The Kaizen Company

Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company (Kaizen) is an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven development and spur sustainable entrepreneurship and investments. We leverage existing knowledge, new technologies, local peer networks, and innovative business models to support local reforms that are sustained through market forces.

Since our inception, we have provided support to more than 200 government, private-sector, and non-profit organizations in emerging markets worldwide. We have created solutions that achieve outcomes across a broad range of sectors including education, health, finance, agriculture, governance, economic growth, energy and environment, and water.

Kaizen is searching for a Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) for the anticipated USAID Procurement and Supply Chain activity in Ukraine. The goals of this activity strengthen pharmaceutical sector resilience, increase pharmaceutical sector governance transparency and ensure that the essential medicines system is increasingly patient-centered.

Duties

The Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) will support the COP managing day-to-day activity operations, including the project's administration, logistics, procurement, budgeting and financial accounting (which may include cash flow management, timesheet recording and daily monitoring of obligations, budgets, and expenditures). Ensures that activity implementation is in accordance with USAID regulations and procedures and the specifications determined in the Scope of Work (SOW), which may include monitoring grantee worthiness; assuring fair and transparent procurement processes; reviewing financial management; and monitoring activity implementation. The DCOP will serve as Acting COP in the absence of the COP. Other duties as assigned. This position will be based in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with and provide direct support to the COP;
• Manage and maintain the project’s financial, operational, and contract systems and processes, ensuring compliance with USAID requirements;
• Provide activity management leadership from activity start-up through implementation and completion;
• Oversee staff management and quality assurance.

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience in international development, including experience managing finance and operations for similar multi-million-dollar projects.
• Demonstrated familiarity with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Automated Directives Systems (ADS), and other operational guidance including human resources, financial management, financial reporting, and procurement processes, systems, and grants management.
• Proven experience leading start-up/close-out, and procurement for multi-country, USAID-funded programs.
• At least 7 years of senior field management experience demonstrating professional interaction with senior U.S. and foreign government officials.
• University degree in management, international development, economics, or business administration or a related field required, Advanced degree preferred.
• Fluency in English and/or Ukrainian oral and written communication.

Preferred Experience

• 5 years implementing similar, complex health reform programs
• Experience in Ukraine, former Soviet Countries, or in the Eastern European region.
• Fluency in Ukrainian or Russian oral and written communication.

This position is contingent upon contract award.

For candidates applying for positions based in Kaizen's office in Washington, DC, we utilize career.place to mitigate bias in the recruitment process. Upon submitting an application, candidates will receive an email from career.place, prompting them to go through the anonymous screening. In order to be considered for a role, candidates must respond to career.place and proceed with the application. We do not currently use career.place for project positions outside of the United States.

At Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company, we find strength in our diversity. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. We know that we can only do development differently if we are open to and inclusive of new and unique perspectives. We encourage candidates of all abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, national origins, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations to apply. Further, we urge parents and non-parents, married and unmarried, those from different or non-traditional educational backgrounds, and persons of all other diverse identities or experiences to apply. Kaizen is an equal opportunity employer.