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DAI Global - Policy LINK Project

Project Background Policy LINK will strengthen the capacity of local actors and institutions to lead and manage the agricultural transformation process and contribute effectively and collectively to improved, broad- based food security policy outcomes.Specifically, the program aims to strengthen food security policy systems by investing in and reinforcing productive human and social capital and developing strategic partnerships that help bring these innovations and capacity investments to scale to achieve a critical mass of local actors with the ability and opportunity to effect positive policy change through collective action.Policy LINK’s general approach is grounded in facilitative leadership and collaborative governance, which emphasize engaging stakeholders from civil society and public and private sectors in consensus-oriented decision making, collaborative problem solving, and adaptive learning.Policy LINK in Ethiopia C4FS is a five-year activity with the overall objective of supporting the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) and other policy system actors in their aspiration to develop an inclusive policy development process. Specifically, the activity will facilitate the transition towards a policy development paradigm driven by multiple stakeholders. A significant part of C4FS programming will be dedicated to supporting the coordination amongst actors working on resilience-building.Ultimately, the activity seeks to build the capacities actors and institutions involved in general food systems policy and resilience building to work collaboratively; these actors include academia, financial institutions, the judiciary, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and private sector representatives from the national, regional, and local levels.This approach is underpinned by Policy LINK’s overarching theory of change focused on increasing human and social capital, engaging policy system actors in collaborative processes, and developing mechanisms for collaborative governance and dynamic learning systems and platforms to sustain collective action.As part of its work, C4FS will build and strengthen the backbone system for the coordination of development programming among actors involved in Resilience-building in selected regions (Afar, Oromia, Somali and South Ethiopia). These efforts are intended to support the sequencing, layering and integration of activities amongst multiple actors to enhance their collective impact. C4FS will therefore not directly implement resilience programs but support the Ministry of Irrigation and Lowlands build collaboration and collective action amongst multiple stakeholders implementing Resilience building activities in selected lowland areas. &nbsp;Position Objectives and Responsibilities The Program Director, Resilience will be responsible for leading the work on resilience-building efforts. In particular, the position will be responsible for overall activity design processes, leading implementation and maintaining important relationships with other actors for the resilience activity portfolio.Position responsibilities are summarized as follows: &nbsp;<ol><li>Under&nbsp;the&nbsp;guidance&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Country&nbsp;Lead,&nbsp;and&nbsp;in&nbsp;collaboration with&nbsp;other&nbsp;technical&nbsp;staff,&nbsp;play&nbsp;a&nbsp;lead&nbsp;role&nbsp;in&nbsp;conceptualizing,&nbsp;designing,&nbsp;and&nbsp;implementing&nbsp;activities.</li><li>Develop a&nbsp;deep&nbsp;understanding&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;activity&nbsp;and&nbsp;its&nbsp;theory&nbsp;of&nbsp;change.</li><li>Lead or support development of annual and ongoing work plans for key technical activities at&nbsp;national&nbsp;and&nbsp;regional&nbsp;levels.</li><li>Work&nbsp;with&nbsp;stakeholders&nbsp;to&nbsp;identify&nbsp;critical&nbsp;gaps&nbsp;to&nbsp;address&nbsp;and&nbsp;opportunities&nbsp;for&nbsp;C4FS&nbsp;to&nbsp;further&nbsp;strengthen&nbsp;coordination&nbsp;of&nbsp;resilience&nbsp;activity&nbsp;in&nbsp;project&nbsp;sites.</li><li>As&nbsp;necessary,&nbsp;provide&nbsp;guidance&nbsp;and&nbsp;mentoring&nbsp;to&nbsp;technical&nbsp;staff&nbsp;working&nbsp;within&nbsp;the&nbsp;team.</li><li>Provide&nbsp;leadership&nbsp;and&nbsp;guidance&nbsp;in&nbsp;managing&nbsp;technical&nbsp;activity&nbsp;implementation&nbsp;in&nbsp;line&nbsp;with&nbsp;Policy&nbsp;LINK&nbsp;and&nbsp;USAID&nbsp;procedures.&nbsp;Specific&nbsp;tasks&nbsp;include&nbsp;support&nbsp;to&nbsp;meetings,&nbsp;supervision&nbsp;of&nbsp;team&nbsp;members,&nbsp;tracking&nbsp;implementation,&nbsp;among&nbsp;others.