Job Description
Project Description
USAID’s Integrated Health Program (USAID IHP) seeks to strengthen the capacity of Congolese institutions and communities to deliver quality, integrated health services to sustainably improve the health status of the Congolese population.
USAID IHP combines different programmatic inputs into a single integrated program strategy: maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH), reproductive health and family planning (RH/ FP), nutrition, malaria, tuberculosis and water and sanitation (WASH).
Job Summary
The Senior Regional Coordinator (SRC) is responsible for assisting the DCOP in providing high quality management, planning and implementation support to a regional cluster of provincial offices (East Congo, Katanga or Kasai), in order to help them manage performance and deliver program results. S/he will be based in one of three locations: Bukavu, Lubumbashi or Mbuji Mai.
The specific role of the SRC is to ensure that provinces effectively manage overall planning, implementation and monitoring of program activities and performance against program indicators, in line with specific program guidance, ensuring that the Provincial Directors effectively benefit from well-coordinated overall support from the Kinshasa based office.
The SRC supervises the Provincial Directors and the Regional WASH engineer. The SRC is supervised by the Deputy Chief of Party, who also coordinates the collaboration of the SRC with Home Office technical support.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
- As part of a team of three SRCs to whom the DCOP delegates key oversight and support functions, the SRC will supervise and provide technical and managerial support to Provincial Directors in the planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of activities.
- Represent the project at strategic meetings with project counterparts and stakeholders, when delegated by the DCOP or COP, as appropriate.
- Relay technical, managerial and strategic direction and guidance to each of the provinces.
- Coordinate travel plans of Kinshasa-based technical advisors or directors from in support of the provinces offices to ensure effective and smooth program implementation at the province level.
- Support the technical implementation of grants or sub-contracts and facilitate reporting and communication with the Kinshasa office.
- Provide performance management support to the Provincial Directors, conduct continuous performance management and conduct annual performance reviews.
- Conduct field visits to the provinces to understand and assess implementation challenges (operations, finance, M&E, technical), discuss and implement corrective actions, liaising with Kinshasa-based Departments and colleagues as part of the regular oversight function.
- Ensure that for all project planning processes (strategic, annual, quarterly) Provincial Directors are informed about reporting guidelines provide their contributions in line with guidance on format, content, quality and attention to detail and completeness.
- Provide budgetary support to the provinces in line with guidance issued by the COP and other senior management team members.
- Contribute to reporting (technical or managerial) that addresses the regional dimension of USAID IHP interventions and intervention contexts.
- Provide technical support to activities in the provinces when Provincial Directors request such participation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Public Health required.
- Ten or more years of experience implementing donor-funded projects, and USAID-funded projects in particular.
- Demonstrated experience in managing interventions and activities being implemented by international NGOs, consulting firms, or other.
- Ten or more years of high level program management and oversight, including performance and people management.
- Program experience in a wide range of program areas, and high level expertise in at least 3 of the following: RMNCH, RH/FP, nutrition, malaria, tuberculosis, WASH.
- Excellent presentation, facilitation and communication skills.
- Excellent and proven writing skills in French.
- Good command of spoken and written English.
- Strong interpersonal and team building skills.
- Higher than average computer literacy and skills, at a minimum experience with MS-Office suite.
Minimum Qualifications
- (10+) years of experience and a bachelor degree OR the equivalent combination of education and experience.
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