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  • Posted: Apr 8, 2017
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    Since 1981, Land O’Lakes International Development has applied an integrated approach to international economic development. We use our practical experience and in-depth knowledge to facilitate market-driven business solutions that generate economic growth, improve health and nutrition, and alleviate poverty. We believe in the value of people and en...
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    Chief of Party

    Position Summary and Primary Responsibilities:

    The Chief of Party (COP) will provide strategic vision, overall leadership and technical direction to the project, ensuring achievement of project deliverables. The COP will be the primary liaison with USAID and will manage project staff and implementing partners to ensure proper reporting, financial management, and compliance. The COP is expected to coordinate with government and other stakeholders to ensure that activities complement ongoing initiatives and adhere to country and global standards. The position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.

    Contract Management

    • Provide strategic leadership to the design and implementation of the project activities and oversees program planning, monitoring, reporting and evaluation;
    • Oversee project finances, planning, administration, compliance, reporting, and monitoring and evaluation;
    • Ensure successful project implementation and achievement of results on time and within budget;
    • Oversee and coordinate the successful completion of planning and budgeting requirements of the project;
    • Manage all contractual requirements of the project, including compliance with all donor regulations;
    • Ensure mechanisms are in place to monitor the implementation of projects, including progress toward achieving objectives and targets with high-quality and on-time performance;
    • Ensure timely, high-quality and complete submission of work plans, quarterly and annual reports, financial reports, and any other reports required by the donor;
    • Ensure that all activities are undertaken in full compliance with Land O’Lakes’ standard operating procedures, and donor policies and regulations, and national policies and laws;
    • Ensure documentation and dissemination of findings, impact, innovations, and lessons learned.

    Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Reporting

    • Supports and follows through on the identified target areas of the project and conducts feasibility assessments to support agricultural activities;
    • Monitors and evaluates the effectiveness, efficiency and impact of the components, agriculture, gender, climate change and food security, and makes appropriate recommendations for improvement;
    • Monitors the achievement of results, ensuring compliance of project indicators;
    • Ensures all activities are developed and designed to the highest possible standards with rigorous M&E plans integrated from the outset with staff support;
    • Ensures that the M&E systems of individual indicators are of high quality, providing regular impact and process data and that all activities have baselines and evaluations;
    • Draft donor reports, and monitor project partner reports;
    • Ensure gender concerns are integrated into programming; encourage gender-sensitive working environment, guaranteeing equal opportunities and treatment to both men and women;
    • Implement gender mainstreaming approach: identify and use opportunities for improving gender equality in the project.

    Team Leadership

    • Manage relationships with implementing partners;
    • Recruit, manage and motivate a dynamic, informed, skilled and efficient program team;
    • Ensure all program staff have performance plans and are reviewed and provided with feedback on a formal basis annually and informally at least every three months;
    • Incorporate staff development strategies and performance management systems into the team building process;
    • Ensure optimal use of human, financial, and physical resources to successfully meet project milestones, objectives, deliverables and targets;
    • Create a collaborative organizational culture and facilitate exchange of knowledge for cross-organizational learning;
    • Encourage learning and knowledge sharing as an essential part of doing business and ensure employees own their own learning;
    • Ensure important decisions are recorded, and easily available for retrieval thus making it employees’ responsibility to share the learning; and
    • Ensure tools for learning, such as blogs, articles, social media, brochures, coaching, training, etc. are in place. Encourage employees’ enrollment in relevant social networks and communities of practice.

     

    Representation

    • Represent project both internally and externally to other donors, stakeholders, implementing partners and government counterparts;
    • Coordinate with all local relevant government authorities at the national level, as well as with communities, village councils and local government in the prioritized geographic regions of implementation;
    • Ensure accountability and good relations with partner agencies, maintaining a cooperative, collegial and collaborative relationship;
    • Promote sustainability of project activities with effective networking, linkages to other programs, capacity building of project staff, and institutional strengthening of implementing partners and community-based organizations.

     

    Reporting & Supervision:

    The COP will oversee a staff of host country employees and potentially several expatriates, depending on the scope of the project. S/he will report to Land O’Lakes’ Regional Program Director.

    Required Skills and Qualifications:

    • Master’s degree in agriculture, agriculture economics, environment, natural resource management, rural development or related field of study or equivalent work experience;
    • 10 years or more experience implementing international multi-sector agriculture development projects;
    • 10 years or more management experience leading USAID-funded contracts of significant value;
    • Extensive knowledge and familiarity with USG rules and regulations;
    • Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills, including proven ability to develop and communicate a common vision among diverse partners and lead a multi-disciplinary team;
    • Strong leadership qualities and depth and breadth of technical and management expertise in agriculture programming;
    • Experience in systems strengthening, capacity building, service delivery, and quality improvement is highly desirable;
    • Ability to work independently and manage a high volume work flow;
    • Direct experience with gender mainstreaming;
    • Experience developing and facilitating private sector partnerships;
    • Demonstrated ability to create and maintain effective working relations with host country government personnel, stakeholders, NGO partners, private businesses, and international donor agencies;
    • Professional experience working in Kenya and the East Africa region;
    • Strong interpersonal, writing and oral presentation skills in English; and
    • Relevant computer software skills (including, at a minimum, the standard applications in MS Office).

    Desired Skills and Qualifications:

    • Experience implementing projects with a focus on climate resilience, youth, and innovative technologies;
    • Field experience working in one or more of the following value chains: Staple crops, horticulture, dairy and/or livestock;
    • Working knowledge of Swahili.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Land O Lakes on lol.avature.net to apply

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