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Chief of Party, USAID/OTI EXPLORE Europe

About the Position 

Dexis seeks a Chief of Party (COP) to support a programming Engagement in Moldova initiated under the USAID Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) SWIFT 5-Programs IDIQ “EXploratory Pilot and Learning Options for Regional Efficiency” (EXPLORE) Task Order for the Europe region. EXPLORE engagements may be active for an approximate period of performance of one (1) to six (6) months, with the maximum length of an engagement being approximately 12 months.

The COP will serve as Dexis’ designated person for overall management of the in-country relationship with USAID/OTI and provision of Contractor leadership for field management of the Task Order Engagement. The COP is responsible for financial and program management, oversight, and reporting of Contractor progress and quality of performance in meeting the activity undertakings of the Engagement’s scope of work. Under the guidance and overall technical direction of USAID/OTI, the COP provides oversight of activities, including supervision of the program field staff, ensuring appropriate activity design, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation, and compliance with USAID rules and regulations.

This position will be based in Moldova with an anticipated start date in April 2022.

Responsibilities 

• Making key decisions and solving problems in short time frames while ensuring operational and program integrity. Overall program direction is provided by USAID/OTI through the Task Order Contracting Officer Representative (TOCOR) and Acting Country Representative (A/CR), or other USAID/OTI designee(s).
• Management, oversight, and reporting of progress and quality of performance in meeting the activity undertakings in this Engagement.
• Financial and program management, oversight, and reporting of progress and quality of performance in meeting the activity undertakings in this Engagement.
• Serving as Dexis’ designated person for overall management of the in-country relationship with USAID/OTI.
• In close consultation with the A/CR or other USAID/OTI designee, responsible for providing oversight of grant activities, including supervision of the program staff, ensuring appropriate grant design, ensuring that procedures are established and complied with for grant development, grant worthiness, grant implementation, management, monitoring, evaluation, and grant closing.
• Under the guidance of the A/CR and/or their designee(s), responsible for contributing to the design and implementation of the M&E system at the activity and program levels and for ensuring that all programming is properly monitored and evaluated.
• Developing familiarity with, and maintaining daily usage of, the USAID/OTI Web-Based Database, and ultimately responsible for ensuring that the relevant staff use, maintain, and upload weekly the Web-Based Database, and that data is consistent and complete.
• The COP supervises the Operations Manager, Program Development Officer, and other programmatic or operational STTA, if/when necessary and relevant.

Qualities

• Be willing to have close, daily collaboration with USAID/OTI’s in-country staff.
• Take programmatic and strategic direction from USAID/OTI staff.
• Have strong management and leadership skills, including the ability to mentor staff.
• Be a “hands on” manager who is actively engaged in all aspects of program management.
• Understand USAID/OTI’s need for direct program communication with all program staff.
• Have demonstrated past representational experience with host governments, other donors, and civil society and demonstrated success with inter-agency coordination and joint programming ideally.
• Be flexible.

Qualifications 

Minimum Requirements 

• Relevant work experience, including experience with a Contractor or international NGO managing an office or program.
• A minimum of six (6) years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor’s degree or ten (10) years of relevant work experience without a Bachelor’s degree. Relevant experience entails working in complex, high-speed and challenging field operations in developing countries. At least three (3) years of this experience must include managing these field operations.
• A minimum of three (3) years of supervisory experience.
• Experience with programs that provide quick delivery of assistance in response to emerging windows of opportunity.
• Experience with grant management.
• Experience in the hiring and supervising of host country local personnel and ensuring, when need arises, that they rapidly secure necessary training required to meet program needs.
• Financial management experience, including budgeting; financial management (tracking, reporting, and accounting); and procurement.
• Experience with activity design, development, and implementation.
• Experience in Eastern Europe.
• Ability and willingness to be based in Moldova
• Capacity to work in fast-paced environments and meet tight deadlines.
• Complete fluency in spoken and written English.

Preferred Requirements 

• Experience with in-kind or cash grants to local organizations.
• Experience working in a fragile or transitional state environment.
• Demonstrated experience implementing responsive programming in non-permissive contexts.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge in establishing systems and overseeing program start-up under limited time constraints.
• Experience with remote management in security-challenged environments.
• Experience with media programming, including in countering mis/disinformation.
• Experience with USAID programming, especially USAID/OTI programming, preferred.
• Demonstrated professional proficiency in additional language(s).

To apply, please visit the Dexis Consulting Group website at: https://dexisonline.com/jobs/?gh_jid=4006496005