Chemonics seeks a chief of party for the anticipated five-year,
USAID-funded Strengthening Somalia's National Parliament project.
We are looking for
individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people
around the world.
Responsibilities include:
Responsibilities include:
- Serve as the
primary point of contact between Chemonics and USAID/East Africa
- Oversee
day-to-day management and implementation of legislative strengthening
activities
- Ensure quality
control
- Manage long- and
short-term personnel
- Guarantee
appropriateness and responsiveness of assistance
Qualifications:
- Advanced degree
in a relevant social or administrative science required
- Minimum 10 years
of experience with USAID or other donor-funded legislative strengthening
programs or working at the management-level within a legislature,
preferably in a fragile or post-conflict environment
- Progressively
responsible managerial experience implementing complex donor-funded
activities and motivating a culturally diverse workforce
- Track record of
being a proactive project director or successful chief of party who
collaborates effectively with counterparts, other contractors, and donors
- Demonstrated
leadership, versatility, and integrity
- Fluency in
English required; Somali language skills highly desired
Parliamentary Strengthening and Development Team Lead
Chemonics seeks a long-term parliamentary strengthening and development team lead for the anticipated five-year, USAID-funded Strengthening Somalia’s National Parliament project.
Chemonics seeks a long-term parliamentary strengthening and development team lead for the anticipated five-year, USAID-funded Strengthening Somalia’s National Parliament project.
The Mogadishu-based
project aims to build the deliberative capacities of Somalia’s legislatures to
promote good governance and promote stability, reconciliation, and
peace-building in the state formation process.
We are looking for
individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people
around the world.
Responsibilities
include:
- Provide
oversight for the national parliament, regional assemblies, and local
deliberative bodies components;
- Serve as the
technical lead in improving parliamentary functioning related to the
law-making process, improving constituent relations, representation, and
reconciliation, and enhancing the Somalia Federal Parliament’s role in the
state formation process;
- Support the
parliamentarians’ abilities to better understand, develop, and pass
priority legislation to implement the provisional constitution;
- Strengthen
nascent democratic practices of local deliberative bodies and encourage
inclusion, transparency, and linkages with targeted local communities and
national actors.
Qualifications:
- A master’s
degree in a relevant technical field;
- Five years
experience engaging legislative processes at the national and regional
level;
- Five to eight
years of experience with a USAID-funded project or similar international
organization preferred;
- Progressively
responsible managerial experience implementing complex donor-funded
activities and motivating a culturally diverse workforce;
- Several years of
experience working in fragile states and high-level conflict zones
required, experience working in Somalia highly preferred;
- Demonstrated
leadership, versatility, and integrity;
- Fluency in
English required, with Somali and/or Arabic language skills highly
desired.
Outreach and Citizen Participation Team Lead
Chemonics, a U.S.-based international development firm, seeks a long-term outreach and citizen participation team lead for the anticipated five-year, USAID-funded Strengthening Somalia’s National Parliament project.
Chemonics, a U.S.-based international development firm, seeks a long-term outreach and citizen participation team lead for the anticipated five-year, USAID-funded Strengthening Somalia’s National Parliament project.
The Mogadishu-based
project aims to build the deliberative capacities of Somalia’s legislatures to
promote good governance and promote stability, reconciliation, and
peace-building in the state formation process.
We are looking for
individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people
around the world.
Responsibilities
include:
- Provide
oversight for the outreach and citizen participation component;
- Serve as the
technical lead in supporting the creation of linkages between members of
national parliament, regional parliaments, local government
representatives and civic actors for constructive dialogue on legislative
processes;
- Support the
parliament’s communications office and parliamentarians to launch
effective media outreach, increasing citizens’ understanding of the
parliament’s mandate and successes;
- Assist in the
creation of platforms for constituents to raise issues with national,
regional, and local government bodies, with a focus on youth, women, and
marginalized groups.
Qualifications:
- Five years
experience engaging civic actors – particularly women, youth, marginalized
groups, and the media – with national, regional, or local level
governments;
- Five to seven
years’ experience with a USAID-funded project or similar international
organization preferred;
- A master’s
degree in a relevant technical field;
- Progressively
responsible managerial experience implementing complex donor-funded
activities and motivating a culturally diverse workforce;
- Several years of
experience working in fragile states and high-level conflict zones
required, experience working in Somalia highly preferred;
- Demonstrated
leadership, versatility, and integrity;
- Fluency in
English required, with Somali and/or Arabic language skills highly
desired.
Application
Instructions:
Please send an updated resume and cover letter in electronic submissions to SomaliaCOP@chemonics.com by May 27, 2013.
Please send an updated resume and cover letter in electronic submissions to SomaliaCOP@chemonics.com by May 27, 2013.
No telephone
inquiries, please.
Finalists will be
contacted.
In addition, please download and complete Chemonics' equal employment opportunity self-identification form and submit it separately to EEOselfidentify@chemonics.com with only "Strengthening Somalia's National Parliament - Chief of party or the others" in the subject line.
In addition, please download and complete Chemonics' equal employment opportunity self-identification form and submit it separately to EEOselfidentify@chemonics.com with only "Strengthening Somalia's National Parliament - Chief of party or the others" in the subject line.
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