TEAM LEADER - PATHWAYS, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

CARE USA is now seeking a Team Leader for the Pathways Program – a position both challenging and rewarding for the right individual., The Pathways Team Leader will be based in either Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, or Accra, Ghana, leading a group of four direct reports based across Africa and the USA and reporting to the Director of Knowledge Management and Innovation (KM&I) in FLJ. The Pathways Team Leader will provide leadership for the accountable implementation, governance, coordination, management, and learning outcomes of this multi-country program. S/he will be responsible for managing the Pathways central team, and putting in place processes and systems for coordination, management and communication across the program. This will include setting up and convening the program's management and leadership committee, ensuring its effective functioning and support to the program, as well as clearly articulated agreements and commitments between CARE USA and implementing country offices.

Apart from directly managing the Program to deliver on its goal and objectives, the Team Leader will be deliberately look for ways to work with the broader FLJ team to promote best practice across food and nutrition programs across CARE. As part of this process, the Team Leader will work closely with the broader FLJ team, and also facilitate close collaboration with other programming teams in CARE USA, as well as country and regional program teams, and other members of CARE International (in particular CARE UK, CARE Norway, CARE Australia, CARE Canada and CARE Austria). Beyond these internal CARE relationships, the Pathways Team Leader is responsible for the program's Collaboration Strategy, in particular building and nurturing relationships with several external organizations and platforms that are key to the implementation, learning, advocacy, and scaling agendas. Finally, the Team Leader will collaborate with various resource mobilization teams, as well as country office and Regional Management units, to prioritize Pathways for various funding opportunities.

Responsibilities

• ​Team management and direct supervision of staff
• Provide strategic direction and overall program management
• Active support to the flj's 'innovation & learning space'
• Resource mobilization
• Networking / representation / positioning & influencing
• Other work as needed

Requirements

• Masters degree in international development, agriculture, management, or other related degree.
• 7 years or more of demonstrable experience managing development programs in an international setting
• Experience in donor relations and resource mobilization
• Working with and leading teams
• Experience in food and livelihood security, and gender and women empowerment programs
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Program design
• Budgeting
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills

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