Chief of Party II, ChildSAFE
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Lead all aspects of the development, implementation, and consolidation of a multi-country child development and protection project, providing strategic oversight to ensure alignment across participating countries, technical teams, and partners. Serve as the primary point of accountability for overall project performance, donor engagement, and consortium management while proactively managing security risks and mitigating national and regional issues. Ensure successful completion of milestones through rigorous monitoring, verification of deliverables, and adherence to donor reporting requirements and budget constraints. Effectively lead senior programming and operations talent by managing team dynamics, providing coaching, tailoring development plans, and overseeing recruitment for senior staff. Oversee the implementation of safeguarding and child protection standards, ensure compliance with donor policies, and approve program expenditures and budget adjustments. Represent CRS programming internationally, publish results, and facilitate cross-country learning by leveraging evidence and lessons learned to strengthen project performance and adaptive management.
Required Qualifications
- Strong preference for candidates in the Washington D.C. area
- Strategic leadership, management, and technical knowledge
- Primary point of accountability for overall project performance
- Donor engagement
- Consortium and resource partner management
- Safeguarding
- Risk management
- Compliance
- Proactive management of security and mitigation of security risks
- Locally led systems change
- Cross-country learning
- Government ownership
- Sustainability
- Adaptive management
- Strategic leadership for multi-country implementation
- Alignment, coordination, and accountability across participating countries, technical teams, and project partners
- Primary point of contact with the donor
- Public, private and non-government stakeholder engagement
- Meeting donor expectations in terms of timely and quality results
- Milestone completion
- Budget management
- Strategies for phase out and sustainability
- Coordination between program and operations leads
- Adherence to CRS program quality standards
- Monitoring and verification of milestone-based deliverables
- Timely completion of project commitments
- Donor reporting requirements
- Effective leadership of senior programming and operations talent
- Management of team dynamics and staff well-being
- Coaching and mentoring
- Strategic tailoring of individual development plans
- Completion of performance assessments for direct reports
- Oversight of staffing plans
- Recruitment process of senior staff
- Monitoring of national and regional issues impacting staff and programming
- Updates to CRS staff safety and security policies and plans
- Adherence to safety and security policies by staff
- Implementation of safeguarding and child protection standards across all project activities, partners, and participating countries
- Compliance with donor and CRS policies
- Financial tracking
- Oversight of partner budgets
- Finance
- Administration
- Donor reporting
- Approval of program expenditures
- Budget adjustments
- Cost modification requests to donors
- Sound stewardship of donor and CRS resources
- Representation of CRS programming in international circles
- Highlighting innovative work
- Publication of program results
- Delivery of presentations
- Oversight of communication strategies and materials
- Compliance with donor and CRS branding and marketing requirements and procedures
- Management of relationships with consortium partner organizations
- Organization of review/planning workshops
- Coordination of roles and activities of staff from other consortium member organizations
- Implementation in line with CRS partnership principles
- Promotion of cross-country learning
- Knowledge management
- Adaptive management
- Facilitation of the use of evidence, data, and lessons learned
- Strengthening project performance
- Contribution to agency and sector learning
- Creation of proper conditions for learning
- Establishment of a safe environment to share ideas, solutions, and difficulties
- Building internal capacity to detect, analyze and respond quickly to deficiencies
- Identification of performance gaps and training opportunities for CRS and partner staff
- Design and delivery of high-quality training and technical assistance
- Strategic oversight of consortium partners, sub-awardees, and vendors
- Ensuring strong performance, compliance, risk management, and alignment with project objectives, donor requirements, and milestone commitment
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