Chief of Party

Position description

Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company (Kaizen) is an international development consulting firm and an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven organizational and institutional performance improvements and establish communities of practice that facilitate peer-to-peer learning and the achievement of shared goals. We aspire to transform the nature and impact of development assistance and work to strengthen organizations and institutions through innovative approaches to organizational development, reform, and change.

Position and project Summary
Kaizen is seeking a Chief of Party (COP) for the anticipated United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Cambodia Localization Support Activity. To support USAID/Cambodia efforts to ensure that local actors are leading Cambodia’s development. Primary services under the prospective activity will cover the three categories: support for Mission staff to improve local partnership; monitoring, evaluation and learning; and capacity strengthening for local actors. These services will assist the Mission in contributing to the Agency’s localization agenda and indicators. These efforts align with the goal of USAID/Cambodia’s 2020-2025 Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS): “Cambodia becomes a more open, prosperous, resilient, and inclusive partner in the Indo-Pacific region.” The COP will be responsible for the technical leadership and administrative oversight of the project and will serve as the principal institutional liaison to USAID.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for assuring that all assistance provided under the contract is technically sound and appropriate to meet the project objectives
• Drives the achievement of program results by ensuring the provision of timely, relevant, high-quality services
• Serve as the primary point of contact with USAID on day-to-day activity technical implementation and program management
• Identify issues and risks related to activity implementation and suggest appropriate adjustments
• Manage effective monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of program activities
• Lead work planning and oversee all project management systems including finance and administration, human resources
• Ensure the USAID compliance and integrity of program operations
• Supervise senior staff including hiring, mentoring local staff, and consultant engagement
• Establish good working relationships with government, institutions, private sector stakeholders, and research institutes.
• Other duties as required

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in management, international development, or related field
• At least 10 years of relevant professional experience in capacity strengthening and/or capacity building of local organizations, organizational development, or localization in South Asia (in the context of USAID project preferred)
• Previous senior leadership experience on a USAID-funded project as either a COP, Deputy Chief of Party, or Team Leader, including programmatic, operational, and financial oversight
• Demonstrated knowledge of USG regulations and administrative procedures;
• Demonstrated management and supervisory experience of a relevant scope and scale;
• Experience of collaborating with diverse stakeholders to identify and implement against shared goals, such as government agencies, national entities, local partners, project beneficiaries and donor organizations.
• Specialized expertise in one or more areas of focus of the project – capacity strengthening and/or capacity building of local organizations, change management, or localization
• Experience working in conflict/fragile environments
• Experience working in Cambodia preferred, Southeast Asia work experience required
• Must live or be willing to live and travel within Cambodia;

Application instructions

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