BHA Project Manager

Job Description

Position: BHA Project Manager

Reports to: DCD program

Duration: One year

Location: Damazin, Blue Nile, Sudan with frequent travel to North Darfur and Al Jazirah

About RI:

Relief International is a leading nonprofit organization working in Africa, Asia and Middle East to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.

Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach — which we call the RI Way—emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.

SUMMARY:

The projects will be implemented in Aljazirah, North Darfur and Blue Nile states. The position role involves overseeing and supporting the Protection, Health (PHC), Nutrition (CMAM) and WASH project(s) with the help of sector Technical Coordinators. Key aspects of the role include project management, partnership management, planning, M&E and representation and liaison at the local level.

This position is based full-time in Blue Nile with extensive field travel to all locations. The post holder will be working closely with the technical coordinators, and technical managers for Protection, Health, Nutrition, and WASH to ensure smooth implementation of projects and budget management responsibility. The post holder will inform the DCD Program and Area Managers of any potential internal and external risks that may compromise the quality of programmes and help mitigate them.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Roles & Responsibilities:

Project Management

• Oversee the overall implementation of the BHA Health, Nutrition, Protection and WASH projects in Aljazirah, North and Blue Nile states in line with donor proposals and requirements and in accordance with RI, donor, country and international standards i.e., Sphere and HAP standards
• Lead the scheduling and planning of the monthly project work plans, spending plans, budget reviews at the field level
• Overall financial oversight to monitor the project budgets in consultations with the technical managers and technical coordinators and finance team at the respective project locations where technical managers and technical coordinators are owners of the budget.
• Responsible for the development and submission of (internal) monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, and annual projects reports to the Grants Coordinator for review and sharing with the donor.
• Liaise with the Grants Coordinator, Finance Manager to the file the project documents for the active grant and partnership files

Partnership Management

• Ensure program compliance including with implementing partner on award policies and procedures
• Manage implementing partners and coordinate on the program implementation, reporting with the partners.
• Monitor and evaluate project partner’s activities, output and outcomes
• Build and maintain effective relationships with project partners
• Guide the project partners and strengthen their capacity through close collaboration, open communication, and capacity building
• Provide regular feedback and updates on current or potential partner programming to the DCD-Program and Grants Coordinator
• Conduct field visits as part of monitoring, problem solving and managing partnership (15% of your working time)

Staff Management

• Line-manage the Sector Officers(s) of the assigned project(s), including day-to-day management, development and training, appraisals, etc.
• Facilitate regular staff meetings to ensure awareness of project objectives, and opportunity for feedback.
• Provide staff coaching and technical supervision to develop ownership / responsibility for Health and Nutrition activities.

Communication and Coordination

• Maintain appropriate, regular, transparent, and supportive communication with the structures with the assigned location of Aljazirah, North Darfur and Blue Nile,

Logistics

• Liaise, as necessary, with the Programs, logistics and finance staff to ensure items are procured, transported, stored, managed and accounted for correctly.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Strong management and communication skills. Teamwork spirit, community participation, capacity building,
• Bachelor of Medicine, Nursing, or Community Health or Public Health
• Master’s degree in Public Health or other field preferred
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated experience in Health and Nutrition project management/coordination with at least two years of international experience in a conflict-affected region
• Understanding of development issues in the Health and Nutrition sector, relevant policies and frameworks
• Understanding of community development
• Strong knowledge in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating projects
• Understanding of participatory methodologies
• Understanding of local civil society organizations’ development
• Understanding of integrated development issues and critical analysis of child poverty

Essential:

Ability to work as part of the team and act on own initiative

Good communication skills; fluent English is required

Courteous and helpful manner

Flexible Approach to work

RI Values:

We uphold the Humanitarian Principles: humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and operational independence. We affirmatively engage the most vulnerable communities. We value:

· Inclusiveness

· Transparency and Accountability

· Agility and Innovation

· Collaboration

· Sustainability

About the Organization

Relief International is an international non-profit organization that partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience and promote long-term health and wellbeing.

People living in fragile settings face complex, interconnected and deep-rooted crises that often tear a hole in the social fabric of communities. When this happens, our teams work closely with community leaders; first focusing on critical health needs, and then, as communities recover, focusing on both health and wellbeing programming that helps reweave the social fabric for greater resilience in the future.

Our team of more than 7,000 staff and local volunteers work in 15 countries across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, providing Health and Nutrition, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), Education and Livelihoods programming that is safe, truly local, conflict sensitive, climate smart, evidence based, and reaches those in need.

Relief International is a 60-year-old international NGO alliance that is the product of mergers and alliances between four organizations. Today, Relief International is comprised of Relief International, Inc., Relief International-France, Relief International-UK and Relief International-Europe, all of which are led by a single senior leadership team.