Winrock International est une organisation à but non lucratif dont la mission est d’augmenter les opportunités économiques, de préserver les ressources naturelles et de protéger l’environnement.
The Chief of Party will lead implementation of an anticipated five-year program to respond to climate vulnerability, soil degradation, and food insecurity in Burkina Faso. Funded under the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food for Progress, the proposed program will engage agricultural producers to incentivize adoption of practices that contribute to climate resilience and improve food security outcomes in line with USG development objectives. The activity will also leverage market systems approaches to local and regional markets in priority value chains. In addition to overall management and authorities delegated under Winrock’s policies and standard operating procedures, the Chief of Party will lead a local team to develop innovative, replicable, and scalable approaches for the adoption of climate smart practices. The position is contingent on funding and will be based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design and lead the technical approach, including piloting, testing, and scaling innovative implementation models and partnerships.
- Apply adaptive management and learning approach to iteratively evaluate program results and impact. Institute adjustments to replicate and scale successful activities and course correct activities that are not yielding desired results.
- Provide administrative direction and technical input on climate smart agricultural practices to project staff, consultants and partners, including identifying and responding to training and mentorship needs.
- Work in close partnership with donor to ensure alignment of project with donor’s strategic goals and objectives for agricultural trade, and application of program-wide learning and collaboration.
- Coordinate and collaborate with host government programs and other donor projects to leverage resources and maximize results.
QUALIFICATIONS AND BACKGROUND:
Education:
Academic degree in agriculture, business, finance, management, or other relevant fields. Master’s degree preferred.
Experience:
- Minimum 10 years of experience managing complex economic growth programs required, including demonstrated experience achieving program results in fragile environments.
- Previous COP experience on USG funded competitiveness, agribusiness, or market development projects is required.
- Experience designing, implementing and coaching project staff and partners on systems-based interventions required.
- Experience operationalizing the collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) framework in project implementation.
- Experience integrating nutrition, gender, and youth into economic growth programming.
- Experience integrating social and behavioral change communications into the design of training and capacity building programs.
- Experience developing partnerships with private sector actors aligned around shared value.
Skills/Knowledge:
- Ability to diplomatically supervise staff and coordinate activities with partners from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences.
- Ability to build coalitions and networks with private sector actors that can provide synergies and sustainable solutions.
- Must be comfortable in high-level representational role as well as interacting with beneficiaries.
- Demonstrated understanding with USG M&E frameworks and reporting systems. Skills in knowledge management, qualitative and quantitative analytical methods, data analysis, collaboration, learning and adaptation (CLA) approach preferred.
- Excellent management, communication, and organization skills are required.
- Excellent computer skills (word-processing, spreadsheets, and databases) are required.
Other:
Fluency in French and English are required.
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