Job Title: Chief of Party – SWIFT IV
Employer: RTI International
Job ID: 14989
Location: Any RTI Office; West Africa; Southern Africa; Central Africa; Latin America
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
RTI is currently seeking multiple Chiefs of Party for an U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) funded Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC). The Support Which Implements Fast Transitions IV (SWIFT IV) IQC is designed to provide USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) with the means to support U.S. foreign policy objectives by helping local partners advance peace and democracy in priority countries undergoing political or post-conflict transitions. OTI's program team comprised of OTI and contractor personnel will work on the ground in countries undergoing a political or post-conflict transition to provide fast, flexible, short-term assistance targeted at key political transition and stabilization needs. Potential task orders under SWIFT IV include work throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Qualities:
Based on USAID/OTI's experiences, a strong COP for an USAID/OTI SWIFT IV Program should:
• Be willing to have close, daily collaboration with USAID/OTI's in-country staff.
• Have strong management and leadership skills, including the ability to mentor staff.
• Be a hands on manager who is actively engaged in all aspects of program management.
• Understand USAID/OTI's need for direct program communication with all program staff.
• Be flexible.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for making key decisions and solving problems in short time frames while ensuring operational and program integrity. Overall program direction is provided by USAID/OTI through the Task Order Contracting Officer Representative (TOCOR) and the Country Representative (CR).
• Responsible for management, oversight, and reporting of Contractor progress and quality of performance in meeting the activity undertakings in this program.
• The Contractor's designated person for overall management of the in-country relationship with USAID/OTI.
• In close consultation with the CR, responsible for providing oversight of grant activities, including supervision of the program staff, ensuring appropriate grant design, ensuring that procedures are established and complied with for grant development, grant worthiness, grant implementation, management, monitoring, evaluation, and grant closing.
• Under the guidance of the CR, responsible for contributing to the design and implementation of the M&E system at the activity level and for ensuring that all activities are monitored and evaluated.
• Ultimately responsible for ensuring that the relevant staff use, maintain, and upload weekly the OTI Activity Database, and that data is consistent and complete.
Qualifications:
• Relevant work experience, including experience with a Contractor or international NGO managing an office or program.
• A Master's degree with a minimum of 4-6 years of experience supervising complex, high-speed and challenging field operations in developing countries.
• Experience with grant management, preferably in-kind and small grants.
• Experience working in developing countries is required, preferably in a fragile or transitional state environment. Regional experience and expertise in Latin America and the Caribbean or Africa, particularly in areas of post-conflict with political transition and stabilization needs strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge in establishing systems and overseeing program start-up under limited time constraints
• Experience in the hiring and supervising of host country local personnel and ensuring, when need arises, that they secure necessary training required to meet program needs.
• Financial management experience, including budgeting; financial management (tracking, reporting and accounting); and procurement.
• Experience with activity design, development, and implementation as well as program close-out.
• Fluency or professional working knowledge of a foreign language, with an emphasis on Arabic, French, or Spanish, strongly preferred.
About RTI:
RTI International is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 3,700 provides research and technical services to governments and businesses in more than 75 countries in the areas of health and pharmaceuticals, education and training, surveys and statistics, advanced technology, international development, economic and social policy, energy and the environment, and laboratory testing and chemical analysis.
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