Remote Chief of Party USAID/Indonesia Urban Climate Change Adaptation Activity with verification

Chief of Party USAID/Indonesia Climate Change Adaptation Activity

About Palladium

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

This Opportunity

Palladium is seeking a Chief of Party (COP) for the anticipated USAID/Indonesia New Adaptation Activity, a 5-year USAID-funded program which aims to improve climate and disaster resilience in Indonesia. The Activity will support the GOI at local, district, provincial, and national levels; working directly with communities and the private sector; and helping key stakeholders to mobilize financing and develop, disseminate, and utilize better climate change information.

The Program's Objectives May Comprise The Following Four Areas

• Support GOI efforts to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in sub-national core development plans and investments;
• Mobilize financing to advance urban climate resilience;
• Strengthen systems for collection and application of climate data, services and decision support tools to improve planning processes in target cities;
• Advance Urban Nature-Based Solutions to Promote Climate Resilience.
  
  

The Chief of Party will be ultimately responsible for the efficient and effective oversight of all elements of the Activity. Their primary responsibilities are to provide overall leadership, management, and general technical direction of the program, ensuring an integrated vision among different components and actors, and a focus on achieving the desired results. This individual must identify issues and risks related to implementation in a timely manner and suggest appropriate adjustments. This individual must act as the key liaison with USAID and all other counterparts, implementing partners and stakeholders involved with the program. The position requires significant coordination skills, broad general and technical knowledge, an ability to cope with multiple interests and challenges, experience in developing countries, and skills to ensure coherence and consistency in the face of urgent deadlines.

This is an anticipated project, and all positions are contingent upon award from USAID.

Indonesian nationals with relevant experience are highly encouraged to apply.

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

Program Management & Leadership

• Provide overall leadership, management, administrative, strategic and technical direction, and serve as the primary authority for all decision-making to ensure all program activities, staff, and partners achieve targeted results and that all required objectives, outcomes, targets, deliverables, and reporting are met.
• Oversee and provide clear and concise direction to the project team on the development and implementation of strategies, staffing, budgets, internal operations, project targets and milestones, communications, and reporting.
• Manage a core staff of technical and administrative program professionals, ensuring appropriate delegation of duties and assignments; and work with the US-based project support team to ensure responsive and efficient project operations. Monitor and manage the technical and professional performance of all project staff; providing constructive feedback and, where necessary, develop and implement performance improvement plans.
• Serve as the primary point of contact with USAID regarding the day-to-day today project implementation and administrative matters related to the cooperative agreement.
• Ensure that the project is implemented in accordance with the rules, regulations, and financial, operational, and reporting requirements of USAID and Palladium.
  
  

Partner and Stakeholder Engagement & Coordination

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with broad range of high-level host country government agencies and international agencies, serving as the primary liaison with all stakeholders and proactively troubleshooting challenges as they arise, with support from other project staff as appropriate.
• Provide activity/intervention design and implementation oversight of work delivered by current and future implementing partners and other subawardees.
  
  

Technical Strategy, Oversight & Implementation

• Provide strong leadership, executive decision-making, and clear direction to technical staff in ways that create certainty, agency and accountability among team members across objectives and activities.
• Ensure that all project activities are connected to work plans and logically lead to expected results.
• Provide close oversight of progress towards program results, maintaining continuous communication with technical leads to identify and troubleshoot challenges and make clear decisions on appropriate solutions.
• Establish clear expectations for technical inputs and deliverables requested from team members, and provide timely feedback on requested inputs and deliverables.
• Ensure appropriate monitoring mechanisms are established to ensure that project/intervention progress and specific implementation concerns are regularly addressed and promptly reported to and that project objectives are met.
• Lead and oversee the development of all project reports and deliverables (including annual work plans and quarterly reports), ensuring their on-time delivery to USAID and Palladium Home Office.
• Facilitate project learning and adaptive management, ensuring documentation and dissemination of findings, impact, innovations, and lessons learned, and utilize a collaborative and adaptive learning approach, supported by the MEL Manager and technical team.
• Oversee the recruitment and engagement of technical experts.
• Provide technical guidance on the development of RFQs, RFAs, and RFPs, as well as on the selection of subawardees (subgrantees, subcontractors, other service providers).
• Other related technical and management tasks requested by USAID (and in coordination with Palladium HQ) in accordance with the Project’s Scope of Work.
• Proven ability to leverage and manage partnership and cooperate with host country governments and international partners in implementing donor-funded projects preferred. Experience working with the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry and BAPPENAS preferred.
• Demonstrated financial management experience (including budgeting) and knowledge in establishing systems and overseeing program start-up

Key Competencies Required

• A master’s degree in a related field of study, e.g., climate change adaption, urban planning, or disaster management.
• A minimum of 10 years of professional experience in fields related to the successful implementation of this project such as climate change management and adaptation, urban planning, nature-based solutions, and public and private sector engagement.
• At least 5 years proven leadership in the administration of similar sized international donor- supported programs with skills in strategic planning, management, supervision, and budgeting.
• Proven ability to develop and communicate a common vision among diverse partners and the ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams.
• Evidence of strong communication skills, both interpersonal and written, to fulfill the diverse technical and managerial requirements of the contract.
• Professional and diplomatic demeanor and conduct, especially during interactions with the client and its constituents, particularly regarding the Indonesian government.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English. Bahasa Indonesian proficiency preferred
  
  

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.

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