Chief of Party at Tetra Tech

Position Responsibilites

• Work closely with the client for the strategic vision and overall leadership of the project team and the team’s performance and achievement of all key objectives of the project.
• Ensure that USAID Missions are fully knowledgeable and engaged with Host Governments in ECA on all aspects of their energy, economic research, and reform agenda.
• Responsible for ensuring the successful management, initiation, and completion of complex energy studies of significant importance to the Region.
• Provides technical advice on energy issues, economic research analyses, and economic policy recommendations for project activities, including sector specific issues.
• Manage the preparation of the project’s progress report, work-plans and other contractual deliverables
• Collaborate with the field-based operations team and home office staff on work-planning, activity design, scheduling and implementation, drafting technical justifications for client approvals, and reporting and budgeting
• Coordinate with the home office and the field-based operations team on the sourcing, recruiting, hiring and deployment and onboarding of staff, consultants and subcontractors
• Maintain and update the project budget to mitigate cost overruns
• Act as a liaison to the headquarters office in Arlington, VA for day-to-day problem solving
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Essential KSA's Required (experience, Skills, Education, Certification, Etc.)

• Master’s degree in business administration, law, engineering, economics, finance, policy, or a related field
• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in the energy sector, preferably with experience working with a variety of clients including MDBs and donors.
• Deep experience across the energy value chain, to including energy sector reform, utility performance, clean energy investment and power project development
• 5+ years’ experience managing large and complex energy-related policy reform, and/or local government projects
• Strong executive presence with an ability to build trusted relationships with partners, customers, lenders, service providers and investors.
• Proven track record of leadership, demonstrated by a strong followership from junior colleagues and peers with exhibited success hiring, leading and motivating highly- effective teams, ideally with experience managing people with diverse backgrounds and skillsets.
• Demonstrated familiarity, and prior experience addressing energy sector challenges in Eastern and Central Africa
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.

Valued But Not Required KSA's

• Prior experience as a Chief of Party/Deputy Chief of Party for USAID funded projects.
• Prior experience with cross border power trade, and power pools desirable, but not mandatory.