Senior Program Manager NGO Jobs – mothers2mothers (m2m)
Job Title: Senior Program Manager
Organization: mothers2mothers (m2m)
Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda
About US:
mothers2mothers (m2m) is an international non-governmental organization based in Cape Town, SA, dedicated to providing education and support to pregnant women and mothers living with HIV, and preventing mother-to-child transmission. Since its inception, m2m has reached more than one million mothers in seven countries. Founded in Cape Town in 2001, m2m is a partner in the United Nations’ Global Plan towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive.
Job Summary: The Senior Program Manager will provide strategic and technical leadership to the m2m program in Uganda including program planning, employee management, training and program quality improvement. To oversee the provision of programmatic capacity building of all m2m Uganda employees at management, site and community level.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Management and Technical oversight of the m2m Uganda country projects
- Steer the development and implementation of m2m’s annual program planning process including goal-setting and work-planning
- Technical support for the implementation of all m2m projects including the USAID/Better outcomes for Children and Youth, PORTICUS/Suubi projects, Cartier/women empowerment project, SPIDER mhealth intervention and the Bickerstaff/Girls 4 Change Project
- Manage all program field operations and actively oversee program expansion and rationalization
- Work closely with the Country Director and other relevant employees and partners in overseeing quality implementation of services at m2m
- Facilitate budget preparation in line with work plan, liaise with Finance for payments, and monitor program expenditures
- Oversee the planning and delivery of all training activities for Site Coordinators and Mentor Mothers using the m2m training model, and ensure the on-going relevance of m2m’s curriculum content in relation to national policy
- Submit quarterly reports to the Country Director that describe program issues/concerns regarding implementation and operation, proposed solutions and next steps
- As member of the Country SMT, support development and implementation of the country strategic plan
Resource mobilization and business development
- Provide technical leadership for concept and proposal development
- Collaborate with the Country Director in exploring new program initiatives and innovation for the country in line with the proposed strategic goals and objectives of the organization
- Maintain a pipeline of upcoming process and continuously identify partnerships for business development
Line Management of programs team:
- Provide support, supervision, people management and performance management to Project Manager, T&CLC and Regional Managers to ensure and promote high quality service delivery at m2m sites
- Act as project coordinator for select awards, including budget management and programmatic reporting
- Act as the vision holder for m2m Uganda Program Management procedures and protocols, facilitating on going refinements and utilization by m2m program employees
- Oversee on-going project team recruitment and orientation of project technical staff
- Assess and recommend employee and budgetary requirements for each region
Networking and Partnership building:
- Represent m2m at regional and national level in collaboration with the Country Director
- Ensure close working relationships with partner organizations to ensure harmonized efforts at all sites for efficient and effective service delivery
Evidenced-based programming
- Work in liaison with the M&E Coordinator to initiate site service quality assessments and other program quality improvement processes to maintain the provision of high quality services
- Collaborate with the M & E Coordinator to coordinate data use for program decision making, analyse program data and modify program activities accordingly
- Manage the development and submission of project donor reports as per agreed commitments
- Coordinate on-going quality assurance and quality improvement of m2m project activities including working with donor teams during project quality assurance visits
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the m2m Senior Program Manager job placement should preferably hold Master’s degree or equivalent in Medicine, Public health, Nursing, or Social Development
- Post graduate training in Project Planning Management is desirable
- Demonstrable Business development and fundraising experience
- At least seven years’ experience in the field of public health and/or NGO sector including at least 3 years in program management at a senior level
- RMNCAH, PMTCT/HIV AIDS program management or coordination experience at a regional or national level
- Experience working with district and local government personnel in health and or social sector
- Excellent understanding of National Policies and guidelines in RMNCAH and HIV/AIDS
- Knowledge of mhealth applications in health service delivery
- Excellent organisational, communication and management skills
- Excellent adult learning, training and facilitation skills including materials design skills
- Program monitoring and data utilization for decision making experience
- Computer Literacy (Microsoft packages)
- Sound financial, grant management and administration experience
- Dynamism, independence, creativity
- Fluency in English is essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Flexibility and willingness to adjust to changing tasks.
- Ability to conceptualize and demonstrate critical thinking
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Work calmly under pressure and meet deadlines
- A confident person who displays initiative
- Ability to frequently and compliantly travel between operational Districts and Sub-counties.
- Excellent writing and presentation skills
How to Apply:
All those excited about serving in this prestigious NGO should send their applications online at the link below
Deadline: 6th August 2018
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