Team Leader: Improving Access Activity

20 Jul 2026 Team Leader: Improving Access Activity at Fika

• Provide overall strategic, technical, and operational leadership for the anticipated Improving Access Activity, ensuring integrated, high-quality, and results-oriented delivery across all components. • Lead the development and iterative refinement of the Activity’s technical approach, workplans, and implementation strategies in alignment with program objectives and client priorities. • Apply adaptive management principles to evaluate program results, identify course corrections, and scale successful approaches throughout implementation. • Represent Fika at high-level technical forums, government meetings, and program coordination events related to the Activity. • Serve as Fika’s primary point of contact with the client program’s field representatives, maintaining a trusted, collaborative, and professionally effective counterpart relationship. • Lead and manage Fika’s engagement with key government stakeholders, including national ministries, road and transport authorities, local government entities, and district-level partners. • Build and maintain productive relationships with other development partners, community structures, and civil society organizations active in the program area. • Coordinate closely with Fika’s in-country leadership and global support functions to ensure coherent stakeholder representation and communication. • Oversee all financial management functions for the Activity, including budget monitoring, expenditure tracking, forecasting, and financial reporting in compliance with donor and Fika requirements. • Manage Activity contracts and subaward relationships, ensuring compliance, quality, and timely delivery of agreed scopes of work. • Coordinate and oversee preparation of annual and quarterly workplans, budgets, and progress reports, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness. • Ensure compliance with all applicable donor rules and regulations, Fika organizational policies, and safeguarding standards throughout Activity implementation. • Advanced degree in civil engineering, infrastructure planning, international development, public policy, or a closely related field; an engineering background is a significant asset and is strongly preferred. • Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in international development, with substantive focus on infrastructure programs; prior experience in rural transport, roads, or access infrastructure is required. • Minimum of 5–7 years of senior leadership experience as Team Leader, Chief of Party, Project Director, or equivalent on donor-funded programs; demonstrated track record of successful delivery on programs of similar scope and complexity is required.