</li><li>Develop and maintain strong relationships and lines of communication with USAID Missions,&nbsp;project&nbsp;counterparts,&nbsp;and&nbsp;collaborators.</li><li>Contribute to CLA, M&amp;E and communications outputs including definition of relevant&nbsp;indicators (in consultation with M&amp;E lead) and the development of communications output (in&nbsp;liaison with communications team), ensuring overall proper documentation, monitoring, and&nbsp;reporting&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;status&nbsp;and&nbsp;performance&nbsp;of&nbsp;resilience&nbsp;activities.</li><li>Provide&nbsp;regular&nbsp;updates&nbsp;to&nbsp;Policy&nbsp;LINK&nbsp;leadership&nbsp;team.</li><li>Ensure effective management of consultants and service providers to ensure appropriate&nbsp;design&nbsp;and&nbsp;production&nbsp;of&nbsp;high-quality&nbsp;deliverables.</li><li>Other&nbsp;duties&nbsp;as&nbsp;may&nbsp;be&nbsp;assigned&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;course&nbsp;of&nbsp;evolving&nbsp;programmatic&nbsp;priorities.</li></ol>S/he will continually reinforce Policy LINK’s agreed-upon core purpose and principles, and ensure all decision-making is rooted in those purpose and principles. S/he will contribute to foster a learning environment in which personal and team growth is supported, with a shared understanding that the “team” always comes before the “individual.”Performance Criteria C4FS is a performance-based project, highly dependent on individuals and team core competencies. Each staff member will participate in an annual evaluation and receive feedback.Supervision and Reporting The Program Director, Resilience will report to the Country Lead. This position will provide technical leadership and supervisory oversight for all staff working on resilience related activities. The Program Director, Resilience will be directly responsible for supervising the Regional Program Managers in resilience regions, and, indirectly, Woreda Coordinators in the Oromia, South Ethiopia, Somali, and Afar regions. Contract Name:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;USAID/Feed the Future Policy LINK Champions for Food Security (C4FS) Status:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Long Term Technical Assistance Supervision:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Country Lead

Program Director Resilience

Project BackgroundPolicy LINK will strengthen the capacity of local actors and institutions to lead and manage the agricultural transformation process and contribute effectively and collectively to improved, broad- based food security policy outcomes.Specifically, the program aims to strengthen food security policy systems by investing in and reinforcing productive human and social capital and developing strategic partnerships that help bring these innovations and capacity investments to scale to achieve a critical mass of local actors with the ability and opportunity to effect positive policy change through collective action.Policy LINK’s general approach is grounded in facilitative leadership and collaborative governance, which emphasize engaging stakeholders from civil society and public and private sectors in consensus-oriented decision making, collaborative problem solving, and adaptive learning.Policy LINK in EthiopiaC4FS is a five-year activity with the overall objective of supporting the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) and other policy system actors in their aspiration to develop an inclusive policy development process. Specifically, the activity will facilitate the transition towards a policy development paradigm driven by multiple stakeholders. A significant part of C4FS programming will be dedicated to supporting the coordination amongst actors working on resilience-building.Ultimately, the activity seeks to build the capacities actors and institutions involved in general food systems policy and resilience building to work collaboratively; these actors include academia, financial institutions, the judiciary, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and private sector representatives from the national, regional, and local levels.This approach is underpinned by Policy LINK’s overarching theory of change focused on increasing human and social capital, engaging policy system actors in collaborative processes, and developing mechanisms for collaborative governance and dynamic learning systems and platforms to sustain collective action.As part of its work, C4FS will build and strengthen the backbone system for the coordination of development programming among actors involved in Resilience-building in selected regions (Afar, Oromia, Somali and South Ethiopia). These efforts are intended to support the sequencing, layering and integration of activities amongst multiple actors to enhance their collective impact. C4FS will therefore not directly implement resilience programs but support the Ministry of Irrigation and Lowlands build collaboration and collective action amongst multiple stakeholders implementing Resilience building activities in selected lowland areas.