Chief of Party

　　Company Overview

　　Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company (Kaizen) is an international development consulting firm and an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven organizational and institutional performance improvements and establish communities of practice that facilitate peer-to-peer learning and the achievement of shared goals. We aspire to transform the nature and impact of development assistance and work to strengthen organizations and institutions through innovative approaches to organizational development, reform, and change.

　　Position and project Summary

　　Kaizen is seeking a Chief of Party (COP) for the anticipated United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Cambodia Localization Support Activity. To support USAID/Cambodia efforts to ensure that local actors are leading Cambodia’s development. Primary services under the prospective activity will cover the three categories: support for Mission staff to improve local partnership; monitoring, evaluation and learning; and capacity strengthening for local actors. These services will assist the Mission in contributing to the Agency’s localization agenda and indicators. These efforts align with the goal of USAID/Cambodia’s 2020-2025 Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS): “Cambodia becomes a more open, prosperous, resilient, and inclusive partner in the Indo-Pacific region.” The COP will be responsible for the technical leadership and administrative oversight of the project and will serve as the principal institutional liaison to USAID.

　　Duties and Responsibilities:

　　Overall responsibility for assuring that all assistance provided under the contract is technically sound and appropriate to meet the project objectives

　　Drives the achievement of program results by ensuring the provision of timely, relevant, high-quality services

　　Serve as the primary point of contact with USAID on day-to-day activity technical implementation and program management

　　Identify issues and risks related to activity implementation and suggest appropriate adjustments

　　Manage effective monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of program activities

　　Lead work planning and oversee all project management systems including finance and administration, human resources

　　Ensure the USAID compliance and integrity of program operations

　　Supervise senior staff including hiring, mentoring local staff, and consultant engagement

　　Establish good working relationships with government, institutions, private sector stakeholders, and research institutes.

　　Other duties as required

　　Qualifications:

　　Master’s degree in management, international development, or related field

　　At least 10 years of relevant professional experience in capacity strengthening and/or capacity building of local organizations, organizational development, or localization in South Asia (in the context of USAID project preferred)

　　Previous senior leadership experience on a USAID-funded project as either a COP, Deputy Chief of Party, or Team Leader, including programmatic, operational, and financial oversight

　　Demonstrated knowledge of USG regulations and administrative procedures;

　　Demonstrated management and supervisory experience of a relevant scope and scale;

　　Experience of collaborating with diverse stakeholders to identify and implement against shared goals, such as government agencies, national entities, local partners, project beneficiaries and donor organizations.

　　Specialized expertise in one or more areas of focus of the project – capacity strengthening and/or capacity building of local organizations, change management, or localization

　　Experience working in conflict/fragile environments

　　Experience working in Cambodia preferred, Southeast Asia work experience required

　　Must live or be willing to live and travel within Cambodia;

　　For candidates applying for positions based in Kaizen's office in Washington, DC, we utilize career.place to mitigate bias in the recruitment process. Upon submitting an application, candidates will receive an email from career.place, prompting them to go through the anonymous screening. In order to be considered for a role, candidates must respond to career.place and proceed with the application. We do not currently use career.place for project positions outside of the United States.

　　At Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company, we find strength in our diversity. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. We know that we can only do development differently if we are open to and inclusive of new and unique perspectives. We encourage candidates of all abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, national origins, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations to apply. Further, we urge parents and non-parents, married and unmarried, those from different or non-traditional educational backgrounds, and persons of all other diverse identities or experiences to apply. Kaizen is an equal opportunity employer.

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