Deadline: Not Specified
Location: Mogadishu, Somalia
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) International is seeking to fill the role of Chief of Party.
CARE, an international NGO with local staff and community partners in 100 countries, creates local solutions to poverty and inequality.
Responsibilities
- Lead the project, providing vision, direction, and technical guidance. Supervise staff and consultants to fulfil project strategic goals and objectives
- Oversee completion of all technical requirements, including project results and deliverables, in accordance with the project work plan
- Build and maintain productive working relationships with USAID, project partners, and key stakeholders. Serve as the primary liaison among all project stakeholders
- Manage operational, financial, and administrative priorities, and direct planning and budgeting processes
- Create or adapt management systems in line with CARE’s standard operating procedures, ensuring adherence to USAID policies and regulations, and relevant national policies and laws
- Build partnerships among international, national, and community-level stakeholders
- Design and oversee an annual project cycle in accordance with USAID’s annual planning cycles. Ensure documentation and dissemination of findings, impact, innovations, and lessons learned, and utilise a collaborative and adaptive learning approach to the project cycle
- Establish and maintain formal and informal communication mechanisms with government, community partners and other stakeholders
- Remain current with similar or related programmes and best practices in-country and internationally, ensuring CARE staff apply these consistently
- Oversee M and E function, including preparation of quarterly and annual project activity reports, M and E reports, and other deliverables, as specified in the agreement
- Supervise and mentor senior staff, delegating responsibilities as appropriate; clearly communicate expectations for staff performance
- Provide strategic leadership in areas related to resilience, agriculture, natural resource management, and agribusiness
- Understand and integrate gender and youth dynamics in programme activities and staff management
Requirements
- University degree
- Master’s degree or equivalent in Agriculture, Economics, Management or International development is preferred
- 15 years, minimum, of progressively increasing management responsibility in complex, multi-sector international humanitarian and development projects as chief of party, deputy chief of party, or senior management experience on projects of similar size and scope
- Demonstrated technical expertise in food security and livelihoods and experience in managing programme implementation and financial reporting
- Experience managing USAID cooperative agreements and/or contracts
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills tailored to diverse audience types, audience sizes, and communication platforms
- Five years, minimum, of experience in or in fragile or post-conflict states
- Proven success serving in a leadership role for a project addressing issues related to resilience, agriculture, natural resource management, agribusiness, or similar, preferably in the Horn of Africa
- Demonstrated experience in adaptive management and learning techniques is strongly preferred
- Demonstrated commitment to gender and youth inclusivity in food security programming
- Demonstrated commitment to principles of gender equity, diversity, belonging and inclusion
- Demonstrated commitment to prevention of sexual exploitation and harassment (PSEAH)
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with host governments, donors, other donor-funded projects and stakeholders, local organisations, and partners in low-resource environments
- Experience recruiting, developing, and managing staff and teams in remote contexts
- Fluency in English
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