CHF International’s mission is to be a catalyst for long-lasting positive change in low- and moderate-income communities around the world helping them improve their social, economic, and environmental conditions.
CHF International is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Chief of Party to lead a proposed USAID-funded program in Ethiopia focusing on improving the resiliency and adaptive capacity of pastoral communities to climate change through market expansion. The Pastoral Resiliency Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME) project will concentrate on climate change, pastoralism/livestock and chronic vulnerability as it aims to increase household incomes and enhance resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change through market linkages. The Chief of Party will be responsible for all programmatic activities.
Specifically, the Chief of Party will: •Provide strategic vision and technical, administrative and logistical leadership for the program to achieve program goals and objectives. •Provide strong, coherent vision of the project and implementation of innovative strategies. •Supervise program staff and ensure the timely, successful, and cost effective completion of program deliverables. •Manage coordination with relevant stakeholders. •Serve as the key liaison with HQ, Government of Ethiopia officials, donors, the private sector, local and international NGOs, implementing partners, and community members. •Lead and/or participate in strategic and high level policy forums to advocate for broader pastoralist issues and contribute to improving the pastoralist policy environment through lessons learned through the project. •Provide financial management oversight on program budget analysis, and budget recommendations to CHF headquarters. •Prepare required progress reports to CHF headquarters, funding organizations and program partners, as required.
Qualifications: •Masters degree in international development, livestock, agriculture, natural resources management, environment, or related field of study. •10 years experience managing and implementing innovative pastoral or livestock programs in the Horn of Africa, with a minimum of 5 years managing international development projects •5 years of senior management experience in project or organizational management, gender mainstreaming and working in a multi-cultural environment. •Experience with climate change and/or health programming a plus. •Experience working on USAID projects preferred. •Experience working in Ethiopia preferred.
For more information and to apply, please visit the CHF website http://chfinternational.devhire.devex.com/jobs/324297 .
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