Chemonics seeks a Chief of Party for an anticipated five - year, USAID - funded Resilience Learning Project in Kenya.
The project will work with key partners to develop and manage a knowledge management and learning activity.
We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.
Responsibilities include:- Provide overall project leadership, management, and technical direction
- Serve as primary liaison with donors, host-country and regional government officials, and international and regional implementing partners
- Coordinate and oversee contract management, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, including compliance with USAID regulations and timely submission of all project deliverables
- Supervise project technical and administrative staff, collaboratively creating and implementing a strategic long-term vision for the project while effectively mitigating risk and managing performance
- Build linkages between multiple diverse stakeholders at local, national, and regional levels and developing flexible approaches within context
- Oversee data collection, research and analysis, knowledge management, capacity building, leveraging best practices into policy, guidelines, and introducing new practices across multiple levels
- Incorporate gender issues key to achieving growth and resilience across continuums
Qualifications:
- Masters degree in international development, natural resource management, business administration, or related field of study required
- Minimum 10 years experience in managing resilience-enhanced programs or working in pastoralist, environment and natural resource management, or recurrent drought and conflict areas, preferably in Kenya and Ethiopia
- Minimum five years of supervisory work experience including direct supervision of research programs, and assembling international development program teams to work on multi-faceted projects
- Experience managing and implementing large donor-funded (preferably USAID) projects
- Technical expertise in design, implementation, planning, coordinating and driving complex monitoring, evaluation, organizational learning, and capacity development efforts
- Demonstrated ability to establish multi-sector working relationships at all levels to encourage learning, collaboration, and joint sharing
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communications skills
- Proven success using monitoring and evaluation, knowledge sharing, and evidence based learning to continually improve performance of activities
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity; strong communication and diplomacy skills.
- Experience living and working in the Horn of Africa preferred
- Fluency in English required
Send electronic submissions to ResilienceRecruit@gmail.com by October 10, 2013.
Please submit your CV and cover letter with "Chief of Party" in the subject line.
No telephone inquiries, please.
Finalists will be contacted.