The Chief of Party (COP) will provide strategic vision, overall leadership and technical direction to the project. The COP will ensure the project is planned and executed with quality, accountability and measurable impact. The COP will be the primary liaison with USDA and other donor partners, as necessary, and will manage project staff and implementing partners to ensure proper reporting, financial management, and compliance. The COP is expected to coordinate with government of Georgia and other stakeholders to ensure that activities complement ongoing initiatives and adhere to country and global standards. The position will be based in Tbilisi, Georgia with frequent travel to local partner offices and field sites.

Primary responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to the following:

• Provide strategic leadership to the design and implementation of the project activities and oversees program planning, monitoring, reporting evaluation and overall learning
• Oversee project finances, planning, administration, compliance, reporting, and monitoring and evaluation;
• Ensure successful project implementation and achievement of results on time and within budget;
• Manage relationship with implementing partners to ensure strong partnerships that deliver results;
• Ensure optimal use of human, financial, and physical resources to successfully meet project milestones, objectives, deliverables and targets;
• Oversee and coordinate the successful completion of planning and budgeting requirements of the project;
• Ensure mechanisms are in place to monitor the implementation of projects, including progress toward achieving objectives and targets with high-quality and on-time performance;
• Ensure timely, high-quality and complete submission of work plans, quarterly and annual reports, financial reports, and any other reports required by the donor;
• Ensure that all activities are undertaken in full compliance with Land O’Lakes’ standard operating procedures, and USDA policies and regulations, and national policies and laws;
• Ensure documentation and dissemination of findings, impact, innovations, and lessons learned;
• Represent project both internally and externally to other donors, stakeholders, implementing partners and government counterparts;
• Ensure gender equality approaches are integrated into programming; implement an engendered design, identifying learnings on a regular basis, refining the design as needed to improve gender equality across project activities
• Promote sustainability of project activities with effective networking, linkages to other programs, capacity building of project staff, and institutional strengthening of implementing partners and community-based organizations;
• Create a collaborative organizational culture and facilitate exchange of knowledge for cross-organizational learning;
• Encourage learning and knowledge sharing as an essential part of doing business and ensure employees own their own learning;
• Ensure important decisions are recorded, and easily available for retrieval thus making it employees’ responsibility to share the learning; and
• Ensure tools for learning, such as blogs, articles, social media, brochures, coaching, training, etc. are in place. Encourage employees’ enrollment in relevant social networks and communities of practice.

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