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Overview

Job title: Temporary Chief of Party, Sanitation Service Delivery

Department: West and Central Africa

Based in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire or Cotonou, Benin

Reports to the Regional Director, West and Central Africa

Who we are

We’re Population Services International (PSI), the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. We work to make it easier for people in the developing world to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire by marketing affordable products and services that range from mosquito nets to contraceptives to HIV testing.

There are over 7,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. It’s a diverse group of entrepreneurs and professionals with an unusually wide range of backgrounds – from the medical industry to the music business – all with unique skills we bring to the job.

Join us!

PSI seeks an experienced Temporary Chief of Party (COP) to lead implementation of its USAID-funded Sanitation Service Delivery Project (SSD) in West Africa. Currently in the last year of the project, SSD is a 5-year urban sanitation program in Ghana, Benin, and Cote d’Ivoire that ends on September 30, 2019 with the possibility for extension. The project aims to increase access to safely managed sanitation through market-based approaches and to share learning with the region on market-based approaches to increasing sanitation access. The project’s approach includes stimulating demand and improving supply of high-quality, affordable sanitation products and services, primarily through engagement, coordination, and capacity building of private sector actors.

The COP should have significant leadership, management and international development experience; experience successfully collaborating with private sector, NGO, and government partners; strong interest in market-based approaches to development; and a demonstrated track record of delivering programmatic results. This position will be based in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire or Cotonou, Beninand will oversee the project in all three countries. He/she will report to the Regional Director for West and Central Africa.

Sound like you? Read on.

Responsibilities

Your contribution

You will be responsible for overall management, technical direction, and administration to ensure programmatic success. This includes:

• Serve as main point of contact/representative of the project to USAID.
• Oversee the implementation of activities in Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, and Ghana.
• Develop and impement a data quality assurance plan to ensure quality of monitoring data
• Oversee close-out of the program at the end of the award.
• Provide effective guidance, supervise, and support technical members of the in-country management teams and staff assigned to the project.
• Ensure delivery of technical learning documents.
• Ensure the quality and timeliness of project deliverables.
• Ensure the effective use and coordination of USAID resources and the compliance of the financial systems and controls with USAID standards.
• Develop and manage a team that includes members of diverse backgrounds and partner organizations.
• Ensure sound financial management including programmatic budgeting, spending projections and monitoring of payments.
• Ensure high-quality periodic reporting in line with USAID and PSI requirements (Quarterly and Annual Status reports, quarterly financial reports etc.)Qualifications

What are we looking for?

The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:

Measurement: You use hard evidence to make decisions and guide your work. You set clear goalposts in advance and explain clearly if you need to move them.

Pragmatism: You’ll strive to deliver the best possible result with the resources available. You won’t be paralyzed by a need to make things perfect.

Honesty: You own your mistakes and are open about your shortcomings – it’s the only way you’ll learn and improve.

Collaboration: You’ll quickly establish a mental map of whom you can rely on for what, on your team, at headquarters, and in our country offices – if you try to do it all yourself, you won’t succeed.

Trust: You accept limits to your sphere of control and give colleagues the benefit of the doubt

Commitment: You are in it for the long-haul and want to grow with the organization, just like PSI serves its consumers and partners with host-country governments through thick and thin

The basics

• Hold a master’s degree or higher in a relevant field and have technical skills which complement those of the activity’s key technical specialists
• Have a minimum of 15 years of experience in international development. Experience and technical knowledge in market-based approaches and/or sanitation strongly preferred.
• Have at least 10 years of successful experience as Project Director of large donor-funded technical assistance programs for activities of similar magnitude and complexity in developing countries.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a cross-cultural environment with other implementers and teams carrying out USAID- and other donor-funded programs, including activities in different sectors
• Be adept in strategic planning, budgeting, adaptive management, and supervision
• Fluency in French and English is mandatory.
• References will be required.
• The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check.

PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.

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