Chief of Party – USAID East Timor Healthy Ocean, Protected Environment (HOPE) for a Resilient Community Activity

WHO WE ARE

Come grow with us! If you are a passionate change agent who thrives in a collaborative, entrepreneurial and inclusive, culture committed to operational excellence, we would like to meet you. 

At Resonance, immediate hands-on experience alongside our clients as we work to build sustainable, positive impact. Our teams are autonomous and self-sufficient. You get to weigh in with founders and leaders on how to drive change and grow the movement while growing the company. 

Resonance is an award-winning, Certified B Corporation consultancy that delivers market-based solutions to address the world’s toughest challenges. We enable a variety of donor, commercial, and investor clients around the world to catalyze lasting impact. Resonance seeks to catalyze large-scale social, environmental, and economic change by fostering new and dynamic forms of collaboration. We do this by fostering public-private partnerships, facilitating sustainable investment, and providing deep analytical insights in frontier markets. 

POSITION MANDATE

Resonance seeks a Chief of Party (COP) to lead the anticipated USAID East Timor Healthy Ocean, Protected Environment (HOPE) for a Resilient Community Activity. The overarching objectives are anticipated to include: 

• Strengthening coastal marine biodiversity conservation
• Enhancing community resilience to climate impacts
• Developing and expanding resilient livelihoods.

This is a full-time position based in Dili, Timor-Leste, reporting to Director, Project Delivery Unit at Resonance’s HQ. 

OUTCOMES / ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Provide strategic and technical leadership and/or oversight of all activities and outputs, including extensive technical advice and inputs across one or more areas, such as marine biodiversity conservation, sustainable fisheries and MPA management, sustainable agriculture practices, livelihoods diversification, climate adaptation and risk management, blue economy, public finance management, market systems development, and cross-sector partnerships.
• Represent the project externally and ensure close coordination with partners in the government, private sector, key local stakeholders, financial institutions, and donor communities.
• Lead financial oversight and ensure compliance with USG regulations, Timor-Leste regulations, and Resonance policies.
• Lead or support the design, methodology, and tools for some activities as relevant to areas of expertise.
• Manage project team; oversee, mentor, and provide guidance to short- and long-term staff.
• Oversee monitoring, evaluation, learning, and reporting to ensure the program adapts as needed to meet objectives and learning is acquired and shared broadly to maximize impact and sustainability.
• Assume responsibility for overall USAID contract management ensuring quality control and timeliness of deliverables.

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Advanced degree in international development, natural resources management, marine and coastal studies, fisheries management, or related field, or 5 additional years of related work experience.
• 10+ years of experience leading or managing international donor-funded development projects.
• Experience working on similar development programs, ideally in Southeast Asia, with a focus on marine/coastal biodiversity conservation, marine protected area establishment/management, sustainable fisheries management and promotion, food security, sustainable livelihoods, climate adaptation, and resilience or other relevant technical areas.
• Experience liaising with high-level representatives from public and private sectors and USAID and other donor-funded activities and engaging with local organizations and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated leadership in effective project management, technical and analytical skills, and personnel management.
• Proficiency addressing factors that maximize gender and social inclusion, MEL, and communications.
• Fluency in English.

PREFERRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Strong network of government, NGO and civil society, donor and private sector through focus geography.
• Experience as a COP or DCOP on a USAID project in Timor-Leste or the Southeast Asia region.
• Fluency in Portuguese or Tetun.

TRAVEL EXPECTATIONS 

The employee must be able to travel within Timor-Leste and/or internationally for work assignments. 

WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS 

This position operates in a professional office environment, and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, photocopiers, and filing cabinets. 

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

As a part of the responsibilities for this job, the employee is required to communicate, detect, converse with, discern, convey, express oneself, and exchange information orally and in writing with others. The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position, sitting at a desk for prolonged periods, move or traverse inside the office and facilities; operate, activate, use, prepare, inspect, place, detect, or position computers and other office equipment, such as a calculator, copy machine, furniture, and computer printer. The employee must be able to make substantial repetitive motions of the wrists, hands and fingers. The employee must be able to lift and move up to 15lbs at times. 

WORK AUTHORIZATION / SECURITY CLEARANCE

N/A

SALARY RANGE

TBD

AAP/EEO STATEMENT

The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of Resonance is to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation) parental status, genetic information (including family medical history) political affiliation, military service, age, veteran status, disability, or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. These protections extend to all management practices and decisions, including recruitment and hiring, appraisal systems, promotions, training, and career development programs. Consistent with these obligations, Resonance also provides reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, observances, and practices.

Resonance believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each associate to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on any of the above-mentioned characteristics.

We expect and require the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No phone calls or emails please.

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