Deadline: Ongoing

Location: Maputo, Mozambique

Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) International is seeking to fill the position 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

• Oversee the completion of all technical requirements, including project results and deliverables, in accordance with the project workplan
• Build and maintain productive working relationships with USAID, project partners, and key stakeholders, including international, national, and community-level stakeholders
• Serve as the primary liaison among all project stakeholders
• Manage the project’s operational, financial, and administrative priorities
• Direct the planning and budgeting processes
• Create or adapt management systems in line with CARE’s standard operating procedures, ensuring consistency with project needs
• Build partnerships among international, national, and community-level stakeholders
• Design and oversee an annual project cycle in accordance with USAID’s annual planning cycles
• With staff and partners, translate project goals and objectives into implementable strategies and plans
• Oversee the preparation of quarterly and annual project activity reports, monitoring and evaluation reports, and other deliverables as specified in the agreement
• Represent the project at meetings, conferences, and other forums
• Guide team members to fulfill the project’s strategic goals and objectives
• Manage and mentor senior staff, delegating responsibilities as appropriate
• Clearly communicate expectations for staff performance

Requirements

• Master’s degree in a relevant field, including Agriculture, Business Administration, Development Studies, International Relations, Nutrition, and Public Health
• Ten years, minimum, of progressively increasing leadership and management responsibility on USAID-funded development activities of a similar size and scope with five years, minimum, of experience working in country-based programmes
• Experience working in Southern African is strongly preferred
• Demonstrated commitment to principles of gender equity and inclusion as evidenced in previous management positions and programming
• Demonstrated commitment to PSEAH (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Harassment)
• Understanding and demonstrated commitment to the importance of gender and youth issues in food security programming
• Experience in managing programmatic and financial reporting requirements
• Experience in maintaining high levels of quality despite demanding reporting schedules and short deadlines for deliverables
• Ability to review and ensure accuracy of complex budget and expenditure formats
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with host governments, donors, other donor-funded projects and stakeholders, local organisations and partners
• Demonstrated experience in adaptive management and learning techniques
• Demonstrated experience recruiting, developing/mentoring, and managing staff
• Fluency in English
• Fluency in Portuguese or Spanish is a plus
• Ability to travel within project areas as required and as security situation allows

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Photo source: US Embassy Botswana