World Vision International

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As Chief of Party – PARES Program, you will provide leadership to the overall implementation of the ECT3/PARES project, ensuring that targets are achieved and organisational and donor standards are maintained. This includes effective team leadership; overseeing the project cycle through planning and budgeting, implementation, monitoring and reporting; and representing the project to local government, WVUS and USDA. This also includes oversight of any local sub-recipients to ensure that their components are effectively integrated into the overall project.

Requirements include:

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant subject e.g. Management, Development, Education, Health
• Thorough knowledge of the project cycle.
• Knowledge of US government grant regulations preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years in project management in an international context, including at least 3 years in food aid programmes.
• Experience with USDA commodities grants is preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English; Portuguese is an advantage