Creative Associates International
Overview
Creative Associates International is a dynamic, fast-growing global development firm that specializes in education, economic growth, democratic institutions, and stabilization. Based in Washington, D.C., Creative has a field presence in more than 25 countries with a strong client portfolio that includes the
U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department, among others. Since its founding in 1977, Creative has earned a solid reputation among its clients and is well-regarded by competitors and partners alike.
Position Summary:
The Chief of Party (COP) serves as the Creative’s designated person for overall management in Guatemala with OTI and providing leadership for field management of the Central America Regional Initiative (CARI) in Guatemala. The COP is responsible for financial and program management, oversight, and reporting of Creative’s progress and quality of performance in meeting the activity undertakings of the country program. Under the guidance and overall technical direction of OTI, and with close coordination with the HOPOC the COP provides oversight of activities, including supervision of the program field staff, ensuring appropriate activity design, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation, and compliance with USAID rules and regulations.
Responsibilities
The COP is responsible for:
- Making key decisions and solving problems in short time frames while ensuring operational and program integrity. Overall program direction is provided by OTI through the TOCOR and designated CR.
- Hands on management, oversight, and reporting of Contractor progress and quality of performance in meeting the activity undertakings in this program.
- Financial and program management, oversight, and reporting of Contractor progress and quality of performance in meeting the activity undertakings in this program.
- Serving as the Contractor’s designated person for overall management of the in-country relationship with OTI.
- In close consultation with the designated CR, providing oversight of grant activities, including supervision of the program staff, ensuring appropriate grant design, ensuring that procedures are established and complied with for grant development, grant worthiness, grant implementation, management, monitoring, evaluation, and grant closing.
- Under the guidance of the designated CR or DCR, contributing to the design and implementation of the M&E system at the activity and program levels and for ensuring that all programming is properly monitored and evaluated.
- Developing familiarity with, and maintaining daily usage of, the OTI Activity Database, and ultimately being responsible for ensuring that the relevant staff use, maintain, and upload weekly to the Activity Database, and that data is consistent and complete.
- The Chief of Party/Country Director supervises the Operations Manager of the designated country
Qualifications
- Relevant work experience, including experience with a Contractor or international NGO managing an office or program.
- At least eight (8)] years of experience working on donor-funded projects in a related role.
- A minimum of six (6) years of experience working in complex, high-speed and challenging field operations in developing countries. At least one (1) year of this experience shall include managing these field operations.
- A minimum of two (2) years of supervisory experience.
- Experience with programs that provide quick delivery of assistance in response to emerging windows of opportunity.
- Experience with host governments, other donors, and civil society.
- Experience with grant management.
- Experience in the hiring and supervising of host country local personnel and ensuring, when need arises, that they secure necessary training required to meet program needs.
- Financial management experience, including budgeting; financial management (tracking, reporting and accounting); and procurement.
- Experience with activity design, development, and implementation.
- Fluency in written and oral Spanish is required.
Highly Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with in-kind and small grants.
- Demonstrated success with inter-agency coordination and joint programming.
- Experience working in a fragile or transitional state environment.
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge in establishing systems and overseeing program start-up under limited time constraints.
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge in overseeing program close-out.
- Experience working in other Latin American countries undergoing transition.
- Experience with remote management in transition environments.
- Experience working in security challenged environments.
- Demonstrated working proficiency in English.
Only finalists will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
Creative Associates International Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer (gender/race/disability/veteran) and provides equal opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.
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