Mercy Corps Chief of Party - Rural Resilience Activity Jobs in Nigeria

Mercy Corps Chief of Party - Rural Resilience Activity Jobs in Nigeria

About Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, and in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action — helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future.

Program / Department Summary

Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, and its influence spreads across the continent. Yet, inequality and insecurity have consistently undermined Nigeria's development. Mercy Corps Nigeria was established in 2012 to respond to these challenges.

Our activities aim to build resilience through an integrated approach, helping communities–and the most marginalized within them–cope, adapt, and thrive in the context of numerous shocks and stresses. With a strong and growing team, Mercy Corps works to achieve the vision of a Nigeria in which all people are empowered, engaged, resilient, and secure.

General Position Summary

The CoP will provide overall leadership, management, and strategic vision to the final phase of implementation of the Rural Resilience Activity, to ensure that the program meets its targets and deliverables within the remaining completion time.

The CoP will leverage the program’s established partnerships platform towards consolidating program impacts. In addition to progress towards program goals, the COP will focus the final eighteen months of the program on finalizing and leveraging strategic learning, knowledge management, and dissemination, ensuring the successes and lessons learned from the program are effectively captured with evidence, communicated, and used to influence policymakers and implementers.

Essential Job Responsibilities

Strategy & Vision

Recognize and leverage the existing opportunities for scale and impact in the program to drive sustainable impacts beyond program close.

Action and create an environment where alternative viewpoints are welcomed.

Set direction by prioritizing and organizing actions and resources to achieve objectives.

Oversee the development of annual, integrated strategic work plans, learning agenda, knowledge management, and strategic influence plans for the program.

Integrate a resilience lens to team decision-making, proactively analyzing evidence to predict trends and respond accordingly within the program scope.

Program Management

Oversee program management and administration of teams across various field locations.

Lead the development of detailed implementation plans, flowing from annual strategic work plans, and ensure the delivery of the same.

Lead program close-out in Year 5, ensuring compliance with USAID and Mercy Corps close-out processes.

Lead the development and implementation of the learning agenda and knowledge management and communications strategy, ensuring the program is generating evidence against priority research and learning questions, and documenting and disseminating successful, scalable models for impact for strategic influence with key internal and external stakeholders.

Lead the communications strategy of the program with Government of Nigeria stakeholders, ensuring necessary approvals and collaboration, the responsiveness of program strategies to government priorities, and the influence of government stakeholders to support program objectives and sustainability of impact.

Ensure that beneficiaries are effectively targeted according to established vulnerability criteria.

Integrate climate-smart, gender, conflict-sensitive, and capacity-building elements into all activities as appropriate.

Provide managerial and programmatic oversight to partners and sub-grantee(s), including an extensive network of private sector partners.

Ensure partners operate in line with Mercy Corps and donor principles and adhere to safety and security minimum standards.

Provide quality assurance to all donor deliverables, leading on weekly reports, check-ins, program performance reports, regular success stories, etc.

Oversee the M&E systems for the program and ensure effective, accurate data capture for integration into adaptive management decisions.

Ensure collaboration and integration with the country portfolio, contributing to management decisions, communities of practice, and strategic direction.

Lead the effective and efficient delivery of the program within budget, ensuring that USAID expectations and program Key Performance indicators are met and exceeded.

Develop and execute overall project strategy, work plan, and leadership for the successful implementation of the project.

Manage the development of, and monitor work plans and budgets; ensure appropriate levels of

technical assistance in program operations; oversee and coordinate with key stakeholders and partners; and ensure appropriate program monitoring and reporting.

Build good working relationships with USAID, partners, and other key stakeholders to assist with program delivery and closeout.

Implement effective stakeholder management plans for the consortium ensuring sound and proactive communications with Mercy Corps Nigeria, partner organizations, Mercy Corps headquarters, USAID, Government of Nigeria authorities, and colleague agencies.

Conduct frequent field visits to all project sites – spend up to 30% of the time in the field.

Team Management

Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.

Promote accountability, an evidence-driven and inclusive culture, communicate expectations and provide constructive feedback via regular performance reviews.

Contribute to country team-building efforts, help team members identify problem-solving options, and ensure the integration of all team members into relevant decision-making processes.

Supervise and manage all program staff to ensure day-to-day activities are implemented in a coordinated fashion according to schedule, budget, and quality.

Supervise and manage all program partnerships to ensure sound coordination in the context of an overall program strategic and resilience-building framework.

Manage and help with the recruitment, orientation, professional development, and ongoing training of staff to ensure they are of the quality and technical capacity necessary to ensure the successful implementation of activities.

Finance & Compliance Management

In collaboration with the country program’s operations and finance departments, ensure proper financial management, procurement, administration, human resources, and logistics (including transport, warehousing, and asset management) needs of the program are conducted within Mercy Corps’ policy and with the maximum benefit to the program.

Monitor adherence to grant agreement, Mercy Corps’ policies and procedures, and relevant external rules and regulations, including those of the government of Nigeria.

Knowledge and Experience

Master’s degree or higher in agriculture, economics, business administration, or related field.

A minimum of ten (10) years of significant international experience and of being a Chief of the Party in managing large (preferably $15 million and above) livelihood, and agricultural development activities, with knowledge of market systems development and resilience programming in the African context preferred.

Prior experience with close out of large USAID awards.

Proven excellence in strategic learning, knowledge management, and dissemination, combining excellent communications skills, stakeholder management expertise, and a keen eye for strategic information flows for advocacy and influence.

At least five years of field-based work in a conflict-prone environment and/or active insurgency environment.

Familiarity with climate-sensitive programming, with a preference for climate-sensitive agriculture.

Demonstrated ability to be collaborative across activities, and with other programs/support departments while utilizing strong communication and interpersonal skills, with evidence of the ability to productively interact with a wide range and levels of organizations (government, private sector, other activities, NGOs).

Demonstrated capacity to manage complex teams, including problem-solving skills, and capacity to meet deadlines and deliver quality deliverables to meet objectives; and

Very strong written and verbal communication skills (proficiency in English).

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Mercy Corps Chief of Party - Rural Resilience Activity Jobs in Nigeria

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