Nutrition Programme Manager – Kuajok, South Sudan

14906-15N32075

Africa

Kuajok

Project Management

 Fixed term, Full-time

28-Oct-19

International Role – Yes

1-2 Years

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

This position provides overall leadership of all Nutrition grants in Greater Bar el Ghazal and providing technical support in implementation and budget management. The position will have key responsibilities of ensuring high quality implementation of project activities, grant management according to donor requirements and international accounting standards, timely donor and other stakeholder reporting and overall contribution to Child well-being outcomes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Grant Implementation:

Provide timely input and contribution to the completion of annual work plans, reports and ensure grant management compliance for the WV project in alignment with donor and WV regulations.

Ensure effective liaison with Local Government officials, local communities, donor representatives and other stakeholders, making use of an appropriate accountability framework.

Compile output reports and prepare overall performance progress reports detailing achievements against plans and variance on a regular basis. Ensure timely submission of all nutrition reports, including 5Ws, NIS, etc.

Establish and maintain effective project management tools for implementation, work plan management, procurement, budget management and spending planning, quality assurance, monitoring, beneficiary accountability, and programmatic and financial reporting. Coordinate with Nutrition Technical Advisor, Finance, Programs, Supply Chain Management/Procurement, Quality Assurance (M&E), People & Culture (P&C) and Administration teams to ensure timely, high-quality project implementation and management.

Work closely with all County Nutrition Managers to ensure timely expenditure and management of burn rate, Develop budget revision requests where necessary. Follow up with Project Managers to compile and submit monthly, quarterly and EOP Reports and represent World Vision in Zonal cluster meetings and nutrition forums. Ensure Integration of nutrition to other sectors in the Zone for increased coordination and value for money.

Support proposal development and design of all nutrition projects in the Zone.

Staff Supervision and Management:

Participate in the recruitment process of key positions for nutrition projects. Develop and maintain an adequate human resource plan consistent with WV & donor policies/requirements in line with local laws and ensure proper technical and operational capacity of staff to manage and implement project initiatives.

Conduct quarterly reviews for staff partnering for performance in line with WVs performance management system, availing opportunities for staff feedback.

Budget Management:

Lead in the generation of project budgets ensuring that all key areas are adequately budgeted for in order to achieve the set targets/goals. Manage grant budget within approved spending levels and ensure accurate and timely financial reports to donors.

Work closely with Finance Manager to ensure grant/project compliance and project expenditure are reasonable, allocable, and prudent and spent in accordance with donor rules and regulations to ensure compliance with external audit.

Monitoring, Reporting, Documentation & Knowledge Management:

Work closely with Quality Assurance Department to ensure all M&E frameworks of the projects are in place and used to guide project implementation. Maintain Quality Assurance mechanisms, including monitoring system for tracking of project progress against indicators, activities and key project milestones reporting evaluation and communication process. Conduct routine visits to project sites for purposes of monitoring, operational support and ensure that implementation is per approved guidelines by the MOH.

Organize and facilitate regular project review meetings with project staff to review progress and quality of activity implementation and ascertain that protocols & guidelines as well as minimum SPERE standards as provided by WHO are met. Work closely with QA and other managers to develop tools for monitoring, reporting, documentation and knowledge management, including establishment of standard tools and systems for documentation and information sharing of project progress, best practices, lessons learnt and success stories.

Donor Relations:

Ensure that quality program reports are submitted to Donor in a timely manner.

Regularly participate in Nutrition Cluster/other meetings with MOH counterparts and other partners to provide updates on program implementation. Maintain open communication with partner agencies, other INGO’s UNICEF and other UN agencies and other relevant external partners regarding project initiatives for enhanced coordination.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Required:

Bachelor Degree in nutrition sciences, nutrition & food sciences, nutrition & dietetics, community nutrition or public health nutrition.

Master’s Degree PHD degree in nutrition sciences, or public health nutrition.

Post Graduate qualifications in project design and management (Diploma or Degree or Master would be an advantage.

5-10 years proven experience in implementing nutrition programs and in emergency context. At least two years of experience in cash and CFS programming.

Strong experience in managing staff, partners and facilitating capacity building.

Excellent English communication skills (oral and written).

Preferred:

Experience in conducting nutrition related studies: SMART surveys, Barriers Analysis, KAP survey. Vast experience in proposal writing (certificate in proposal writing would be a plus.

Cross-cultural sensitivity, flexible worldview, emotional maturity and physical stamina. Ability to manage work life without supervision. Understand cluster coordination system.

Ability to work in and contribute to team building environment. Ability to maintain performance expectations in psychologically stressful environments and physical hardship conditions with limited resources.

Able to use a computer, with word-processing and spreadsheets, (e.g. Microsoft Office).

Work Environment:

Work environment: Rural/remote set up. Travel: 10% domestic/international travels is required. On call: available for communication with partners and colleagues from diverse time Zones as and when asked by the supervisor.