Program Director

Location

Silver Spring, MD | United States

Job description

Panagora Group is a woman and employee-owned small business (WOSB) providing novel and integrated solutions in global health and international development. Our goal is to provide innovative solutions that build national capacity and promote sustainability through robust local participation and capacity building, utilizing highly integrated and private sector solutions. Throughout our work, we embrace a virtuous circle of knowledge stewardship, collaborative learning, and application of evidence to heighten and accelerate positive health and development outcomes. In 2023, Panagora was awarded a Great Place to Work certification based on employee feedback.

Panagora seeks a Program Director with technical experience in Global Health in our home office in Silver Spring, Maryland. Successful candidates will have demonstrated experience managing and winning USAID Global Health projects, specifically those focused on health security, infectious disease prevention and treatment, and/or health systems strengthening . They will provide strategic leadership to ensure technical excellence in these areas across the organization, represent Panagora globally, and develop and maintain relationships that grow Panagora’s portfolio and strengthen its reputation. The Director will oversee and ensure quality technical assistance to country programs; supervise and manage technical staff; make significant contributions to new business development, particularly in technical strategy and writing; and oversee programmatic progress against success indicators.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and oversight of Panagora’s work in global health, global health security, infectious disease prevention and treatment, and health systems strengthening
• Lead start-ups and close outs of USAID funded programs
• Lead development and implementation of 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 activity performance via regular financial and program tracking and reports, M&E data, communication with field teams, and periodic supervisory travel
• Lead and support activities to ensure high quality performance and optimally manage and align activities with Panagora’s quality assurance standards
• Define success indicators for assigned programs based on best practices and industry standards
• Serve as liaison with clients and ensure customer satisfaction
• Champion knowledge stewardship within global health, MEL, and gender by promoting capture and dissemination of activity approaches, innovations, stories, and routine updates into company and external platforms
• Ensure short-term assignments are well staffed and carried out as planned through clear scopes of work, high-quality personnel, and facilitative oversight
• Ensure all donor and activity reports are compliant and submitted on time
• Support new business development, providing leadership in technical conceptualization and writing, recruitment of high-quality technical personnel, and contribute to other sections
• Seek out new business opportunities to maximize Panagora’s impact and leverage
• Actively support and represent Panagora’s mission and values in conduct and communications
• Represent Panagora periodically at conferences, meetings, and events. Develop and maintain excellent professional relationships with governments, global institutions, and donor
• 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

• Masters degree in public health, international development, or an advanced degree in a relevant field
• Strong technical experience with health security, health systems strengthening, and infectious diseases treatment and prevention preferred
• Demonstrated leadership skills with 12 years of practical experience leading technical teams with at least 7 years managing multiple levels of staff
• Excellent understanding of USAID systems, structures, and process, in particular global health programming
• Experience with USAID program start up and close out required
• Strong track record to lead and support winning proposals including ability to conceptualize and write technical proposals
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
• Demonstrated experience managing and working with multi-cultural teams with diverse skill sets
• Experience living and working overseas in low resource settings with the ability to work in complex environments charged with multiple tasks, short deadlines, and pressure to perform
• Fluency in a second language preferred
• Willingness to travel internationally, primarily to developing countries  

Reports to: Managing Director, Global Health

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, Inc. 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, Society for International Development and Humentum Memberships, as well as employee stock ownership (ESOP) and 401K programs.

*Note: Panagora does not offer visa sponsorship at this time.

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