The Senior Program Officer (SPO) is responsible for supporting program management, including procurement's, sub-award management, reporting, and meeting planning/organization.
Areas of Responsibility:
General program management (prime award)
- Work closely with the technical team to develop annual work-plans, budgets, pipeline analyses and performance monitoring plans (PMP);
- Facilitate the development and monitoring of budgets and pipeline analysis tools, in collaboration with the COP, Finance and Project staff.
- Collaborate with the Chief of Party (COP) to ensure the development of timely, high quality and regulation compliant reporting per FHI 360 and donor guidelines.
- Support and facilitate regular program and technical partner review meetings.
- Support provincial teams to ensure a high level of operational efficiency in delivering FP outreaches country-wide.
- Collaborate with the HR team in the management of project personnel.
- Coordinating and running workshops, meetings and other high-level events.
- Support the COP to maintain compliance with FHI 360 and USAID rules and regulations.
- Liaise with the DT, key project partners and other stakeholders to meet program objectives and deliver results.
Sub-grant management/Sub-recipient monitoring
- Support the processing of sub-grants, including: finalization of scope of works developed by technical teams; and coordination of the sub-grantee bidding, review and award process.
- Support the COP to monitor sub-awardee performance and supervise sub-awardee operational outputs, working with FHI 360’s Technical Monitors as well as Contract Management Services (CMS).
- Coordinate the sub-recipient monitoring system, liaising with the finance and CMS staff, to ensure that payments and paperwork are being processed in a timely manner;
Educational Background:
Master’s degree in public health or other relevant degree; persons with a related degree and must demonstrate practical experience in implementing MNCH and Family planning programs in a development context;
Skills/Experience:
- Comprehensive knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures with program management and technical development.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent and demonstrated problem-solving, project management and technical skills.
- Ability to influence, motivates, negotiate and work well with others.
- Capacity to provide management oversight to the project.
- Ability to organize and work with teams to produce high quality project deliverables on time and according to budget;
- Knowledge of Zimbabwean health system;
- Excellent interpersonal skills and capacity to build and maintain productive working relationships with a wide network of partners and stakeholders;
- Knowledge of USAID policies, procedures and approaches related to program design/implementation, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation;
- Strong communication and coordination skills required;
- Excellent organizational skills and strong track record in meeting deliverables and deadlines and ability to provide oversight of financial and operational aspects of projects.
- Experience interacting with government agencies, host‐country government partners and counterparts, and international donor agencies.
- Ability and willingness to travel to provincial offices in Zimbabwe a minimum of 25% time.
- At least 5 years of progressively more responsible work experience that involved direct supervision of staff, oversight and evaluation of program performance and deliverables, working with non-government organizations.
Compensation/Benefits:
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Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jul 24 2019
Active Until:
Aug 24 2019
Hiring Organization:
Fhi 360
industry:
Nonprofit