Honduras: Team Leader

Category: Manager
Req ID: TEAML01863
Posted Date: 2019-12-12
Schedule: Full Time
Location: Tegucigalpa, Honduras HND

Background:

Creative Associates International is a dynamic, fast-growing global development firm that specializes in education, economic growth, governance and post-crisis stabilization. Based in Washington, D.C., Creative has a field presence in more than 25 countries with a strong client portfolio that includes the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department, among others. Since its founding in 1977, Creative has earned a solid reputation among its clients and is well-regarded by competitors and partners alike.

Position Summary:

Creative Associates seeks a Team Leader to support the implementation of the Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) Comprehensive Rural Development and Productivity Project. The project's general objective is to sustainably increase the income of rural households in the Dry Corridor of Honduras. Its specific objective is to improve productive development in the project's target area by providing technologies, production-related technical assistance, and access to financing for the beneficiary population. The Team Leader will provide overall technical, financial, and administrative leadership for a rural development program in Honduras and serve as the primary authority for all decision making related to this award.

Reporting & Supervision:

The Team Leader will report to the Headquarters-based Project Director.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary liaison between the client and other donors, government institutions, local organizations, and the private sector and will be responsible for providing all deliverables as per contract.
• Ensure that the Program is fullystaffed,and its structure and performance is able to deliver high-quality workplans, periodic reports, and other technical and financial documents reports in a timely manner, setting targets, keeping track of costs and expenditures per activity, and ensuring that an efficient monitoring and evaluation is performed throughout the progress of the program.
• Supervise staff, other subcontractors, short- and long- term consultants and others directly involved in the implementation of the Program; oversee the various details of the Program but will focus on bigger picture issues of facilitating associativity, empowering producers and producers associations, providing technical and financial assistance, and linking them to selected value chains through anchor firms, as well as building a stronger enabling environment to foster productivity and competitiveness for producers and producers organization in support of economic development in Honduras.
• Establish productive and cooperative alliances to foster inclusive economic growth by engaging producers and producers' associations, private sector firms and organizations -including financial entities, the Honduras government and municipalities in win-win commercial arrangements.

• Demonstrate high level and effective leadership, interpersonal, technical, and analytical skills including the ability to interact effectively and collaboratively with a broad range of stakeholders.
  Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Economics, Agronomy, Forest Sciences or similar field;

• Ten (10) years of experience in planning, management, and monitoring and evaluation of programs; specifically, five (5) years with projects funded by international agencies, especially the World Bank or IDB;

• Strong project management experience;

• Previous work in agriculture and value chain in Honduras or Central America;

• Spanish fluency.
  Local candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Position contingent upon donor funding.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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