Chief of Party - USAID Advancing Learning Outcomes in Africa

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LocationThis role will be based in Washington, D.C. with a partial remote option. You must be legally authorized to work in the US.  Bixal does not provide visa sponsorship.  
What Will You Do?Bixal seeks a dynamic Chief of Party candidate to lead the USAID Advancing Learning Outcomes in Africa (ALOA) Project. The purpose of ALOA is to provide analytical and implementation support services to USAID missions in the sub-Saharan Africa region and the Africa Regional Bureau Education (AFR/SD/ED) team to assist with designing, implementing, and evaluating a full range of education and youth programming. The Chief of Party will serve as the Contractor’s chief liaison to USAID and provide overall leadership for all technical and managerial aspects of the work performed under this contract. This person will serve as the Contractor’s principal subject matter expert and will manage all project staff. This person will provide overall guidance and strategic direction, technical leadership, and management oversight for the Activity, ensuring that initiatives and deliverables comply with USAID requirements and achieve expected results.
Important Note:This is a full-time proposal position contingent on contract award.
Responsibilities:

Technical

• Provide leadership in all technical, managerial, and operational aspects of the project.
• Serve as the main point of contact for USAID, liaising directly with the activity COR on all technical issues, and act as the public face of the Activity.
• Responsible for managing the overall operations on the contract which may include, but are not limited to communications, administration, logistics, procurement, staffing/recruitment, budgeting, finances, reporting.
• Lead teams to support the Africa Bureau, USAID regional and bilateral Missions, and education and youth sector partners by gathering, analyzing and organizing data; determine the approach or interventions to be studied, the quality of existing evidence and the knowledge gaps that exist.
• Explore innovative mechanisms and partnerships for localized and regional knowledge sharing.
• Lead Teams to provide technical, logistical, and planning support to strengthen Sub-Saharan countries capacity for high-quality education and youth programming.
• Ensure that up-to-date knowledge base is actively disseminated to target audiences and stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain effective and purpose-driven relationships with key staff across USAID Missions and Washington Operating Units while engaging a diverse range of stakeholders to provide USAID Missions with the breadth and depth of expertise it requires to advance effective interventions in Education.
• Lead workplan development through participatory and collaborative processes, oversee workplan implementation, responsively adapting to changes and lessons learned throughout implementation.
• Incorporate USAID principles and guiding practices for data management, data quality, secondary data development, and learnings.

Management

• Supervise other senior level personnel and provide oversight for resources assigned to tasks under the program, in coordination with Bixal’s home office.
• Manage multiple complex, simultaneous projects to include delivering services in multiple stages of execution.
• Develop a detailed task area management plan to track performance of the award, with subordinate plans for each task area within this award to include a schedule for each deliverable, key milestone dates, dependencies, and the assignment of leads.
• Develop and implement a clear plan to respond to buy-in requests, working in a co-creative process with USAID.

Contractual/Financial

• Oversee activity budgeting and financial management.
• Oversee quality control for services provided, ensuring compliance with USAID requirements.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in international development, public administration, social sciences, or a