Détails de l'annonce
Organisation : Save the Children International (Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre)
Site web : www.savethechildren.net
Lieu de l'emploi : Kinshasa /
Fichier :jd_prog._director_sp_2019.docx
Type d'emploi : Contrat à durée déterminée
Type de contrat : Temps plein
Fonction : Autre
Date de publication : 17/09/2019
Date limite : 30/09/2019
Profil
Qualifications and experienceEssential:
- Relevant university degree (Health or other Social Science, International Development, etc.)
- Sound knowledge of the DRC health system including institutions, policies and legal frameworks.
- Prior experience in managing institutional and corporate donors funded programmes.
- Ability to analyse information, evaluate options and to think and plan strategically.
- At least 5 years' experience of working at the same level of responsibility
- Strong experience of working in fragile or conflict affected states.
- Prior experience in partnership management.
- Prior experience in managing a complex and multi-donors funded programme portfolio.
- Knowledge and working experience of Child's Rights Programming approach.
- Proven skills in programme management and administration, including grants management and donor compliance.
- Experience of building, leading and developing a team of senior staff with different backgrounds and expertise.
- Skills and experience in programme monitoring review, reporting and evaluation.
- Strong skills in people management, moderation, conflict resolution and capacity-building.
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills and the ability to think and plan strategically.
- Ability to lead a programme and support a team working from remote locations.
- Fluency in written and spoken French and English.
- Ability to work with limited supervision.
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children aims, values, principles, policies, procedures.
- Capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult working circumstances.
Desirable:
- Working experience in challenging and insecure contexts similar to DRC.
- Experience in promoting children's participation in programming, design, implementation and evaluation.
- Previous safety and security training for working in conflict settings
- Commitment to and understanding of child rights, humanitarian standards such as the Sphere Charter and the Code of Conduct.
Description
TITLE: Programme Director – Health Signature Programe – Democratic Republic of Congo
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Operations / Health
LOCATION: Kinshasa
With significant travel to field locations (30 to 50%).
GRADE: TBC (Competitive Package)
CONTRACT LENGTH: 2 years renewable, with 6 months probation
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programmes; or are visiting country programmes; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
Save the Children is recruiting for an experienced Programme Director to lead our flagship Health Signature Programme across DRC. The programme is a multi-awards / multi donor and ambitious programme implemented in 10 Health Zones in Kasai Oriental and Lomami provinces, currently funded by EU DEVCO, DFID, GSK and Save the Children. The programme currently has an active funding portfolio of USD 17 million and funded until the end of 2021, with programme development work ongoing. The programme employs over 30 staff members across the 2 provinces.
We work with the DRC MoH to provide a full package on institutional support and health services with the aim to :
- Improve access to quality health care for new born and children
- Reduce the burden of the 5 child killer diseases (Measles, Malaria, Pneumonia, Diarrhea, Malnutrition)
- Improve community knowledge / awareness of the essential family practices
- Improve accountability at community level
The Programme Director will be the 1st accountable person to ensure performance, quality and risk management of the programme.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Director of Programme Operations
Staff directly reporting to this post: Deputy Programme Director.
Dotted line management to RMEAL Manager, Finance Specialist, Pharmacist.
Total programme staff: approx. 35
Partners: mainly DRC MoH (and few selected national and international organisations).
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :
Programme delivery, management and quality assurance
- Hold overall responsibility for development and implementation of all aspects of the Programme in DRC.
- Provide strategic guidance, strong leadership and ensure technically sound decision-making processes.
- Lead and motivate the teams in the areas of responsibility in the delivery of the programme’s goals and objectives.
- Support spot checks and audit processes throughout the project lifecycle while ensuring the implementation of recommendations.
- Create and nurture external partnerships; and in particular identify suitable local partners and ensure adherence to the partnership manual.
- Lead and represent the programme on behalf of Save the Children in all relevant fora at all times, including with the donor and government in country.
- Ensure compliance with and adherence to Save the Children and the donor’s rules and regulations in all aspects.
- Ensure timely start up of the grant in collaboration with the field managers / area managers of the relevant areas and bases, the director of programme operations, through planning projects’ opening meetings, and developing all grants management documents such as phased budget, plans of implementation, procurement plans, monitoring plans, grants filing, staff recruitment plans, etc.
- Ensure regular monitoring and reporting on all grant management aspects: phased budget and actual expenses analysis, work-plans progresses and updating, procurement plans revision, data collection and analysis and monitoring of indicators.
- Take full responsibility for the delegated budget holding function on the programmatic aspects of the managed grants, participate actively in finance and projects review meetings and contribute to financial decision making.
- Ensure value for money can be effectively demonstrated to the donor.
- Ensure monitoring and evaluation tools are systematically implemented and used by the teams, in cooperation with the technical staff and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) staff.
- Conduct baseline surveys, regular monitoring, review and evaluation, in cooperation with the technical and MEAL staff.
- Through the established MEAL system, deliver the results-based programming.
- Foster an integrated approach by coordinating and cooperating with all other thematic areas (Protection, Education, etc.), during programme implementation and for future programme design and development.
- Produce high quality reports within agreed reporting schedules.
- Mentor, coach and supervise partners, including ensuring that they regularly report on financial and programmatic aspects in line with partnership guidelines.
- Ensure programming interventions are implemented in cooperation with affected communities, particularly children.
