Chief of Party II, ChildSAFE

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Chief of Party leading Catholic Relief Services’ complex multi-country child protection and early childhood development project. Managing donors, consortium partners, safeguarding, budgets, risks, and delivery.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead all aspects of development, implementation, and consolidation of a complex multi-country child development, care, and protection project
  • Provide strategic leadership and ensure alignment, coordination, and accountability across countries, technical teams, and partners
  • Serve as primary contact with donors and public, private, and non-government stakeholders
  • Ensure timely, high-quality results, milestone completion, sustainability, and compliance with donor expectations
  • Monitor and verify milestone-based deliverables and donor reporting requirements
  • Lead senior programming and operations staff, manage team dynamics, coach and mentor staff, and oversee senior-staff recruitment
  • Manage and mitigate security and program risks and maintain staff safety and security policies
  • Oversee safeguarding and child protection standards across activities, partners, and countries
  • Ensure compliance with donor and CRS policies, including financial tracking, partner budgets, expenditures, and donor reporting
  • Represent CRS programming internationally, publish results, deliver presentations, and oversee communications materials
  • Manage consortium partner relationships and coordinate consortium member activities
  • Promote cross-country learning, knowledge management, evidence-based decision-making, and adaptive management
  • Identify performance gaps and oversee training and technical assistance
  • Provide strategic oversight of consortium partners, sub-awardees, and vendors

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in international development, International Relations, or a relevant technical area
  • Minimum 8 years of relevant management and technical experience
  • Minimum 7 years of experience managing donor funds, including multi-country grants
  • Excellent knowledge and experience in budget management
  • Minimum 5 years of staff management experience
  • Experience coaching and mentoring senior program staff
  • Successful management of complex, high-value, multi-activity projects with complicated logistics
  • Established sector leadership demonstrated by peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, or similar accomplishments
  • Excellent knowledge of MS Office, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio
  • Knowledge of web conferencing applications and information and budget management systems
  • Strong strategic, analytical, systems-thinking, and problem-solving skills
  • Relationship management, team leadership, coaching, mentoring, communication, and presentation skills
  • Fluency in English required
  • Spanish or French fluency is a plus
  • Must be willing and able to travel up to 35%
  • Must be legally able to work where the position is performed
  • Pre-employment medical clearance required for positions requiring residence or frequent travel outside a home country
  • Must sign and adhere to CRS’ Code of Conduct

Benefits:

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Generous retirement savings plan
  • Collaborative, mission-driven work culture
  • Salary and benefits packages based on country of employment/in-country office for candidates employed outside the U.S.