Avis à candidature pour le recrutement d’un(e) Responsable pour les activités de développement d’une agriculture intelligente face au climat en Egypte.
Position Summary:
The DCOP will support the Chief of Party (COP) with providing day-to-day guidance on project management and technical activities. S/he will work closely with the COP and other team members in designing, implementing, and monitoring project interventions to achieve the objectives and deliverables required under this activity. S/he will work with staff, home office and USAID to adjust programmatic approach, staffing and resources as required based on continuous monitoring of project activities. The position will be based in Cairo, Egypt.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Assist the COP in developing and executing project workplans and overseeing and implementing project activities.
- Provide leadership, management and direction to field-level activities.
- Collaborates with the COP to coordinate activities with the Government of Egypt, USAID, the private sector, and implementing partners.
- Lead and oversee technical team and components and ensure activities align with the workplan.
- Adapt project implementation and activities to achieve objectives and targets as needed.
- Liaise with governmental agencies and donor offices to ensure visibility and representation of program activities.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for technical activities to implementing partners.
- Ensure gender equality and socially inclusive approaches are integrated into programming and effectively implemented; regularly identify learnings, refining the design as needed to improve social inclusion across project activities.
- Provide or facilitate capacity building and training to team, beneficiaries, and partners.
- Assist the COP in monitoring, evaluation and reporting functions.
- Serve as Acting Chief of Party when required.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- An undergraduate degree (e.g. BA/BS) in agribusiness, international development, economics, horticulture, business management or other relevant field.
- A minimum of seven (7) years of experience in developing and implementing agriculture value chains in a developing country.
- Practical technical experience in climate smart technologies, agribusiness, agricultural policy, private sector engagement, marketing, and enterprise development in developing countries.
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in a supervisory role with projects of similar size and complexity.
- Proven leadership skills building and managing cooperative, high-level relationships and motivating diverse teams.
- Proven capacity to collaborate across projects, be flexible, and creative and successfully lead an intercultural team.
- Ability to communicate effectively, instilling trust and confidence.
- Excellent interpersonal and written and oral presentation skills.
- English oral and written fluency.