Chief Of Party I, Land Restoration Initiative

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States.

CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality.

CRS' relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

CRS Philippines, established in 1945, is the longest running, continuous CRS country program in the world with extensive programming in peacebuilding, emergency response and recovery, and disaster risk reduction.

The Philippines country program has over 100 staff members in Manila, Davao, and Cotabato City offices.

CRS Philippines is committed to collaborating with our strong network of church partners, national and subnational government agencies and secular NGOs throughout the country.

• Job Summary

As Chief of Party I, you will manage and provide technical oversight of the development and implementation of a Land Restoration Initiative in the Philippines under the Restore Asia Program of the Global Evergreening Alliance (GEA), of which CRS is a member.

CRS Philippines serves as the Lead Implementation Organization (LIO) for the Land Restoration Initiative in the Philippines in partnership with other consortium members.

The Chief of Party will manage the large and complex project, ensuring effective systems and processes are in place that supports high-quality programming advancing CRS and Alliance members' work in serving the poor and vulnerable.

Your management skills and knowledge will ensure that the project delivers high-quality programming and continuously works towards improving the impact of its Land Restoration Initiative.

As a senior leader, you will proactively manage security and mitigate security risks.

• THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON DONOR FUNDING
• Roles and Key Responsibilities
• Lead all aspects of the development, implementation, and consolidation of the Land Restoration Initiative in the Philippines, including sharing how it contributes to the thought leadership of the industry.
• Serve as the primary point of contact to GEA's Program Coordination Unit.
• Ensure the project is designed and implemented to meet donor expectations in terms of timely and quality results and budget, including strategies for phase-out and sustainability.

Ensure coordination between program and operations leads.

• Ensure the CRS program quality standards are adhered to per Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) policies and procedures, and that project Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) of the carbon component is met.
• Provide management, guidance, and technical oversight of the Land Restoration Initiative in the Philippines throughout the project cycle to ensure project design, start-up, implementation, and close-out are in line with CRS quality and compliance principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices.
• Ensure programmatic integration of Land Restoration approaches in the Philippines in close collaboration with CRS, Government of the Philippines and partner staff.

Ensure national representation of the project with various Government of the Philippines departments and other stakeholders.

• Manage relationships within the Philippines GEA consortium partners as chair of the steering committee comprised of senior leadership from the partner agencies.
• Manage the Program Management Unit and the integration of a team of multi-agency, multidisciplinary staff in line with CRS partnership principles.
• Effectively manage and supervise CRS talent for the Land Restoration Initiative program team.

Manage team dynamics and staff well-being.

Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, and complete performance management for direct reports.

• Lead the development of program learning - identify opportunities for learning, research and publications in the area of sustainable agriculture practices and implementation of MEAL policies as well as ensure feeding of the Philippines relevant MEAL into the global GEA MEAL system.

Facilitate the dissemination of promising practices and lessons learned to contribute to the agency and GEA knowledge management agenda.

Ensure integration of innovations and best practices.

• Contribute to the proactive pursuit of opportunities for new funding to ensure the growth of the Evergreening Initiative portfolio in line with agency, regional, and CP, Government of the Philippines and GEA strategic priorities.

Contribute to the technical design and technical writing for the CP to ensure quality proposals per agency and donor standards.

Contribute to budgeting and staffing plans and activities for proposals.