*Position is contingent upon funding and donor approval.
PURPOSE OF POSITION:
World Vision seeks a Chief of Party (CoP) for the proposed USAID/Food For Peace -funded multi-year Emergency Food Security Program (EFSP) in Yambio South Sudan.
The COP will be responsible for the overall management and representation of the activity. For management, the COP must have proven leadership skills managing projects of a similar size and scope in developing countries. The COP must have prior experience effectively managing humanitarian or DRR activities. The COP should have demonstrated experience recruiting, developing, and managing staff, as well as experience managing programmatic and financial reporting. The Chief of Party (CoP) will serve as the principal institutional liaison to the donor and local government entities.
The CoP shall have a keen understanding of the unique political dynamics and work collaboratively to support the various entities in Yambio South Sudan.
S/he will manage a team of senior staff, sub-recipients, and engagement with stakeholders to ensure quality, timeliness, and efficiency of all products and activities generated under the cooperative agreement. The CoP is expected to have strong leadership qualities and management expertise.
S/he also provides strategic leadership and supervision of sub-grantees and sub-contractors while ensuring the security, feasibility, and sustainability of the program and contribution to Child wellbeing outcomes.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Direct and oversee program implementation, ensuring that all strategic objectives are met through proper design, staffing, implementation and quality assurance.
- Ensure appropriate project quality support to consortium members through purpose leads.
- Oversee that bottlenecks and challenges to project impact are addressed at various levels of stakeholders using forums such as Technical Working Groups, General Body Meetings and meetings with consortium member project managers.
- In collaboration with partners’ Project Managers, design and facilitate regular project learning events with consortium partners and other key stakeholders, ensuring that lessons of sound practice are documented and disseminated through project implementation and review.
- Supervise a team of senior level international and national staff with skills across a diverse set of technical areas.
- Ensure proper technical capacity of staff to manage complex donor funded projects.
- Lead Program staff and short-term consultants.
- Establish and maintain effective project reporting, evaluation, and communication systems. Submit timely accurate and professional reports that meet donor requirements.
- Ensure program budget is managed within approved spending levels and ensure accurate and timely financial reports to donors and Support Office staff.
- Ensure program expenses are reasonable, allocated as per assigned budget, prudent and spent in accordance with donor rules and regulations to ensure low risk audits.
- Liaise with local government officials, local communities, donor representatives and other stakeholders as appropriate.
- Perform other duties as required.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
- A master’s degree in development studies, international relations, agriculture, nutrition, public health, business administration, or related field combined with a minimum of seven years of progressively increasing management responsibility in international relief/recovery/DRR projects is required. Two years of applicable experience can substitute for a master’s degree.
- Proven ability to manage technical teams.
- Knowledge of and familiarity with international assistance program requirements, preferably USAID Office of Food for Peace (FFP) policies, rules and regulations.
- Proven ability in the management of large integrated projects in developing countries.
- Familiarity with USAID programs, their history and their development; mastery of USAID regulations governing such programs.
- Experience working/living in hardship conditions. Familiarity with the Yambio South Sudan context is a plus.
- Ability to integrate teams of professionals around common goals.
- Demonstrated accomplishment in working with host-country professionals, ministries and with donor colleagues in country.
- Strong verbal communication skills, strong presentation and report writing skills.
- Ability to achieve results through partners.
- Experience of leading large and diverse teams.
- Experience in leading and managing large grants/cooperative agreements in a complex environment.
- Experience as a Chief of Party/Program Director or senior expert advisor required.
- Experience managing sub-receipients and contracts under grants for complex projects.
- Fluency in English, Knowledge of Arabic is a plus.
- Professional licenses, as required in the field and by the donor.
Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience in managing inter-agency consortia is preferred.
- Previous experience with Emergency Food Security Program (EFSP) Development Food Assistance Programs (DFAP)s, Development Food Security Program (DFSA), Multi Year Assistance Programs (MYAP)s, and/or Development Assistance Programs (DAP)s is preferred.
- Experience working with the UN cluster system is a plus.
- Familiarity with and commitment to addressing gender equality in project sectors is required, as demonstrated by at least two years of senior-level experience working on projects that addressed gender-related constraints.
Work Environment/Travel:
- Mandatory travels to implementation sites and regional, global meetings as required.
- May include travel to the United States WVUS Washington DC Office to meet with donors and other stakeholders.
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