Team Leader/Chief of Party, Anticorruption Project, Tanzania

Management Systems International (MSI) is a global international development firm based in Washington, D.C. providing specialized short- and long-term technical assistance. MSI is part of Coffey International Development, a global international development consulting firm. Together with Coffey ID, MSI now has more than 1,500 development professionals worldwide, a corporate presence in 11 countries and manages more than 200 projects worldwide. It currently manages more than 20 long-term projects in countries, including Iraq, Sudan, Colombia and Russia. Broadly, MSI implements a range of analytical and field projects in its core technical areas, including democracy and governance, strategic management and performance improvement, organizational capacity building, human development and natural resource management. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.


Project/Proposal Summary:
This DFID-sponsored project will build the technical and institutional capacity of Tanzania’s judicial and police sectors, ensuring that law enforcement bodies are more accountable and transparent to the public, and better prepared to implement anti-corruption reform programs. The project will also include components to strengthen civil society’s public awareness, advocacy and watchdog activities in the anti-corruption field, support for the mass media in investigative reporting on corruption issues, and promote joint anti-corruption programs between civil society organizations and government institutions.


Position Summary:
MSI seeks an experienced judicial sector specialist, with strong anti-corruption credentials, to manage and supervise all project activities, staff, and partners and have overall responsibility for the successful performance of the Project.


Responsibilities:
• Manage, provide technical advice, and monitor all program components and assure that the overall program is meeting proposed objectives and targets.
• Provide senior technical assistance to Tanzanian judicial and police institutions on issues of strengthening their institutional capabilities, procedures and coordination with other Tanzanian government institutions that have responsibilities for anti-corruption functions.
• Serve as the senior anti-corruption specialist for the project and as the principal liaison with Tanzanian counterparts in government, the donor, and non-governmental institutions in country.
• Supervise and coordinate the work of local program staff: conduct regular staff meetings to discuss project status, facilitate sharing of information among staff members, provide guidance to direct staff members activities, monitor performance and conduct annual performance evaluation, authorize business trips, and review and sign off on timesheets and leave requests.
• Supervise and coordinate the work of subcontractors, consultants and grantees: review work plans, monthly and quarterly status and annual reports, financial reports, and deliverables.
• Supervise and monitor Grants Program: participate in proposal evaluation process and provide comments, review reports and deliverables, conduct meetings with grantees to discuss project implementation status, attend some activities conducted by grantees.
• Contribute to preparing work plans, monitoring and evaluations plans, and submit them to the donor after MSI/US approval. Prepare and submit to the donor reports and other administrative information as required, ensuring compliance with donor reporting requirements on progress related to the program’s results package.
• Provide primary interface for the project with the donor and Tanzanian partner groups and government authorities. Coordinate program activities with other donor programs.
• Consult with MSI/US on making decisions related to program activities, contractors, local staff, the donor, etc.
• Report to MSI/US on major technical, managerial and financial issues related to the project.
• Provide support to short-term consultants missions in Tanzania.
• Maintain daily communication with the Technical Director at MSI/US to report and consult on all issues related to the program implementation. All deliverables and major decisions on the program are subject to approval by MSI/US.


Qualifications:
• Experience promoting anti-corruption reforms in a development setting and skilled in suggesting appropriate models from other countries – especially related to judicial and police sector accountability and transparency initiatives;
• Prior experience managing international donor-funded projects, particularly DFID and USAID, required;
• Experience working with civil society advocacy organizations to keep anti-corruption issues high on the public agenda;
• Directly relevant regional, cultural, and developmental experience;
• English fluency required.


Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.


To apply, please visit our website: www.msi-pak.com.