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The Program Tawazon - Promoting the Voice and Leadership of Women Activity is a five-year USAID funded activity that will bring about transformational change in gender relations at the home, community, and national levels in Jordan, promoting gender equality and advance women’s leadership. This will be achieved by 1) Strengthening the enabling environment and institutional capacity; 2) Promoting equitable social norms and counter prevailing prohibitive norms that perpetuate gender inequality; and 3) Advancing the inclusive and transparent leadership and decision-making participation of girls and women. Tawazon is led by a consortium with established expertise in transformative work–engaging men and women as agents of change–which includes Mercy Corps (MC), Solidarity is Global (SIGI), Al Jidara, Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD), and Plan International. In addition, Tawazon aims to enrich collaboration amongst USAID’s Gender Community of Practice (CoPR) to strengthen coordination, scale innovative ideas, and promote accountability to gender equality among practitioners. Tawazon consortium consists of four partners who work collaboratively to ensure the institutionalization of their efforts at a national level that will drive change as per the activity’s theory of change.
The PositionMercy Corps is seeking a Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) to support the leadership and strategic implementation of Tawazon, ensuring the program meets its overall objectives, targets and deliverables while modeling and nurturing processes and systems that are equitable, promote equal partnerships, and shift power dynamics that perpetuate inequalities. We are seeking a proactive individual with a strong sense of initiative and a results-driven mindset that puts evidence into action. Complementing the Chief of Party’s responsibility for overall project management, donor relations, and technical oversight, the DCOP will provide strategic leadership for the sub-granting, contracting, financial and the operational capacity strengthening elements of the project. S/he will play a key role within the program, responsible for building strong and compliant systems within the project to enable smooth, efficient, and effective project implementation. S/he will also be responsible for the financial and operational management of the Tawazon program and will need to work collaboratively with Country support function leads, the program team, and partners to ensure effective compliance with Mercy Corps’ internal policies and procedures as well as donor regulations. S/he will provide timely reports and assistance to the CoP and the program team to ensure that resources are used efficiently and effectively. S/he will also provide oversight of the Secretariate for the Gender Community of Practice, a platform that includes all USAID Jordan activities. The DCOP will facilitate the implementation of Tawazon’s learning agenda and dissemination of learning. The DCOP will assist team members with information, tools and resources to improve performance to reach objectives and disseminate learnings. The DCOP will assume the responsibilities of and act on behalf of the COP in their absence.
Essential ResponsibilitiesSTRATEGY, VISION AND LEARNING