Deputy Director – Project Management Unit / Cross-Cutting Unit East Africa Energy Program (EAEP)

Position Summary

RTI is recruiting for the East Africa Energy Program (EAEP) whose objective is to improve performance of the power sector in Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, and up to six more countries. The project headquarters is in Nairobi with additional offices in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Kigali (Rwanda), and Dar es Salam (Tanzania). The project focuses on electrical utility performance, increasing on-grid connections, increasing regional integration through the East Africa Power Pool, and improving national project planning and delivery. RTI’s work began in December 2018 and will conclude December 2022.

The Deputy Director of the Project Management Unit (PMU) will support the Director of the PMU in overseeing and managing all administrative, logistic, and financial aspects of the program. This position will also support the integration of cross-cutting services into the technical delivery of the program. These services include monitoring and evaluation, training and capacity building, gender, environment and community engagement. The role requires not only administrative, logistics, finance, and operational skills but extremely strong management, representational, diplomatic, and client skills. Technical experience implementing USAID programs is highly desired. The position reports directly to the Senior Director of the PMU in Nairobi.

This role will be based in Nairobi, Kenya or Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopia is strongly preferred: if based in Addis Ababa the Deputy Director of the PMU will also take on office management responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Senior Director in the PMU in the admin, finance, and support team covering finance, contracting, HR, procurement, office management, administration, accounting and communications.
• Likely direct oversight of one or more cross-cutting team functions (e.g. monitoring & evaluation, gender, community engagement, environment and training/capacity building).
• Ensure adherence to RTI and USAID administration policies and procedures.
• Support activity development with technical team members;
• Support subcontracting to local partners through SOW development and supporting the subcontracting process;
• Prepare, aggregate and analyze information for technical reports; liaise with the project’s technical writer;
• Support delivery of talking points for USAID mission counterparts related to technical work implemented at the country level
• Support client requests for communication in different channels and differing media; map stakeholders.
• Act as second-in-charge of the PMU, able to respond to multiple client requests while maintaining strong oversight of the unit.