The Deputy Chief of Party (DCoP)/Technical Advisor is accountable for strategic leadership and technical oversight of a Sexual Reproductive Health and Family Planning project. S/he is responsible to oversee technical quality, planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of the project. S/he will ensure quality of project intervention design and approaches for women and youth centered family planning and reproductive health and ensure appropriate and timely allocation of human resources and technical assistance for effective implementation of program intervention.S/he will guide and supervise project team to fulfill the project’s strategic goals and objectives, and resolve challenges in implementation of cross-sectoral activities reflective of the program’s logical framework, monitoring and evaluation, and relevant work plans. S/he will coordinate and manage relationships with technical leads of key stakeholders, other implementing partners, and Government of Nepal (GoN) partners, and ensure meaningful engagement with relevant government line agencies, civil society, private sector and other stakeholders. The incumbent will also support strong learning element, testing innovations, documenting successes and failures and scaling up successful approaches applying a mix of proven strategies and innovative ideas to achieve the program goal, and disseminate the results of and learning from program activities to contribute to national policy discourse.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Social science, Public health management, International Development and/or or relevant field.
• Minimum of seven years of experience in managing and implementing complex public health , reproductive health programs of large scope and size in a development context, with at least five of those years in Nepal. Experience on family planning projects preferred.
• Minimum of five years of demonstrated experience in managing and supervising a technical team for health and family planning project design.
• Demonstrated experience at mid- or senior level in any one or more of the following areas: Family Planning, Adolescent reproductive health, health system governance, social behavior change communication, Social marketing, quality improvement/quality assurance; M&E and operations research.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with government representatives, for-profit private sector entities, local community organizations, donors and other stakeholders, particularly at the sub-national level.
• Strong management skills, strategic vision, leadership qualities, interpersonal skills, as well as  written  and  oral  presentation  skills  to  fulfill  the  diverse  technical  and  managerial requirements of the project description.
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English; excellent demonstrated interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Experience recruiting, developing, and managing staff and teams.
• Track record of strong commitment to sharing knowledge, documenting experiences, supporting creative initiatives, and sharing credit.
• Experience managing required programmatic and financial reporting requirements.
• Ability to travel within Nepal as required.