Program Manager (Health & Nutrition)

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TITLE: Program Manager (Health & Nutrition)

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Programme Implementation

LOCATION: Sittwe, Rakhine

Number of Position: 1

GRADE: NAT 2

CONTRACT LENGTH: Fixed Term

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Program Manager (PM) Nutrition leads and guides Save the Children international (SCI) nutrition and health interventions in Rakhine State. The PM ensures that all components of the programme are implemented so that they provide quality care to all patients/beneficiaries, through respecting protocols, principles of good practice and SCI/international standards. This will involve managing and motivating a large team as well as building staff capacity to continually improve service delivery. The position requires both technical and project management skills, as well as excellent people skills. These programs aim at improving the access to quality nutrition services for all communities in Rakhine. As improvements in nutrition require multi-sector approaches, the post holder will be working collaboratively with WASH and Livelihood colleagues to ensure successful coordination and implementation of multi-sector interventions to ensure high impact. In addition, the position holder will also have the responsibility to manage performance and develop capacity of relevant project staffs.

The post holder is part of the Rakine Management Team (RMT) and is committed to ensure that the different programmes and support functions are well coordinated and work together for the well being of children in Rakhine. The post holder will also represent SCI in relevant groups at State level.

The Program Manager will closely work with partners for supporting program’ intervetions.The post holder is expected to dedicate an important amount of her/his time with the team including partners’ team in the areas of intervention, to support and monitor the daily implementation of the projects. In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Senior Program Manager (Sittwe based)

Staff reporting to this post: 4 coordinators and 1 sub national cluster coordinator

Budget Responsibilities: USD 100,000 per year

Financial Approval: Up to USD 20000

Role Dimensions: Interpersonal contact regular and varied, involved negotiation, influencing kills, and representation at District / Provincial level and donor / press visits

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

Programme Management

• Manage health and nutrition programmes at SCI project area in Rakhine), ensuring the targets and objectives are achieved on time and the activities are compliant with international and SCI quality standards,
• Lead and guide an effective multi-sectorial coordination and collaboration with Livelihoods (LLH) and WASH program managers and others if required.
• Ensure the timely, efficient, and effective delivery of program activities and initiatives through workplans and budget controls.
• Create and manage Health and Nutrition master budgets, implementation plans, phased budgets, MEAL and HR Plans for all awarded Health and Nutrition grants.
• Lead on problem resolution, while ensuring team members are involved in the decision-making process.
• Ensure protocols designed for the programme are respected and conduct regular field supervision visits,
• Oversee budget activity lines ensuring financial and procurement procedures are followed for effective use of program resources
• Work closely with project partners to provide capacity building support and guidance on budget management and activity implementation.
• Ensure flow of information and coordination across the three sectors and with partner staff.
• Ensure all SCI Nutrition staff and volunteers in the area receive SCI core policy (safeguarding framework policy-CSG, PSEA, Anti-harassment, COC) and Fraud policy
• Prepare timely programme and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal SCI requirements and any relevant external donor requirements
• Define Health and Nutrition programme supply needs through the development of Procurement Plans and coordinate with the Supply Chain team to put in place a sensible phased procurement plan
• In collaboration with the project team and MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) colleagues, monitor and evaluate the impact of programming, track activities and refine activities if changes are required.
• Ensure compliance to systems and processes for planning and reporting to member office and donors.
• Liaise and consult with Head of Programme and Technical Advisors to ensure consistency of programme interventions with other initiatives of SCI Needs Analysis, MEAL and Organizational Learning
• Support design and organization assessments, surveys, and evaluations in close collaboration with MEAL staff
• Contribute to situation/response analysis and development of nutrition strategy & sector response plans
• Contribute to programme design and proposal development to ensure that local context is correctly reflected in new programmes
• Supervise the Nutrition MEAL team and Nutrition MEAL System in close collaboration with the Senior MEAL Coordinator to ensure the quality of information in reports and other publications
• Take steps to document lessons learned, from the Nutrition programme, for wider dissemination.
• In collaboration with senior programme staff, assist in advocacy activities that target decision-makers at all levels.
• Together with the HOP and Sector Lead, and MEAL team, develop, adapt and monitor program management tools including quality benchmarks to ensure quality and timely implementation.
• Coordinate with MEAL to ensure that Nutrition projects have detailed MEAL plans, linked to the programme wide MEAL system and that project knowledge and learning feeds into project and programme designs
• Together with MEAL team, ensure the programmes have fully functional accountability mechanism and information is analysed to inform programme adaptation and risk mitigations
• Ensure quality benchmarks are successfully rolled-out and implemented in all projects and that ongoing analysis informs programme adaptations and quality improvement.
• Discuss quality (i.e., Quality benchmarks) and performance monitoring (i.e., IPTT analysis) findings during program coordination/review meetings, regular monitoring visits review MEAL reports to highlight key project strengths and areas of improvement, and use learning from monitoring reports for project planning and implementation

