Chief of Party – Guatemala 39 views

Chief of Party
Project Overview and Role:
The Chief of Party (COP) serves as the lead for overall management of the in-country relationship with USAID, implementing partners, and other key stakeholders. The COP provides leadership for all aspects of field management and technical oversight and will have demonstrated ability to work in complex environments and manage diverse teams to deliver impact.
This is a full-time position based in Guatemala City, Guatemala and contingent upon contract award.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Managing in-country relationships with USAID and other USG staff, consortium members, other implementing partners, and key national and local stakeholders in the delivery of this project.
Providing oversight of grant and program activities, ensuring appropriate procedures are established and complied with for project activity development, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation, and closing.
Providing oversight of strategic, external, and internal communications to effectively convey program successes, lessons learned, research, and analysis to contribute to greater understanding and policy decisions regarding GBV prevention and response.
Contributing to the design and implementation of the monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) system at activity and program levels and ensuring learnings are incorporated into subsequent activity and program design.
Supervising the DCOP-Operations, senior management staff and team leaders, and field staff more generally.

Required Qualifications:
A minimum of eight (8) years of relevant work experience and a bachelor’s degree or ten (10) years of relevant work experience without a bachelor’s degree. Relevant experience includes GBV/violence prevention and response, women and child protection, capacity strengthening of key stakeholders, judicial and legal reform, migration/internal displacement response, and women’s recovery and empowerment.
-A minimum of three (3) years of supervisory experience.
-Experience managing programs in Guatemala or similar development contexts.
-Demonstrated ability to successfully lead and manage challenging and complex projects that engage a variety of public and private stakeholders.
-Experience in grants management and activity development and implementation.
-Financial management experience including budgeting, financial management (tracking, reporting, accounting, and procurement).
-Demonstrated ability to work with vulnerable and at-risk groups
-Demonstrated experience in overseeing program startup and closeout.
-Fluent English and Spanish language abilities (reading/writing/speaking)
Company Overview:
About Palladium – Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people’s lives.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion – Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.
Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss.
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