Chief of Party at Mission inclusion

KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leadership & Representation: Provide visionary leadership, incorporating feminist values to drive the project's strategic direction; Lead all aspects of the implementation and consolidation of the project, ensuring project activities foster gender equality and social inclusion and serve as the primary point of contact; Manage and oversee project execution within the framework of the consortium agreement with IUCN, promoting a culture of transparent collaboration and nurturing constructive, positive relationships among all stakeholders; Promote transparent collaboration, cultivating positive relationships with a feminist ethic, emphasizing mutual respect and equality; Create and sustain an inclusive work environment, championing feminist principles, encouraging diverse perspectives, and fostering a culture where all team members feel valued and heard; Represent the project to international and regional events.
• Project: Support the team to ensure the project’s activities are implemented with a feminist lens, ensuring they promote gender equality and empower all community members, especially marginalized groups to deliver expected outcomes; Guarantee the timely and high-quality submission of deliverables, encompassing results, budget adherence, and strategies for gender equality and sustainability in accordance with donor specifications; Facilitate efficient coordination and governance between Mission inclusion’s HQ, IUCN ESARO and seascapes levels and ensure effective governance mechanisms are in place; Coordinate and lead project’s reports, work plans, monitoring and evaluation plan, project communication materials at the regional level and support external and internal project documents (when required); Support the Gender coordinator in ensuring a strategic and technical approach on gender equality and social inclusion, environment and nature-based solution, blue economy and feminist empowerment.
• Safety & Security: Proactively manage and mitigate risks, monitoring national and regional developments that could impact office, staff and programming; oEnsure all staff understand and adhere to staff safety and security policies and protocols, updating these as necessary.
• Staff management: Oversee the development of staffing plans and the recruitment process of staff; Coach, train, supervise, and mentor direct-report staff, setting clear expectations, performance objectives, and providing regular constructive performance feedback; Oversee a diverse team across several countries from the WIO, promoting staff care and wellbeing and modeling healthy work-life balance practices; o Encourage a management style that empowers all team members, promoting professional growth and ensuring equitable opportunities; Ensure strict compliance within the team with Mission’s inclusion internal policies and code of conduct, through regular monitoring, training, and practice updates, with the team support.
• Operation management: Promote and uphold a commitment to the efficient use of Mission inclusion and donor resources; Ensure compliance with the donor’s requirements and regulations, including financial tracking and oversight of partner budgets, finance, administration, reporting and compliance with internal policies regarding corruption; Validate and approve expenses attributed to the project, in accordance with the approved budget and appropriate supporting documentation; Oversees the development of regional and seascape’s annual workplans and budgets.
• Coordination: Foster partnerships and collaborations that align with feminist principles, ensuring that relationships with regional authorities, stakeholders, contractors, and partner organization (in the region) reflect mutual respect, transparency, and equality