Senior Advisor, Program Management, MOMENTUM County and Global Leadership (P4)

  • Senior-level, Full-time staff position
  • Posted on 18 April 2023
  • Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States
  • Remote position
  • Closing on 18 May 2023

Job Description

Staff whose work requires or potentially could require any in-person interaction with Save the Children colleagues, partners, or beneficiaries must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless otherwise required by law. Save the Children complies with federal, state, and local laws with regard to accommodations related to this policy.

Summary

The Program Director is responsible for overseeing the design and management of Save the Children’s (SC) portfolio on the USAID-funded MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership (MCGL) project. You will work closely with and provide guidance to the SCUS technical and program management team as well as SC International (SCI) country counterparts to ensure high-quality delivery of SC’s scope on the project. MCGL is a five-year USAID cooperative agreement (Dec 2019 – Sept 2024), primed by Jhpiego, that aims to help countries advance the scale-up of evidence-based, high-quality maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH), and voluntary family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH) interventions and approaches. SC is a core partner on MCGL, providing technical leadership for newborn, child, and adolescent health and youth, nutrition, WASH, and community health systems.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Program Leadership and Direction (40%)

  • Work with SC/MCGL technical advisors and program support staff to identify strategic opportunities for SC engagement in MCGL;
  • Ensure that partnering decisions made by MCGL Senior Management Team (SMT) are carried out by HQ and country teams;
  • Guide SC/MCGL team members (program managers, technical advisors, country staff) as well as Country Support Teams in troubleshooting and problem solving;
  • Mentor and empower program managers to manage and support their global/country portfolios as independently as possible;
  • Navigate partner challenges in a transparent manner to support the success of the SC team, global and country programs, and overall project.

Representation and Communication (20%)

  • Represent SC on MCGL SMT and serve as liaison between the SC team and Prime (Jhpiego) on programmatic and partnership matters;
  • Serve as primary contact with USAID/Washington on designated, SC-led global activities and country programs, and in certain cases, serve as the primary MCGL contact person with USAID Missions (to be determined in consultation with the Prime);
  • Keep the MCGL and Department of Global Health (DGH) senior leadership team apprised of issues that may affect implementation of designated programs or that need resolution by SMT;
  • Represent MCGL to monthly SCUS Expanded Senior Leadership Team meetings and report back relevant updates to the SC/MCGL team;
  • Facilitate communication flow and sharing information among field, program, and technical staff, and USAID;
  • Communicate with SCI Country Directors and Regional Offices to problem solve and to optimize implementation and documentation of SC’s work under MCGL.

Program Design, Implementation, and Management (20%)

  • With Award Management (AM) team, oversee annual work planning and budgeting; provide input to program design/co-creation and discussions with MCGL partners; review and approve SC inputs workplans and budgets before submission to MCGL SMT for onward submission to USAID;
  • Ensure that program design is aligned with USAID priorities, and that activities are developed with full participation of in-country teams (where applicable);
  • Provide oversight to the development and finalization of project deliverables, including quarterly/semiannual reports, program documentation, manuscripts, and other products;
  • Review SC activity performance against expected results, work with AM team to monitor spending against approved budgets, and take action as needed to align with approved plans;
  • Provide technical input on project activities in areas of expertise;
  • Ensure program staff support MCGL and DGH Knowledge Management efforts.

Human Resource Management (20%)

  • Train, develop, coach, lead, and supervise staff, clearly communicating organization, division and department priorities, and how their work contributes to our mission, ensuring that the working environment continually fosters diversity, inclusion, and belonging – supporting Save the Children values;
  • Supervise program associate(s) and advisor(s) at headquarters; collaborate with and provide guidance to SC project leads in SCI country offices (and member offices, where applicable).
Required Qualifications
  • Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of relevant experience;
  • Proven experience in managing and implementing large, complex health projects in developing countries;
  • Experience and success working in complex environments and managing teams whose members are physically located in different time zones and geographic areas;
  • Experience managing USAID-funded health programs, including global mechanisms, and knowledge of USAID technical and operational requirements;
  • Proven skills in group facilitation, team building, personnel management, mediation, and partner coordination;
  • Strong program planning and management skills, including familiarity with common planning frameworks and monitoring tools;
  • Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills;
  • Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 10% of the time;
  • Professional proficiency in MS Office suite;
  • Professional proficiency in spoken and written English;
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally;
  • Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining an environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience specific to RMNCH programs.
Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

  • Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $108,800 – $121,600 base salary
  • Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $98,600 – $110,200 base salary
  • Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $88,400 – $98,800 base salary

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location. Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

About Save the Children

No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.

About the Organization

Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating lasting change in the lives of children in need in the United States and around the world. Recognized for our commitment to accountability, innovation and collaboration, our work takes us into the heart of communities, where we help children and families help themselves.

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