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Chemonics seeks a deputy chief of party for operations for an anticipated USAID five year local governance strengthening project in Nigeria. The project aims to increase effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of selected state and local governments. It will focus on strengthening systems to improve the delivery of services in key sectors including basic education, primary health care, and water, sanitation, and hygiene; efficiency of key governance operations; government’s responsiveness to citizen needs and priorities; and government’s and civil society’s capacity to manage conflict. We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.

Responsibilities include:

  • Manage project operations teams
  • Ensure that project implementation complies with client rules, regulations, and requirements

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in business administration, public administration, finance, law, international relations, or other relevant field; master’s degree preferred
  • Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible work experience
  • Minimum five years of experience managing complex activities of a similar size, preferably in West Africa
  • Minimum five years of accounting and financial management experience, with additional grants management experience preferred
  • Ability to oversee complex activities and manage a large project staff across multiple offices
  • Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
  • Ability to effectively manage a team while balancing work assignments with competing priorities

How to apply:

Please send electronic submissions of your CV and cover letter to [email protected] by April 1, 2017. Please include “Deputy Chief of Party – Operations” in the subject line. No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted.

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For more than 36 years, Chemonics has remained dedicated to helping people live healthier, more productive, and more independent lives.

We believe those who have the least deserve our best. So at Chemonics, development is more than a passion or a calling. It’s a profession. Doing it well takes experience, ingenuity and a stubborn insistence that tomorrow’s work must be better than today’s.

From our founding in 1975, we have worked in more than 150 countries to help our clients, partners and beneficiaries take on the world’s toughest challenges. Today, we reimagine global supply chains to deliver essential medicines to the right place at the right time. We take a promising new way of powering a village in Kenya and adapt it to a village in Colombia. We embrace project management as a discipline, not an afterthought, so our clients get maximum impact for minimum risk. And we think big, about applying lessons learned across all of our projects, about bridging the gap between segregated technical fields and about forging partnerships that unite the world’s best minds to solve its toughest problems.

Our global network of more than 4,000 specialists share an unwavering resolve to work better, driven by a conviction that the world must be better. We’re one of the world’s leading partners in international development, because where Chemonics works, development works.

Caring | Serve others

  • Be respectful and humble.
  • Listen, empathize, and be compassionate.
  • Embrace teamwork.
  • Give regular feedback (appreciative and constructive).

Excellence | Exceed expectations 

  • Provide dedicated customer service.
  • Master skills and focus on details.
  • Solve problems, admit mistakes, learn and move on.
  • Set high standards and deliver quality results.

Innovation | Be entrepreneurial

  • Be flexible and open-minded.
  • Take initiative and introduce new ideas.
  • Translate ideas to actions quickly.
  • Accelerate change and be part of the change.

Integrity | Trust one another 

  • Be transparent (open door, open book).
  • Do the right thing.
  • Honor commitments and be accountable.
  • Empower others to take action and make decisions.

Opportunity | Think big 

  • Be versatile.
  • Continue to learn and develop self.
  • Mentor and develop others.
  • Take chances on people and partners.
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0 USD Nigeria CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Chemonics International Inc

Chemonics seeks a deputy chief of party for operations for an anticipated USAID five year local governance strengthening project in Nigeria. The project aims to increase effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of selected state and local governments. It will focus on strengthening systems to improve the delivery of services in key sectors including basic education, primary health care, and water, sanitation, and hygiene; efficiency of key governance operations; government's responsiveness to citizen needs and priorities; and government's and civil society's capacity to manage conflict. We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.

Responsibilities include:

  • Manage project operations teams
  • Ensure that project implementation complies with client rules, regulations, and requirements

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in business administration, public administration, finance, law, international relations, or other relevant field; master's degree preferred
  • Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible work experience
  • Minimum five years of experience managing complex activities of a similar size, preferably in West Africa
  • Minimum five years of accounting and financial management experience, with additional grants management experience preferred
  • Ability to oversee complex activities and manage a large project staff across multiple offices
  • Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
  • Ability to effectively manage a team while balancing work assignments with competing priorities

How to apply:

Please send electronic submissions of your CV and cover letter to [email protected] by April 1, 2017. Please include "Deputy Chief of Party - Operations" in the subject line. No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted.

2017-04-01

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