Chief of Party at Lutheran World Relief (LWR) Tanzania

Chief of Party
Job Overview
Lutheran World Relief Vacancy – Chief of Party
Lutheran World Relief (LWR),
part of the Corus International family of organizations, is currently
recruiting a Chief of Party (COP) for an anticipated five-year
USDA-funded Food for Progress project in Tanzania.

Description
The
Chief of Party provides overall vision, technical, and administrative
leadership, and expertise for the program. The COP is responsible for
management of all aspects of the program implementation in meeting the
objectives of the initiative, including, but not limited to, technical,
administrative, operational, and logistical management interventions.

The
COP will take a leadership role in coordination among the program team,
consortium members, other implementing partners, public and private
sector partners, and government stakeholders, and will liaise directly
with USDA and other USG entities as appropriate. S/he is responsible for
ensuring that programmatic implementation meets expected standards of
technical quality in compliance with USDA requirements, including
monitoring, evaluation, and learning. S/he also will ensure completion
of reports, evaluations, analyses, assessments, and deliverables in
compliance with USDA quality standards.
Actual hiring is contingent upon successful Activity award and USDA approval.

Duties
Leadership, Vision, and Strategy

• Has
  leadership, supervisory, and management responsibility for all program
  staff, including consortium member program staff, and will work closely
  with LWR management and support staff (including finance,
  administration, and program)
• Plans, organizes, and supervises the overall program activities and sub-grantees.
• Ensures
  that all activities conform to the terms and conditions of the donor
  agreement and meet the expected technical quality standards, and that
  the strategic objectives and results of the program are accomplished.
• Ensures appropriate representation of the project to national and state authorities, USDA and the U.S.
• Government, and other private and public stakeholders.

Program Management and Administration

• Manages
  all operations related to the project according to the approved
  proposal and project workplan, project documents, and implementation
  strategy.
• Develops and manages relationships with the public and private sectors.
• Provides
  overall supervision for the implementation and integration of all
  program activities and provides overall direction to daily
  implementation plans to ensure all program goals are met.
• Manages program funds and other resources for the program.
• Prepares status reports, budget information, and other documentation as needed, and ensures timely reporting to USDA.

Program Quality

• Oversees the design, monitoring, evaluation, and learning of the project in accordance with M&E requirements.
• Ensures
  that program activities are implemented, and monitors the achievement
  of results, ensuring compliance with project indicators.
• Ensures
  that program activities and approaches adopt best practices in
  gender-responsiveness, protection, governance, and participant
  accountability.
• Ensures the delivery of quality training,
  technical assistance, and administrative and financial support to all
  partner governments and agencies, including the selection and
  coordination of sub-grantees and consultants.

Representation

• Acts as the primary project representative to local partners, national and local government entities, and consortium members
• Serves
  as primary contact to USDA, the public and private sectors, and the
  local government, taking responsibility for addressing all matters
  related to the program.
• Strengthens linkages with existing partners and develops linkages with potential partner agencies.
• Oversees
  communication strategies for the program in compliance with donor’s
  branding and marking requirements, as well as LWR’s internal procedures.

Human Resources Management

• Manages
  the recruitment of a team of skilled, competent, qualified, and
  innovative program staff, in collaboration with LWR regional and country
  program management.
• Ensures staff compliance with all USDA and
  LWR administrative and operational procedures and policies, as well as
  applicable donor regulations and national laws.
• Leads and
  manages LWR’s program team, including staff with administrative related
  duties, and consortium staff, to ensure that they are able to
  successfully implement efficiently all program operations and achieve
  program objectives.
• Encourages a culture of learning,
  innovation, and creativity, and contributes to an environment conducive
  to professional development among programs staff

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Qualifications:

• Deep commitment to LWR’s core values and ability to model those values in relationships with colleagues and partners.
• Minimum
  of a master’s degree in economics, business, international development,
  agricultural economics, agribusiness, or a related field.
• Minimum
  of 10 years of increasingly levels of responsibility working in
  international development, preferably in value chain strengthening, food
  security, climate smart agriculture, traceability, and/or economic
  growth, with an emphasis on the production and marketing of agricultural
  products
• Prior Chief of party-level or Project Director
  experience on US Government-funded economic growth, livelihoods, rural
  agriculture, or food security projects is required and USDA specific
  experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience
  in supply chain and sustainable sourcing of commodities, including
  traceability systems and processes.
• Knowledge of, and experience
  in incorporating climate smart agricultural solutions and approaches;
  experience implementing climate smart agriculture solutions for
  increased productivity preferred
• Demonstrated experience working
  with farmer cooperatives in market development, value added processing,
  and the formation of market linkages to private sector actors.
• Familiarity with and commitment to gender integration in programming
• High
  level of leadership, interpersonal, technical, and analytical skills,
  including a demonstrated ability to interact effectively and
  collaboratively with a broad range of public and private sector
  counterparts and other key stakeholders.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time, nationally and internationally as required.
• Proficiency in MS Outlook, Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), and Outlook
• Ability to conduct official business in the English language (both written and verbal) skills required.

Application procedure
Deadline for the submission is on May 16th, 2024.
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Applicants
who do not follow application instructions will be rejected. ONLY
short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.