ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:
World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization that is fighting for change that lasts, right here in the U.S. and across the globe. We bring sustainable solutions to the world’s greatest problems – disasters, extreme poverty, violence, oppression, and mass displacement. The organization is approximately 75 years old and has worked in over 100 countries around the world since its founding.
In the United States, we come alongside local churches, community organizations and hundreds of individual volunteers to support newly arriving refugee and other immigrant families. Today, we are proud to partner with over 6,000 local churches, and 95,000 volunteers globally to bring hope, healing and transformation to the most vulnerable.
POSITION SUMMARY:
Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?
If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.
The Chief of Party will be responsible for the overall management and implementation of a USAID five-year award in Burundi. This individual will provide strategic leadership and guidance to the project team, oversee program implementation, and manage relationships with key stakeholders, including the government of Burundi, USAID, and other partners. This is a full-time position based in Burundi, with frequent travel within the country and occasional travel outside of Burundi. The position is contingent upon award of the USAID five year award and funding availability.
Role & Responsibilities
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Provide overall strategic leadership and guidance for the USAID five-year award project in Burundi.
- Oversee program implementation and ensure timely, quality completion of project deliverables. This includes the design and oversight of annual planning processes that produce annual work plans, detailed implementation plans, and results reporting for the project.
- Manage project budget and ensure effective use of resources. This includes leveraging resources and partnerships beyond the USAID agreement in order to improve outcomes for participants in the program.
- Manage relationships with key stakeholders, including the government of Burundi, USAID, and other partners. Collaborate with the Ministry of Health at the national, regional and district levels and with other key stakeholders and implementing partners.
- Serve as the primary liaison between the Integrated Community Health Activity project consortium and USAID. Ensure compliance with all USAID regulations and requirements.
- Supervise project staff and ensure high-quality performance. Foster a culture of teamwork, learning, and continuous improvement within the consortium; lead the planning of technical assistance and organizational capacity strengthening efforts within the consortium.
- Identify and manage risks to project implementation and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Liaise with the World Relief Director of health, Nutrition and WASH to create and implement technical assistance as needed for the integrated community health activity.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Knowledge of community health systems, community mobilization and engagement, gender and social norms, and behavior change.
- Ability to lead partnership or consortium with multiple stakeholders to achieve timely results. •Strong cross-cultural leadership and management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse team and work in collaboration with partners.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment across time zones, and at times outside of normal business hours.
- Flexibility and openness to redirection and finding solutions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the demonstrated ability to build strong relationships and include diverse groups of stakeholders in program design, implementation, and evaluation.
- Fluency in English and French is required.
Requirements
- Mature and personal Christian faith
- Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
- Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
- Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Evangelicals For the Health of The Nation document
- Demonstrated experience with maternal, newborn, and child health and malaria.
- Demonstrated ability to manage similar project budgets and resources effectively. •Prior Experience with USAID procedures, regulations, reporting and visibility strategy is preferred
- Prior experience in leading or managing monitoring, evaluation, learning and accountability processes.
- Experience working with local NGOS is a plus.
- Master’s degree (or higher) in public health, social sciences, nursing, medicine, or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience managing complex public health programs in a developing country context. Burundi experience preferred.
- Previous experience as Country Director, Chief of Party, senior management, or senior technical leadership with large USAID funded projects in complex settings required. Previous experience with PMI funding is preferred.
- Experience leading USAID and/or other donor funded programs focused on integrated community health.
- Up to 50% domestic and/or international travel required.
World Relief offers a competitive benefits package to international employees:
– Medical, Dental, Vision
– Paid Holidays + 4 additional Personal days per year!
– Paid Sick and Vacation Time
– Paid Maternity & Paternity Leave (subject to country requirements)
– Paid Home and Hardship Leaves
World Relief pays 100% for eligible employees:
– Group Term Life (employee)
– Long Term Disability (US Expats only)
– Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)
– Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health/Resiliency Assistance
– Emergency evacuation insurance
World Relief – Retirement:
– 401K & Roth (US Expats Only) – WR matches up to 4%, then an additional quarter percent up to 10%
– 4% retirement plan match for all other employees, unless dictated by country law.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
· While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations
· The ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-15 pounds.
· Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application information.
· The employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
· General office setting. World Relief also offers hybrid and remote schedules for limited positions.
· Great lengths of time working on computer, reading from computer screen, entering information, standing at copier or fax machine, and some time on the phone or in virtual meetings may be required.
· Year-end archiving activities involve repeated lifting and bending.
· Physical, emotional and intellectual demands
· Equipment used: Employee computer (desktop or laptop), printer, and copier.
· All of the above duties and responsibilities are essential job functions subject to reasonable accommodation. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Individuals may be required to perform any other job-related instructions as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation. This position description is not all-inclusive and is always under review.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.
For World Relief staff, strong commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief is essential, and Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Legal Background in the United States
World Relief is both an equal opportunity employer and a faith-based religious organization. World Relief strictly prohibits and does not tolerate unlawful discrimination against employees on the basis of person’s race, color, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law, which does not conflict with the protections afforded World Relief as a faith-based employer.
In addition, physical or mental limitations will not be a factor in the application of World Relief’s employment policies or employee practices, except for those situations in which occupational requirement make consideration of such factors necessary.
Pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 702 (42 U.S.C. 2000e 1(a) World Relief has the right to, and does, hire only candidates who agree with World Relief’s Statement of Faith.