provide strategic and technical leadership and/or oversite of all activities and outputs. This may require varying degrees of involvement depending on the needs and nature of the activity, but could include extensive technical inputs to research, evaluation, design and facilitation, inputs to health technical resources or deliverables, quality assurance of all project deliverables.
    • Ability to provide USAID missions with agency fluent, emotionally intelligent support and management across a broad range of functional areas and health sectors addressed by the project. This may mean in person, remote and written communication that is based on a deep understanding of USAID missions, their country strategy, their relationships with counterparts and other parts of the agency.

Required Education & Experience

    • 10+ years of relevant experience relating to the management or implementation of donor-funded health projects, throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America and the Caribbean
    • 5 years of experience leading donor-funded public health projects, including previous experience as a Chief of Party, Project Leader, or component leader
    • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
    • Professional flexibility and humility to meet the fast-paced nature of a buy-in style project
    • Experience working independently to meet deadlines and quality expectations, as well as part of a larger team for multi-component assignments

Preferred Education & Experience

    • Proficiency in Spanish, French, Arabic, or Portuguese is preferred
    • Experience with DC-based and demand-driven contracts is preferred.
    • Extensive experience working in the context of USAID projects and/or engaging with USAID missions and staff is preferred
    • Experience on or with USAID activities including MOMENTUM, Strengthening Health Outcomes in the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus, Support for International Family Planning and Health Organizations (SIFPO) 2, Scale for Impact, and/or NPI EXPAND: New Partners for Better Health
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of Resonance is to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. Resonance hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

Resonance believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each associate to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.
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