IDIQ Technical Lead

WSP is currently accepting CVs for an IDIQ Technical Lead for the anticipated USAID-funded Strengthening Democratic Governance IDIQ (projected to be $50-$90 million in size) in Honduras. This expected high-level outcome of this project is to improve the performance of the Government of Honduras (GOH), so it is characterized by greater effectiveness, transparency, and accountability; responsiveness to public needs; and enhanced citizen participation, especially among youth. This will include a) building the capacity of line ministries and devolved authorities in public financial management, service delivery, and open governance; b) strengthening key oversight and accountability institutions for more effective internal controls, budget oversight, auditing, and corruption investigation; and c) strengthening civil society to combat corruption, hold the government to account, participate in governance reform, and advance a culture of human rights and integrity.

Position Description

The Technical Lead, a member of the Project’s senior management team, will lead the implementation of SDG IDIQ Objective 1 (“Effective governance capacity, transparency and citizen-responsiveness of GOH institutions improved”) and Objective 2 (“GOH oversight and accountability capacity enhanced to combat corruption and ensure the proper use of public funds”). S/he will oversee a team that will work closely with the Secretariat for Transparency and Combat of Corruption, the Ministry of Finance, line ministries, National Congress, and the Supreme Audit Institution to strengthen their performance in their mandates, resulting in increased GOH transparency, accountability, and citizen-responsiveness.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Anticipated roles include, but not limited to, the following:

• Lead technical oversight of Objectives 1 and 2 and serve as a point of contact with beneficiary government entities.
• Provide strategic vision and overall leadership, and ensure the provision of timely, relevant, high quality work from both long-term staff and incoming short-tem1consultants.
• Manage Objectives 1 and 2 activities and ensure that they are integrated with Objective 3, in particular overseeing the process of capacity assessments, action planning, activity design, and activity implementation, together focused on strengthening GOH performance, citizen engagement, and accountability.
• Pursue areas of cooperation with key counterparts, other donors, and partner institutions.
• Assist Chief of Party in completing reporting requirements and deliverables required by the contract such as progress reports, work plans and technical reports in a timely and thorough manner.

Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in social sciences, international development, public policy, public administration, or another relevant field. An advanced degree is preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of technical experience in governance in areas such as: public administration, public finance, planning, budgeting, service delivery, e-governance, citizen engagement and public accountability.
• Ability to partner with a variety of individuals and organizations, US government officials, national/local government officials, international agencies, donor organizations, or stakeholders.
• Proven experience hiring, training, and supervising teams of international and local staff.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively (verbally and in writing) in Spanish. Professional proficiency in English preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, collaborate, build consensus and cooperation among government officials, donors, civil society organizations and other stakeholders with competing interests.
• Demonstrated ability to implement projects with rigorous timelines and deliverables and to track program quality through monitoring and evaluation systems.
• Familiarity with USAID approaches to political economy analysis; adaptive management; and collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) preferred.
• Previous experience working in Honduras on projects of similar scope and complexity (and especially those having addressed governance and accountability) highly preferred.
• This position is contingent upon WSP being selected for a contract or program we are currently pursuing as well as contingent upon client approval.

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