Job Type: Contract
Reference: RG/CFT/COP/USAID
Country: Pakistan
Location: Islamabad
Closing Date: 20/Aug/2024
Oxford Policy Management (OPM) seeks an experienced Chief of Party for the anticipated USAID Climate Resilient Water Governance Activity, Pakistan.
The purpose of this activity is to promote more resilient water governance and management systems in Pakistan to combat extreme weather events (floods and drought), exacerbated by climate change. Specifically, the activity plans to focus on improving community-led (bottom-up), cost-effective and sustainable water systems in areas faced with flash floods/hill torrents across the country.
The COP will be responsible for the vision and overall strategic leadership of the program and management of the team; serving as the main point of contact with USAID and responsible for building and maintaining relationships with key public and private sector stakeholders. This includes supervising technical, financial and operational functions to achieve the project goals. The position will be full time, over the course of 4 yrs and is contingent upon program award and USAID approval.
Responsibilities will include (not exhaustive):
- Lead and manage the Climate Resilient Water Governance Activity in Pakistan, by (a) providing overall strategic planning, leading a diverse team of technical and administrative staff, (b) ensuring that the team delivers to work plan and cost (c) designing MEL systems and (d) ensuring learning is fed back into the project.
- Serve as OPM’s focal point of liaison with USAID and work closely with USAID Pakistan Program Office and key stakeholders including government, service providers and various public and private sector organizations
- Ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of high-quality technical assistance to USAID Mission, partners, and stakeholders and provide daily management and technical direction of the awarded activity.
- Ensure contractual compliance, HR and financial management of the project.
- Monitor activity progress and ensure quality of control of deliverables produced by partners and external consultants.
- Coordinate with OPM country offices and USAID counterparts to ensure a high standard of compliance with OPM, Host Country, and USAID regulations and requirements
Successful candidates will have the below skills and experiences:
- Post graduate degree, Master’s degree or PhD preferably, in the field of climate and water management, catchment management, climate science, environmental economics, international development or a related field.
- Have a minimum of fifteen (15) years of specialized experience in the field of leadership and organizational development.
- At least 5 years of experience managing as a COP or DCOP USAID projects of similar scope in complex, sensitive environments, and knowledge of USAID programming rules and regulations.
- Demonstrated management skills, including budget and personnel management, supervising team efforts, performance management, program planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, and achieving success in complex activities.
- Demonstrated experience and strong knowledge of climate resilient water policy and governance, integrated water resource management and institutional capacity building within Pakistan.
- Experience working with sub-national government institutions in Pakistan.
- Experience establishing and maintaining systems for managing project operations.
- Ability to maintain working relationships with all project stakeholders and engage in coalition-building.
- Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Fluency in English (Written and oral). Proficiency in Pashto and Urdu is preferred.
OPM is a development consultancy with almost 30 years’ experience in providing rigorous analysis, policy advice, technical assistance and training services to over 120 national governments, aid agencies and public sector and nongovernmental organizations. OPM is currently implementing Building Resilience in Ethiopia, and are supporting the Government of Ethiopia via a demand-driven technical assistance facility to develop systems for greater resilience to climate and humanitarian shocks.
OPM employs over 350 technical staff across its global network of offices. Our mission is to help low- and middle-income countries achieve growth and reduce poverty and disadvantage through public policy reform. We support governments in developing, implementing and evaluating policies that reduce poverty, improve livelihoods and create opportunities. OPM is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment. We have over 50 different spoken languages and 48 nationalities working with us. We would like to encourage applications from all protected groups so we can continue to develop our commitment and be a place to work where a diverse mix of talented people want to join, stay, and deliver our vision.
OPM also offers a very generous holiday allowance and contributory pension scheme, as well as a highly competitive salary.
If you meet the essential criteria above, we would really like to hear from you. Please submit your updated CV in the portal before the closing date. We look forward to receiving your application.
