The Anti-Corruption Compliance Lead will oversee the Objective 2 team dedicated to strengthening anti-corruption compliance and control in local governance. The goals under this objective include enhancing institutional capacities, developing and deploying cutting-edge anti-corruption tools, and facilitating robust civil society oversight to hold local authorities accountable. This position is conditional upon MSI winning the proposal.
Responsibilities:
- Reporting to the Deputy Chief of Party, the Anti-Corruption Compliance Lead will oversee a team of diverse technical experts, program staff, and partner organizations working at the national and local levels to advance ant-corruption policy implementation, with a focus on the following project sub-objectives:
- Strengthen local government institutional arrangements to promote the independence, effectiveness, and efficiency of anti-corruption efforts.
- Build the capacity of the National Agency of Corruption Prevention’s ability to set standards, establish methods, create materials and work with state regional administrations to audit and inspect local government compliance with anti-corruption standards in accordance with international principles.
- Strengthen the capacity of anti-corruption compliance officers in local governments.
- Support civic monitoring and oversight of target local government activities with high corruption risks.
- Support initiatives to strengthen the enabling environment for civic oversight through local government reforms resulting in greater access to public information, open data, and establishment of civic oversight councils, among others.
- Support citizen engagement with the help of digital tools at local level and the digitalization of local government budgeting and decision-making allows for participatory approaches, maximum transparency, and resulting government open data.
- Facilitate experience sharing between local self-government bodies to amplify positive deviance, best practices, and lessons learned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in public administration, public policy, economics, law, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.
- At least five (5) years’ experience working in designing, implementing and monitoring anti-corruption initiatives.
- Experience managing technical staff and building cohesive teams.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience in implementing effective accountability, transparency, public oversight, audit and anti-corruption activities.
- Strong analytical and communication skills, including ability to engage stakeholder in dialogue, lead formal meetings, design and conduct training, and produce high quality practical analytical reports and knowledge products.
- Familiarity with the Ukrainian anti-corruption reform agenda and leading anti-corruption agencies.
- Fluency in the Ukrainian language with excellent written and oral communications skills required, with proficiency in English strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of and prior experience working on USAID-funded activities strongly preferred.
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