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    Project Director - Washington, United States - The Kaizen Company

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    Job DescriptionKaizen, A Tetra Tech Company (Kaizen) is an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven development and spur sustainable entrepreneurship and investments. We leverage existing knowledge, new technologies, local peer networks, and innovative business models to support local reforms that are sustained through market forces.

    Since our inception, we have provided support to more than 200 government, private-sector, and non-profit organizations in emerging markets worldwide. We have created solutions that achieve outcomes across a broad range of sectors including education, health, finance, agriculture, governance, economic growth, energy and environment, and water.

    Kaizen is searching for a Project Director for the anticipated USAID Managing Market Access and Innovative Finance (MMAIF) activity. The purpose of the activity is for USAID to acquire support services and technical assistance on a range of market access and innovative financing activities to improve global health outcomes.

    Duties
    The Project Director will provide management oversight of the activity and act as the primary point of contact with USAID about day-to-day implementation and management matters relating to the contract. The Project Director must also have overall responsibility for assuring that all assistance provided under the contract is technically sound and appropriate for the needs to be addressed. The Project Director will be responsible for maintaining close coordination with USAID and managing the selection of sub-recipients for activities across a consortium through sub-contracts of grants under contract. This staff will serve as the primary point of contact with USAID on day-to-day activity implementation and management issues. They will also collaborate with project partners, USAID missions, Global Health offices and other USAID operating units on managing MMAIF and ensuring the provision of timely, relevant and high-quality services.

    Minimum Qualifications
    • At least ten (10) years of demonstrated relevant experience within an international development context, and a demonstrated ability to create and maintain effective working relations with international organizations; US Government agencies; and NGO partners, private sector partners, impact investors, and host country governments (including senior government officials) in low- and middle-income countries;
    • Minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated senior-level leadership experience (e.g. Chief of Party, Project Director, Principle Investigator, Deputy Director) for health care programs of similar magnitude and complexity; and
    • At least 5 years of experience as a senior field management experience demonstrating professional interaction with senior U.S. and foreign government officials.
    • Master's degree in public health, health policy, management, international development, or business administration or a related field required.
    • Fluency in English oral and written communication.
    • Must be authorized to work in the United States

    For candidates applying for positions based in Kaizen's office in Washington, DC, we utilize to mitigate bias in the recruitment process. Upon submitting an application, candidates will receive an email from , prompting them to go through the anonymous screening. In order to be considered for a role, candidates must respond to and proceed with the application. We do not currently use for project positions outside of the United States.

    At Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company, we find strength in our diversity. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. We know that we can only do development differently if we are open to and inclusive of new and unique perspectives. We encourage candidates of all abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, national origins, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations to apply. Further, we urge parents and non-parents, married and unmarried, those from different or non-traditional educational backgrounds, and persons of all other diverse identities or experiences to apply. Kaizen is an equal opportunity employer.

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