Deputy Chief of Party

Role Summary : Save the Children is seeking a Chief of Party (CoP) for an anticipated five-year USAID-funded Development Food Security Activity (DFSA) in Ethiopia. The program will seek to sustainably improve food and nutrition security and resilience among poor and chronically vulnerable households and communities in the selected regions. The program will coordinate closely with, and represent a contribution to, the Government of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Nets Programme (PSNP). Hiring is contingent upon successful award of the project and USAID approval of the candidate.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: – Chief of party

Staff reporting to this post:  

Direct:

Indirect :

Budget Responsibilities:

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

The proposed program will be an integrated, multi-sectoral food and nutrition security intervention.  The Deputy Chief of Party will establish and manage systems to ensure a coherent and high-impact approach across all program activities and themes. S/he will ensure that activities are appropriately layered, sequenced and integrated at all stages of the intervention. S/he will develop tools and procedures to guide the implementation of food and nutrition security programming, monitoring outputs and outcomes and ensuring course corrections as required. The Deputy Chief of Party will oversee thematic leads and ensure the quality of their – and their teams’ – work. S/he will work closely with the resource transfer operations team to ensure strong complementarity between resource transfers and complementary activities.

Key Functions:

• Establish an integration framework (drawing explicitly on the theory of change) such that all sectoral interventions and thematic areas and approaches align at the household and community levels to maximize food and nutrition security impacts, with a particular emphasis on improvements in nutrition status, reductions in extreme poverty and chronic food insecurity, and complementarity with PSNP. This applies not only to technical sectors such as agricultural livelihoods, non-agricultural livelihoods, nutrition, maternal-child health, disaster risk management, and WASH, but also to cross-cutting considerations and program approaches such as gender, youth, social cohesion, resilience, and social accountability and operational modalities such as resource transfers.
• Create, and monitor the use of, tools to ensure integration, cohesion, and alignment with food security and nutrition security and resilience best practices. Train and coach team members in the use of the same.
• Establish and implement a layering and sequencing strategy to ensure that each activity in the intervention is timed and implemented in a way that builds towards overall desired food and nutrition security and resilience impacts. Manage activities to achieve this layering and sequencing plan. Ensure that external activities and investments in the intervention area are considered, and that appropriate linkages are created.
• Ensure that all members of the program consortium are contributing technical inputs in a coordinated fashion that leverages the expertise of each organization, and that each consortium member is coordinating closely and effectively with the Government of Ethiopia (at central, regional and local levels).
• Under the direction of the COP, support coordination of the Refine period’s (year 1) formative research studies, ensuring that these remain on track and that findings are synthesized to inform revisions to the program’s design (including its theory of change), scope, targeting methodology and implementation approach.
• Working with the Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Lead, hold discussions with partners and collaborating agencies to create and implement plans for program coordination at the household, community, kebele and woreda levels.
• Assist the CoP in overall program quality assurance, and the M&E Lead in the measurement of the program impacts.
• Lead the documentation and dissemination of information regarding program practices and outcomes.
• Ensure that team members are provided with learning opportunities that support the technical quality of field interventions.
• Provide day-to-day assistance, guidance and support to thematic team leaders to ensure quality implementation and integration.
• Lead the technical aspects of routine and ad hoc program reporting

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

·       holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values

·       holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved

Ambition:

·       sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same

·       widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others

·       future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale

Collaboration:

·       builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters

·       values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

·       approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

·       develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

·       willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

In order to be successful you will bring/have:

QUALIFICATIONS 

A Master’s degree in a relevant field (Development studies, international relations, agriculture, economics, nutrition, public health, business administration)

 EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

•       Minimum 10 years of relevant progressive experience, out of which 5 years in managerial positions

•       Specific technical expertise in food and nutrition security, social protection, and resilience programming. 

•       Demonstrate experience with food security-related MEAL tools, best practices and analytics required.

•                Significant experience in managing cross functional team/program/project

•                Significant experience in people Management

•                Very good knowledge in Matrix reporting structure

•                excellent written communication and presentation skills in English.

•                Strong tool/ curriculum development and training skills.

•                Good skill in emotional intelligence and in conflict management.

•                Ability and willingness to travel frequently

Additional job responsibilities

•       The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience

Equal Opportunities

•       The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures

Child Safeguarding:

•       We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse

 Health and Safety

•     The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.