Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, May 09 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Objectives And Duties:
The DCOP will support all aspects of technical implementation, maintain communication and momentum among teams, and oversee activity operations, including grants management, progress reporting, and administrative matters. He/she will serve as the secondary point of contact with USAID/Uganda and assume the COP responsibilities in the absence of the COP.

Specific duties include:
• With the Chief of Party, provide leadership and oversight to all aspects of technical implementation, including designing and leading implementation of technical strategies and activities to meet the Activity’s objectives and targets.
• Manage three intervention area managers who deliver work plan interventions; manage environmental specialist and short-term technical advisors.
• Support annual work planning development process, and delivery of annual targets; collaborate closely with the MEL Advisor and the learning and communications team to ensure data collection and learning is delivered at a high quality and that partners are collecting and submitting comprehensive and accurate data.
• Work closely and collaboratively with the Market Systems Advisor and Technical Director to ensure alignment of interventions design and implementation to Market systems development approach
• Support grants and procurement teams with development of solicitations and scopes of work and the implementation of market system development partnership; coordinate resources across implementation zones.
• With the Chief of Party, identify issues and risks related to program implementation and guide appropriate program adjustments.
• Serve as a key liaison between USAID and all other counterparts, implementing partners, program stakeholders, national and regional policymakers and economic agencies, private sector entities, and civil society organizations.
• Support human resources with recruitment, including hiring, training, mentoring, and supervising local personnel.
• Ensure compliance with local labor laws, USAID policies, and DAI policies and procedures.

Qualifications:
• Master’s degree in a relevant field of study such as rural and agricultural development, agricultural
• economics, agribusiness and/or business development, and social science or a related field, OR a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study with, at least, 5 years of development experience relevant to the SOW.
• At least 8 years (10 years for a Bachelor’s degree) of progressively increasing responsibility in managing diverse teams and operational functions including public-private partnerships development, grants program management, and adaptive programming for activities of similar scope, size and complexity.
• Demonstrated experience in creating and maintaining effective working relations with government officials, private sector stakeholder and local CSOs.
• At least five years of experience working in related fields in Africa, preferably East Africa.



Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 96

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

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