&nbsp;Position Objectives and ResponsibilitiesThe Program Director, Resilience will be responsible for leading the work on resilience-building efforts. In particular, the position will be responsible for overall activity design processes, leading implementation and maintaining important relationships with other actors for the resilience activity portfolio.Position responsibilities are summarized as follows:&nbsp;<ol><li>Under&nbsp;the&nbsp;guidance&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Country&nbsp;Lead,&nbsp;and&nbsp;in&nbsp;collaboration with&nbsp;other&nbsp;technical&nbsp;staff,&nbsp;play&nbsp;a&nbsp;lead&nbsp;role&nbsp;in&nbsp;conceptualizing,&nbsp;designing,&nbsp;and&nbsp;implementing&nbsp;activities.</li><li>Develop a&nbsp;deep&nbsp;understanding&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;activity&nbsp;and&nbsp;its&nbsp;theory&nbsp;of&nbsp;change.</li><li>Lead or support development of annual and ongoing work plans for key technical activities at&nbsp;national&nbsp;and&nbsp;regional&nbsp;levels.</li><li>Work&nbsp;with&nbsp;stakeholders&nbsp;to&nbsp;identify&nbsp;critical&nbsp;gaps&nbsp;to&nbsp;address&nbsp;and&nbsp;opportunities&nbsp;for&nbsp;C4FS&nbsp;to&nbsp;further&nbsp;strengthen&nbsp;coordination&nbsp;of&nbsp;resilience&nbsp;activity&nbsp;in&nbsp;project&nbsp;sites.</li><li>As&nbsp;necessary,&nbsp;provide&nbsp;guidance&nbsp;and&nbsp;mentoring&nbsp;to&nbsp;technical&nbsp;staff&nbsp;working&nbsp;within&nbsp;the&nbsp;team.</li><li>Provide&nbsp;leadership&nbsp;and&nbsp;guidance&nbsp;in&nbsp;managing&nbsp;technical&nbsp;activity&nbsp;implementation&nbsp;in&nbsp;line&nbsp;with&nbsp;Policy&nbsp;LINK&nbsp;and&nbsp;USAID&nbsp;procedures.&nbsp;Specific&nbsp;tasks&nbsp;include&nbsp;support&nbsp;to&nbsp;meetings,&nbsp;supervision&nbsp;of&nbsp;team&nbsp;members,&nbsp;tracking&nbsp;implementation,&nbsp;among&nbsp;others.</li><li>Develop and maintain strong relationships and lines of communication with USAID Missions,&nbsp;project&nbsp;counterparts,&nbsp;and&nbsp;collaborators.</li><li>Contribute to CLA, M&amp;E and communications outputs including definition of relevant&nbsp;indicators (in consultation with M&amp;E lead) and the development of communications output (in&nbsp;liaison with communications team), ensuring overall proper documentation, monitoring, and&nbsp;reporting&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;status&nbsp;and&nbsp;performance&nbsp;of&nbsp;resilience&nbsp;activities.</li><li>Provide&nbsp;regular&nbsp;updates&nbsp;to&nbsp;Policy&nbsp;LINK&nbsp;leadership&nbsp;team.</li><li>Ensure effective management of consultants and service providers to ensure appropriate&nbsp;design&nbsp;and&nbsp;production&nbsp;of&nbsp;high-quality&nbsp;deliverables.</li><li>Other&nbsp;duties&nbsp;as&nbsp;may&nbsp;be&nbsp;assigned&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;course&nbsp;of&nbsp;evolving&nbsp;programmatic&nbsp;priorities.</li></ol>S/he will continually reinforce Policy LINK’s agreed-upon core purpose and principles, and ensure all decision-making is rooted in those purpose and principles. S/he will contribute to foster a learning environment in which personal and team growth is supported, with a shared understanding that the “team” always comes before the “individual.”Performance CriteriaC4FS is a performance-based project, highly dependent on individuals and team core competencies. Each staff member will participate in an annual evaluation and receive feedback.Supervision and ReportingThe Program Director, Resilience will report to the Country Lead. This position will provide technical leadership and supervisory oversight for all staff working on resilience related activities. The Program Director, Resilience will be directly responsible for supervising the Regional Program Managers in resilience regions, and, indirectly, Woreda Coordinators in the Oromia, South Ethiopia, Somali, and Afar regions.Contract Name:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;USAID/Feed the Future Policy LINK Champions for Food Security (C4FS)Status:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Long Term Technical AssistanceSupervision:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Country Lead

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