Director, Maternal And Child Health

Director, Maternal and Child Health

About Palladium:

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop anddeliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around theglobe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; buildenduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems toaddress global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diversestaff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

This Opportunity:

The Director, Maternal and Child Health is a leadership position.As a member of the Integrated Health Services and Systems team the Director ofMaternal and Child Health will provide strategic and technical leadership byensuring that proposals and projects are technically appropriate andmethodologically sound, adhering to the latest global standards of care andpractice. The Director of Maternal and Child Health will also representPalladium by participating in technical working groups, committees and otherbodies that focus on activities, policies and innovations related to thedelivery of maternal and child health services. The Director of Maternal andChild Health must have depth and breadth of technical expertise and experiencein the delivery of maternal, neonatal, child, and reproductive health services.In addition, this position requires understanding of international norms andstandards of MCH care, quality improvement approaches as well as current trendsin service delivery, training and capacity building approaches that are basedon scientific evidence.

Location:

The position is based in Palladium's Washington D.C. office.

You and Your Career:

If you are a leader, problem-solver, and strategic thinker and youhave expertise in providing technical guidance to projects to ensure that theyare technically sound and evidenced based, and have the desire to interact withinternal stakeholders in the MNCH clinical arena we are interested in hearingfrom you.

We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunitiesfrom the start. We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources,and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!

Reporting and Supervision:

This position reports to the leadership of the Integrated Servicesand Systems portfolio.

PrimaryDuties and Responsibilities:

• Provide technical and programmatic direction by reviewing proposals, project workplans, reports and other documents to ensure that interventions related to the delivery of maternal and child health services are technically appropriate
• Ensure that the programs that are assisted are technically sound, evidence-based, and responsive to the needs of the countries and applicable donors
• Serve as the main technical interface between Palladium external stakeholders as it applies to Maternal and Child Health
• Stay abreast of emerging MNCH evidence, issues, activities and trends across the global MNCH community and seek opportunities to incorporate within Palladium's programs
• Coordinate with key global partners and leaders in MNCH (e.g., WHO, USAID/GH, UNICEF, UNFPA, etc.,)
• Support Palladium projects in complication, adverse incident and death investigations as a result of maternal and child health service delivery
• Serve as expert advisor on complex and precedent-setting maternal and child health programs, including complex and fragile settings
• Provide mentoring and capacity building at the individual and organizational level in specific areas of expertise related to maternal and child health (RH/FP, MNCH, etc.,)
• Support other health practice staff and Palladium technical portfolios to develop interventions related to MCH service delivery
• Prepare analyses, recommendations, briefing notes, white papers, and assessments for internal and client use
• Engage in the business development/proposal process by identifying and supporting new opportunities and by contributing to the technical design, writing, and review of new proposals
• Perform other related duties as assigned by their supervisor

KeyCompetencies Required:

• Proven clinical and program experience working in the delivery of maternal and child health service delivery programs in Africa, and other low-resource settings
• Comprehensive understanding of the cultural issues and needs that women who are the end users of the service system face, and solutions to meet those needs
• Formal clinical training, practice and background in either maternal, newborn or child health
• Proven experience developing and implementing service delivery protocols, norms and standards
• Ability to develop productive working relationships with counterparts in other agencies and organizations worldwide
• Knowledge of broad USG policy and programmatic context
• Ability to write technical documents for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to coach, train, and mentor teammates from diverse technical and cultural backgrounds in the areas of maternal and newborn health
• Ability to comfortably work with staff remotely
• Excellent analytical, writing, and presentation skills in English
• Proven facilitation, teambuilding, and coordination skills
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 30% internationally
• Ability to use the Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and the Teams collaborative site

ProfessionalExpertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Published peer-reviewed articles related to maternal child health
• Demonstrated ability to interpret research findings and apply them to the service delivery context
• Ability to work in French

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

Shouldyou require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability oryou are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please emailour team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we willbe in touch to discuss.

Safeguarding - We defineSafeguarding as "the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect ourpeople, clients and the communities we work with from harm". We are committedto ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladiumare treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject toan enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and arigorous due diligence process.