Leadership and HR Management

• Establish clear and compelling objectives with teams and individuals, monitor progress and performance in line with SCI’s HR guidelines
• Encourage initiatives and innovative ideas for his/her staffs and be a supportive and empowering manager.
• Take a flexible and positive leadership style, adapting to a given situation or to the needs of the team
• Ensure adherence to security regulations by personnel under his/her supervision
• Identify learning and training opportunities for SCI staff and partners and work as a mentor and role model for less experienced staff
• Work closely with the HR team to identify Health and Nutrition staffing needs (both national and international) and support recruitment of Health and Nutrition positions.
• Identify capacity building needs (management, language etc.) for the whole team and in conjunction with the senior management, devise a plan for personal development of each staff member.
• Strength the learning good practices launched by SCI with team spirit approach

Partnership Relations

• Coordination & Collaboration with HOA, SPM/ Awards & Finance Manager and relative Program Leads for assessment process and partnership communications
• Supports in partnership identification/mapping and assessment; builds and maintains relationships with local partners though coordination with HOA/SPM and Awards & Finance Manager.
• Coordinate with HOA/SPM in capacity building of partner in terms of not only program but also organizational development (OD) – for support units to be compliance with SCI and Donor requirement by collaboration with Program Leads.
• Coordinating with relative persons for contract preparation / amendments of relative partnership organization
• Manage and support for budget management of partner organizations.
• Monitoring to partner sites together with related program leads and Support units.
• Support field teams in identifying and supporting civil society partners including partner assessment/risk analysis, capacity building planning and technical support

Representation & Advocacy:

• Liaising and coordinate with other sectors and implementing partners and local authorities to maximize collaboration and ensure proper coordination of all nutrition and MNCH activities.
• Lead the regional IYCF strategy subgroup and actively participating in the regional health and nutrition sector meetings and other meetings as required.
• Ensuring active coordination and integration of nutrition activities with other sectors at Rakhine level. This includes appropriate and consistent WASH, health, Food Security and protection education messaging to mothers and other care givers at OTP sites, breastfeeding spaces and ANS centers and in the community.
• Represent well as a team lead for the health and nutrition cluster meetings if required.

Child Safeguarding Responsibility:

• Ensure that all staff i) are aware of their Child Safeguarding responsibility, ii) are trained in SCI’s approaches to Child Safeguarding and iii) comply with SCI’s Child Safeguarding guidelines at all times
• Ensure that your staff is providing all beneficiaries of your programme with ongoing, age-appropriate verbal or written information in relevant languages about Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.

General:

• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures,
• Delivering any other tasks as required by the senior managers

PERSON SPECIFICATION

QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrable project management experience, including budget holding responsibility in health and nutrition programming
• Experience in conducting nutrition assessments and an understanding of nutritional surveillance and information systems
• Proven capacity to supervise, train, and coach staff
• Demonstrable ability at report writing and excellent communication skills
• Computer literacy

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

Skills and Experience:

• At least 5 years experience in related field, ie in nutrition work or implementation of feeding programmes (cMAM and c-ICYF approach)
• At least 3 years experience on providing community-based health care services and through with local partner(s)
• Experience on providing technical support, supportive supervision and monitoring to local partner(s) with feasible and possible ways of method (In-person/ virtual)
• At least 3 years of management experience working in the humanitarian situation

Education:

• Health and/or Public Health / Nutrition BSc, Master Degree with nutrition/tropical diseases and/or public health qualification

Communication and Technical Skills

• High level of Myanmar and English communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent personal organizational skills, including time management, and ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Willingness to travel to field offices and work in difficult environment according to travel requirements

Desirable

Management:

• Significant people management skills/experience and proven ability to create an environment which encourages team-working and motivates a team across various geographical areas and working with different communities.

General:

• Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across the organization developing effective working relationships to deliver outstanding results for children
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles.
• Willingness and capability to comply with all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to health and safety, security, equal opportunities and other relevant policies, including the Child Safeguarding Policy

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All staff has an obligation and a responsibility to:

• Ensure they fully understand the provisions of the Child Safeguarding Policy, the Code of Conduct and Local/Country Procedures.
• Conduct themselves in accordance with the rules of the Child Safeguarding Policy, in their personal and professional lives – which includes reporting suspicions of child abuse.
• Ensure the way they are carrying out their work is not putting children at risk (or further risk) – this means constantly scrutinizing their work through a child safeguarding lens and talking to children about possible design/implementation “flaws”.
• Promote the message of child safeguarding to colleagues in other organizations and government ministries, children in their own and beneficiary families, and community members in general.
• Be vigilant about observing possible child abuse/harm in their personal and professional lives.

All managers have the above responsibilities as well as ensuring

• Their staff are doing the above.
• That child safeguarding is integrated and given a “voice” in all management processes including recruitment, induction, performance management, team meetings, annual planning processes, field level monitoring, etc.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.