Senior Advisor, Global Health

Chemonics seeks a senior advisor, global health to join the Global Health Division! The division seeks to expand and deepen its expert pool of global health senior technical advisors to respond to forward market and divisional priorities. Chemonics' technical practices work in partnership with each other, project staff, new business and proposal teams, and the evidence and outreach department to implement the U.S. Government Business Line Growth Strategy.

Housed in Chemonics' health technical practice,the senior advisor will be responsible for growing a portfolio of global health projects to deliver effective, efficient development impact. The Senior Advisor will contribute to defining the growth strategy and implementing the work plan for global health. The senior advisor will also play a key role in fostering knowledge sharing and learning across the global workforce, ensuring that both our projects and proposals benefit from innovative and evidence-based approaches.

Aligned with client learning agendas and strategic priorities, the senior advisor will identify opportunities for applied research, generating evidence-based solutions that help shape industry discourse and improve global health programming. Additionally, the senior advisor will lead global engagement efforts, facilitating strong relationships among Chemonics staff, industry experts, partners, and key clients, including USAID. This is an hourly (non-exempt) position with flexible hours, up to a maximum of 30 hours per week. We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.

Responsibilities:

• Undertakes leadership roles in proposal development, setting forth a vision and strategy for program design and contributing substantively to proposal drafts as needed.
• Participates in strategy sessions early in capture to advise teams on the competitive landscape, client preferences, potential partners and personnel, and innovative or evidence-based approaches.
• Reviews solicitations and draft proposals, providing teams with technical input and guidance customized to the opportunity, including inputs on prospective partners and candidates.
• Leads or contributes to scoping trips aligned with the forward market.
• Cultivates and maintains relationships with clients, consultants, and counterparts to advance successful new business opportunities.
• Tracks, analyzes, and shares development trends and client priorities within the global health sector.
• Conceptualizes and leads development of demand-driven resources to address proposal gaps and weaknesses identified in partnership with new business teams, based on previous proposal decisions and the forward market.

Technical Approaches

• Fosters supportive relationships with project technical leadership and provides demand-driven technical support to projects in global health. This may include serving as a thought partner to project leadership to help solve specific technical implementation challenges, facilitating access to specialized technical and cross-cutting expertise, or building skills of our global workforce in emerging global health approaches and practices.
• Conceptualizes and leads development and delivery of demand-driven training courses, learning resources, knowledge sharing events, and ad-hoc technical discussions to engage the global workforce, leveraging technical working groups and community of practice members as leaders and contributors, as appropriate.
• Researches cutting-edge tools, frameworks, or approaches available within the industry for potential project piloting and adoption.
• Leverage networks to help identify and cultivate expertise in varying sub-specialties within global health and priority contexts as needed.
• Captures project innovation and learning to repurpose for proposal, other project, and external use.

Industry Outreach and Client Engagement

• Fosters collaborative working relationships with client technical staff with a particular emphasis on USAID, strategic partners, and stakeholders, and continually promotes outstanding client service and technical leadership.
• Contributes to industry outreach on topics aligned with client interests for sharing Chemonics global health technical knowledge products, evidence, and learning.
• Identifies opportunities and supports efforts to highlight the work of our global health practitioners in international fora.
• Represents Chemonics at external events and industry meetings as needed.
• Contributes to Health Practice efforts to partner with new business and outreach teams to position Chemonics externally for forward market opportunities in global health.
• Contributes to feedback or input on client's draft policies, strategies, frameworks or technical documents, on request.

Inclusive Management

• Fosters an inclusive workplace and lives the values of creating opportunity, serving others, building trust, innovating, and exceeding expectations.
• Collaborates with Enterprise-level business functions including innovation, knowledge management, and strategic communications to positively contribute and contribute to Chemonics reputation in global health.
• Promotes staff development through coaching, mentoring, and facilitating professional growth opportunities in global health.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as required.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years of technically relevant work, including at least 5 in the field of international development required, in at least one of the following areas: health systems strengthening, global health security, health financing, health governance and policy, health information systems, capacity strengthening, HIV/AIDS (PEPFAR), Malaria (PMI), TB, and MERL.
• Bachelor's degree required. Advanced degree in public health, public policy, health administration, medicine, or social sciences preferred, or equivalent combination of education and work experience in relevant technical competency area.
• Industry-recognized expert in global health with existing networks with USAID and at the country level.
• Demonstrated experience supporting business development efforts for USAID or other donors.
• Demonstrated knowledge of trends and directions in global health, donor initiatives and programs, most notably USAID initiatives and programs, and a breadth of industry organizations (large and small businesses).
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and concisely both orally and in writing. This includes public presentations and contribution to publications.
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage working relationships with clients, partners, and technical experts.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across sectors internally and externally with industry leaders and partners.
• Willingness to travel and work abroad a minimum of 4-8 weeks per year; experience working on global health programs in developing countries required.
• Strong knowledge of MS Office applications.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Foreign language (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic) proficiency preferred.

Application Instructions:

Apply by January 23rd. No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted.

Chemonics is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Chemonics is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, age, or other legally protected characteristics. Military veterans, AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, and other national service alumni are encouraged to apply.

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