Overview
The Project Director will provide strategic and technical leadership for a complex, multi-sectoral, and multi-partner technical assistance project focused on addressing egregious labor practices in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s critical mineral supply chains.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide overall strategic leadership, coordination, and supervision of all project activities and staff.
- Ensure the project achieves its goals and outcomes, including policy improvement, labor monitoring and identification, enforcement support, and remediation.
- Liaise with USDOL/ILAB, government stakeholders, local partners, and the private sector.
- Oversee the development and execution of project workplans, monitoring plans, and technical strategies.
- Maintain timely and high-quality reporting to USDOL.
- Supervise and mentor a multidisciplinary team and manage partner relationships.
- Ensure integration of cross-cutting themes including social inclusion and conflict sensitivity.
- Lead coordination with relevant ministries and provincial authorities.
- Represent the project in national, regional, and international forums.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in project leadership, management, supervision, administration, and implementation of cooperative agreement and/or contract requirements.
- Preferably in the DRC.
- Eight to ten years or more of leadership experience is preferred.
- Proven experience managing ILAB-funded projects or other publicly-funded projects focused on labor rights, child protection, or supply chains.
- Demonstrated experience in labor rights enforcement, child labor and/or forced labor prevention, and policy reform.
- Strong understanding of mining sector dynamics and labor governance challenges in fragile or resource-rich settings.
- Experience engaging with national and subnational governments, particularly labor inspectorates, ministries, and local authorities.
- Experience establishing and maintaining systems for managing project operations.
- Experience with designing and implementing results-based monitoring systems for projects focused on capacity building.
- Demonstrated experience as an effective public speaker.
Qualifications
• Master’s degree in international development, labor relations, public policy, law, project management, or related field; or, 5 years or more of related work experience.
