Save the Children invests in childhood – every day, in times of crisis and for our future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. By transforming children’s lives now, we change the course of their future and ours.
We are currently recruiting for a Project Director to lead a critical, three-year program co-funded by the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and the Office of Food for Peace (FFP). This will be composed of 2 key elements namely a cash grant intervention for WASH and Nutrition and a Gift-in-Kind (GIK) food commodity grant that combine into a rapid response mechanism to be managed by a single lead agency or a consortium. The lead consortium would issue sub grants at short notice to applicants for short term emergency interventions in the field of Nutrition and WASH. The anticipated envelope for this project would be $25M for WASH and Nutrition and $12M in GIK.
- The Project Director (PD) will be responsible for managing all aspects of the program, providing overall technical, administrative, operational, and logistical management, with a focus on achieving the results defined in this multi-year agreement.
- The PD is accountable for both the program quality and for the effective financial and operational management thereof.
- The PD will also serve as the liaison with the Ethiopian federal government representatives, donors, partner agencies and local institutions and communities and will serve as the primary representative with OFDA and FFP.
- The PD will ensure overall technical and programmatic quality in implementation and the timely submission of all deliverables to USAID, including annual work plans, performance monitoring plans, semi-annual reports, and annual reports as required. This is done through effective grant management to sub-grants recipients and the monitoring and supervision of said sub grant implementation.
Please note that this position will only be filled if the funding is awarded by the donor.
- Master’s Degree in public nutrition or health, agriculture, international development, public administration, or related field is highly desirable. Bachelor’s Degree is required
- Minimum eight years of professional experience in implementing emergency programs, with a minimum of five years’ experience in a leadership role in a large scale emergency response
- At least four years of work experience in Africa
- Experience in project implementation as well as strong managerial and operational leadership
- Expertise in nutrition and WASH sectors, and/or commodity management, is ideal
- Experience in the management of sub-awards is preferred
- Experience in managing USG funding and familiarity with federal regulations is critical
- Demonstrated experience in management of OFDA projects with substantial sub grant components (including managing grants to international and national organizations)
- Previous COP or Project Director experience is preferred
- Strengths in inspiring and enabling others through teamwork, training, and capacity building to realize organizational objectives
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
- Familiarity with the political, social, cultural, humanitarian and donor context of Ethiopia is ideal.