NOTE: Open position until filled. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) is seeking a Capacity Development and Governance Manager for Peru to support the Clean Cities Blue Ocean (CCBO) program.
Location: Remote position in Peru with required in-country travel to CCBO Cities.
Short-Term Engagement /up to 200 days
Project Background:
CCBO activity is a five-year, $48 million USAID-funded initiative which serves as USAID’s flagship program to target ocean plastics directly at their source in cities and towns. The project works to prevent ocean plastic pollution by building capacity and commitment for Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling (3Rs) and solid waste management (SWM) systems in urban and peri-urban settings, particularly in riverine and coastal areas. CCBO works with multiple USAID missions on country-specific implementation of national and local activities, and with USAID/Washington on global-level activities. The geographic focus of this 5-year program is on the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka/The Maldives, Dominican Republic, and Peru.
The Capacity Development and Governance Manager-Peru (Manager-Peru )- will have a leadership role in creating measurable reductions in ocean plastics entering Peru’s waters within and surrounding the country, including the Pacific Ocean and other inland bodies of water, such as the Piura River by supporting activities which increase capacity and effective governance of 3Rs/SWM systems. In Peru, the CCBO project will work in the following cities, Piura in northwest Peru and Ica, located south of Lima.
Under the direction and guidance of the CCBO Capacity Development and Governance Director (based in Washington, DC), the Manager will lead relevant activities in the CCBO cities to improve existing local solid waste management and recycling systems through increased cooperation among local governments and stakeholders and the implementation of laws, policies, regulations.
Their primary job will be to facilitate project activities and capacity-building in their engagement sites. They will support and arrange for workshops, events, meetings, and training to local government officials, staff, and stakeholders; collect and confirm information for the CCBO legal gap analysis, enforcement review, financial indicators and governance capacity index assessment; contribute to CCBO deliverables by providing local context, data, and information review; update country baseline stats files as well as take on other necessary activities to achieve the goals of the CCBO program.
In this role, the Manager will ensure that locally generated ideas for improving SWM and recycling systems are relayed to and discussed by the full CCBO Team and options for solutions are communicated back to stakeholders in the cities.
Specific Activities:
As the Manager-Peru you will:
What you will need to be successful in this role:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Other:
HOW TO APPLY:
If you believe you are the candidate we are looking for, please email your cover letter (indicating in the subject line Capacity Development and Governance Manager-Peru) and Curriculum Vitae (CV) to ccbohr@icma.org.
CLOSING DATE: Open until filled.
Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) is the professional home for more than 13,000 local government leaders, managers, staff, and stakeholders committed to developing and promoting the best practices in governance at the subnational level. Since its inception in 1914, ICMA has provided research and knowledge resources, training, technical assistance, and peer-to-peer programming for the chief appointed officials and their staff that run thousands of local governments in the United States and around the world. Since the late 1980s, ICMA has implemented over 500 programs in more than 70 countries, delivering hands-on assistance by tapping into the knowledge and skill set of its members, who provide long-term learning, mentorship, and partnership opportunities for their counterparts in local government. ICMA performs a wide range of mission-driven grant and contract-funded work both in the U.S. and internationally, thanks to the support of federal government agencies, international foundations, and corporations.
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