Summary
Save the Children is seeking a Deputy Chief of Party- Operations (DCOP-Ops) for the five-year (2020 – 2025) Albarka Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). Albarka seeks to strengthen the resilience of households and communities in areas affected by conflict in central and northern regions of Mali. The goal is to improve food security and resilience of communities in conflict-affected areas through strengthening local systems and community participation. Hiring is contingent upon USAID approval of the candidate.
What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
The DCOP-Ops maintains operational and administrative management and oversight of the Albarka RFSA. As a member of the Senior Management Team, the DCOP-Ops is responsible for ensuring efficiency and accountability of RFSA operations in support of high-quality programming that maximizes wellbeing outcomes for the populations the Activity serves. The incumbent will establish and manage systems to ensure effective, efficient and compliant operations across all program levels and modalities, in accordance with USG, Government of Mali and Save the Children policies, procedures and applicable laws. With support from the Chief of Party and DCOP-Technical, the DCOP-Ops ensures strong operational coordination across consortium members and partners, leading the administrative, financial and operational oversight of sub-grantees and sub-contractors and developing tools and procedures to standardize program transfers, logistics, procurement, reporting and administration. The incumbent works in close collaboration with the Albarka Senior Management team and Country Office Finance and Program personnel to ensure a streamlined management approach.
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Compensation
Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:
Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here). Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.
Why you should join the Save the Children Team…
Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.
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About Save the Children
No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.
You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.
Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.
Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.
Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.
To apply for the position, please visit our website: https://recruiting.ultipro.com/SAV1002STCF/JobBoard/7d92e82b-af74-464d-859b-c5b8cba6e92e/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=6cd45d5d-8653-4d20-a414-01bc50993d87
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