CAMRIS International is a growing international development and research firm that realizes innovative solutions to health and development challenges through high-quality, cost-effective program and research management services. With experience working in more than 80 countries, we combine our proven systems with today’s most effective, evidence-based best practices to improve the lives of people around the world. We apply a customized, customer-centric, cost-effective business approach to offer greater value to our clients and challenge the way things have always been done in our field.
Building on the experience of our founding companies CAMRIS has nearly 60 years of experience implementing international development programs. CAMRIS’ practice areas include global health, agriculture and food security, economic development, education, environment, humanitarian assistance, democracy and governance and medical research. CAMRIS’ proven performance in monitoring and evaluation, project design and implementation, capacity building, research and other capabilities on more than 2,000 contracts testifies to our ability to meet the highest standards of public and private sector clients worldwide.
We have honed a cutting-edge approach to customer service built on providing expert human resources supported by a strong quality assurance process and reliable management and administrative services. We have developed agile, efficient systems for implementing large technical assistance, research, institutional support and other task-based contracts.
Role in Organization:
CAMRIS seeks a qualified Deputy Chief of Party for an anticipated multi-year year USAID/Malawi-funded project called Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains II. The Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) will lead/oversee the review of project level M&E plans, and support such technical work as reviewing reporting methods, supervising and carrying out training, designing reporting tools, advising USAID and implementing partner teams on their M&E work, providing technical assistance for the development of a knowledge management system. The individual will oversee, recruit for, and participate in evaluations and assessments throughout the life of the contract. S/he will ensure the short-term technical experts and evaluation team members recruited under this contract are of a high caliber and possess the required technical expertise.
Job Description:
Essential functions, duties, responsibilities:
- Assist the COP in making sure all projects are in compliance with USAID and CAMRIS rules and regulations
- Provide day-to-day project management
- Serve as the secondary liaison with the client Contracting Officer Representative at USAID and its implementing partners.
- Support quality control and the overall responsiveness of technical assistance provided under the contract, including necessary adjustments to operations to fit the requirements of USAID.
- Contribute substantively to the design and field-testing of evaluation methodology, participatory data collection methods and protocols, data verification techniques, and other technical evaluation and analytical tasks conducted under this contract.
- Support the design, quality, development and completion of assessments, analytical reports and evaluations.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
The DCOP will supervise several specialist and other positions, TBD.
Qualifications:
- A master’s degree (PhD preferred) in field relevant to project activities, e.g. economics, public policy, international relations, statistics, political science, social sciences, etc.
- A strong background in agriculture and health sciences
- At least 10 years of experience working in Southeast Africa with Malawi experience preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to manage, lead, and make decisions in a timely fashion.
- Demonstrated ability to assemble and lead highly skilled, interdisciplinary teams; interact with and lead a broad range of governmental and non governmental actors and institutions across sectors.
- Experience conducting rigorous evaluations of development interventions.
- Experience implementing performance monitoring of complex development interventions.
Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: This is a full-time position, and regular hours of work and days are Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Travel: Travel throughout Malawi is expected. Regional or international travel may be required.
HOW TO APPLY:
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