Position Summary
IREX seeks an IQC Manager to oversee the Advancing the Agenda of Gender Equality Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Contract. This will likely involve Task Orders focusing on human rights, gender integration, anti-trafficking, women’s legal rights and gender law among others. The individual will bear primary responsibility for procurement, personnel, reporting, and other management related requirements of the contract. The position is contingent on funding.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Serve as primary point of contact for USAID and Chief of Party on awarded task orders
- Ensure recruitment and utilization of appropriate technical personnel to implement work required under awarded task orders
- Provide overall supervision of administrative and support personnel used on the IQC
- Supervise and coordinate project backstopping services as needed to resolve administrative, technical, and personnel issues as they arise during the conduct of awarded task orders
- Monitor all task order work plans to ensure quality and timeliness of deliverables
- Ensure timely preparation, review, and delivery of all documents required under the IQC
- Initiate and prepare task order documentation, including personnel recommendations
- Report to USAID technical and contract personnel in accordance with USAID reporting requirements
- Ensure quality of task order responses and information flow to USAID
- Participate in annual and ad-hoc reviews sponsored or requested by USAID
- Perform any other necessary technical or management functions required by USAID to successfully manage the IQC and implement task orders awarded under the IQC
Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years of international project management experience
- Demonstrated leadership experience in managing gender focused or human rights programming required
- Graduate level degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent work experience required
- Familiarity with training and technical assistance for gender issues and related initiatives
- Experience managing USAID-funded projects required;
- Previous work on IQCs or IQC task orders required, experience working on WID task orders strongly preferred;
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop staff, manage budgets, and plan strategically and creatively to meet specified objectives
- Strong representational and organizational skills required
- Experience developing and implementing advocacy campaigns and facilitating multi-sectoral coalition-building preferred
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, and the ability to negotiate with local and international officials, NGO representatives, and community stakeholders to ensure the successful completion of project activities
Application Instructions
IQC Manager, Gender Equality IDIQ
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