Chemonics Parliamentary Strengthening and Development Team Lead Job Vacancy

Parliamentary Strengthening and Development Team Lead
Chemonics seeks a long-term parliamentary strengthening and development team lead for the anticipated five-year, USAID-funded Strengthening Somalia’s National Parliament project. 

The Mogadishu-based project aims to build the deliberative capacities of Somalia’s legislatures to promote good governance and promote stability, reconciliation, and peace-building in the state formation process.

We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world. 

Responsibilities include:

• Provide oversight for the national parliament, regional assemblies, and local deliberative bodies components;
• Serve as the technical lead in improving parliamentary functioning related to the law-making process, improving constituent relations, representation, and reconciliation, and enhancing the Somalia Federal Parliament’s role in the state formation process;
• Support the parliamentarians’ abilities to better understand, develop, and pass priority legislation to implement the provisional constitution;
• Strengthen nascent democratic practices of local deliberative bodies and encourage inclusion, transparency, and linkages with targeted local communities and national actors.

Qualifications:

• A master’s degree in a relevant technical field;
• Five years experience engaging legislative processes at the national and regional level;
• Five to eight years of experience with a USAID-funded project or similar international organization preferred;
• Progressively responsible managerial experience implementing complex donor-funded activities and motivating a culturally diverse workforce;
• Several years of experience working in fragile states and high-level conflict zones required, experience working in Somalia highly preferred;
• Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity;
• Fluency in English required, with Somali and/or Arabic language skills highly desired.

Application Instructions:

Please send an updated resume and cover letter in electronic submissions to SomaliaPSD@chemonics.com by May 31, 2013. 

No telephone inquiries, please. 

Finalists will be contacted.

In addition, please download and complete Chemonics’ equal employment opportunity self-identification form and submit it separately to EEOselfidentify@chemonics.com with only “Strengthening Somalia’s National Parliament – Parliamentary Strengthening and Development Team Lead” in the subject line.

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