Chief of Party
Title: Chief of Party, NRM Vietnam
Location: Vietnam
Department Name: Program Delivery
Pact Overview
Department Overview
Pact works with communities, institutions, and governments to responsibly conserve, sustain and manage natural resources, enabling systemic solutions. Pact accomplishes this by strengthening local capacity, forging effective systems for the governance of natural resources and strengthening nature-based enterprises for development. Through multi-stakeholder engagement, Pact integrates natural resource management with conflict resolution livelihoods and local governance, while improving the enabling environment through strengthening of local, regional and national institutions, including government counterparts. Pact employs its proven capacity development approaches to address NRM challenges.
Position Purpose
Pact is recruiting a Chief of Party (COP) for an upcoming USAID-funded climate change and biodiversity program in Vietnam. The COP will be responsible for the overall leadership and oversight of the program. S/he will serve as the primary liaison to USAID, the Government of Vietnam, and other project stakeholders. This position is contingent upon award.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for the overall technical direction and management of the project, providing direction and support to the project team.
- Provide technical leadership to ensure high quality programming to achieve project results; ensure that the technical assistance provided by the project is effective and sustainable.
- Oversee project planning (work plans and budgets) and reporting.
- Manage project budget to meet expected results, ensuring cost-effective use of resources.
- Oversee project monitoring and evaluation; ensure that project impact reporting requirements are met.
- Ensure close coordination with other relevant initiatives/programs in country.
- Serve as Pact’s liaison with USAID, the Government of Vietnam, and partners.
- Ensure effective application of internal controls, US Government, and Pact policies and procedures.
- Represent Pact at conferences, working groups, and meetings to support Pact’s thought leadership in natural resource management programming in Vietnam and the region.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Basic Requirements
- Advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in a relevant field such as environmental science or management, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, natural science, or other relevant field.
- A minimum of 10 years of technical and managerial experience in climate change, biodiversity conservation, or natural resource management.
- A minimum of 5 years working in Southeast Asia.
- At least 5 years of experience in a senior level management and leadership position, including direct supervision of staff, program management, and technical leadership.
- Expertise in climate change adaptation, biodiversity, and natural resource management approaches and principles.
- Demonstrated experience managing multi?million dollar donor-funded complex projects.
- Ability to establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with USAID/Vietnam, host government partners at the national and state levels, and personnel within the project.
- Experience managing USAID contracts and cooperative agreements.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
- Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time.
Preferred Qualifications
- Technical Director and/or COP experience in climate change (adaptation and/or mitigation), biodiversity conservation, natural resource management, projects is strongly preferred.
- Experience implementing or managing natural resource management programs in Vietnam.
- Experience supporting local organizations implementing natural resource management and climate change programs.
- Vietnamese language skills.
Type of Proposal: USAID