Deadline: 06 October, 2024

Location: Dafur, Sudan

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Sudan is seeking applications to fill the role of the Deputy Chief of Party for Commodity Operations and Compliance (DCoP/COC).

CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with the country programme as well as project partners to achieve high levels of commodity compliance through technical oversight and guidance, consortium-wide learning and effective management of human, material and financial resources as per United States Agency for International Development (USAID) regulations
• Ensure that visions and plans for programme implementation are innovative and are in line with project policies and strategies
• Address bottlenecks and scale up best practices to achieve high quality programme implementation
• Work with the chief of party and the deputy chief of party – programme quality in drafting narrative input into USAID reporting
• Coordinate with partners to plan monthly FMU activities
• Ensure CRS and partners maintain full compliance with USAID regulations
• Ensure that the CRS and partner(s) meet on a regular basis, identify lessons learned, solve problems and harmonise approaches where possible
• Provide technical oversight and supervision to food monitoring team leaders
• Oversee commodity monitoring activities, supervising, planning and coordinating five field-based monitoring teams
• In collaboration with partner(s), design and facilitate regular programme learning events with consortium partners, ensuring that lessons of sound practice are documented and disseminated learned through programme implementation and review
• Develop and implement a regular feedback mechanism to respond to food monitoring findings on commodity management and ensure corrective actions
• Support Chief of Party to liaise between project teams and other stakeholders from government, USAID, international agencies and non-government organisations (NGOs), project consortium partners, EARO and CRS HQ
• Support partner organisations in orienting regional government officials to the project and its activities and linking partners more closely with regional administrations
• Serve as chief of party in his/her absence as requested
• Perform other duties related to the implementation of the project or assigned by supervisor

Requirements

• Master’s degree in International Development, International Relations or relevant field
• Seven years, minimum, of relevant field-based programme management, three years, minimum, of middle/senior management experience
• Five years, minimum, of experience managing donor funds, including strong knowledge of USAID and USG grant regulations and procedures
• Prior management of USAID funding required, knowledge of Title II or IDA policies and procedures preferred
• Demonstrated experience in consortium management
• Three years, minimum, of experience in Africa in a senior position that demonstrates mentoring national staff to achieve programme results
• Demonstrated ability to lead a technical team in two or more of the following areas – early warning analysis, nutrition, gender, protection/safeguarding, inclusion (disability, youth), environmental impact, and/or MEAL
• Experience in the development of successful proposals, reports, strategic alliances, project design, project management, and monitoring and evaluation
• Experience in partner capacity strengthening, staff development, training, and mentoring, as well as in team building and strategic planning initiatives. (Experience working with Church partners a plus)
• Fluency in written and spoken English, fluency in written and spoken French preferred
• Must be able and willing to travel in Sudan up to 50 percent, including remote field locations
• Proven skills, knowledge and experience in USAID programme areas of emergency food distribution, programme monitoring and evaluation, commodity management, consortium management, logistics
• Exceptional English writing skills and the ability to capture, synthesise and report out consortium learning to CRS and the broader food security community
• Demonstrated ability to work both strategically and at an appropriate level of detail to lead a complex programme and consortium, excellent analytical skills
• Excellent partnership skills and the ability to interact effectively with donors, collaborating agencies, and local partners demonstrated through close work experience with international PVOs
• Demonstrated capacity to understand the current best practices and challenges while coordinating to implement programme strategies through a participatory approach
• Computer literate, with strong knowledge of MS Office applications, spread sheets, database programmes, and statistical software package
• Flexibility, persistence, and ability to work well with people and cross-cultural skills
• Staff management experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment
• Experience and abilities in capacity strengthening, developing curricula and facilitating trainings

To apply or for more information, click here.

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