Vacancy: Chief of Party, Pastoral Livelihood

Organisation: International Rescue Committee Country: Ethiopia Closing date: 22 Jan 2012

IRC Ethiopia is recruiting for a Chief of Party in response to the $32 million USAID Pastoralist Resiliency Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME) project. The PRIME will incerase incomes and improve the resiliency and adaptive capacity of pastoral communities to climate change through market expansion.

Responsibilities:

Will manage all aspects of program including meeting the objectives of the project while providing overall technical, administrative, operational, and logistical management of the project, with a focus on achieving the results defined in the co-operative agreement; Responsible for developing a strong, coherent vision within PRIME; Initiate innovative strategies across the program; To lead and/or participate in strategic and high level policy forums and meetings with various actors and advocate for broader pastoralist issues; To contribute to improving pastoralist’s policy environment using PRIME evidence base and learning generated through the project. (...)

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