Position Summary:
Winrock International is currently recruiting Chief of Party candidates for the anticipated Feed the Future Mozambique Climate Smart Agriculture (FTF CSA) Activity-Nacala Corridor. This will be a multi-year, $16 million cooperative agreement seeking to increase agricultural productivity in the Nacala corridor (Nampula and Zambezia provinces) by increasing resilience t climate change for smallholder farmers, sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes, and adapting and building resilience of agricultural and food systems to climate change, reducing or removing greenhouse emissions where appropriate. The Chief of Party position will be based in Mozambique and is subject to a project award being made to Winrock International.
Major Responsibilities:
The Chief of Party will provide overall technical and operational direction to the project. He/she will be responsible for developing and leading the project’s market-focused and private sector-led approach. This will include fostering commercially driven partnerships with private sector actors, designing initiatives to incentivize investment in sustainable sourcing, and facilitating the commercialization and uptake of new technologies. The COP will provide capacity building to project staff and partners in market systems and facilitation. The COP will also oversee project management systems for finance and administration, logistics, human resources and strategic operation. The COP will ensure the completion of time reports, evaluation, analyses, assessments, and deliverables that meet USAID quality control/assurance standards, ensure program compliance with relevant regulations, and provide hands-on guidance and support to project activities and personnel. The COP is responsible for overall management of results for USAID.
Qualifications and Background:
Education:
- Master’s degree in an agriculture or business related field.
Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience or more managing complex donor-funded projects with a budget of at least $10 million;
- Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, design and application of methods and strategies to produce, analyze and use data, and share/communicate information with a variety of actors in different environments;
- Experience within or specific to Mozambique strongly preferred;
- Previous experience managing private sector development, value chain, climate changes adaptation projects, and/or natural resource management projects.
Skills & Knowledge:
- Strong inter-personal skills such as communication, negotiation, representational and program/project management and coordination;
- Gender strategy incorportation;
- Excellent leadership and communication skills.
Language:
- Fluency in English and Portuguese.
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