Director Campos de Esperanza/EQUAL

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable childrens life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Campos de Esperanza Objetive:

Prevent child labor and promote the improvement of working conditions in migrant agricultural communities, collaborating with the private sector and in coordination with the Government of Mexico at the federal, state and municipal levels.

Equal Objetive:

Reduce the risk of child labor, forced labor and other labor rights violations for vulnerable women (over 18 years) and adolescent girls (15 to 17 years) within the agricultural sector.

Major Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain effective project reporting, evaluation, and communication systems.
• Submit timely accurate and professional reports that meet donor requirements.
• Manage grant/project budget within approved spending levels and ensure accurate and timely financial reports to donors and Support Office staff.
• Ensure grant/project expenses are reasonable, allocated as per assigned budget, prudent and spent in accordance with donor rules and regulations to ensure low risk audits.
• Liaise with local government officials, local communities, donor representatives and other stakeholders as appropriate.
• Consistently look for more effective and efficient implementation methods and opportunities to increase impact.
• Participate and conduct on-going lessons learned with key staff and partners/sub-grantees.
• Liaise with local government officials, local communities, donor representatives and other stakeholders as appropriate.
• Participate, lead NGO donorforum to represent WV, the project, and seek cooperation for joint advocacy opportunities.
• Escalate grant management issues early and openly; resolve grant management issues quickly and fully.
• Serve as primary liaison to USDOL local and national governmental authorities, local NGOs, community organizations, Facilitate learning of best practices on programs technical areas and other donor organizations.
• Provide vision and strategic technical leadership for the project.
• Close cooperation with NO GAM lead for implementation of the GAM objectives as well as close collaboration within the NO GAM Unit on donor positioning, lessons learned, grant health and quality improvements.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in project management, supervision, administration, and implementation of cooperative agreement and/or contract requirements (including meeting deadlines, achieving targets, establishing and maintaining systems for managing project operations, working with multiple subgrantee(s) and/or contractor(s), and overseeing the preparation and submission of required reports to donor agencies), preferably in the country of implementation.
• A Masters degree in management, international development, education, politicalscience,or a related fielddesired.
• Experience establishing and maintaining systems for managing project operations.
• Work experience in the agricultural sector.
• Proven experience in a leadership role for a project addressing labor-related issues, including child labor, forced labor, or workplace exploitation.
• Demonstrate the ability to maintain working relationships with all project stakeholders, and engages in coalition building and public-private partnership promotion.
• Understanding of agricultural supply chains, gender mainstreaming, and/or womens economic empowerment.
• Proficiency with public speaking is preferred.
• Fluency in English and Spanish is required.
• Must be directly hired by the recipient, not a subrecipient.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only