Panagora Group is a dynamic woman- and employee-owned small business and social enterprise dedicated to providing high-quality, high-impact international health, development, and learning services. We deliver market-based, integrated, and locally led solutions that strengthen country capacity; and learning, communications, and technology solutions to accelerate and heighten impact. Using novel, innovative, and highly participatory approaches to mobilize community, civil society, and government commitment in defining and owning solutions, we promote inclusive development to benefit all groups.
Panagora seeks an experienced Program Director for an anticipated contract award with technical experience in global health, monitoring, evaluation, research, learning, and adaption (MERLA), knowledge management, and collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA). A successful candidate will provide strategic leadership to ensure technical excellence in program implementation, build and maintain relationships that grow Panagora’s portfolio and strengthen its reputation in global health. The Director will oversee and ensure quality technical assistance to country programs; supervise and manage technical and operation staff; make significant contributions to new business development, particularly leading proposal teams, technical strategy, and writing proposal sections. This position reports to the Executive Vice President, Programs or her designee.
Responsibilities
- Support the Global Health practice by providing technical leadership and oversight of Panagora’s work in global health and monitoring, evaluation, and learning
- Lead development and implementation of annual activity work plans and budgets, ensuring effective implementation and achievement of priority initiatives and activities
- Serve as program director for multiple activities ensuring compliance with contract requirements and support activity performance via regular tracking of financial and program reports, M&E data, communication with field teams, and periodic supervisory travel
- Ensure compliance with contract requirements including timely submission of deliverables
- Lead and support continual improvement activities to ensure Panagora’s global health programs are of high quality and are optimally managed and aligned with Panagora’s quality assurance standards. Define success indicators for Panagora’s health programs based on best practices and industry standards
- Serve as liaison with clients and ensure customer satisfaction
- Champion knowledge stewardship within the global health practice by promoting capture and dissemination of activity approaches, innovations, stories, and routine updates into company and external platforms
- Ensure short-term assignments are staffed and carried out as planned, including through clear scopes of work, high-quality personnel, and facilitative oversight
- Support new business development in global health, providing leadership to proposal teams, in technical conceptualization and writing, recruitment of high-quality technical personnel, and contributions to other sections. Seek out new business opportunities to maximize Panagora’s impact and leverage
- Represent Panagora periodically at conferences, meetings, and events
- Develop and maintain excellent professional relationships with partners, governments, global institutions, and donors
- Mentor staff to ensure high levels of motivation, commitment, capacity, and teamwork supporting processes that allow for capacity building, coaching, and mentoring of staff and local partners
Requirements
- Master's degree in public health or an advanced degree in a relevant field
- 10-15 years of experience successfully leading technical teams, at least 7 of which include managing staff
- Proven practical technical experience with global health required, with health supply chain and logistics experience highly desirable
- Demonstrated knowledge with USAID health programming and proficiency in cross-cutting areas of monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), knowledge management and communications (KMC), and collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA)
- Excellent understanding of USAID systems, structures, and process, in particular USAID contracts and regulations
- Ability to manage multi-cultural team with diverse skill sets to achieve results
- Strong track record to lead and support winning proposals including the ability to conceptualize and write technical proposals
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
- Awareness of, sensitivity to, and experience in working with multi-cultural staff and groups, preferably having lived, and worked in one or more low resource settings
- Ability to work in complex environments charged with multiple tasks, short deadlines, and intense pressure to perform
- Fluency in a second language preferred (French, Portuguese, or other major national language(s) relevant to area(s) of focus)
- Willingness to travel internationally, primarily to developing countries, as needed
Reports to: Executive Vice President Programs
No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted. Only applicants who include the required application components will be considered.
Panagora Group is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Panagora Group is currently working a hybrid work schedule, and employees are encouraged to come into the office at least once a week to foster engagement, collaboration, belonging and professional development. Departments/teams will hold in-person meetings that involve a high degree of collaboration, where ideas are generated quickly and often feed off each other, e.g., brainstorming, storyboarding, proposal development, strategic planning, and performance discussions. Staff who reside in the DC/MD/VA area are strongly encouraged to work from the office on those days.
Benefits
Panagora Group offers competitive salaries including regular performance reviews and merit increases with an excellent insurance program (health, dental and vision) paid leave, holidays, bonuses, employee assistance program, training and development assistance, commuter allowance, phone allowance, as well as employee stock ownership (ESOP) and 401K programs.
*Note: Panagora does not offer visa sponsorship at this time.