Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP), Breakthrough ACTION – West Africa – Burkina Faso Full Time

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Strategic Project Management (25%)

• Provide strategic leadership and guidance on the implementation of the project in coordination with project staff in Burkina Faso, ;
• Provide support to the coordination between relevant Social and Behavioral Change (SBC) public and private sectors actors in Burkina Faso, including NGOs, multilateral agencies, media partners, research firms, local organizations, and the government;
• Provide SBC technical assistance to Niger and Guinea as per countries plans;
• Work closely with existing public and private networks and groups related to SBC in both countries to ensure strong integrated programing across BA’s projects in the three countries;
• Support reporting as required by USAID, CCP, and Save the Children on BA’s projects in Burkina Faso;
• Liaise with project staff, USAID Missions and partners to ensure coherence of the programme strategy and overall implementation;
• Represent BA with USAID mission in Burkina Faso and other partners.

Operations (25%)

• Oversee the project team to ensure smooth day-to-day running of field operations and ensure that project plans are clearly prioritized;
• Strategically identify capacity gaps and arrange for appropriate training of project team and partners to adequately equip them with the skills and knowledge required to accomplish their responsibilities;
• Responsible for overseeing the BA field office in Kaya to ensure adequate support in logistics, procurement, and administration to deliver the project effectively at a high standard.

Representation (20%)

• In coordination with relevant team members, establish, maintain, and improve active and regular working relationships with JHU-CCP as the consortium prime and representatives of other organizations and partners (UN, NGOs, INGOs, counterparts, donors, government authorities etc.) who are involved in the project.

Oversight of Project Management (15%)

• Support staff in ensuring that project activities are planned and supervised, risks identified and managed to ensure smooth implementation;
• Liaise with the Finance and Award Managers to ensure that accurate project expenditure reports are produced monthly;
• On at least a quarterly basis, review project budgets to ensure that project spend is on-track, budgets are re-phased and spent within donor budgets and expenditure guidelines, and no-cost extensions/cost extensions are requested in a timely way (if need be);
• Review and finalize project reports ensuring that donor guidelines are followed and high standards met, prior to submission;
• Ensure that key contributing staff have a clear understanding of donor requirements and expectations at the proposal, agreement, kick off, implementation, amendment, reporting, close out and audit stage;
• Ensure potential issues and amendment requests are flagged promptly to donors and project leadership;
• Ensure compliance with SC and project procedures and policies.

Human Resources (10%)

• Supervise project technical advisors and field program managers;
• Ensure appropriate staffing of the project, planning and implementing specific actions to recruit, manage and motivate project staff;
• Ensure appropriate gender and ethnic diversity within the project team;
• Ensure that project staff have clearly defined objectives and understand their responsibilities. Ensure compliance with staff development strategies and performance management systems and evaluations.

Reporting and learning (5%)

• Contribute to the project teams inputs on the monthly, quarterly & annual reports based on donor requirements and other reports as required;
• Document key project activities as they relate to learning and knowledge management.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5-7 years’ experience in public health and Social and Behavioral Change, including community mobilization, capacity strengthening, mass and community programming, family planning, and malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa;
• Bachelor’s degree or relevant equivalent experience;
• Professional level of technical or managerial knowledge, skills, and experience to manage the operational activities of a unit or team, or provide the technical and management support related to various size projects;
• Demonstrated experience in design, plan, and implementation of SBC programs, including budget management;
• Strong working familiarity with USAID regulations and policies;
• Demonstrated experience with team building, negotiation, collaboration and coordination across multiple projects, local organizations, government, and private sector;
• A seasoned SBC project manager with at least 10 years of relevant experience, including at least two managing development programs in the field;
• Fluent oral and strong analytical, written English and French communications skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• General knowledge in health subject areas relevant to the project (MCH, family planning, nutrition, malaria);
• Experience in West Africa.

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