JSI is devoted to enhancing folks’s lives world wide by higher well being, training, and socioeconomic fairness for people and communities, and to offering an surroundings the place folks of ardour can pursue this trigger. JSI is presently recruiting for a Challenge Director to guide the Asia Resilient Cities (ARC) Challenge.
ARC is a five-year cooperative settlement funded by the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) and carried out by JSI with companions DevTech Techniques, Inc., BRAC, and ICF. Over the course of 5 years, ARC will deal with cross-cutting city improvement challenges in choose cities in Asia by selling sustainable city progress; supporting resilient, low-carbon city infrastructure; and integrating local weather change and environmentally-conscious approaches.
The ARC Challenge Director (PD) can be accountable for offering total venture oversight and administration, making monetary and personnel choices, offering management on learn how to join ARC’s work throughout city resilience actions, in addition to guaranteeing the standard of technical deliverables on the venture. They are going to keep shut communication with the USAID Settlement Officer’s Consultant staff and all USAID stakeholders, and instantly supervise the 4 ARC staff administrators. The PD will work intently with the ARC staff administrators to make sure constant, coordinated implementation of the venture’s technical actions and achievement of ARC’s objectives and aims. This place additionally supplies direct oversight of ARC contracts, sub-agreements, and memorandum of understanding with implementing companions to make sure alignment of spending on staffing and assist with completion of technical actions. This place is full-time.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The ARC PD is accountable for the general management, technical high quality, administration, and operations of the venture. They be certain that the venture leverages JSI and different companions’ deep technical and programmatic expertise, and that implementation meets JSI’s top quality requirements. This place instantly supervises the ARC staff administrators (Communications, Finance & Operations, MERL, and Nation Help), in addition to ARC technical advisors.
Particular obligations embody:
Program Planning and Administration
- Gives total management and course to the venture staff and companions on implementing ARC actions to make sure the achievement of venture outcomes and sustainability of its actions.
- Immediately supervises the ARC staff administrators, guaranteeing good practices circulate right down to their groups.
- ARC’s senior program consultant to USAID, venture nation governments, worldwide and nationwide nongovernmental organizations, donors, and different stakeholders.
- Manages competing calls for throughout ARC funding streams, and is accountable for complying with all reporting necessities.
- Ensures the venture is assembly objectives and aims.
- Units expectations for producing remaining work plans for every metropolis and the worldwide venture that may meet USAID and native stakeholder (municipal authorities, citizen, and civil society) expectations.
- Ensures implementing companions are assembly all venture obligations, together with assembly price share obligations and total commitments to the cities to assist city improvement challenges.
- Units requirements for workers efficiency, oversight, mentoring, and hiring. Ensures staff administrators are finishing up these requirements.
- Supervises all institutional agreements executed underneath the prime settlement.
- Ensures compliance with USAID guidelines and rules, JSI insurance policies, and technical and programmatic requirements.
- Creates a venture construction to make sure all USAID objectives and expectations are met.
Technical Oversight
- Gives direct supervision for ARC advisors and consultants regarding implementation (not together with MERL or communications). This consists of monitoring workload, high quality of labor, offering suggestions, and mentorship to make sure excessive efficiency.
- Coordinates intently with the ARC Administrators of Nation Help and Monitoring, Analysis, Analysis, and Studying (MERL) to make sure constant, coordinated implementation of the venture’s technical actions throughout the nation portfolio, in alignment with metropolis work plans.
- In collaboration with the MERL staff, fosters modern implementation approaches for ARC objectives and aims, significantly with a watch to cross-sectoral, techniques stage actions and options.
- In collaboration with the communications and MERL groups, identifies promising practices, improvements, and classes realized that may be shared extensively for a number of audiences.
- Connects with, helps, and contributes to JSI’s company technical thought management and world enterprise improvement as wanted.
- Journey is estimated to be 20 % or much less per 12 months.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Grasp’s diploma or larger in a area associated to administration, city planning, resilience, or related is required.
- Minimal of 15 years of expertise in implementing and/or managing advanced initiatives in/for low and center earnings nations, ideally involving coordination with a number of implementing companions or establishments within the Asia area.
- At the least 10 years of expertise working with USAID supported initiatives and creating and implementing exercise work plans; facilitating good USAID Mission relations; and information of USAID monetary guidelines and rules at a senior stage is required.
- Robust interpersonal and managerial expertise, with expertise working in cross-cultural settings.
- Have to be element oriented and be capable of handle workflow processes underneath time delicate venture deadlines.
- The power to barter and handle a various set of reporting necessities is required.
- Expertise engaged on techniques change or techniques considering initiatives desired however not required.
- Fluency in English is required, and a second language (Hindi, Gujarati, Bangla, Russian, Kyrgyz, and/or Mongolian) is a bonus.
- Glorious written and verbal communication expertise required.
- Have to be proficient in Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Kinds).
Wage commensurate with expertise.
candidates ought to submit their resumes and canopy letters on-line.
The right way to apply
Please apply through our Careers Portal:https://careers.jsi.com/JSIInternet/Careers/jobdescription.cfm?id=153105&intern=0