East-West Management Institute (EWMI) is seeking a Chief of Party (COP) and a Deputy Chief of Party for an anticipated 5-year Healing and Accountability through Human Rights activity in Ukraine. USAID/Ukraine will provide up to $25,000,000, subject to the availability of funds, for the five-year activity. The purpose of the new Healing & Accountability through Human Rights activity is to help Ukrainians achieve justice and address social divisions resulting from Russia’s full-scale invasion by supporting processes aimed at accountability for war crimes, fostering dialogue on difficult questions related to post-conflict recovery, and beginning healing and reconciliation using human-rights-based approaches, including transitional justice tools.

Chief of Party must provide overall technical and administrative leadership and expertise and serves as the primary liaison with USAID on management and technical matters. S/he will be responsible for administering and managing the implementation of the activity and has the overall responsibility for assuring that all assistance provided is technically sound and appropriate to meet activity objectives. S/he must be responsible for all aspects of coordination and communication, including with the GOU, other donors, partners, and other USAID activities. S/he will supervise the work of all organizations (sub- grantees) and individuals engaged under the activity.

Required qualifications:

• Proven leadership qualities, excellent management skills and significant relevant experience in project management and staff supervision.
• Demonstrated experience managing programs in an active war zone.
• A Master’s degree (or higher) and 8 years work experience in a relevant thematic area, or relevant work experience of 12 years in lieu of an advanced degree.
• Demonstrated skills in planning, adaptive management, budgeting, and communication with donors.
• Substantial experience working on human rights, social cohesion, transitional justice or other similar thematic areas.
• Fluency in English (both spoken and written); professional proficiency in Ukrainian is desirable.
• Ability to maintain physical presence inside Ukraine for 75% of working days, subject to USAID policies.

 Responsibilities:

• Providing overall management support, vision, and technical direction for all program tasks.
• Providing financial management and accountability of all project activities.
• Developing working relationships with GOU and Ukrainian CSOs to achieve or exceed program goals.
• Serving as the primary point of contact for USAID, GOU, partner organizations, and other local resource partners and experts.
• Contracting and managing local individuals/organizations for identified tasks as appropriate according to USAID and EWMI procedures in coordination with EWMI.
• Managing the development and execution of technical plans and procedures to achieve project tasks, objectives, and planned results.
• In conjunction with the EWMI support team, ensuring that managerial, administrative and financial procedures comply with provisions of the Cooperative Agreement, USAID regulations, and EWMI policies.
• Supervising completion of timely and high-quality deliverables for cooperative agreement compliance, including program reporting.

Deputy Chief of Party must be capable of fulfilling the role of the Chief of Party in that person’s absence. His/her responsibility will be to ensure effective program coordination.

Required qualifications:

• Master’s degree and relevant work experience of 5 years.
• Significant relevant experience in project management and supervising staff, preferably as an operations manager for projects in developing and/or transition countries.
• Substantial experience working on human rights, social cohesion, transitional justice or other similar thematic areas.
• Fluency in English (both spoken and written); professional proficiency in Ukrainian is desirable.
• Ability to maintain physical presence inside Ukraine for 75% of working days, subject to USAID policies.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Chief of Party to provide technical and managerial oversight for the Activity.
• Manage and supervise a team of technical and operations support staff.
• Contribute to monitoring, evaluation, and learning; program communications; and program reporting, including the development and implementation of the Activity’s annual work plans, semi-annual progress reports, and other requests that may come in from the donor.
• Identify adjustments in scope and operations to ensure that the Activity adapts to changes in need and context.
• Maintain good working relationships with officials, GOU, implementing partners, and the international and local CSO community.
• In the temporary absence of the COP, serve as the Acting COP.
• Other duties as assigned on an ad hoc basis by the COP.

These will be full-time positions based in Kyiv, Ukraine, and will be contingent on award and funding. To apply, please send your CV and Cover Letter to [email protected] by March 5, 2024. Please include the name of the position and country (Chief of Party/Deputy Chief of Party – Ukraine) in the subject line.