Fresh Jobs at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Purpose

• The COP will provide vision, leadership, and overall management of the project to serve the poor and vulnerable. The COP will ensure results are delivered on time and on budget, including strategies for phase-out and sustainability consistent with USAID requirements and Government of Uganda policies and regulations.

Engagement

• As the primary point of contact for USAID and key stakeholders, the Chief of Party (COP) will ensure effective collaboration and manage relationships across a broad spectrum of government, United Nations agencies, private sector, and community partners. This role demands proactive leadership to align diverse project components and stakeholders towards common goals.

Delivery

• The COP will oversee the project's technical and operational aspects, ensuring all deliverables meet quality standards and are achieved on time and within budget. The COP’s responsibility will extend to managing a diverse team, fostering innovation, and driving the project towards impactful and sustainable outcomes.

Requirements
Essential Job Duties

• Direct the overall implementation of the project, setting high-performance expectations that align with strategic objectives.
• Engage with senior USAID officials and key stakeholders to advocate and communicate project goals and milestones.
• Manage project resources effectively, ensuring adherence to budget constraints and financial regulations.
• Lead efforts to innovate and integrate best practices and emerging technologies in food processing and nutrition.
• Develop and maintain systems for project operations in line with USAID requirements and organizational policies.
• Report on project progress and evaluate impacts, aligning with Feed the Future and Action Against Hunger's strategic priorities.
• Oversee the integration and prioritization of gender equality, protection, and inclusion across all facets of project implementation.
• Ensure the development and implementation of a strategy to engage local stakeholders, ensuring their insights and expertise are integrated into project planning and execution.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Provide leadership and direction to senior technical and administrative staff, fostering an environment that encourages strategic and operational excellence.

• Setting clear goals and making sure that everyone in the team understands it
• Delegating tasks and monitoring progress
• Motivating the team, instilling a team spirit for coordination/ cooperation among staff and offering guidance and support to the team

Fiscal Responsibility

Oversee the project’s budget, ensuring financial compliance and effective allocation and utilization of resources to achieve project objectives.

• Develop and implement financial strategies in line with the project goals
• Manage budget to ensure financial resources are allocated effectively
• Identify and mitigate financial risk and ensure compliance to relevant rules and regulations

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit for long periods and to concentrate on work, including typing, and turn out heavy volumes of work accurately, within short time frames under stressful situations in the context of a moderately noisy office with interruptions.
• To travel to the field, the employee must attest to a level of physical fitness capable of enduring physically difficult, highly stressful situations which may include the necessity to walk long distances, to eat a limited diet and/or to reside in potentially uncomfortable housing or tents.
• 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.

Working Conditions, Travel and Environment
 

• The duties of the job require regular job attendance at least five days per week. Must be available to work outside normal office hours or on the weekends as required by contact with the missions, mission security, or other obligations.
• Must be able to travel as required for standard domestic and international business travel as well as to the missions if appropriate. While visiting the field, the employee may be exposed to precarious settings under high security risks and/or very basic living conditions and outside weather conditions, as well is to infectious diseases.

Gender Equality Commitments & Zero Tolerance to Abuse

• Foster an environment that reinforces values of people of all genders equal access to information.
• Provide a work environment where people of all genders must be evaluated and promoted based on their skills and performance.
• Promote a safe, secure, and respectful environment for all stakeholders, particularly for children, beneficiaries, and members of staff.
• Help to prevent any type of abuse including workplace harassment and sexual abuse and exploitation.
• Respect beneficiaries’ women, men, children (boys and girls) regardless of gender, sex orientation, disability, religion, race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, or marital status.
• Value and respect all cultures.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced degree in agriculture, business administration, international relations, development studies, economics, nutrition or a related field, coupled with a minimum of seven years of progressive leadership experience in international development, particularly in food security and nutrition programming.
• An undergraduate degree in a related field and 10 years of increasing management responsibility in international development projects focused on food security and/or resilience programs targeting extremely poor households.

Required Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated success in leading large-scale, multi-country programs with complex stakeholder landscapes.
• Previous experience as a Chief of Party for projects with similar magnitude and complexity is highly desired.
• In-depth knowledge of USAID funding and its operational requirements, with proven ability to navigate and comply with its policies and regulations, including adaptive management and learning techniques.
• Strong strategic thinking and leadership skills, capable of motivating diverse teams to achieve high levels of performance and impact.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, essential for building relationships across cultures and effectively engaging with a wide range of stakeholders.
• At least five years of field experience.
• Fluency in English is required. Proficiency in other languages relevant to the geographic areas of program operation are a plus.