- Ensure programming interventions are designed based on an analysis of gender relations and that programmes seek to support the different needs and opportunities of women, men, boys and girls.
- Ensure established inter-agency standards and guidelines are followed.
- Conduct regular field visits, including discussions with beneficiaries, where a report is produced and corrective actions put in place and monitored.
- Ensure Save the Children’s Child Protection & Safeguarding Policy is understood by staff within the programme as well as partners and suppliers including stakeholders, and that it is integrated into all aspects of the team’s work.
- Document programme learning, and incorporate analysis and lessons learned into new strategies/activities and advocacy work.
- Ensure programme delivery happens in strict adherence to security policy and procedures.
- Focus on ensuring appropriate closure of grants and readjustment of the others to potentially cover any gaps
Performance management and capacity building
- Line-manage the programme’s staff in the areas of responsibility.
- Lead, manage and motivate the programme’s staff, ensuring they have clear objectives and receive meaningful feedback on their performance regularly, in collaboration with the human resources department.
- Identify capacity building requirements of staff in collaboration with the human resources department.
- Lead on capacity building of staff and partners through coaching, mentoring and training.
- Create and maintain a cooperative and positive working environment where staff have clear roles and responsibilities, participate in decision making and are supported in progressing towards their objectives.
Coordination
- Lead representation of the programme in all relevant fora at all times, ensuring complementarity and avoiding overlap with other programmes in the same areas in DRC.
- Represent the programme, Save the Children and partners at donor meetings in country and internationally as required.
- Communicate regularly across Save the Children offices to ensure strong communications internally and externally and contribute to a coordinated vision.
- Participate proactively and regularly whenrrequired in senior management meetings in the areas of responsibility, making concrete contributions to strategic and operational orientations.
- In collaboration with the field / area managers in the areas of responsibility, represent Save the Children DRC with local authorities and governmental counterparts (relevant Ministries), donors and members of the humanitarian community, and ensure that Save the Children’s work is coordinated with these bodies.
Programme development and fundraising
- Proactively look for opportunities to build on existing programme
- In collaboration with the technical advisors, actively contribute to the development of the thematic strategies in the areas of responsibility.
- Identify the most appropriate programming interventions for meeting the needs of children based on assessment findings.
- Lead on situation analysis/needs assessments in the area of responsibility and ensure all proposals respond to beneficiaries’ needs.
- Play an active role in the development of a fundraising strategy in the areas of responsibility and in donor liaison where appropriate.
- Incorporate analysis and lessons learned into new strategies/activities.
Advocacy
- Lead/support advocacy and research initiatives.
- Work closely with the programme advocacy team and Save the Children head offices to ensure input and buy-in to strategic approach, including coordinating with cross-organisational advocacy working groups and responding to requests and enquiries relating to the programme thematic sectors.
- Analyse, interpret and act upon information from internal and external sources, and maintain an in-depth understanding of key advocacy issues and of the positions of key actors, including ministers, political, civil society and economic leaders, donors etc.
- Work closely with operations, programmes, technical, and MEAL colleagues to ensure substantial integration of advocacy into programme planning and implementation especially ensuring that evidence and best practices generated by Save the Children’s programmes inform our advocacy work.
- Support the development of high quality advocacy resources and tools as required including talking points, policy briefings, letters, reports, communications and media lines for internal and external use, and support and/or commission research on specific issues to support Save the Children’s advocacy.
- Lobby/support the lobbying of decision-makers at high level in line with the advocacy strategy.
- Develop and foster close working relationships with responding agencies, civil society groups and other for a to strengthen collective advocacy initiatives at country, regional and global levels
Others
- Comply with all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to code of conduct, child safeguarding policy, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies.
- Any other reasonable duty as may be assigned that is consistent with the nature of the job and level of responsibility.
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same.
- Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.
- Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Save the Children’s members and external partners and supporters.
- Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength.
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
- Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
Essential:
- Relevant university degree (Health or other Social Science, International Development, etc.)
- Sound knowledge of the DRC health system including institutions, policies and legal frameworks.
- Prior experience in managing institutional and corporate donors funded programmes.
- Ability to analyse information, evaluate options and to think and plan strategically.
- At least 5 years’ experience of working at the same level of responsibility
- Strong experience of working in fragile or conflict affected states.
- Prior experience in partnership management.
- Prior experience in managing a complex and multi-donors funded programme portfolio.
- Knowledge and working experience of Child’s Rights Programming approach.
- Proven skills in programme management and administration, including grants management and donor compliance.
- Experience of building, leading and developing a team of senior staff with different backgrounds and expertise.
- Skills and experience in programme monitoring review, reporting and evaluation.
- Strong skills in people management, moderation, conflict resolution and capacity-building.
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills and the ability to think and plan strategically.
- Ability to lead a programme and support a team working from remote locations.
- Fluency in written and spoken French and English.
- Ability to work with limited supervision.
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children aims, values, principles, policies, procedures.
- Capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult working circumstances.
Desirable:
- Working experience in challenging and insecure contexts similar to DRC.
- Experience in promoting children’s participation in programming, design, implementation and evaluation.
- Previous safety and security training for working in conflict settings
- Commitment to and understanding of child rights, humanitarian standards such as the Sphere Charter and the Code of Conduct.
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
Date of issue: Sept. 2019, Kinshasa, DRC