Provincial Project Manager

Project Management

• Manage health/nutrition projects to meet objectives within budget and within allotted time frame and report promptly any operational concerns to manager and country Directors/Manager Programs
• Provide strong leadership of health, and nutrition project teams, working to ensure both short and long-term positive impacts and outcomes for beneficiaries, local health, and nutrition authorities and local health and nutrition staff.
• Contribute to development and implementation of an effective nutrition intervention including data collection and reporting and monitoring tools, job aids and data quality assurance processes.
• Oversee proactive planning for responsible exit in consultation with country technical heads, other project staff and field managers/coordinators.
• Set clear objectives and indicators for nutrition activities in collaboration with partners organization, field managers and, where appropriate, with local communities and CSOs.
• Continuously monitor and supervise project activities, evaluating progress through outputs and impacts using both quantitative and qualitative data, and involving the health, MHPSS and nutrition team(s) in analysis and taking appropriate action as needed to ensure continued progress
• Provide input into the integration of beneficiary participation and accountability in all aspects of the project
• Ensure timely reporting of activities according to organization, partners, donor and other applicable time frames and formats.

Staff/Team Management

• Oversight of the Human Resource, Logistics and Program teams, including day-to-day management, development and training, appraisals, etc. It may also be necessary to manage other project staff.
• Facilitate regular meetings to assist information sharing between each department, project staff, to ensure all staff members are aware of project objectives and current work plans and to provide the opportunity for feedback.
• Provide coaching and technical supervision to staff in order to develop ownership and full responsibility for the project activities.
• Assess training needs with support of the capacity building unit and other project staff and ensure that appropriate training is conducted and new skills are used in the field.

Operational Support to Programme Implementation

• Manage the budget for the assigned project (s) and ensure all expenses are according to budget and meet the organization standards with regard to financial management, including accountability and transparency.
• Provide guidance for operational support to the provincial counterparts, Public, partners, Civil Society Organizations-CSOs and Community Based Organization-CBOs.
• Support the logistics activities, particularly in relation to the purchasing of medicines, supplies and equipment for the assigned project facilities and activities
• Liaise, as necessary, with logistics and finance staff to ensure items are procured, transported, stored, managed and accounted for correctly.
• Participate in discussions with provincial partners, clients and stakeholders to promote nutrition, including nutrition emergency preparedness and response, for maternal, adolescent, newborn
• Provide operational and technical support to relevant Provincial Government Departments in the institutionalization, capacity strengthening and rollout of Nutrition interventions at scale and with concrete results.
• Support in emergency preparedness. response, and recovery initiatives for programme development, contingency planning and/or to respond to emergencies in country.

Communication and Coordination with Stakeholders

• Work closely and collaboratively with colleagues and partners to discuss strategies and methodologies, and to determine national and provincial priorities/competencies to ensure the achievement of concrete and sustainable results.
• Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with nutrition sector government counterparts, community representatives and provincial stakeholders through active sharing of information and knowledge.
• Facilitate programme implementation and build capacity of stakeholders to achieve programme goals on maternal and Child rights as well as social justice and equity.

Declaration:

Our organization has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. It also adheres to strict child-safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.