Creative Associates is seeking a Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) to lead the anticipated USAID-funded Ethiopia Learning in Emergencies project. This activity aims to improve holistic foundational skills learning for children aged 7-14+ affected by crisis in the country through methods including strengthening subnational capabilities to plan and implement education in emergencies service delivery, improving quality components (teachers, learning materials, school leadership) to improve learning, increasing community and parental engagement in education recovery, and integrating mental health and psychosocial support in education service delivery in conflict affected areas. 

• Directly support the Chief of Party (COP) in the design, rollout, and daily management and implementation of program activities;
• Collaborate with COP and contribute to the design and implementation of overarching program goals and strategies, and implementation of tools or processes necessary in reaching determined goals and strategies;
• As a member of senior project management, actively participate in all project work planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting processes;
• Manage the contractual implementation of program activities, to include oversight of procurement processes, development of service agreements, and milestone verification;
• Ensure project activities are implemented in accordance with established policies, procedures, and practices, in coordination with project and client staff;
• Manage all Ethiopia project operations staff, in collaboration with technical backstops at Creative HQ;
• Provide overarching activity-based operations and procurement support to all project components;
• As needed, support the revision and/or creation of new project standard operating procedures for implementation of activities;
• Review draft activity budgets to ensure that costs are reasonable and allowable;
• Provide direction to the other project teams on activity budgets, timelines and feasibility;
• Working to ensure staff are effectively implementing administrative and financial procedures compliant with Creative and donor policies;
• Mentor, develop, train and lead operations staff;
• Provide policy guidance and interpretation for both vendors and staff involved in vendor relations;
• Oversee the solicitation, award and outputs of sub-awards to partners in collaboration with the COP;
• Identify potential and actual activity-based risks and take appropriate mitigation measures;
• Investigate, identify and implement new ways of achieving activity efficiencies; and
• Coordinate as necessary and in coordination with other members of the project management team, with other implementing partners operating in the same fields of operation.

• Master’s degree in relevant field such as business, finance, economics, public administration, law, or other relevant or minimum of twelve (12) years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree;  
• At least five (5) years of experience working on donor-funded projects in a related role and with demonstrated supervisory experience;
• Demonstrated experience in conflict-affected areas working with conflict-affected populations, with experience implementing strong duty of care and do-no-harm principles as part of programming preferred; 
• Demonstrated experience managing diverse staff;
• Relevant work experience in Ethiopia;
• Demonstrated knowledge and skills with international donor policies and procedures relative to subawards and sub-contracts, financial management, procurement processes, and management systems; and
• Fluency in written and oral English; Amharic and other Ethiopian languages preferred.