Director, Program Implementation

Location:
Dhaka, Bangladesh

Position Category:
Local hire, paid in country

Posting Date:
11/25/2025

Deadline Date:
12/05/2025

Salary
: Commensurate with experience and location.

Description
Organization Background
JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc is an international organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. JSI works extensively with national and local governments, NGOs, the private sector, and traditional leaders to expand access to high-quality health services. JSI is committed to improving global health through innovative approaches in a range of public health areas, including infectious diseases, nutrition, maternal, newborn and child health, technical and organizational capacity building, supply chain strengthening, strategic information management, health systems management, and policy development. JSI is recruiting a Chief of Party (COP) as part of the MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience (MIHR) project in Bangladesh.

The Momentum Integrated Health Resilience project implemented by a consortium led by IMA

World Health is a global initiative that partners with governments and local stakeholders in fragile states and regions. MIHR's objective is to save lives, through increased access to high quality MNCH-Nutrition life-saving interventions, strengthening partnership with local organizations and through improved adaptive management to prevent, detect and respond to health emergencies. MIHR focuses on equipping health institutions and frontline workers with the skills, tools, and resources to sustainably address the leading causes of maternal and child deaths. This approach directly contributes to the America First Global Health Strategy making America safer, stronger and prosperous across the globe, in the short, intermediate and longer terms.

In Bangladesh, MIHR will support the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) to deliver and strengthen life-saving MNCH and nutrition services in Cox's Bazar host communities and in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), two regions with some of the country's most vulnerable populations. In this part of the country, health systems are overstretched by geographic isolation and difficult terrain, shortages of skilled health providers, cultural and linguistic barriers, and the protracted humanitarian crisis in Cox's Bazar.

Job Summary
The Director of Program Implementation will be responsible for coordinating and implementing all of the MIHR Bangladesh program activities. He/she will be responsible for providing technical oversight of the project staff. The Director of Program Implementation may assist the COP in overall technical leadership and liaising with the Government of Bangladesh, the US Department of State, and other key stakeholders as necessary. The Director of Program Implementation is a member of the Senior Management Team of the project and reports to the Chief of Party.

Responsibilities

• Strategic and technical leadership in delivery of life saving MNCH and nutrition services to ensure effective program implementation across all implementation geographies.
• S/he will be responsible for operationalizing all aspects of the implementation of technical activities.
• The Director of Program Implementation is responsible for ensuring that implementation is in accordance with USG regulations and procedures and the specifications determined in the award.
• Assist the COP in planning, budgeting and monitoring program activities to ensure that all activities are properly and timely performed and that outputs are accomplished and delivered according to the agreed work plan.
• Model effective communications, professional relationships, and coordination for timely reporting, both internally and externally.
• Work closely with COP to monitor, analyze and troubleshoot any challenges to program
• implementation and resolve any issues that arise
• Supervise and coordinate program staff in the regional offices;

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of ten years' progressively experience in a senior role managing large, complex, and integrated programs of similar scope and dollar value.
• Previous experience working on USG programs or other donor funded programs with similar health objectives.
• S/he should be eligible to play managerial and leadership roles; planning, and decision making.
• Thoroughly conversant with health resilience, maternal, newborn, and child health, and community health.
• Availability and willingness to routinely travel to Cox's Bazar and the Chittagong Hill Tracts regions.
• Professional working fluency in English. Professional working fluency in Bangla preferred.

Desired Qualifications

• Eight years' experience working in the subcontinent on health systems strengthening; maternal, newborn, and child health; nutrition;
• Strong leadership skills, collaborative team player, and report writing.
• Previous experience working with other development partners on similar types of programs.
• Current relationship with relevant Bangladeshi stakeholders (MOHFW, MOLGRDC, municipalities, city corporations, donors, private sector, and civil society).
• Familiarity with Bangladesh Health Sector Plan and operational plan of MOHFW.

Interested candidates should submit their resumes and cover letters online by 12/05/2025.
**No phone calls please.

Principals only please.**