Program Director - Panagora Group : Job Details

Silver Spring, United States | Posted on 12/12/2024

• Highest Level of Education: Master's degree in public health, international development, or an advanced degree in a relevant field
• Work Experience: 10-15 years

Panagora Group is a dynamic woman- and employee-owned small business and social enterprise dedicated to providing high-quality, high-impact international health, development, and learning services. We deliver market-based, integrated, and locally led solutions that strengthen country capacity; and learning, communications, and technology solutions to accelerate and heighten impact. Using novel, innovative, and highly participatory approaches to mobilize community, civil society, and government commitment in defining and owning solutions, we promote inclusive development to benefit all groups.

Panagora seeks a Program Director with technical experience in health systems strengthening (HSS), monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), and inclusive development including gender for a full-time position in our home office in Silver Spring, Maryland. Successful candidates will have demonstrated experience managing and winning USAID and other donor-funded projects in HSS, monitoring, evaluation, and learning, and inclusive development, including gender. 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 and operation staff; make significant contributions to new business development, particularly leading proposal teams, technical strategy, and writing proposal sections. This position reports to the Executive Vice President, Programs or her designee.

• Provide technical leadership and oversight of Panagora's work in HSS, MEL, and inclusive development including gender.
• 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 to proposal teams, technical conceptualization and writing, recruitment of high-quality technical personnel, and contribute to other sections. Seek new business opportunities to maximize Panagora's impact and leverage.
• Represent Panagora periodically at conferences, meetings, and events. Develop and maintain excellent professional relationships with governments, global institutions, and donors.
• 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.

• Master's degree in public health, international development, or an advanced degree in a relevant field.
• Strong technical experience with HSS, PEPFAR, MEL, and/or gender equality and social inclusion preferred.
• Experience in MEL best practices including utilizing monitoring and evaluation in a learning context highly preferred.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with 15 years of practical experience leading technical teams with at least 5 years managing multiple levels of staff.
• Excellent understanding of USAID systems, structures, and process, in particular health and MEL programming.
• Strong track record to lead proposal teams, 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: Executive Vice President Programs

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.

Panagora Group 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, as well as employee stock ownership (ESOP) and 401K programs.

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

Panagora Group LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran disability or genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law in employment.