FHI 360 is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Deputy Chief of Party for an anticipated USAID-funded project.
The DCOP is responsible for overseeing all programming, including ensuring the technical quality of services. The DCOP works with sub-partners to decide on targets, oversees the development and execution of community action plans, monitors the implementation of the work plans, works with the Chief of Party to facilitate operational capacity building initiatives, directly facilitates technical capacity building, and supports coordination with local government and other key partners. The DCOP directs and supervises senior program staff and consultants.
Areas of Responsibility:
Job Summary / Responsibilities:
- Manages Country Office (CO) administration and programs with deputy functions for technical and program activities. Manages the development and implementation process of a company's services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing projects. Plans and directs schedules and monitors budget/spending. Monitors the project/program from initiation through delivery. Organizes the interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the project/program on schedule and within budget constraints. Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
- Collaborates with the Country Director/Project Director/Chief of Party to provide leadership to the development and maintenance of a comprehensive needs based strategy for programming in host country and/or sub-offices.
- Collaborates with in country Technical Advisors and headquarter based Technical staff to ensure programs are designed according to organization and industry best practices, program framework and regulations.
- Collaborates with the Country Director to proactively identify opportunities for new programming initiatives and funding to support them.
- Provides support to the overall leadership and management to programs, ensuring strategic program direction, managed growth and compliance with organization policies and procedures and donor regulations.
- Manages, implements, and monitors systems, services, staff and budgets to achieve financial, administrative and programmatic goals.
- Provides timely and accurate financial and programmatic reports to company management and donors as required.
- Prepares and monitors approved budgets for assigned projects.
- Approves all expenditures relating to budgets.
- Provides technical assistance through review or writing of proposals, protocols, papers, reports to ensure accuracy and appropriateness.
- Recruits, orients and supervises Country Office staff to support country programs and ensure the completion of technical, programmatic, financial, and resource development needs are met and achieved.
- Collaborates with Technical and Program staff to ensure that program implementation is managed closely through the development of structured work plans, indicator tracking sheets and approved monitoring plans.
- Provides supervision to all Technical and Program staff to ensure the financial health and performance of each of the projects.
- Ensures expenditures within each project is monitored on a monthly basis, and that well- structured corrective action is initiated and tracked where required.
- Provides leadership to Technical and Program staff, and the Grants Team to ensure the development of timely, high quality and regulation compliant activity reporting per organization and donor guidelines.
- Provides supportive guidance and supervision to Technical and Program staff, and Managers who are charged to implement programs within the assigned area of expertise.
- Collaborates with Operations and cross functional groups on matters concerning staff development that leverages international staff to mentor local staff, so as to maintain project accountability and scale in the short term and fast track capacity building for the long term.
- Determination of job level is based on the reporting relationship to the Country Director/Project Director/Chief of Party and on the primary and secondary criteria of the host countries related programs/projects (i.e. Revenue, Headcount, and number of Contracts/Sub- Awards and other factors).
Educational Background:
A Bachelor’s degree in public health, social sciences, or other related degre
Skills/Experience:
Qualifications:
- At least 10+ years of experience managing large and complex HIV/AIDS care and support projects.
- At least 5 years of supervision experience.
- Experience working with CSO’s in advocacy training and institutional capacity building.
- Demonstrated ability to ensure gender integration in project design, implementation and M&E.
- Experience in developing and managing sub-agreements with local and international partners.
- Experience in development of systems to evaluate program implementation
- Experience in preparing donor reports in English.
- Demonstrated experience planning, designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating projects.
- Demonstrated strong managerial, financial, communications and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to develop and disseminating accessible and relevant standard operating procedures.
- Demonstrate experience developing clear and complete scopes of work for staff and project consultants.
- Ability to develop and apply supervision systems that promote staff decision-making.
- Excellent knowledge of U.S. Government approaches and regulations;
- An excellent team player with good skills in team work and consultative approach to decision making.
- Ability to anticipate potential problems/ risks and address as required
- Outstanding English and Portuguese language skills, both spoken and written.
Compensation/Benefits:
We offer competitive compensation and an outstanding benefit package.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Aug 30 2017
Active Until:
Sep 30 2017
Hiring Organization:
Fhi 360
industry:
Nonprofit