JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.
World Vision is looking for dynamic persons to fill the positions of 3 HPF-Project Coordinators (Man or Woman) in its Office, based in Gogrial West, Gogrial East, and Tonj North, Greater Barh El Gazal Zone.
PURPOSE OF THE POSITION
The County Coordinator would provide leadership in an integrated manner. The implementation of this project will revolve around the health facility’s catchment areas, the communities that they serve and through the coordination of the County Health Department and the State Ministry of Health. Once established, the project will work alongside Health Systems strengthening grant funded by the same donor. This position entails planning, support and management of the program so that activities and outputs remain on track and the program achieves its objectives of improving the coverage and access to hygiene and sanitation, and primary health services.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Coordinate with program, finance and administration staff to ensure operational systems are in place to support field activities
• Work with the zonal programing team to develop and oversee the implementation of the project’s work plan, ensuring completion of project’s deliverables
• Provide technical on delivering the key elements of the Basic package of health and nutrition services
• Ensure that the project systems and staff are working to achieve the project goals and objectives and that the project is maintaining World Vision and donor accountability standards
• Ensuring appropriate structures, internal and external standards, staffing, resources and policies as well as all grant requirements are adhered to
• Approve eligible project expenditures and contracts according to the Levels of Authority Manual and evaluate budgeted and actual expenditures with the Finance team and the Operations Director;
• Ensure that day-to-day administrative support for the program is in place
• Ensure clear understanding of project assumptions by all partners to aim at effective and timely achievement of project goals, outcomes and outputs
• Develop the capacity the participating County and State Authorities to plan, monitor and coordinate service delivery
• Identify capacity needs in the areas of basic services delivery for the participating local NGO and strengthen its institutional capacity to deliver similar interventions
• Undertake pro-active on the job training and staff development. Train and Mentor project staff on effective project planning and management methodologies
• Create an enabling environment for dialogue, information sharing, partnerships and, and cooperation between CBOs, Government structures and target communities when delivering project interventions
• Represent World vision in the local coordination forums and liaise with Government officials and donors, UN-bodies and other partners wherever appropriate and required
• In conjunction with other stake holders, effectively advocate for changes standards, policies and legislations based on insights and demands from targeted communities
• Effectively represent WVSS operations and mission when accompanying visitors, e.g. donor and/or Government representatives, journalists and other delegations to project sites
• Ensure accurate quality narrative and financial reports are submitted in a timely manner and according to donor requirements
• Work closely with regional programming in ensuring that all reports meet donor requirements
• Track the performance of the project activities and outputs against expected results and adjust implementation processes to ensure the project is progressing towards the intended outcomes
• Analyze the impact of projects and promote learning by documentation of best-practices. Use this information to support decision-making processes
• Track program progress, projects’ expenditure against approved budgets, anticipate any deviations and recommend and take action on relevant and required adjustments
• Ensure HIMS is implemented at all levels of Health Services delivery;
QUALIFICATION & REQUIREMENTS
• Diploma in in Public Health, Clinical medicine or in health related discipline as a minimum. Medical degree with 3 years in management of health services will be considered or is a surplus
• Extensive relevant experience in supporting projects on Maternal, Newborn and Child health or in primary health care
• Extensive experience working and delivering results in fragile and conflict affected areas or worked in similar environment in South Sudan.
• Relevant professional experience in managing and implementing of similar related programme in South Sudan (assessment, proposal development, report writing and evaluation, etc)
• Experience in reviewing financial reports and providing explanations on expenditure variance as necessary
APPLICATION & DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:
Please send your application by this email recruitsdno@wvi.org or make hand deliver to World Vision Office in Kuajok.
Also note that this position is a pre-grant recruitment, which will be available after the approval of grant by the donor.
Your application should include:
• A cover letter addressed to the People & Culture Director
• A comprehensive CV
Deadline: Closing by 14th November 2016
We regret in advance that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview. The candidate selected should comply with CHILD PROTECTION POLICY