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Chief of Party MGD Benin, Counterpart

 
 

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Chief of Party, USDA McGovern-Dole, Benin

Counterpart International

Benin

 

ABOUT HEAD GLOBAL:

Head Global delivers high-quality, thoughtfully customized recruitment and staffing services to mission-driven organizations in the US and around the world. We identify talent tailored to your organization’s unique needs, helping you deliver impactful services to your stakeholders or clients, wherever they may be. Since 2016, we have supported more than 100 organizations through our work in over 65 countries across every continent. Our services span both international and domestic contexts, providing short- and long-term staffing solutions for nonprofits, implementing partners, and private sector organizations working in social impact.

ABOUT Counterpart:

Counterpart International is a global development organization that empowers people and communities to implement innovative and enduring solutions to social, economic, and environmental challenges. Over 50 years, Counterpart has been forging partnerships with communities in need to address complex problems related to economic development, food security and nutrition, and building effective governance and institutions. For more information visit www.Counterpart.org.

Position Summary:

Counterpart International is seeking a Chief of Party (COP) for a 5-year USDA McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program which utilizes U.S.-donated commodities to reduce hunger and improve literacy and nutrition among school-age students, especially girls. With the support of the local and headquarters staff, the COP will provide vision, technical leadership, financial and administrative oversight of the program and will serve as the principle institutional liaison to USDA, local implementing country organizations, and host government agencies. The COP should have competence and extensive past experience relevant to leadership, management, project implementation and training of staff. The COP will also provide staff management and development, and ensure the highest quality of project monitoring, evaluation, reporting and communications.

  • Serve as primary liaison to USDA, Country headquarters, local and national governmental authorities, local NGOs, community organizations, and other donor organizations.

  • Lead design and implementation of all program components and activities.

  • Overall leadership, recruitment, training and supervision of office staff and partner organization.

  • Facilitate learning and integration of Counterpart’s best practices on school feeding, education, agriculture, WASH, and nutrition initiatives and the program’s technical areas.

  • Provide mentoring and professional development support to project staff, with emphasis on building capacity.

  • Oversee budget preparation and provided overall financial oversight to ensure strict fiscal accountability.

  • Ensure the highest quality of program implementation, monitoring, evaluation, reporting and communications.

  • Ensure compliance with Counterpart and USDA rules and regulations, particularly with respect to financial and grant management.

  • Facilitate learning and integration of Counterpart’s regional best practices on food security and nutrition initiatives and the program’s technical areas.

  • Provide mentoring and professional development support to project staff, with emphasis on building capacity.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required

  • Minimum of 15 years’ experience in food security and nutrition, with a specific focus on school feeding, formal education, literacy training.

  • Successful track record leading implementation US Government-funded projects (USDA or USAID) in developing country contexts, including oversight and management of personnel, finances, partnerships, host country relationships, and administration.

  • Experience working on programs pertaining to commodities management, proven track record working with a range of government and community actors and managing teams in multiple offices and locations. Experience in the management of USDA school feeding programs desired, or similar USG programming.

  • Excellent organizational, analytical, oral and written communications skills.

  • Demonstrated supervisory and leadership skills in multi-cultural contexts.

  • Professional proficiency in English, and either Urdu or Sindhi, oral and written required.

  • Excellent organizational, analytical, oral and written communications skills.

  • Good command of Microsoft Office, particularly word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Preferred

  • Master’s Degree in a relevant field.

  • Experience managing USDA programs.

  • Recent developing country management experience in Africa, Asia, and/or the Americas and a thorough understanding of the cultures, opportunities and challenges of those regions.

Counterpart International is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of Counterpart International to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

 

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:

To apply, please send your resume to Yaniv Snir at yaniv@headgloballlc.com with “Counterpart MGD COP, Benin” in the subject line.