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Purpose And Objectives

• The Technical Writer will work closely with the Proposal Team Lead, Technical Lead, Cost Lead, HR, Award and Management teams, and other proposal contributors to write the technical application. The Technical Writer will ensure the application is compliant, cohesive, and aligned with USAID RFSA requirements and Action Against Hunger’s strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Writing and Development of the Technical Application:
• Read and synthesize background information to support the development of interventions and activities as part of the technical approach.
• Lead the writing of technical sections based on inputs from the Technical Lead, Technical Specialists, and other contributors.
• Write and revise the technical narrative, ensuring that drafts are compliant with USAID RFSA solicitation requirements, such as page limits, font, and formatting.
• Provide input and develop other sections of the proposal as needed (institutional capacity, annexes, CVs, budget notes, etc.)
• Collaboration and Coordination:
• Participate in and help facilitate preparatory calls, technical discussions and relevant workshops (e.g., theory of change, design workshops) to inform the strategic framework of the proposal.
• Collaborate closely with the Proposal Team Lead and Technical Lead to refine the strategic approach, ensuring consistency across all sections.
• Work with technical specialists to incorporate their inputs into the technical narrative, addressing feedback and resolving any discrepancies.
• Draft Refinement and Quality Control:
• Ensure the coherence, clarity, and technical quality of the overall proposal package, revising drafts based on input from reviewers, Technical Lead, and Proposal Team Lead.
• Align the technical narrative with other proposal sections, such as the MEAL Work Plan, Staffing Plan, and Institutional Capacity sections.
• Ensure that final drafts of the technical narrative are reviewed and approved by all relevant stakeholders, including country and global technical leads, before submission.
• Post-Submission Support:
• Assist with any post-submission issues, including BAFO responses or additional revisions requested by USAID BHA, if required.

Location of Assignment:

• Remote, with potential travel to Uganda for design workshops with Action Against Hunger staff and partners.

Benefits
Qualifications:

• Proven experience writing technical proposals for USAID, ideally for RFSA or Economic Growth (Feed the Future) programs.
• Strong understanding of food security, livelihoods, and resilience approaches, including the Graduation Model, with the ability to clearly articulate these concepts in written proposals.
• Familiarity with USAID solicitation requirements, including compliance with formatting, page limits, and technical specifications.
• Experience collaborating with technical teams to synthesize complex information into clear, concise, and compelling narratives.
• Excellent writing, editing, and verbal communication skills, with a focus on clarity, coherence, and meeting solicitation requirements.
• Familiarity with Uganda or similar contexts is preferred but not required.
• Ability to work cross-culturally and remotely with diverse teams.

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Purpose And Objectives

• The Technical Lead will guide the proposal development process, ensuring that the project design, strategic approach, and interventions are aligned with the RFSA’s objectives. The Technical Lead will coordinate with the proposal team lead, cost lead, global technical lead, country teams, other ACF network member teams, partners, and other stakeholders to create a cohesive and compliant technical narrative. The Technical Lead may also contribute as appropriate and feasible to the cost application development by reviewing budgeted activities and costs. The Technical Lead will work closely with the Action Against Hunger’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning Lead to ensure project design is cohesively and coherently represented in the MEAL Plan. The Technical Lead will contribute to the design of the Management and Staffing Plan to ensure proper implementation of the project design.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Design Leadership:
• Lead the development of the technical approach to ensure it aligns with USAID RFSA’s priorities and donor requirements.
• Conduct background research and identify necessary information to strengthen the project design, integrating lessons learned from past RFSA projects.
• Facilitate design workshops, theory of change discussions, and stakeholder consultations, engaging country, regional, and global technical teams, partners, local NGOs, and government actors as needed.
• Lead the design process, ensuring all stakeholders contribute to a cohesive and strategic approach that reflects the opportunity details.
• Collaboration and Coordination:
• Work closely with the Proposal Team Lead to define partner roles, budget allocations, and project timelines.
• Contribute to negotiations of partner roles and ensure feedback on missing partners is provided, fostering a collaborative teamwork approach.
• Ensure strategic alignment with resilience, food security, and livelihoods interventions, while coordinating with the MEAL Lead to ensure that the project design is fully captured in the MEAL Plan and budget.
• Provide feedback on the proposal development calendar and validate budget marks for different sections.
• Participate in preparatory calls, workshops, meetings, and technical discussions as needed.
• Technical Narrative Development:
• Lead the development of the technical narrative in collaboration with technical team members and the Technical Writer, ensuring clarity, cohesion, and alignment with project/program objectives.
• Coordinate inputs from team members, partners, and other stakeholders, delegating writing assignments where appropriate.
• Ensure the technical design is fully captured in the logical framework and MEAL plan, and work closely with the Cost Lead to align the detailed budget with the technical narrative.
• Complete writing assignments as needed. Delegate writing assignments to Technical Team members, including partners.
• Support drafts to the Proposal Team Lead to coordinate the review and support the Proposal Team Lead in assigning technical team members for draft reviews.
• Review and incorporate inputs and subsequent revisions with the Technical Writer and Technical Team members.
• Final Review and Submission:
• Together with the Proposal Team Lead, review the full draft proposal and make final revisions to ensure alignment across all sections and with donor requirements.
• Make final approvals on technical content in coordination with country and global technical leads, ensuring compliance with donor requirements before submission.
• Assist with post-submission revisions, BAFO responses, and any additional revisions requested by USAID, as needed.
• Location of Assignment: Remote, with potential travel to Uganda for design workshops with Action Against Hunger staff and partners.

Location of Assignment: Remote, with potential travel to Uganda for design workshops with Action Against Hunger staff and partners.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Extensive experience designing programs for USAID, preferably in RFSA or Economic Growth (Feed the Future).
• Strong understanding of food security, livelihoods, cash and voucher assistance, and resilience approaches, including the Graduation Model.
• Familiarity with United States government rules, regulations, and policies.
• Experience working cross-culturally, with demonstrated effectiveness as a team leader.
• Excellent leadership, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Familiarity with the operational context of Uganda or similar regions is preferred.