Deputy Chief of Party, USAID/Mali Albarka Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA)

Summary

Save the Children is seeking a Deputy Chief of Party- Operations (DCOP-Ops) for the five-year (2020 – 2025) Albarka Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). Albarka seeks to strengthen the resilience of households and communities in areas affected by conflict in central and northern regions of Mali. The goal is to improve food security and resilience of communities in conflict-affected areas through strengthening local systems and community participation. Hiring is contingent upon USAID approval of the candidate.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

The DCOP-Ops maintains operational and administrative management and oversight of the Albarka RFSA. As a member of the Senior Management Team, the DCOP-Ops is responsible for ensuring efficiency and accountability of RFSA operations in support of high-quality programming that maximizes wellbeing outcomes for the populations the Activity serves. The incumbent will establish and manage systems to ensure effective, efficient and compliant operations across all program levels and modalities, in accordance with USG, Government of Mali and Save the Children policies, procedures and applicable laws. With support from the Chief of Party and DCOP-Technical, the DCOP-Ops ensures strong operational coordination across consortium members and partners, leading the administrative, financial and operational oversight of sub-grantees and sub-contractors and developing tools and procedures to standardize program transfers, logistics, procurement, reporting and administration. The incumbent works in close collaboration with the Albarka Senior Management team and Country Office Finance and Program personnel to ensure a streamlined management approach.

• Establish and monitor standard operating procedures to guide effective, efficient and compliant operations (administration/ HR, finance sub-awards, cash transfers, procurement and logistics) across all office levels and partners, in accordance with the contractual requirements with the donor, Save the Children and the Government of Mali.
• Develop tools, templates, and training packages for these operating procedures, inclusive of internal management processes for procurement and cash transfer activities for the RFSA team and partners to enhance staff risk identification and management capacities.
• Monitor the implementation of these systems, supervising team members leading each function, ensuring that corrective action is taken in service of program efficiency wherever required
• Work closely with the Senior Management Team to ensure alignment of operations and logistics plans, including procurement and travel, with programmatic and financial work/implementation plans, reports and other deliverables
• Contribute to the development of tools and processes to support partner implementation planning and execution
• Work closely with the Senior Management Team and Country Office security personnel to proactively monitor security context, establishing collaborative and sound security and logistics management protocols, policies, tools and procedures to enable localized operational adjustments as the security situation and implementation context evolves
• Lead sub-award processes and related reporting and monitoring requirements, supporting upskilling of implementing partners in the sound management of USG awards and resources
• Working with Country Office and program Human Resources staff, oversee recruitment processes, ensuring a sound human resource base for the program and supporting partner HR processes as needed.
• Contribute to relationship management with partners, USAID and GoM counterparts
• Serve as Acting Chief of Party as needed
• Train, develop, coach, lead, and supervise staff, clearly communicating organization, division and department priorities, and how their work contributes to our mission, ensuring that the working environment continually fosters diversity, inclusion, and belonging – supporting Save the Children values

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 10 years of relevant experience
• Prior experience effectively managing USAID development activities in similar capacity
• Demonstrated operational experience with programs working in the Sahel or similar conflict-affected areas, and ideally with food security programming
• Strong standard operating procedure development and training skills
• Demonstrated experience with multiple aspects of operations management, including administration/ HR, logistics, procurement, cash and voucher programming, security management and compliance
• Ability and willingness to travel frequently
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English and French
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working proficiency in local languages.

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Target Salary for this position is $99,450 – $111,150 base salary

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here). Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

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