Resident Program Director Job at International Republican Institute
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The International Republican Institute is an American nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to advancing freedom and democracy worldwide by helping political parties to become more issue-based.
- Resident Program Director
Responsibilities:
- Serves as the official senior IRI representative in the country, developing credibility with and maintaining good relationships with all relevant stakeholders, including U.S. and foreign diplomats and donor agencies, host-country government representatives, and program partners
- Participates in the substantive design of new programs and contributes to the development of new program ideas
- Oversees the implementation of all program activities oversees ensuring consistency with grant work plans and objectives.
- Establishes, maintains, and develops a productive working relationships with relevant stakeholders, consultants, field and DC staff.
- Oversees all operations related to the IRI field presence, and ensures IRI is in compliance with local laws regarding IRI’s legal status in the country and employment of local staff
- Supervises local field staff, including participating in the hiring, professional development and evaluation process for these staff. Sets specific goals and provides ongoing performance feedback.
- Mentors local staff in program development, finance, work plan development and presentation, reporting, monitoring and evaluation, business development and knowledge management in their country of assignment.
- Maintains an understanding of donor and IRI policies and procedures related to grant compliance and oversight
- Understands a grant’s substantive, financial and compliance requirements
- Oversees the implementation of all program activities in the country ensuring consistency with grant work plans and objectives, reporting weekly to DC
- Monitors and approve field office budgets and expenses, in collaboration with DC program staff and the Regional Project Accountant, to ensure that expenditures remain within budget allocations
- Monitors analyze and reports to DC staff on political and economic developments, and media responses regularly
- Ensures adherence to monitoring and evaluation plans, including the monitoring of programs and evaluation/analysis of program results
- Provides information and contributes to sections of quarterly, semi-annual, final and other relevant reports for funders
- Anticipates potential problems and troubleshoots project problems and offers solutions and actively takes part to lead resolution of them with creative and immediate solutions
- Leads business development efforts, including identifying and seeking out potential new or additional sources of funding with real-time costs estimates for proposal budgets, and/or the development of new program ideas, coordinating with DC staff
- Actively supports IRI’s communication strategy including IRI’s branding and outreach plans on projects assigned, including drafts and updates program summaries and other outreach materials, drafts web stories, tweets, etc.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications;
- Master’s degree in political science, public administration, international development, law, public policy, or related field.
- Minimum 10 years professional experience in development and program management leadership positions in the areas of political party development and elections in a developing country. Experience working with Tanzanian political parties preferred.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should CLICK HERE to apply.
Application Deadline:7th May 2021.
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