Chief of Party

Chemonics seeks a Chief of Social gathering for the anticipated, five-year $30-$35 million USAID-funded Resilient Cities Limpopo Exercise. The aim of this exercise is to extend entry to soundly managed and dependable vital providers—particularly water, sanitation, and strong waste administration— for city residents within the Limpopo River Basin. The exercise will obtain this by partnering with municipalities and entities which might be answerable for service supply, in addition to with nationwide governments, to:

• Enhance operations and administration of water, sanitation, and strong waste providers, together with pure useful resource and infrastructure asset administration;
• Construct institutional capability for cost-effective service supply, together with a nationwide capability for coverage implementation and municipal assist, in addition to making certain a concentrate on gender, fairness and social inclusion;
• Enhance and optimize non-public sector participation in provision or funding in service supply and related infrastructure; and
• Enhance public monetary administration for sustainability of service supply enhancements.

The Chief of Social gathering will present strategic imaginative and prescient, management and administration within the design and implementation of all technical interventions for the undertaking and serves as the first liaison with USAID on Exercise implementation and managerial issues. The COP is anticipated to be based mostly in Pretoria, South Africa. This place is contingent upon Chemonics receiving the award and funding. We’re searching for people who’ve a ardour for making a distinction within the lives of individuals world wide. Residents of Botswana, Mozambique, and South Africa are strongly inspired to use.

Key Obligations:

• Direct and oversee technical design and implementation of the Exercise’s strategic long-term imaginative and prescient and interventions to realize outcomes and impression.
• Present technical management, steering, supervision, and administration to workers, consultants, subcontractors and grantees.
• Lead and handle a variety of actions, with quite a few counterparts and individuals per nation, together with however not restricted to related regional organizations, nationwide governments, municipalities, native actors, NGOs, academia, casual sector organizations, labor organizations, different donors and implementing companions to change data, develop skilled relationships, and keep away from duplication of efforts.
• Strengthen the capability of nationwide and subnational establishments to ship vital water, sanitation, and strong waste administration providers.
• Function the first liaison with USAID/South Africa, the nationwide governments of South Africa, Botswana, and Mozambique in addition to choose municipalities per nation.
• Lead coordination amongst sub-contractors, grantees, and different companions in Southern Africa.
• Oversee the design, preparation, and well timed implementation of labor plans.
• Ensures completion of all deliverables and well timed reporting to USAID
• Delivers verbal or written shows, as requested, to varied audiences.
• Make sure that cross-cutting points resembling gender, fairness, social inclusion, resilience, local weather resilience, corruption mitigation, and climate-sensitive approaches are successfully built-in into the Exercise.

{Qualifications}:

• Bachelor’s diploma and 15 years of progressively accountable worldwide growth expertise or Grasp’s diploma and 10 years of progressively accountable worldwide growth expertise or PhD and eight years of progressively accountable worldwide growth expertise.
• Minimal 8-10 years of progressive expertise working in a number of related areas resembling ingesting water and sanitation providers (city and peri-urban water and sanitation expertise a plus), strong waste administration, municipal and/or nationwide authorities institutional capability strengthening, coverage growth, and/or municipal monetary administration or different related technical space.
• Confirmed management within the design, administration, and implementation of comparable sized applications.
• Demonstrated capacity to construct, inspire and lead multi-cultural, and multidisciplinary groups throughout a number of international locations.
• In depth partnership constructing expertise, particularly these requiring massive programmatic flexibility.
• Vital expertise working with counterparts at numerous governmental ranges (nationwide and municipal), the non-public sector (multinational and native), civil society and community-based organizations, casual sector organizations, academia and different stakeholders to offer complete civic engagement, capability, participation, to foster social habits change.
• Demonstrated expertise to make sure coherence and consistency in a fast-paced atmosphere below tight deadlines, together with high quality management and timeliness of all deliverables.
• Demonstrated expertise managing related applications in Africa; expertise in Southern Africa most well-liked.
• Earlier expertise managing USAID or different donor funded initiatives of comparable measurement and scope most well-liked.
• Sturdy interpersonal and oral/written communication expertise.
• Demonstrated management, versatility, and integrity.
• Fluency in English (written and verbal) required. Native language expertise a plus.