Deadline: Not specified
Location: Ghana
ACDI/VOCA is seeking a Country Manager for an upcoming nutrition-focused activity in Ghana.
ACDI/VOCA is a private, international development nonprofit whose mission is to promote economic opportunities for cooperatives, enterprises and communities.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate with the chief of party regularly to discuss operations, field activities, successes, and potential issues and risks; participate in regular planning processes
- Address priorities related to improving household access to diverse and quality food, improving nutrition-related behaviours, as well as the capacity of local food system actors to meet these needs
- Contribute to the cross-cutting goals of the programme
- Provide technical leadership and oversight for nutrition-focused initiatives
- Nurture and manage relationships with key public and private partners
- Work closely with partner teams to ensure assigned activities are completed on time
- Ensure effective cooperative agreement management, reporting, communications and relationship management with USAID
- Ensure quality control and timeliness of all deliverables
- Assist in preparation of periodic written and oral report work plans, financial, logistical, and other documents to USAID and ACDI/VOCA headquarters
- Review of all financial and logistical information periodically
- Monitor ongoing grants and attend events related to grant activities
- Facilitate the development of a robust learning culture within the technical team, adopting an adaptive management style and providing regular opportunities for the team to capture and process learning from implementation
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition, Food Sciences, Food Systems, Agribusiness, or a related field
- Master’s degree is desirable
- Ten years, minimum, of progressively responsible experience in food processing and added value, nutrition, food systems, food safety, and/or agribusiness development, including management experience
- Successful track record of leadership on USAID or other U.S. government-funded projects preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience working in Ghana
- Fluency in English
To apply or for more information, click here.
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