Job Description Position: Program Manager, Taiz
Reports to: Head of Office, Taiz with technical support from the Nutrition, Health and WASH Coordinator
Staff directly reporting to this post: Program Officer (5) and Program Assistant
Location: Taiz, with travel to field sites About International Medical Corps
International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Context and Background
International Medical Corps is implementing a Health, Nutrition and WASH program in Yemen. Primary Responsibilities of this position
To support IMC – Yemen program to improve the quality of maternal and child health care at the household and primary care levels through reequipping of health facilities and training of health providers and community health workers, while providing overall support to nutrition and WASH components of the program. Specific Duties
Contribute to:
• Leadership of programs and program strategic directions in Taiz
• Encouraging a team culture of learning, creativity and innovation, and freeing up our people to deliver outstanding results for communities
• Establishing, maintaining, and improving active and regular working relationships with: relevant government authorities, donors, partner agencies and communities Leadership of Program Implementation
• Deliver of results for beneficiaries across all programming areas to include health, nutrition and WASH.
• Develop monthly and quarterly work plans linked to budgets to achieve the program’s expected results.
• In coordination with Nutrition, Health and WASH Coordinators and the Head of Office, ensure the implementation of agreed plans to achieve quality results, on time and within the allocated budgets.
• Identify needs for professional training of national partners related to PHC service provision and assist in training provision.
• Oversee comprehensive training programs in Maternal and Child Health, Minimal Initial Service Package for Reproductive Health and Integrated Management of Childhood Illness that have been customized for the Yemen context and delivered to PHC providers.
• Continuously seek to identify and report emerging needs of communities and recommend interventions to address them, either through current programming or through the design of new activities.
• Contribute to the technical design of activities and approaches in coordination with the Nutrition, Health and WASH Coordinators and make recommendations for more methodologies that are best suited to the context in Taiz governorate.
• Ensure that programs are implemented in ways that are responsive to communities, women and children, in line with IMC’s procedures.
• Maximize the engagement of government and non-government partners in the design, implementation and monitoring of all programming activities with the aim of building both capacity and ownership for sustainability.
• Contribute to the development of relevant programming ideas to be included in new proposals.
• Monitor program implementation and ensure accurate, timely data collection as guided by the Nutrition, Health and WASH Coordinators and the Head of Office.
• Provide data, case studies and success stories to enrich reports for both internal and external use. Staff Management, Mentorship, and Development
• Contribute to the recruitment of a team of program staff, building technical and planning capacities and supporting them to achieve their full potential in program implementation.
• With Nutrition, Health and WASH Coordinators and the Head of Office, build staff capacity and understanding of their role in both a development and emergency response context, as relevant.
• Supervise and mentor the program implementation team ensuring that staff achieve the program’s expected results on time and within quality standards.
• Work with staff and Nutrition, Health and WASH Coordinators and the Head of Office to define each staff members’ performance objectives and professional development plan and evaluate direct reports regularly. Collaboration and Representation
• Collaborate with Nutrition, Health and WASH Coordinators and the Head of Office to ensure synergies and consistency in programming approaches.
• Represent programming with government, NGOs, and communities and within IMC as appropriate. Any additional duties as requested by the supervisor.
Qualifications & Skills:
• Bachelor’s degree in medicine and/or nutrition required, or adequate equivalent international NGO experience
• Program management skills and experience, preferably in a results-based environment.
• 4+ years of relevant work experience.
• Work experience in CMAM, Health and Nutrition programs is preferable.
• Familiarity with Taiz governorate and ability to travel to/work in all its districts.
• Ability to continuously assess needs and recommend relevant creative solutions to address them
• Advocacy and coordination skills
• Empowering people management skills
• Strong Organizational skills.
• Excellent sense of judgment, humor and patience
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills including problem solving and decision making skills
• Strong English and Arabic skills, written and spoken. Ability to write reports in English is required.
• Ability and willingness to travel to project sites as needed.
• Computer skills including familiarity with internet; outlook, word, excel and PowerPoint. Application Process:
Candidates need to submit their CVs to the following email address: [email protected]
NOTE: Applications for this job are not through Yemen HR website. They should be sent to the address mentioned above in the announcement itself. Please review the ad and follow what the "Application process" or the "How to apply" section says. |