KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:
- Collaborate with the Chief of Party (COP) to oversee and manage the daily operations of the project. Serve as the acting COP during their absence to ensure continuity of leadership.
- Manage all logistical and procurement activities to ensure timely, cost-effective, and efficient delivery of goods and services, adhering to project timelines.
- Oversee project financial management, including budgeting, monitoring, forecasting, and financial reporting, ensuring compliance with USAID and Save the Children’s policies and procedures.
- Support sub-award partners in project implementation and grants management, ensuring adherence to sub-award agreements, reporting requirements, and timely fund disbursement.
- Lead the project’s human resource functions, including recruitment, employee onboarding, performance management, and staff welfare, ensuring alignment with Save the Children’s HR policies and local labor laws.
- Ensure that all project activities comply with USAID regulations and Save the Children’s security protocols, mitigating any potential risks to operational effectiveness.
- Identify and address operational risks, implementing mitigation strategies to ensure smooth and uninterrupted project activities.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with project partners, government agencies, and key stakeholders to foster collaboration and ensure the achievement of project objectives.
- Lead the recruitment, onboarding, and management of the project’s operational team, ensuring they are equipped to meet project needs.
- Manage project compliance with local regulations, including registration, setting up sub-offices, and adhering to all in-country legal requirements.
General:
Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice) Accountability:
- holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
- sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
- widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
- develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- University degree in business administration, international development, or other relevant field required. Graduate degree preferred.
- 6-8 years of senior-level experience leading and managing operations for multi-sectoral, donor-funded programs, serving as Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP), program director, or in other senior leadership roles.
- Proven operational expertise in one or more areas such as grants management, financial oversight, procurement, compliance, security, or human resource management.
- Strong leadership and management skills, with experience managing multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience implementing development programming in Guatemala and/or Latin America.
- Experience managing USAID cooperative agreements preferred.
- Experience recruiting, developing, and managing staff and teams.
- Demonstrated skills building and maintaining relationships with host governments, donors, other donor-funded projects and stakeholders, local organizations, and partners.
- Fluency in Spanish and English required.
- Experience with participatory community-led approaches to project design and implementation.
- Experience with adaptive management and learning and reflection-based programming approaches.
- Strong oral and written communication skills; excellent demonstrated inter-cultural, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
- Commitment to child rights and to the aims and objectives of Save the Children.
ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTS:
- Updated CV
- DPI of both sides
- Updated RENAS certificate
- Proof of Covid-19 Vaccination
- Updated criminal and police records.
(Documents in a single PDF and separate CV.)
IMPORTANT: If you do not meet the previously indicated requirements, you will not be taken into account in the application.
POSITIONING STATEMENT:
Save the Children believes that its safeguard principles and policies are of great importance and is committed to rigorous procedures to ensure that all of our staff and programs are safe, especially for children. Therefore, all candidates will be subject to strict internal and external checks. Interested candidates and candidates of all genders, aged 18 and over, from indigenous peoples, women and individuals are encouraged.
How to Apply:
