Work Location: Ethiopia - Addis Ababa
Other Possible Locations: Rural Ethiopia
Expected Travel:
Language Requirement: Fluency in reading, writing, and speaking
English
Employee Duration: Active Full-Time
Type of Post: Accompanied - Family
Funding: THIS POSITION IS PENDING DONOR
APPROVAL
Application Deadline:
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backgrounds and experiences, particularly women, to apply.
DESCRIPTION
CARE Ethiopia seeks a Chief of Party (COP) to support an
upcoming, USAID/Ethiopia-funded, project that will use an integrated WASH
approach to address the burden of five to seven highly-prevalent neglected
tropical diseases on vulnerable populations across the country.
The effort is expected to further goals and objectives of
current Mission programming to eradicate lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis,
onchocerciasis, blinding trachoma, and three soil-transmitted helminthes
(hookworm, roundworm, and whipworm) that disproportionally affect poor
communities with a lack of access to clean water and high rates of exposure to
disease vectors. By ensuring alignment with current implementing partners
of USAID’s flagshipNeglected Tropical Disease Control Program, CARE
plans to continue reaching the most marginalized in the country’s designated
focus areas: Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Oromia, SNNPR, Somali, and
Tigray, among other regions.
Working through woreda steering committees, CARE presently
targets activities at the zonal level in conjunction with water, health,
education, environmental protection partners. Using evidence-based
approaches, including the SAFE strategy for trachoma, the project will
implement strategies around water access and supply, sanitation, and school-
and houshold-level hygiene. Illustrative project activities include
conducting extensive mapping of water resources; developing project strategies
based on maps that overlay trachoma, schistosomaisis, and soil-transmitted
helminthiasis; collaborating with local government to improve community-managed
water supply systems; expanding and deepening household latrine access and
solid-waste management; implementing a school-led total sanitation approach;
effecting (rolling-out) behavior change communication campaigns, while
leveraging local media; and creating manuals and training local WASH champions
for sustainable project results. Through these and other activities, CARE
will work through existing policy mechanisms, and local fora, movements, and
groups, to gather data, develop and implement project activities, report
impacts, and disseminate findings and best practices.
The successful candidate will provide the project with
overall vision, leadership and guidance – internally with project staff and externally
with USAID, host governments, other donors and stakeholders. Moreover,
the COP will assume principal responsibility for overall project management and
technical operations to ensure project tasks are completed and objectives met.
S/he will lead the team, serving as the primary point of contact with
USAID/Washington and with the Mission. Finally, the COP will manage the
preparation and presentation of all proposed implementation plans and reports.
Specific duties and responsibilities:
- Overseeing
the completion of all technical requirements, including project results
and deliverables, in accordance with the project workplan;
- Guiding
team members to fulfill the project’s strategic goals and objectives;
- Reporting
against the project’s baseline targets;
- Managing
the project’s operational, financial, and administrative priorities;
- Building
partnerships among national- and community-level actors;
- Functioning
as the primary liaison between all project stakeholders;
- Creating
management systems in line with CARE’s standard operating procedures,
ensuring consistency with project needs;
- Designing
and overseeing an annual project cycle in accordance with USAID’s annual
planning cycle;
- With
staff and partners, translating project goals and objectives into implementable
strategies and plans;
- Directing
the planning and budgeting processes;
- Preparing
quarterly and annual project activity reports, as specified in the
contract;
- Maintaining
internal control;
- Supervising
the performance of all long- and short-term advisors, consultants, and
staff;
- Clarifying
roles, delegating responsibilities to senior staff, and clearly
communicating expectations for staff contribution to project activities;
- Supervising
project staff and partners in identifying the project’s technical assistance
needs, developing suitable scopes of work, recruiting consultants, and
executing technical assistance contracts; and
- Maintaining
productive working relationships with USAID clients, project partners, and
key counterparts.
Minimum qualifications:
- At
least fifteen years’ experience successfully leading and managing health
sector programs in East Africa;
- Master’s
degree in Epidemiology, Public Health, or related field– advanced degree
optimal;
- Demonstrated
skills in effectively negotiating with host governments, donors, UN
agencies, other USAID projects, local organizations, and partners;
- Experience
in programs dealing with Neglected Tropical Diseases, disease burden in
East Africa, WASH, community health, and vulnerable populations (women,
children, rural communities);
- Demonstrated
experience managing USAID contracts;
- Proven
capability in managing agreements and all required programmatic and
financial reporting requirements;
- Ability
to successfully recruit, train, develop, and manage staff;
- Demonstrated
capacity to perform internal control functions to manage project
operations; and
- Fluency
in speaking, reading, and writing in English – knowledge of Amharic
optional.
