Project Director, Health Product Stability and Climate Resilience (Rockville, MD - Hybrid Role)

The Project Director for Health Product Stability and Climate Resilience at USP provides strategic and operational leadership for a multi-country program addressing climate change's impact on health products. Responsibilities include overseeing project execution, ensuring quality delivery, and liaising with stakeholders. The role emphasizes partnership development and translating evidence into scalable solutions to improve global health access. The position is hybrid, allowing flexibility in work location.
About the position

The Project Director provides strategic, technical, and operational leadership for a multi-country program addressing the impact of climate change on the stability and performance of critical health products. This role is accountable for overall program vision, execution, and results, ensuring high-quality delivery in alignment with donor expectations and global health priorities. The Project Director leads a multidisciplinary team of technical experts and serves as the primary liaison with donors, governments, and global partners. The role emphasizes strategic direction, partnership development, and translation of evidence into scalable solutions and global impact.\n\nAs part of our mission to advance scientific rigor and public health standards, you will play a vital role in increasing global access to high-quality medicines through public standards and related programs. USP prioritizes scientific integrity, regulatory excellence, and evidence-based decision-making to ensure health systems worldwide can rely on strong, tested, and globally relevant quality standards. Additionally, USP’s People and Culture division, in partnership with the Equity Office, invests in leadership and workforce development to equip all employees with the skills to create high-performing, inclusive teams. This includes training in equitable management practices and tools to promote engaged, collaborative, and results-driven work environments.\n\nIn this role at USP, you contribute to USP's public health mission to increase equitable access to high-quality, safe medicines and improve global health through public standards and related programs. In addition, as part of our commitment to our employees, Global, People, and Culture, in partnership with the Equity Office, regularly invests in the professional development of all people managers. This includes training in inclusive management styles and other competencies necessary to ensure engaged and productive work environments.

Responsibilities

Provide overall leadership for the project strategy, implementation, and results across all countries and workstreams.Ensure timely delivery of high-quality outputs and achievement of the program milestones in line with program requirements and organizational standards.Oversee implementation across technical areas, ensuring coordination, quality, and consistency.Provide strategic oversight of technical activities related to health product stability, evidence generation, and climate resilience.Guide the development and execution of implementation research and evidence generation, ensuring relevance to health outcomes and policy.Oversee identification and advancement of promising solutions and innovations, ensuring alignment with program objectives and scalability potential.Ensure technical rigor and adherence to international standards by leading specialized technical teams.Serve as the primary liaison with donors, local and regional authorities, and global stakeholders, ensuring effective communication, alignment, and reporting.Represent the project in global, regional, and national forums, contributing to thought leadership and knowledge exchange.Lead a global consortium of partner organizations across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, ensuring effective coordination, clear governance structures, aligned workplans, and consistent communication.Foster strong, collaborative relationships, monitor partner performance and compliance with contractual obligations, and proactively address risk to maintain high-quality program delivery.Ensure strong project management systems, including planning and performance tracking.Ensure compliance with contractual requirements and organizational policies to maintain financial, technical, and operational integrity.Establish efficient operational structures and processes to support multi-country implementation.Ensure generation, documentation, and dissemination of high-quality, evidence-based knowledge products.Promote learning and uptake of findings to inform global policy, practice, and future investments in climate-resilient health products.Requirements

Advanced degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, Public Health, or a related field.Minimum of 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical stability, regulatory compliance, and product lifecycle management.Demonstrated expertise in developing and managing stability studies, regulatory submissions, and data systems supporting product quality and performance.Proven experience in implementation research and evidence generation related to health products and systems.Deep expertise in pharmaceutical lifecycle management and real-world product performance monitoring.Strong knowledge of ICH stability guidelines, GMP/cGMP frameworks, and relevant analytical methodologies.Solid understanding of climate-related risks affecting health products and supply chains.Proven track record leading large, complex, multi-country programs, with full accountability for results.Demonstrated leadership in matrixed environments and ability to manage diverse, cross-functional teams and stakeholders.Experience working in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).Excellent communication, negotiation, and cross-cultural collaboration skills.Nice-to-haves

Advanced degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, Public Health, or related field.Familiarity with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of HIV, Malaria, PPH, and TB, and decentralized care modelsBenefits

company-paid time offcomprehensive healthcare optionsretirement savings