Responsibilities include:

• Provide overall leadership, management, and technical direction for the Activity and serve as the primary liaison with USAID on strategic, managerial, and technical matters, including responsibility for making key decisions and solving programmatic problems in a timely manner
• Oversee all contractual and budgetary aspects of program management
• Ensure that work plan, MEL, and reporting efforts are aligned with contract requirements, project objectives, and USAID guidance
• Professionally represent Chemonics to USAID, the Government of Zambia, Zambian counterparts, local partners, and other program stakeholders
• Monitor and, where necessary, modify programmatic assistance to achieve results; ensure that relevant, productive, and complementary activities are implemented effectively
• Ensure the activity meets high standards for performance and integrity that comply with applicable regulations and Chemonics policies

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in education policy, planning, curriculum development, teacher professional development or other relevant technical fields preferred
• Minimum of ten years of technical experience in some or all of the following technical areas: early grade reading, disability inclusion, curriculum and material design, and/or capacity development in the education sector
• Experience serving as USAID chief of party or other management experience for efforts of similar scope, size, and complexity required
• Strong leadership ability and experience managing large teams in culturally diverse settings
• Familiarity with Southern Africa, specifically in the education sector, required
• Experience in Zambia is highly desired
• Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
• Fluency in English is required.