Save the Children is seeking a Chief of Party (CoP) for an anticipated five-year USAID-funded Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) in Mozambique. The RFSA will seek to sustainably improve food and nutrition security and resilience among poor and chronically vulnerable households and communities in the selected regions. The estimated implementation timeframe for the RFSA is 2021-2026. Hiring is contingent upon successful award of the project and USAID approval of the candidate.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
The proposed program will be an integrated, multi-sectoral food and nutrition security intervention. The CoP is responsible for the overall management and representation of the activity, and is ultimately accountable for the delivery of desired program results, an effective adaptive management approach, relationships with a range of stakeholders, and management of the program team and consortium.
Key Functions:
Represent the program to donor officials, host government officials, partner representatives, local stakeholders, and team members.
Review, approve and contribute to major program strategies such as the M&E Plan, the Learning Plan, the collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) approach, the Gender Strategy, and technical or thematic strategies. Provide oversight and quality control to the program’s thematic approaches and implementation, leading course corrections as required.
Lead annual planning processes and associated donor resource requests; monitoring implementation progress as compared to these plans.
Ensure the quality of all program deliverables, inclusive of activities, outputs, documentation and reporting.
Ensure sound program financial management and reporting.
Ensure sound program logistical and operational structures and management.
Ensure compliance with donor, host government and Save the Children policies and procedures.
Recruit, develop and manage the program team, ensuring that adequate and appropriate capacity building plans are in place and that Human Resources policies are appropriate for team retention and high performance.
Demonstrate a commitment to gender and youth integration in both the programmatic and operational aspects of the activity.
Ensure that the program deploys an effective collaborating, learning and adapting approach, such that the activity is able to evolve in a changing context to achieve desired outcomes.
Oversee the program’s security management approach, working with country office counterparts.
Required Background and Experience
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