About Invisible Children - Invisible Children is a nonprofit organization working to end violent conflict and foster thriving ecosystems in solidarity with our world’s most at-risk communities. Today, we are leveraging lessons we learned, the expertise we have developed, and trusting relationships with communities to break cycles of violence in regions facing violent conflicts. Our community-protection, conflict mitigation and transitional justice programs cover the cross-border region that spans DRC, CAR, South Sudan and Sudan.
This Opportunity - The Deputy Chief of Party is a full-time position for an upcoming five (5) years funding opportunity that we expect USAID to release soon, to operate in the cross-border region that includes the prefectures of Mbomou and Haut-Mbomou in southeastern CAR and the provinces of Haut and Bas Uélé in northern DRC. The objective of this activity is to: (1) increase resilience of the local communities, (2) improve living conditions among the transhumant and sedentary population and (3) secure conservation and management of ecosystems.
Reporting & Supervision - The Deputy Chief of Party, Programs (DCoP) will lead the programmatic detailed design, planning and implementation of the project, reporting to the CoP.
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Compensation and benefits – Invisible Children provides a monetary and non-monetary compensation and benefits package that favorably compares to leading INGOs.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success, and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce, and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include (but are not limited to): socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or indigenous status.
Safeguarding - We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Invisible Children to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Invisible Children are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.
Please submit your CV to jobs@invisiblechildren.com. Please include “DEPUTY CoP Resilient Communities – YOUR NAME” in the subject line. This is a proposal position. The deadline for application is May 3rd.