CHIEF OF PARTY, INTEGRATED NUTRITION ACTIVITY, NEPAL

CARE seeks a Chief of Party (CoP) for the anticipated USAID-funded Integrated Nutrition Activity in Nepal. The purpose of this activity is to strengthen the Government of Nepal’s commitment and capacity to improve nutrition outcomes and to ensure a healthy and productive workforce in Nepal. The project will accomplish this by improving the nutrition and health standards of women and children via better maternal, newborn, and child health services and strengthened policies, systems, and programs that improve the health and nutritional status of women, adolescents, and children.

The Chief of Party stewards the overall vision of the project and takes responsibility for delivering project results. This position will provide leadership for program management and is accountable for planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting. The successful candidate should possess experience in financial management, budgets, overall operations, Human resources, partner coordination, and USAID rules and regulations. The CoP ensures close coordination and collaborative relations with USAID, and its implementing partners and serves as the project’s primary liaison with the Agreement Officer (AO)/Contract Officer (CO). The CoP also works closely with Government of Nepal stakeholders, civil society, the wider development sector, and other donors supporting complementary efforts. The CoP also ensures CARE’s contribution to the dissemination of program learning and achievements, and documentation of promising practices in programming within Nepal and globally.

This position is pending donor approval and funding.

Location: Nepal

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary representative among all project stakeholders by building and maintaining productive working relationships with Government of Nepal duty bearers, USAID, other USAID- and donor-funded health projects in Nepal, private sector and academic actors, and other civil society health stakeholders.

• Responsible for facilitating a Consortium-wide process to generate strategic added value, knowledge, and best practices dissemination to ensure the sustainability of nutrition approaches, strategies, and systems.

• Manage the project’s operational, financial, human resources, and administrative priorities; direct the planning and budgeting processes.

• Create or adapt management systems in line with CARE’s standard operating procedures, ensuring consistency with project needs and aligning with donor’s requirements.

• Manage donor agreement compliance, ensuring project activities adhere to project proposal, budget, and donor regulations.

• With staff and partners, translate project goals and objectives into implementable strategies and plans. Oversee the timeliness and quality of quarterly, semi-annual and annual project activity reports, monitoring & evaluation reports, and other deliverables as specified in the agreement.

• Motivate teams (from CARE and consortium partners) to deliver results by establishing a strong team dynamic, open communications, and leading by example. Promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in internal operations, management, and program implementation.

• Represent the project at high-level meetings, conferences, and other fora.

Required Skills:

• Master’s or advanced degree in public health, nutrition, or other relevant fields.

• Minimum 15 years of progressively responsible experience implementing complex projects in developing countries, at least 10 years in a senior leadership capacity.

• USAID experience serving as Chief of Party, Deputy Chief of Party, or equivalent.

• Experience in developing a project vision, aligning key stakeholders with that vision, and ensuring that vision is translated into achievable strategies.

• Excellent diplomatic skills, public speaking skills tailored to diverse audiences and communication platforms, in-person and online.

• A strong grounding in gender issues, diversity and social inclusion, governance and resilience, and its alignment in the health and nutrition program broadly.

• Proven, exceptional leadership in the design, management, implementation, monitoring, research, and evaluation of similar-sized international donor-supported programs

• Skills in strategic planning and thinking, management, supervision, and budgeting, and experience managing complex activities involving coordination with multiple program partners.

• Demonstrated skills in building and maintaining relationships with host governments, donors, other donor-funded projects, and stakeholders, including private sector stakeholders, academia, local organizations, and project partners.

• Experience recruiting, developing, and managing diverse, multi-cultural staff and teams.

• Track record of a strong commitment to sharing knowledge, documenting experiences, supporting creative initiatives, and collaboration.

• Experience managing required programmatic and financial reporting and compliance requirements.

• Fluency in English (spoken and written) is required.

• Ability to travel within Nepal and internationally.

Strongly Preferred:

Experience working in Nepal, and/or South Asia broadly.