Deputy Chief of Party, USAID/Somalia Monitoring Learning Project-2 at Tetra Tech

Responsibilities

Technical

• Oversee coordination of field work in line with the Prime’s planned strategic M&L approach.
• Work closely with the project staff to approve daily content, providing quality assurance.
• Manage external consultants.
• Ensure consistency across all areas of data collection and activity implementation.
• Contribute to measurement and analytics approaches to track success metrics and define the impact of activity efforts.
• Review quarterly and annual reports of technical teams for content ideas.

Operational and Managerial

• Serve as Acting COP when the COP is out of office.
• Liaise with the COP on M&L activities.
• Manage staff members, assuming quality assurance, and accountability for the timely, quality submission of assigned task.
• Encourage efficiency in delivery of tasks by continually monitoring activities against goals, minimizing duplication of personnel activities, and defining and using standard operating procedures.
• Ensure systematic collaboration and information gathering with communications colleagues from implementing partners through regular meetings and check-ins.
• Participate in strategy development, specifically providing hands-on management during the research process.
• Support professional development and capacity building of staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is required. Master’s degree is highly desirable.
• Minimum five years of supervisory experience managing staff and/or subcontractors working on MEAL projects, including TPM is required.
• Minimum seven years of experience related to MEAL, including four years of field-based experience is preferred.
• Experience conducting quantitative and qualitative field research in a complex emergency setting.
• Familiarity with issues related to the implementation of humanitarian assistance activities for refugees and IDPs, food aid, and multi-sector humanitarian assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Familiarity with the operations of BHA-funded programs in Somalia is highly desirable.
• Experience overseeing quality control on TPM and analytical work products.
• Strong oral and written communication, analytical, interpersonal, and team management skills.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English is required.