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Chief of Party – USAID Central Asia

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This Opportunity:
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) plans to establish a five-year project to strengthen community resilience against violent extremist (VE) tendencies in targeted areas of Central Asia. The activity will work with government and non-governmental entities to identify the evolving risk to Central Asia, but approaches will be tailored on a country-by-country basis. The activity will work with low level offenders deemed more at risk for recruitment and radicalization and women as a unifying force to support those at risk for community marginalization. The goal of the new activity is to significantly decrease the upward trend of young people and communities turning to violent extremist groups by providing them with greater social cohesion and opportunities.

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 Almaty, Kazakhstan 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 VE 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.
Key Competencies Required:
A minimum of 10-14 years of relevant work experience and a bachelor’s degree or a master’s degree and seven+ (7+) years of relevant work experience.
Relevant experience includes peacebuilding, conflict resolution, counterterrorism, sociology, CVE/violence prevention and response, capacity strengthening of key stakeholders, economic growth, livelihoods and workforce development, women’s empowerment
Demonstrated knowledge of concepts, practices, techniques, implementation of CVE projects
A minimum of five (5) years of supervisory experience.
Experience managing programs in Central Asia or similar contexts
Demonstrated ability to successfully lead and manage challenging and complex projects that engage a variety of public and private stakeholders.
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 Russian language abilities (reading/writing/speaking)

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