Provincial Manager (Luanda, Angola)
Job Categories:
Program Manager/ Assistants (NGO Sector)
Date Posted:
2019-09-18 02:00:00
Employment Type
Full Time
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Location:
Luanda (Angola)
Salary:
Negotiable
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Description:
Job Purpose
The Provincial Manager is responsible for oversight, quality implementation, and monitoring of the project’s work in the province. This includes direct oversight of the learning sites, including M&E and implementation of quality improvement and assurance interventions, and serving as the project liaison with provincial and municipal government, partners, health facility staff, community leaders, and other stakeholders for project success.
This position will be based in SAURIMO/BENGUELA, and report to the Technical Specialist based in LUANDA (Angola),
Key Responsibilities;
- Manage Mentor Mother program implementation, ensuring quality service delivery to clients
- Facilitate site staff trainings. Orient provincial and municipal stakeholders on Mentor programming.
- Manage and provide technical assistance on the use of electronic client management and M&E tools
- Build and maintain strong relationships with health facility staff and other PEPFAR partners working in the area, to maximise successful index case testing and tracing in the community.
- Develop and implement provincial site management workplan
- Conduct site-level supervision and monitoring activities, including data quality checks, and monthly quality improvement and performance monitoring meetings at site level. Mentor site staff.
- Monitor daily site staff performance and targets, and work with staff to implement corrective actions to improve performance. Capacitate site staff in use of data for programme monitoring and improvement.
- Monitor weekly facility and community-level data, providing programmatic data and analysis to inform quality/service improvement. Consolidate analysis and report to Technical Specialist, provincial/municipal stakeholders where relevant. Develop and implement rapid improvement plans.
- Actively participate in provincial and municipal coordinating fora including managing strategic relationships with Provincial INLS and MOH focal points, municipal representatives, and other implementing partners/stakeholders supporting the Born Free to Shine Campaign
- Coordinate and oversee the implementation of all M&E activities, including site level data collection, timely submission and reporting (in DHIS2), data quality audit, analysis and interpretation
- Manage data entry and extractions as required for program monitoring, including use of research assistants
- Coordinate the supply, production, and distribution of electronic and printed client management and M&E tools for learning sites.
Required Competencies:
- Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks and deadlines under pressure
- Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to concentrate on detail for long periods of time
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to take initiative, work independently and problem solve to meet deliverables
- Ability to negotiate and navigate sensitive situations. Cultural sensitivity.
- Strong mentoring, interpersonal, and team building skills. Ability to lead and motivate staff and teams.
- Ability to utilise MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Experience in programming and analysis of data using statistical programmes advantageous
- Fluent in Portuguese and conversant in English
- Valid driver’s licence
Primary Areas of Accountability:
Qualifications and Experience
- Degree/Diploma or Equivalent in Nursing, Social Science, Public Health, or related field
- Minimum of 04 years’ field experience in public health work with a focus on RMNCH, PMTCT, or HIV/AIDS programming, with at least 02 years’ in a supervisory role
- Clinical background strongly preferred
- Demonstrated experience in the implementation and management of M&E systems, involving capacity building for site-level staff, as well as monitoring and promotion of data quality and use of data for decision making and quality improvement. Demonstrated knowledge of MOH and PEPFAR M&E. Experience in conducting data quality audits.
- Demonstrated knowledge of/exposure to PMTCT/RMNCH policy and working knowledge of relevant MOH protocols
- Experience working within provincial and municipal health systems in Angola, with experience in Lunda Sul/Cunene Province and with lay health care workers and peer educators preferred. Experience working with government, PEPFAR, and non-governmental organisations at provincial and municipality level.
- Experience in supporting use of electronic client management tools strongly preferred
- Experience working on USAID/PEPFAR programs preferred
If you meet the minimum hiring requirements for the above position, please email your CV and Cover letter clearly stating your salary expectations to : jobs@bemconsult.com and Copy-inbemconsult@outlook.com
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