Call for Operational Experts: USAID/Timor-Leste Nutritious Agriculture Market Systems Activity 27 views

Call for Operational Experts: USAID/Timor-Leste Nutritional Market Systems Activity
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Project Overview and Role:
The purpose of future USAID/Timor-Leste agriculture programming will be to strengthen Timor-Leste’s market systems for nutritious agricultural products and the ability of enterprises and organizations to expand their businesses eventually operating independently of direct USAID or other development partner assistance. Building sustainable business-to-business relationships based on mutual benefit among finance providers, transporter-collectors, aggregators, input suppliers, farmer-producers, wholesale-retailers, value-added processors, waste recyclers, and community based entrepreneurs – collectively referred to as ‘value chain actors’ or VCAs – will be a primary goal. Success will be measured by the degree to which VCAs are able to directly participate in Timor-Leste’s nutritious agriculture value chains and expand their enterprises without market subsidies or direct assistance from donor-funded project staff.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Palladium is seeking long-term candidates with the following operational capabilities for the anticipated Nutritious Agriculture Market Systems Activity in Timor-Leste.
Finance and Administration
Operations
Communications
Monitoring and Evaluation
Duration: 5 years
Location: Timor-Leste

Position Requirements:
Advanced degree in business, accounting, communications, economics, finance, or other closely related field.
Excellent interpersonal and leaderships skills
Proven experience developing and finalizing high quality deliverables.
Experience working for large donor organizations such as USAID preferred
Knowledge of donor and/or USAID policies, procedures, and reporting requirements strongly preferred
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Written and oral proficiency in English required
Nationals of Timor-Leste encouraged to apply
Anticipated Roles:

Deputy Chief of Party: Support COP in overall leadership, strategic guidance, vision, and management to staff and the overall project team. Provide technical assistance to the project, including development of strategies, budgets, work plans, MEL plans and reporting. USAID program experience strongly preferred with significant experience as a leader on a USAID funded project or other donor-funded development project. Demonstrated knowledge and experience managing donor planning and reporting systems, operations, programming, and structure. Significant experience managing and leading technical and administrative teams for complex development projects. Fluence in English required.

Director of Finance and Operations: Provide overall management of administrative operations, including logistics, procurement, budgeting, finances, human resources, information technology, property, and security. Oversee effective systems for project administration and operations, including grants, subcontracts, procurement, and compliance. Extensive senior-level experience managing finance, administration, and grants for complex and large-scale donor funded programs. Significant experience in the management of programs of the same complexity and size. In-depth knowledge of USAID financial management rules and regulations, and reporting requirements. Fluency in English required.

Grants Manager: Manage and administer subgrants, leading inception, implementation, and closeout activities, including preparation of subgrant briefing materials, required approvals, allowances, funding, procurement, property inventory, and audit file documentation. Provide technical and administrative support to build the capacity of local grantees to effectively manage grants and achieve results. Extensive experience in USAID grants management and compliance required. Comprehensive knowledge of cost reimbursable, T&M, and fixed price grant mechanisms and demonstrated ability to analyze complex compliance clauses required. Fluency in English required.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director: Provide technical leadership to capture and communicate program results, as well as ensure high-quality, timely, valid, and verifiable data collection, reporting and analysis. Develop and implements framework for project results measurement, accountability, learning and development effectiveness to measure and report project success, including articulation of Theories of Change (ToC). Using a Collaborate, Learn and Adapt (CLA) framework, ensures that lessons learned, and best practices are captured, synthesized, reported, and disseminated. Review and update the project’s MEL plan on an on-going basis.  Demonstrated experience in gathering, organizing, and analyzing large amounts of data as well as the ability to design manageable, transparent MEL systems that report progress against indicators throughout the life of the project. Demonstrated experience with complex donor-funded development projects. Fluency in English required.

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