Honduras: Chief of Party, Tertiary Violence Prevention

Job Title: Chief of Party, Improving Tertiary Violence Prevention (USAID) Department/Country: CRS/Honduras Position Type: Full-time Job Location: Tegucigalpa, Honduras Band: D Reports To: Country Representative

This position is contingent upon donor funding and approval.

CRS/Honduras (CRS/HN) is seeking a visionary Chief of Party to provide leadership and technical direction for a new, four-year Improving Tertiary Violence Prevention Project to create a risk-based juvenile justice system that reduces recidivism within targeted populations of high risk juveniles, by improving the organizational and technical capacity of Honduran service providers and policy makers to provide specific, targeted, and high-quality services to highest-risk secondary and tertiary juvenile populations.

Job Summary:

The Chief of Party will provide the vision and overall leadership to the Improving Tertiary Violence Prevention Project Team. S/he will be responsible for overseeing the overall management of the project including the quality of programmatic implementation (including monitoring, evaluation and learning) and administrative elements of the project, including the coordination of all consortium partners, and monitoring the budget. S/he will also serve as the primary point of contact to donor as well as public, private and non-government stakeholders. He/she is responsible for ensuring compliance in donor grants including oversight of partner budgets, finance and administration, and donor reporting. The CoP is responsible for ensuring that project results are achieved on time and on budget, including strategies for phase out and sustainability; and that the budget is consumed as planned. Qualifications:

• Master´s degree in the social sciences, law, governance, human rights, public policy or related fields.
• Demonstrated understanding of juvenile justice systems, tertiary prevention principles, theories, and concepts, and their application in Latin American settings.
• Ten years of relevant international working experience in a management role, preferably with five years' experience working in Honduras or the Northern Triangle, contributing to or managing complex, multi-component projects related to violence prevention.
• Proven track record of successful program management, including management of multi-activity projects, complicated logistics and large budgets.
• At least five years experience managing donor funds and supervisory experience, including performance evaluation, coaching and mentoring.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and partner with a wide range of key actors, including private sector, national government agencies, academic and research entities, NGO peer organizations, grassroots organizations, and community members.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multi-year and multi-component budgets.
• Experience with program monitoring including development of indicators, data collection tools and methodologies, data analysis, and data presentation.
• Knowledge of CRS Partnership strategy and Partner management experience an advantage
• Excellent report-writing skills.

• Computer skills (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, SharePoint, SalesForce). Required/Desired Foreign Language:

  Native fluency in English and excellent English writing skills especially with the ability to produce quality written reports for the donor in English on a timely basis. Fluency in written and spoken Spanish. Disclaimer:

  This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.

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