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Chief of Party - Power Africa EDEECA
The chief of party is responsible for the overall management and implementation of the EDEECA program. This position will be based in East Africa, with frequent regional travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan required. This position is contingent on contract award to DT Global.

Primary Responsibilities:
• Providing overall vision, management, and strategic leadership to the Activity.
• Identifying adjustments in scope and operations to ensure that the project adapts to changes in need and context.
• Supervising and empowering all personnel.
• Establishing effective partnerships with other U.S. government agencies, African partners, development partners, non-governmental organizations, and a wide variety of other stakeholders.
• Effectively communicating in large public settings, as well as with senior government officials.
• Ensuring that managerial, administrative, and financial procedures comply with USAID policies and procedures.

Education & Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum ten (10) years of management experience implementing energy programs on- and beyond-the-grid. Sub-Saharan Africa work experience is preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal, diplomacy, and leadership skills, including the ability to manage high-level relationships.
• Proven ability to form collaborative relationships with intergovernmental, government representatives and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate and lead a dynamic team of professionals across large geographies.
• Prior experience effectively managing large, complex activities and achieving performance objectives.

Roles and Key Responsibilities:
• Lead design and implementation of agency-wide strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in PCS and LL, as well take part in the work on the agency strategic platforms that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments. Ensure a cross-sectoral approach that integrates gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction.
• Lead development and advancement of agency-wide standards, policies, innovative approaches, tools, and M&E in PCS and LL , including application of partnership principles.
• Provide technical support for the EARO regional Local Leadership strategy and CP teams for their CP PCS strategies, and how to best apply and adapt program design and implementation standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools, and monitoring and evaluation in Capacity Strengthening of Partners, including those aspects promoting Local Leadership .
• Identify opportunities, secure resources, and contribute to HQ, regional, and country program staff efforts to pre-position CRS for strategic growth opportunities in PCS and LL. Provide technical guidance, follow donor trends in proposal development and project design with a focus on complex projects to ensure innovative programming solutions and technical excellence . Support CPs to appropriately staff project teams.
• Design and lead capacity strengthening initiatives in PCS and LL programming for staff and partners through ensuring development of learning agendas/curriculums, organizing and/or facilitating trainings, workshops and conferences, and mentoring and coaching staff in innovative CRS approaches and tools. Provide mentoring and coaching to TAs, as well as CP and regional staff.
• Effectively manage talent and supervise, as well mentor staff at CP level, and collaborate closely with other EARO RTA’s and TA, both on operations and program quality side. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, and complete performance assessment for direct reports.
• Lead the agency knowledge management and learning agenda in PCS and LL including the development and leadership of an EARO PCS and LL Community of Practice through helping implement conditions to influence donors and for collective learning that ensure the capturing , documenting, and sharing of key successes, promising practices, lessons learned, and evidence-based implementation research, internally and externally, including publications in peer reviewed journals.
• Support country programs and the EARO regional office to begin the process of accessing ALLRight Funds in line with agency determined criteria and approach, including working closely with CPs to develop proposals for ALLRight Funds that are specifically tailored to the needs and aspirations of the local partners as aligned to strategy and mission.
• Manage the support that EARO provides to AWECCA, Eritrean Secretary General and projects, as well support relationship with the Bishop in Djibouti overseeing Caritas work in Somalia
• Manage EARO innovation fund budget, as well as process and oversight of activities at CP level
• Represent CRS at global forums, UN, Congress, and major donor forums to present CRS’ work and research in PCS and LL to influence technical partner approaches, future funding opportunities, and policies. Network with relevant organizations to increase CRS’ profile in PCS and LL, influence in the global PCS and LL community, and donor diversification.

Personal Skills
• Excellent relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings.
• Excellent strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment and decisions
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including research publications
• Excellent presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills
• Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented

Qualifications
Education and Experience
• Master's Degree in International Development, or field related to Organizational Development . PhD a plus.
• Minimum of ten years of work experience in Partnership and Capacity Strengthening with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO, with five years overseas in multiple regions as a technical advisor and/or program manager of a capacity strengthening of partners and/or multi-sectoral project with a capacity strengthening of partners component.
• Deep understanding and application of technical principles and concepts in partnership and capacity strengthening. Good knowledge of related disciplines to ensure proper cross-sectoral approach.
• Track record of contributing significantly to successful business development activities capturing public and/or private donor funding in capacity strengthening of partner organizations
• Expertise in the development and production of curricula, tools, and other products to support capacity strengthening interventions and programming. Demonstrated experience to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through training, mentoring, and other formal and informal methods.
• Experience with program monitoring and evaluation including development of indicators, data collection tools and methodologies, data analysis, and data presentation.
• Demonstrated experience and skills to represent the organization at the highest levels at meetings with donors, government, international NGOs, local partners – faith-based and civil society. Understanding of partnership principles.
• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications and strong understanding of information and budget management systems and knowledge-sharing networks.
• Technical and/or academic publications highly desirable