Country: Bangladesh
Closing date: 26 Sep 2016
Since 1963 and in 146 countries, ACDI/VOCA has empowered people in developing and transitional nations to succeed in the global economy. Based in Washington, D.C., ACDI/VOCA is a nonprofit international development organization that delivers technical and management assistance in agribusiness, financial services, enterprise development, community development and food security in order to promote broad-based economic growth and vibrant civil society. ACDI/VOCA currently has 44 active projects in 31 countries and total revenues of approximately $176 million.
Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Manager, Dhaka, Bangladesh
ACDI/VOCA is currently seeking a CLA Manager for the USAID-funded Feed the Future Bangladesh Rice and Diversified Crops Activity (RDC). The activity will be a five-year primary mechanism to support productivity and market systems development under USAID/Bangladesh’s FTF strategy, with the objective of improved food security through systemic changes that increase rural incomes and – via increased incomes, including women’s income, and incentivized crop diversification – to improved nutrition. USAID/Bangladesh’s new RDC activity will foster growth and reduce poverty through improving the competitiveness, inclusiveness, and resilience of rice and other selected crops in the FTF Zone of Influence (ZOI) to the benefit of large numbers of men and women and their families in rural households, farms, and market systems.
Responsibilities:
Lead the CLA unit, which will encompass the project’s communications, training, and behavior change functions, providing a centralized point for analysis, strategic planning, and support to improve technical implementation, effective use of resources, and sustainability.
Work closely with the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Manager to ensure performance data is relevant and useful and is analyzed regularly to enable reflection, adaptation, and continuous improvement.
Develop adaptive management processes and tools that facilitate purposeful experimentation and pivots in strategy and tactics based on planned experiments.
Lead training on CLA for staff and partners and continually adapt and improve the project’s CLA Plan.
Oversee the training, behavior change, and communications functions of the project, ensuring overall quality control and responsiveness of these efforts to the technical team needs, and facilitating integration of these efforts throughout project components.
Develop and implement project communications strategy, ensure quality control of project communications and marketing media, and provide high level editorial assistance and quality control to the publication of all project reporting and communications.
Work directly with the technical project component leads to plan, design, and or/manage specific CLA strategies and activities, such as supporting incorporation of technical, contextual and experiential learning into technical strategies, interventions, and processes. Assist in developing, capturing, sharing, and testing methods, models, and tools to advance these objectives.
Support cross-company learning initiatives (exposure visits, training activities, etc.) that would benefit firms and stakeholders with similar interests and needs.
Continually develop and review impact causal models/results chains to demonstrate how interventions will contribute to sustainable poverty reduction in targeted districts.
Participate in regular senior management planning meetings, and provide analytical feedback and support to inform technical decisions by senior management and the technical component leads.
Serve as a role model for instilling a culture of adaptive management and establishing processes that contribute to effective collaboration, learning, and adaptation systems.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferable) in respective technical field.
Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in knowledge management, communications, M&E, organizational learning and/or strategic learning in an international development context, or, an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Familiarity with the concept of adaptive management/CLA, and demonstrated experience using a mix of informational sources and research methods to analyze project progress, communicate findings to a range of external and internal stakeholders, and apply learning to work planning.
Experience providing leadership, supervising staff, managing multiple complex project components, and convening people across technical teams to build consensus and achieve an outcome.
Experience contributing to the design and implementation of a development project’s strategic communications strategy required.
Superior, demonstrated writing, reporting, and oral presentation skills (ability to provide an original writing sample required).
Regional experience in South/South East Asia preferred.
Skills in graphic design (preferably Adobe InDesign), as well as video and web editing skills, desired but not required.
Willingness to travel 10% of the time.
Fluency in English, both verbal and written.
How to apply:
Please email your CV to jobs@acdivocardc.org to apply. To be considered please write the title of the position you are applying for in the subject line of the email. No phone calls please. Only those candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. ACDI/VOCA is an equal opportunity employer. Women, minorities and people from diverse groups are encouraged to apply. ACDI/VOCA will never solicit a payment from any applicant.