Chief of Party, USDA Food for Peace Non-Emergency Program

About the role

World Vision Angola is seeking a Chief of Party (CoP) for a proposed USDA-funded Food for Peace (FFP) program, which aims to improve and maintain the food security of extremely poor, socially marginalized populations. The program is a 3- to 5-year initiative worth about $70 million, based on the Graduation model combined with Market Systems Strengthening for agricultural value chains. The position is contingent on funding and donor approval, based in Luanda with 25% of the time spent in targeted regions of Angola, and reports to the National Director.

Key responsibilities

• Direct and oversee grant implementation, ensuring strategic objectives are met through proper design, staffing, implementation and quality assurance.
• Build and maintain relationships with host governments, donors, other donor-funded projects, local organizations and partners.
• Support consortium members through purpose leads and resolve bottlenecks through technical working groups, donor/government coordination meetings and consortium manager meetings.
• Design and facilitate project learning events with partners and document lessons learned.
• Supervise a team of senior international and national staff, lead grant staff and short-term consultants, and ensure technical capacity.
• Establish project reporting, evaluation and communication systems and submit timely, accurate reports to donors.
• Manage the budget within approved limits, ensure prudent spending in line with donor rules, and escalate issues early.

Required profile

• Master's degree in international development, non-profit management, agriculture, natural resource management, economics, agribusiness or a related field, or international equivalent.
• At least 15 years of progressively increasing management responsibility in complex, multi-sectoral international projects, with at least five years in fragile or post-conflict states such as Angola preferred.
• Proven leadership of a project on resilience, agriculture, natural resource management or agribusiness, preferably in Southern Africa.
• Experience with large Title II grants with U.S. food commodities (e.g., RFSA, DFSA, DFAP) and with market-strengthening grants such as Feed the Future and Food for Progress preferred.
• At least two years of senior-level experience addressing social inclusion, and experience recruiting and managing large teams in remote contexts with multiple sub-awardees.
• Fluent English; Portuguese is a strong advantage.

Required skills

• Excellent communication, management, interpersonal, mentoring and facilitation skills.
• Technical expertise in food security and livelihoods, and experience with adaptive management and learning techniques.
• Professional licenses as required in the field and by the donor.