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Chief of Party – USDA Food for Progress – Bolivia
Organization Lutheran World ReliefLocation Bolivia (Plurinational State of)Type FULL TIMEPosted 20 May 2026Deadline 30 Jun 2026
Program/Project ManagementAgriculture
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***About Corus:*** Corus International is the parent of a family of world-class organizations working to deliver the holistic, lasting solutions needed to end extreme poverty once and for all. We are a global leader in international development, with 150 years of combined experience across our brands. Our nonprofit and for-profit subsidiaries include Lutheran World Relief (LWR), IMA World Health (IMA) and its fundraising brand Corus World Health, CGA Technologies, Ground Up Investing, and Farmers Market Brands. Our employees around the globe are experts in their fields and dedicated to helping the world's most vulnerable people break the cycle of poverty and lead healthy lives. Further details about the organization can be found at: https://corusinternational.org
**About the Job:** Lutheran World Relief (LWR) seeks a **Chief of Party (COP)** to lead an anticipated five-year $15-20M USDA Food for Progress project in Bolivia. The project will seek to improve productivity of targeted Bolivian value chains and increase access to markets and trade between United States and Bolivia. The Chief of Party provides overall vision, technical, and administrative leadership and expertise for the program. The COP is responsible for management of all aspects of the program implementation in meeting the objectives of the initiative, including, but not limited to, technical, administrative, operational, and logistical management interventions. The COP will take a leadership role in coordination among the program team, consortium members, other implementing partners, public and private sector partners, and government stakeholders, and will liaise directly with USDA and other USG entities as appropriate. S/he is responsible for ensuring that programmatic implementation meets expected standards of technical quality in compliance with USDA requirements, including monitoring, evaluation, and learning. S/he also will ensure completion of reports, evaluations, analyses, assessments, and deliverables in compliance with USDA quality standards.
**Actual hiring is contingent on successful Activity award and USDA approval; the anticipated start date will be around October 2026.**
**Duties**
***Leadership, Vision, and Strategy***
- Has leadership, supervisory, and management responsibility for LWR program staff and consortium member program staff. Works closely with LWR headquarters and regional management and technical staff.
- Leads, plans, organizes, and supervises the program activities and sub-grantees.
- Ensures that activities conform to the terms and conditions of USDA Food for Progress agreement and meet the expected technical quality standards to ensure strategic objectives and program results are accomplished.
- Ensures appropriate LWR and project representation to national and state authorities in Bolivia, USDA and the U.S. Government, and other private and public stakeholders.
***Program Management and Administration***
- Provides overall supervision for the implementation and integration of all program activities and provides overall direction to daily implementation plans to ensure all program goals are met according to the approved project proposal, agreement, workplan, and implementation strategy.
- Develops, manages and maintains relationships with stakeholders (public and private).
- Responsible for adherence to LWR and donor requirements on management of program funds and other resources for the program.
- Works with project staff and headquarters on the preparation and timely submission of status reports, budget information, and supporting documentation to LWR and donor.
***Technical Program Delivery and Quality***
- Leads on the technical delivery through the use of project resources for consortium members, project staff and consultants. Works closely with Corus Technical Business Unit staff on technical approaches to apply/adopt best practices.
- Ensures that program activities are implemented, and monitors the achievement of results, ensuring compliance with project indicators.
- Oversees the MEL staff on design of MEL systems to track project performance and use learning from baseline, midterm and final evaluations in accordance with M&E requirements.
- Ensures that program activities and approaches adopt best practices in participant accountability.
- Ensures the technical delivery of quality training, technical assistance, grants under contract management, consultancies, and other administrative and financial support to partner governments and agencies,
- Ensures the selection, coordination and performance of sub-grantees and consultants to high standards, and addresses challenges as they arise.
***Representation***
- Serves as primary contact to USDA, the public and private sectors, and the Government of Bolivia at all levels, taking responsibility for addressing all matters related to the program.
- Acts as LWR's primary country representative, including with proj
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