Chief of Party, USAID/Niger Wadata RFSA

Summary

Save the Children is seeking a Chief of Party (CoP) for an USAID/Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance-funded Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) in Niger. The Wadata RSFA, which ends September 30, 2025, targets over 27,836 households (approximately 194,852 people) in 683 villages and hamlets across four communes in the Zinder region (Guidiguir, Damagaram Takaya, Guidimouni, and Mazamni). The Activity implements layered interventions to sustainably improve food security and resilience among extremely poor and chronically vulnerable households, while creating positive spillover effects for over 134,000 additional people. The CoP is responsible for the overall management and representation of the activity and is ultimately accountable for the delivery of desired program results, an effective adaptive management approach, relationships with a range of stakeholders, and management of the program team and consortium. Hiring is contingent upon USAID approval of the candidate.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

• Lead overall program planning, putting in place team structures, technical and operational approaches, infrastructure, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and feedback loops required for program delivery and success.
• Lead partnerships within the program consortium, as well as with external stakeholders as needed, to create the team work required for program success.
• Represent the program to donor officials, host government officials, partner representatives, local stakeholders, and team members.
• Review, approve and contribute to major program strategies such as the M&E Plan, the Learning Plan, the collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) approach, the Gender Strategy, and technical or thematic strategies. Provide oversight and quality control to the program’s thematic approaches and implementation, leading course corrections as required.
• Lead annual planning processes and associated donor resource requests; monitoring implementation progress as compared to these plans.
• Ensure the quality of all program deliverables, inclusive of activities, outputs, documentation and reporting.
• Ensure sound program financial management and reporting.
• Ensure sound program logistical and operational structures and management.
• Ensure compliance with donor, host government and Save the Children policies and procedures.
• Recruit, develop and manage the program team, ensuring that adequate and appropriate capacity building plans are in place and that Human Resources policies are appropriate for team retention and high performance.
• Demonstrate a commitment to gender and youth integration in both the programmatic and operational aspects of the activity.
• Ensure that the program deploys an effective collaborating, learning and adapting approach, such that the activity is able to evolve in a changing context to achieve desired outcomes.
• Oversee the program’s security management approach, working with country office counterparts.
• Train, develop, coach, lead, and supervise staff, clearly communicating organization, division and department priorities, and how their work contributes to our mission, ensuring that the working environment continually fosters diversity, inclusion, and belonging – supporting Save the Children values

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. development studies, international relations, agriculture, nutrition, public health, business administration) and a minimum of 10 years of progressively increasing management responsibility in international development projects is required. Two years of applicable experience can substitute for a master’s degree
• Proven leadership skills managing projects of a similar size and scope in developing countries, ideally in conflict-affected and non-permissive environments, and preferably in West Africa
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with host governments, donors, other donor-funded projects and stakeholders, local organizations, and partners
• Demonstrated experience recruiting, developing, and managing staff, as well as experience managing programmatic and financial reporting
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English and French
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Target Salary for this position is $120,828 – $135,043 base salary

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location. 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.

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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.