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    Deputy Project Director - Washington, United States - The Kaizen Company

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    Job DescriptionKaizen, A Tetra Tech Company (Kaizen) is an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven development and spur sustainable entrepreneurship and investments. We leverage existing knowledge, new technologies, local peer networks, and innovative business models to support local reforms that are sustained through market forces.

    Since our inception, we have provided support to more than 200 government, private-sector, and non-profit organizations in emerging markets worldwide. We have created solutions that achieve outcomes across a broad range of sectors including education, health, finance, agriculture, governance, economic growth, energy and environment, and water.

    Kaizen is searching for a Deputy Project Director for the anticipated USAID Managing Market Access and Innovative Finance (MMAIF) activity. The purpose of the activity is for USAID to acquire support service and technical assistance on a range of market access and innovative financing activities to improve global health outcomes.

    Duties
    The Deputy Project Director will support the Project Director in managing the day-to-day project operations, including the project's administration, logistics, procurement, budgeting, and financial accounting (financial accounting responsibilities may include cash flow management, timesheet recording and daily monitoring of obligations, budgets, and expenditures). The Deputy Project Director will ensure that the project is implemented in accordance with USAID regulations, procedures, and with the scope of the project.

    Minimum Qualifications
    • At least 10 years of experience in international development, including the management of finance and operations for project of similar size and complexity.
    • Demonstrated familiarity with USAID FAR, ADS, and other operational guidance including human resources, financial management, financial reporting, and procurement processes, systems, and grants management.
    • Proven experience leading start-up/close-out and procurement for multi-country, USAID-funded programs.
    • Demonstrated ability to interact professionally with senior U.S. and foreign government officials.
    • Bachelor's degree in management, international development, economics, or business administration or a related field. (Advanced degree preferred).
    • Fluency in English oral and written communication.
    • Must be authorized to work in the United States

    For candidates applying for positions based in Kaizen's office in Washington, DC, we utilize to mitigate bias in the recruitment process. Upon submitting an application, candidates will receive an email from , prompting them to go through the anonymous screening. In order to be considered for a role, candidates must respond to and proceed with the application. We do not currently use for project positions outside of the United States.

    At Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company, we find strength in our diversity. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. We know that we can only do development differently if we are open to and inclusive of new and unique perspectives. We encourage candidates of all abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, national origins, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations to apply. Further, we urge parents and non-parents, married and unmarried, those from different or non-traditional educational backgrounds, and persons of all other diverse identities or experiences to apply. Kaizen is an equal opportunity employer.

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