Chief of Party - USDA Food for Peace Non-Emergency Program

With 75 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 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

* Please submit your CV and cover letter in English.

*  The Chief of Party (CoP) position is contingent upon funding and donor approval and will be based in Luanda, Angola reporting to the National Director.

JOB PURPOSE.

World Vision seeks a Chief of Party (CoP) for the proposed USDA-funded FFP. The goal of the project will be to improve and maintain the food security of extremely poor, socially marginalized populations. This activity is a 3- to 5-year program worth approximately $70 million.

Authorized under Title II of the Food for Peace Act, USDA’s multi-year Food for Peace Non-Emergency Programming will target people and places that experience recurrent food crises with a Graduation through Agriculture-led Development Approach and by utilizing U.S. agricultural commodities. This approach combines the Graduation model with targeted Market Systems Strengthening focused on agricultural value chains to build resilience, improve food security, and reduce dependence on emergency food assistance. By ensuring all eligible commodities are 100% U.S.-sourced, the program provides a reliable market for domestic crops while combating instability created by food insecurity in critical regions.

The COP is responsible for the overall management, implementation and representation of the project. The COP must build and maintain relationships with host governments, donors, other donor-funded projects and stakeholders, local organizations, and partners. S/he must understand and demonstrate commitment to the importance of adaptive management, gender, youth, and social inclusion issues in food security programming and within staff and management of the activity. The CoP will provide leadership in recruiting, developing, and managing staff, as well as managing programmatic and financial reporting.

The CoP position is contingent upon funding and donor approval and will be based in Luanda, Angola with 25% of the time spent in targeted regions of Angola. The CoP will report to the National Director of World Vision Angola.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Direct and oversee grant implementation, ensuring that all strategic objectives are met through proper design, staffing, implementation and quality assurance.
• Build and maintain relationships with host governments, donors, other donor-funded projects and stakeholders, local organizations, and partners.
• Ensure appropriate project quality support to consortium members through purpose leads.
• Oversee that bottlenecks and challenges to project impact are addressed at various levels of stakeholders using forums such as Technical Working Groups, donor/government led coordination meetings and meetings with consortium member project managers.
• In collaboration with partners' Project Managers, design and facilitate regular project learning events with consortium partners and other key stakeholders, ensuring that lessons of sound practice are documented and disseminated through project implementation and review.
• Supervise a team of senior level international and national staff with skills across a diverse set of technical areas. Ensure proper technical capacity of staff to manage complex donor funded projects. Lead grant staff and short-term consultants.
• Establish and maintain effective project reporting, evaluation, and communication systems. Submit timely accurate and professional reports that meet donor requirements.
• Ensure grant/project budget is managed within approved spending levels and ensure accurate and timely financial reports to donors and Support Office International Programs Group 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.
• Escalate grant management issues early and openly; resolve grant management issues quickly and fully.

REQUIRED EDUCATION, TRAINING, LICENSE, REGISTRATION, AND/OR CERTIFICATION.

• A master’s degree in international development, non-profit management, agriculture, natural resource management, economics, agribusiness, or related concentration from an accredited U.S. college or university, or international equivalent.
• Excellent communication skills tailored to diverse audience types, audience sizes, and communication platforms.
• Strong management and interpersonal skills.
• Mentoring and facilitation skills.
• Field experience in low-resource environments.
• Professional licenses, as required in the field and by the donor.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE.

• A minimum of 15 years of progressively increasing management responsibility in complex, multi-sectoral international projects, and at least five years of experience in fragile or post-conflict states such as Angola preferred.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in food security and livelihoods and experience in managing program implementation and financial reporting.
• Experience with graduation programming preferred.
• Proven success serving in a leadership role for a project addressing issues related to resilience, agriculture, natural resource management, agribusiness, or similar is required, preferably in the Southern Africa region.
• Familiarity with Angola’s social, political, economic, and cultural landscape, and demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with host governments, donors, other donor-funded projects and stakeholders, local organizations, and partners preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in adaptive management and learning techniques highly encouraged.
• Experience with large Title II grants with USG food commodities, including Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA), Development Food Security Activity (DFSA), and Development Food Assistance Programs (DFAP)s.
• Experience with market strengthening grants like Feed the Future (FtF) and Food for Progress (FFPr) preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and managing alliances with the private sector is desirable.
• Familiarity with and commitment to addressing social inclusion in project sectors is required, as demonstrated by at least two years of senior-level experience working on projects that addressed such constraints.
• Proven leadership skills managing projects of a similar size and scope in developing countries facing complex, volatile, and uncertain contexts involving Title II commodities and/or cash transfer mechanisms.
• Demonstrate experience in recruiting, developing, and managing large and diverse teams in remote contexts, including with multiple sub-awardees.

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS:

• Fluency in both oral and written English is required, while proficiency in Portuguese is considered a very strong advantage.

TRAVEL AND/OR WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Mandatory travel to implementation sites and regional, global meetings as required.
• Travel to the United States World Vision Washington, DC Office to meet with donors and other stakeholders.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local and International Applicants (IA's) Accepted

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organisation with a mission centred on following Jesus Christ in service to the world´s most vulnerable children. Therefore, in all locations to the fullest extent legally permissible, the successful applicant will affirm our core documents, observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, serve at a high level of professional ethics and strive to act in accordance with cultural sensitivities. Furthermore, regular attendance with team and office devotions, chapel and prayer gatherings are expected in line with policies in the World Vision host location and its departments.