Organization: Creative Associates International
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 01 Nov 2018
How to apply:
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 01 Nov 2018
Position Summary:
Creative Associates International seeks a Chief of Party (COP) to manage and provide overall leadership and direction to a USAID-funded education program in Ethiopia, READ II. The COP will ensure successful implementation of the READ II program.
Reporting & Supervision:
The COP reports to the Project Director based in Headquarters and supervises several key project staff.
Expected Outcomes:
- Successful implementation of the READ II project.
- Achievement of project goals.
- Enhanced professional capacity of project staff.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provides overall technical and administrative leadership and expertise for the project
- Serves as the primary liaison with USAID on management matters;
- Supervises activity implementation and ensure that all activities meet stated goals and reporting requirements;
- Facilitates collaborative partnerships between the Federal government Ministry of Education and the Regional Education Boards, implementing partners and other relevant stakeholders;
- Ensures the timeliness, cost and quality of all activities performed under READ II;
- Provides policy guidance, training and ongoing guidance to each of the team members;
- Interacts with numerous government ministries and institutions and senior-level national and county-level government officials;
- Ensures strategy for capacity building of national staff to achieve project quality and to build sustainable national technical, administrative and management talent;
- Provides regular updates to HQ;
- Prepares quarterly reports according to contract requirements;
- Oversees the preparation of annual work plan and budget; and
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- At least 12 years of experience in relevant management/technical roles working with primary grade education programs in developing countries;
- Proven success in complex, demanding environments;
- At least five (5) years of experience working in the education sector in Sub-Saharan Africa;
- Master’s degree in a field relevant to education; and
- Oral and written proficiency in English.
How to apply:
Please apply on our website: https://recruiting.ultipro.com/CRE1010CREAI/JobBoard/b093422a-53ee-4b40-ae33-72edfc017f55/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=279bf961-740e-434c-8281-3375e41d007c