Director of Operations and Administration

4 Mar 2022 Director of Operations and Administration at Creative Associates International

• As a member of the senior project management team, actively participate in all project work planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting processes; • Manage the contractual implementation of program activities, to include oversight of procurement processes, development of service agreements, and milestone verification; • Ensure project activities are implemented in accordance with established policies, procedures, and practices, in coordination with project and client staff; • Manage Ethiopia-based project operations staff, in collaboration with technical backstops at Creative HQ; • Provide overarching activity-based operations and procurement support to all project components; • As needed, support the revision and/or creation of new project standard operating procedures for implementation of activities; • Review draft activity budgets to ensure that costs are reasonable and allowable; • Provide direction to the other project teams on activity budgets, timelines and feasibility; • Working in collaboration with the COP, ensure staff are effectively implementing administrative and financial procedures compliant with Creative and donor policies; • Mentor, develop, train and lead Operations staff; • Provide policy guidance and interpretation for both vendors and staff involved in vendor relations; • Oversee the solicitation, award and management of subcontracts, purchase orders, and other procurements; • Oversee the solicitation, award and outputs of sub-awards to partners in collaboration with the COP; • Identify potential and actual activity-based risks and take appropriate mitigation measures; • Investigate, identify and implement new ways of achieving activity efficiencies; and