ACDI/VOCA is seeking a Country Manager for an upcoming nutrition-focused activity in Ghana.
The Country Manager will provide leadership and technical direction for the activity, ensuring an integrated vision among different components and actors and a focus on achieving programmatic results.
Responsibilities
Coordinate with the Chief of Party on a regular basis to discuss operations, field activities, successes, and potential issues and risks; participate in regular planning processes.
Address priorities related to improving household access to diverse and quality food, and improving nutrition-related behaviors, as well as the capacity of local food systems actors to meet these needs.
Contribute to the cross-cutting goals of the program.
Provide technical leadership and oversight for nutrition-focused initiatives.
Nurture and manage relationships with key public and private partners. Work closely with partner teams to ensure assigned activities are completed on time.
Ensure effective cooperative agreement management, reporting, communications and relationship management with USAID. Ensure quality control and timeliness of all deliverables.
Assist in preparation of periodic written and oral reports work plans, financial, logistical, and other documents to USAID and ACDI/VOCA Headquarters. Review of all financial and logistical information on a periodic basis.
Monitor ongoing grants and attend events related to grant activities.
Facilitate the development of a robust learning culture within the technical team, adopting an adaptive management style and providing regular opportunities for the team to capture and process learning from implementation.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in nutrition, food sciences, food systems, agribusiness, or other relevant field is required; master’s degree is desired.
Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience in food processing and added value, nutrition, food systems, food safety, and/or agribusiness development, including management experience.
Successful track record of leadership on USAID or other U.S. Government-funded projects preferred.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.