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Corus International
Chief of Party – USAID Climate Change Mitigation via Sustainable Land Use (Ecuador)
Quito
FULL TIME
October 8, 2024
About Corus:
Corus International is the parent of a family of world-class organizations working to deliver the holistic, lasting solutions needed to end extreme poverty once and for all. We are a global leader in international development, with 150 years of combined experience across our brands. Our nonprofit and for-profit subsidiaries include Lutheran World Relief, IMA World Health, CGA Technologies, Ground Up Investing, and Farmers Market Brands. Our more than 800 employees around the globe are experts in their fields and dedicated to helping the world's most vulnerable people break the cycle of poverty and lead healthy lives. Further details about the organization can be found at: https://corusinternational.org
Founded in 1945, Corus member Lutheran World Relief (LWR) collaborates with local partner organizations to develop and implement programs that grow inclusive and climate resilient rural economies, reduce poverty, and respond to emergencies and humanitarian crises.
About the job: LWR is currently recruiting a Chief of Party (COP) for a USAID-funded project in Ecuador. This five-year, $10-24.9 million project will promote sustainable livelihoods and advance natural climate solutions in areas affected by deforestation and land degradation through greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction and mitigation efforts.
The COP provides overall vision, technical, and administrative leadership and expertise for the program. The COP is responsible for management of all aspects of the program implementation in meeting the objectives of the initiative, including, but not limited to, technical, administrative, operational, and logistical management interventions. The COP will take a leadership role in coordination among the program team, consortium members, other implementing partners, public and private sector partners, and government stakeholders, and will liaise with the donor as necessary. Responsible for ensuring that the programmatic implementation meets expected standards of technical quality in compliance with USAID requirements, including monitoring, evaluation and learning, the COP will also ensure completion of reports, evaluations, analyses, assessments, and deliverables in compliance with USAID quality standards.
The COP position will be based in Ecuador. Actual hiring is contingent upon successful agreement award and USAID approval. The anticipated start date is currently projected to be on or around October 2025.
Responsibilities
Qualifications:
Founded in 1945, Corus member Lutheran World Relief (LWR) collaborates with local partner organizations to develop and implement programs that grow inclusive and climate resilient rural economies, reduce poverty, and respond to emergencies and humanitarian crises.
About the job: LWR is currently recruiting a Chief of Party (COP) for a USAID-funded project in Ecuador. This five-year, $10-24.9 million project will promote sustainable livelihoods and advance natural climate solutions in areas affected by deforestation and land degradation through greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction and mitigation efforts.
The COP provides overall vision, technical, and administrative leadership and expertise for the program. The COP is responsible for management of all aspects of the program implementation in meeting the objectives of the initiative, including, but not limited to, technical, administrative, operational, and logistical management interventions. The COP will take a leadership role in coordination among the program team, consortium members, other implementing partners, public and private sector partners, and government stakeholders, and will liaise with the donor as necessary. Responsible for ensuring that the programmatic implementation meets expected standards of technical quality in compliance with USAID requirements, including monitoring, evaluation and learning, the COP will also ensure completion of reports, evaluations, analyses, assessments, and deliverables in compliance with USAID quality standards.
The COP position will be based in Ecuador. Actual hiring is contingent upon successful agreement award and USAID approval. The anticipated start date is currently projected to be on or around October 2025.
Responsibilities
- Leadership, Vision and Strategy
- Has leadership, supervisory, and management responsibility for all program staff, including consortium member program staff, and will work closely with LWR management and support staff (including finance, administration, and program)
- Lead thought leadership efforts in biodiversity conservation, sustainable livelihoods, climate change, community-based governance, nature-based solutions, and private sector engagement.
- Plans, organizes, and supervises the overall program activities
- Ensures that all activities conform to the terms and conditions of the donor agreement, meet the expected technical quality standards, and that the strategic objectives and results of the program are accomplished
- Program Management and Administration
- Manages all operations related to the project according to the work plan, project documents, and implementation strategy
- Develops and manages relationships with the public and private sector
- Provides overall supervision for the implementation and integration of all program activities, and provides overall direction to daily implementation plans to ensure all program goals are met
- Manages program funds and other resources for the program
- Prepares status reports, budget information, and other documentation as needed, and ensures timely reporting to USAID
- Program Quality
- Oversees the design, monitoring, evaluation and learning of the project in accordance with M&E requirements
- Ensures that program activities are implemented, and monitors the achievement of results, ensuring compliance with project indicators
- Ensures that program activities and approaches adopt best practices in gender-responsiveness, protection, governance, and participant accountability
- Ensures the delivery of quality training, technical assistance, and administrative and financial support to all partner agencies and government, including the selection and coordination of sub-grantees and consultants
- Representation
- Provides leadership and oversight to the consortium, ensuring that all members work cooperatively and that sub-grantees' targets for their portion of program activities are fully met according to their scopes of work and sub-award terms
- Serves as primary contact to USAID, the public and private sector, and the host country government, taking responsibility for addressing all matters related to the program
- Strengthens linkages with existing partners and develops linkages with potential partner agencies
- Oversees communication strategies for the program in compliance with donor's branding and marketing requirements, as well as LWR's internal procedures
- Human Resource Management
- Manages the recruitment of a team of skilled, competent, qualified, and innovative program staff, in collaboration with LWR regional and country program management
- Ensures staff compliance with all USAID and LWR administrative and operational policies and procedures, as well as applicable donor regulations
- Leads and manages LWR's program team, including staff with administrative related duties, and consortium staff, to ensure that they are able to successfully implement efficiently all program operations and achieve program objectives
- Encourages a culture of learning, innovation, and creativity, and contributes to an environment conducive to professional development among program staff
Qualifications:
- Minimum of a master's degree in economics, business, international development, agricultural economics, agribusiness, or a related field; Doctorate level degree is desirable
- Minimum of 10 years of experience, with increasingly higher levels of responsibility, working in international development, preferably in climate change mitigation, sustainable landscapes, commercial value chains, food security, and economic growth.
- Proven experience in providing leadership around: biodiversity conservation, sustainable livelihoods and commodities, climate change, Nature-based Solutions, private sector engagement
- Demonstrated ability to lead (and a track record of successfully leading and managing) donor-funded programs of a similar scope and scale; experience leading U.S. government-funded programs preferred
- Chief of Party-level experience on climate change mitigation, sustainable landscapes, economic growth, livelihoods, COP-level experience on USAID-funded projects is highly desirable
- Experience working effectively with private sector, civil society, local, regional, and central-level government authorities, as well as with U.S. Government entities and other development partners; experience working with USAID specifically is highly desirable
- Knowledge and/or understanding of social, economic, and political contexts governing rural economic development, sustainable landscapes, and climate change mitigation in Ecuador
- Knowledge of U.S. Government regulations, policies, and procedures (including FAR), preferably of USAID, or those of an equivalently complex international development funding organization
- Demonstrated capabilities in managing complex consortia and/or partnership relationships
- Demonstrated capabilities in organizational capacity building
- High level of strategic vision, leadership, interpersonal, technical, and analytical skills, including a demonstrated ability to interact effectively and collaboratively with a broad range of public and private sector counterparts and other key stakeholders
- Familiarity with and commitment to gender integration in programming
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point, Access; familiarity with other program and financial management programs and software
- Fluent oral and written English language skills required; high degree of proficiency in oral and written Spanish also required
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time, both within Ecuador, as well as internationally, as required
- Commitment to LWR's core values and ability to model those values in relationships with colleagues and partners
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