Palladium

Chief of Party (COP), South Africa USAID South Africa New Supply Chain Support (NSCS)

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 gend

This Opportunity:

The Chief of Party (COP) will lead the Palladium team in achieving all project objectives. The COP for the USAID South Africa New Supply Chain Support (NSCS) will be the principle point of contact for the USAID and will have the authority to make decisions on behalf of Palladium and will have primary accountability for project requirements. They will coordinate and liaise with various stakeholders, including the Government of South Africa, other donor-funded projects, implementing partners, USAID and other public and private sector stakeholders. The COP will support timely implementation and reporting across all activities by working with technical leads and operations staff to maintain a general organizational order of all ongoing activities. This role requires strong project management and organizational skills and an understanding of how to translate theories of change and project workplans into day-to-day activities to achieve desired outcomes to ensure project success. The COP will also manage in-country project staff by providing direct supervision to senior project leadership. 

Location: Pretoria, South Africa 

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Serve as key point of contact for day-to-day program management. Oversee and manage country team to ensure project implementation runs smoothly.
• Lead the development and execution of high-quality country strategic plan relevant to the local context and reflecting the global priorities.
• Lead and ensure the quality of technical deliverables related to supply chain maturity, rational use of medicine, health financing, and private sector engagement of supply chains. 
• Oversee the recruitment, orientation, and performance of senior staff and development of middle management staff.
• Collaborate with technical leaders to ensure all workplan activities are not only taking place as planned but are also of high quality
• Liaise between technical and operations teams to ensure activity plans are translated into contracts, consultancies, travel, etc., and support financial management by ensuring case forecasts and spending reports reflect planned/completed technical activities.
• Oversee project work planning, budgeting, and progress/financial reporting, in collaboration with country team, technical, and HQ staff.
• Interface with clients and other project stakeholders, to plan, implement, review, and report on projects and deliverables or products as needed.
• Ensure staff compliance with project guidelines and SOPs; and perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Key Competencies Required:

• Experience in international development working with donors (including USAID) is required.
• Experience as a Chief of Party or in a senior leadership position of a project that is implemented at the country level that required the assembling, managing, and supervising complex teams.
• Experience with global health or health supply chain programs with significant experience in one of the following areas: supply chain management, procurement, warehousing, or logistics.
• Demonstrated knowledge of supply chain, 4PL, and 3PL logistics, including experience with LMIS, WMIS, TMIS, and control tower software.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders including government agencies, host country governments and counterparts, and international donor agencies.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Experience in monitoring and documenting project activities and outcomes.
• Ability to exercise leadership, build teams, maintain effective communication, motivate, and generate commitment within a team.
• Knowledge of USG procurement regulations. 
• Ability to communicate effectively and high comfort level writing and presenting data and information in a compelling way to different audiences.
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to communicate across technical disciplines and non-technical audience required. 

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Master’s degree in global public health, business, supply chain management, public administration, healthcare administration, or a related field. 
• Proficiency in local languages is beneficial.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status. 

Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss. 

Safeguarding - We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.