Crown Agents, leading a consortium of Montrose, KIT, and IPA, has been appointed by DFID to act as the Fund Manager for the Health Pooled Fund in South Sudan. DFID is the principal donor into the Fund, with other contributions from USAID, Sweden and Canada.
HPF supports the delivery of health services in eight state hubs of South Sudan, formerly known as: Eastern Equatoria, Central Equatoria, Western Equatoria, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Western Bahr el Ghazal, Warrap, Unity and Lakes.
The programme impact will be an improved health and nutrition status for the population that saves lives and reduces morbidity (including maternal, infant and under-5 mortality), and has the following three principal outcomes:
• Improved health and nutrition services for the population, especially women and children;
• Improved community engagement and accountability of health services;
• Stabilisation of local health systems.
To attain these outcomes, the HPF3 team is responsible for:
• Effective programme management, including robust risk management;
• Ensuring continuity of and support to service delivery, with a focus on improving quality;
• Specialist technical assistance covering health service delivery, community engagement, nutrition, health planning, information and HRH.
• Procurement and supply chain management, down to the last mile, of essential medical commodities
• Management of the Implementing Partner Fund
• Management of fiduciary risk associated with use of donor funds
Full Time – Fixed Term to June 2023
The Health Systems Stabilization and Delivery Manager is a key role in the Health Pooled Fund Senior Management team. The individual will be responsible for leading the Health Systems Stabilization and Delivery team of technical specialists, providing them with strategic guidance and quality assuring their work. The HSSD Manager will provide technical support to Implementing Partners on delivering health services in HPF-supported facilities and monitor their implementation progress and adherence to BPHNS and other MoH guidelines and policies, as relevant. The HSSD Manager plays an important external representation role for the HPF programme and is expected to successfully engage with other relevant stakeholders in the health sector in South Sudan.
- Demonstrable experience of successfully working at a Senior Manager level in a large development programme team or for a development organisation
- Excellent people management and team leadership skills
- Proven ability to enable his/her team to perform beyond expectations
- Experience of working in the South Sudan health sector, with a good understanding of the stakeholder landscape and importance of coordination with other actors in the sector
- Proven experience in health systems strengthening and service delivery in South Sudan
- Clear and articulate communicator in English, both in writing and verbally.
- Experience providing external representation at high-level meetings
- Demonstrable ability to write reports and provide critical analysis and quality assurance of the work of others
- Solid experience developing accurately costed workplans and monitoring budgets
- Excellent personal relationship skills.
- Computer literate; at a minimum must be able to use Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook proficiently.
- Master’s qualification in International Public Health, Health Services Management or related field is desirable
- At least 10 years’ working experience in a related field
Please email your CV titled: “Health System Stabilisation Manager – South Sudan” to
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