Summary
Save the Children is seeking a Chief of Party for an anticipated USAID Kosovo Youth Activity. The anticipated program will enhance the capacity and leadership of youth for greater economic participation and civic engagement. The Chief of Party (COP) is the key leadership role for this project and will be responsible for managing all aspects of the program including meeting the objectives of the project while providing overall technical, administrative, operational, and logistical management. The COP will act as the principal liaison between USAID Kosovo, the Government of Kosovo, partners, youth leaders and civil society organizations. This position is based in our Kosovo National Office in Prishtina.
This position is contingent upon donor approval and funding.
What You'll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Qualified Kosovar candidates are highly encouraged to apply!
About Save the Children
Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.
Save the Children in has been positively impacting the lives of children in Kosovo, since 1997, by utilizing global, regional and national interdisciplinary expertise to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and be protected from harm, and emergent risks. To catalyze systematic changes in country, SCiK has implemented its portfolio across 33 municipalities, including over 27 rural areas in Kosovo through a multi-sectoral, integrated approach.
Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.
Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.
Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.
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