Chief of Party - Amman Urban Resilience Activity
Location
Jordan | India
Job description
Overview
Research Triangle Institute (RTI) has over 30 years' experience assisting governments, communities, and the private sector. As a not-for-profit, independent research institute based in North Carolina, USA, RTI has roughly 6,000 employees with global experience implementing international development projects. RTI's Sustainable Growth & Resilience (SG&R) technical unit within the International Development Group brings together RTI experts and capabilities across food security, agriculture, energy, environment, water, governance, and economic opportunity. SG&R will leverage RTI's experience designing and delivering multisectoral programming and technical solutions to respond to climate change, build resilience, and promote economic growth around the world.
SG&R's Global Agriculture, Water, and Environment division is working to mitigate and address the impacts of climate change and build resilience in impacted communities through policy and governance support, capacity building for local actors, and support for responding to natural and human-caused disasters.
Project Description
USAID/Jordan is contemplating a potential activity focused on improving local governance and the enabling environment for urban climate resilience and decarbonization in the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), focusing on interventions with high adaptation benefits. The potential activity may improve data-driven policy-making, planning, and budgeting and may include interventions focusing on disaster risk reduction resulting from floods and extreme heat events, investment and access to climate funds, enhanced participation of local communities and the private sector, and targeted urban resilience infrastructure work.
Position Description
RTI is seeking a
Chief of Party (COP) for the anticipated
Amman Urban Resilience Activity (URA) . The COP will be responsible for overall management, strategic direction, and leadership of the activity. The COP will be based in Amman, Jordan and report to the US-based Project/Water Director upon award.
Position is contingent upon award and funding. Responsibilities - Lead and manage the activity, providing strategic direction and technical guidance to all project staff.
- Oversee technical design and implementation of to achieve results and impact.
- Strengthen the capacity of national and subnational institutions to deliver critical services
- Serve as the primary liaison with USAID/Jordan, GAM, and the Government of Jordan to ensure exceptional quality and timeliness of DRA deliverables within budget.
- Ensure coordination and collaboration with other USAID-funded activities as well as other relevant actors and stakeholders to ensure complementarity and avoid duplication of efforts.
- Ensure that cross-cutting issues such as gender, youth, social inclusion, resilience, and climate-sensitive approaches are effectively integrated into the Activity.
Qualifications - Bachelor's Degree and 15 years of experience, Master's degree and 12 years of experience, PhD and 8 years of experience.
- Minimum 7 years of experience in a director-level role leading and managing complex development programs and multi-disciplinary teams in MENA, preferably as a COP for USAID-funded projects.
- Minimum 10 years of experience working in one or more technical disciplines: disaster risk management (including mitigation, preparedness and recovery), gender equality and social inclusion, resilience, decentralization of services and municipal strengthening, organizational capacity building, urban land use planning, or other relevant technical areas.
- Proven leadership in fostering collaborative learning and adaptive management, monitoring effectiveness, opportunities and challenges, and adapting implementation based on learning to achieve desired project outcomes.
- Proven experience working effectively with multiple stakeholders including USAID, host government officials, multilateral and donor organizations, and local implementing partners.
- Demonstrated experience managing diverse, high-performing teams on USAID programs.
- Verbal and written fluency in English required.
- Ability to travel and work throughout Jordan.
EEO & Pay Equity Statements
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The anticipated pay range for this role is listed below. Our pay ranges represent national averages and may vary by location as a geographic differential may be applied to some locations within the United States.
RTI considers multiple factors when making an offer including, for example: established salary range, internal budget, business needs, and education and years of work experience possessed by the applicant. Further, salary is merely one element to our offer.
At RTI, we demonstrate our commitment to rewarding individual and team achievement through a total rewards package. This package includes (among other things) a competitive base salary, a generous paid time off policy, merit based annual increases, bonus opportunities and a robust recognition program. Other benefits include a competitive range of insurance plans (including health, dental, life, and short-term and long-term disability), access to a retirement savings program such as a 401(k) plan, paid parental leave for all parents, financial assistance with adoption expenses or infertility treatments, financial reimbursement for education and developmental opportunities, an employee assistance program, and numerous other offerings to support a healthy work-life balance.
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