Zonal Program Manager 334 views31 applications

Essential
Duties and Responsibilities
Capacity building:

• Serve as a focal point for the capacity building
  of staff, local partners and community members on new HIV knowledge and
  technologies suitable for increased yield and productivity in the zonal
  office.
• Provide support to the HAN and local partners’
  program staff through trainings, program coordination and management and
  effective communication in a right based environment
• Responsible for the full
  implementation of HAN programming at the designated zonal level
• Capacity Building Support: Implement the
  capacity development plan of local partner’s program staff through
  conducting on-site, formal and informal trainings, including
  training-of-trainers sessions and advising step-down trainings to meet
  program objectives.

Management and Supervision:

• Serve as the project’s key liaison to Heartland
  Alliance Zonal Office;
• In collaboration with State office, HR, Finance,
  IT, M&E, Program Departments, ensures States Zonal Office (field)
  supervisors adhere to and implement policies and procedures; engages all
  levels of staff in the strategic planning process; and provides feedback
  for improvements;
• Monitor progress towards and barriers from
  reaching project or program goals and objectives, provides timely updates
  and recommendations to senior leadership;
• Submits weekly, monthly and quarterly narrative
  reports on program updates and financial activities to the State team
  leads in a timely manner.
• Ensures the timely collection, collation and
  submission of high quality progress report data to the M&E unit at the
  regional Office through State Offices using HAN standard tools and
  software packages
• Ensures timely and effective training and
  mentoring is provided to Community Facilitators, Outreach Coordinators,
  and other relevant stakeholders on HAN- Nigeria service delivery models,
  which may include;
• Counseling and psychosocial support for Key Affected
  Population, distribute HIV educational
  materials, condoms, and other harm reduction materials.

Service delivery support

• Maintain overall responsibility for the delivery
  of high quality HIV prevention, care and treatment services to target
  population in line with national and international best practices
• Promote the concept of One Stop Shop(OSS) and
  create community ownership and access to services from prevention, care
  and treatment
• Ensures timely and effective training and
  mentoring of service providers in conjunction with relevant Country Office
  Technical Advisors.
• Ensures gender based violence services, mental
  health counseling and psychosocial support for Key Affected Population.

 

Qualifications
To
perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each
essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative
of the knowledge, skill, and/or competency required. Reasonable accommodations
may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential
functions. 

Education
and/or Experience:

• First Degree in medical science, management,
  social science or related field; Advanced Degree in Public Health or
  Social Science preferred
• At  least
  four  years’  experience  working
  with  a  NGO,
  must  include  Project
• Implementation;
  Supervisory and Capacity building experience in public health or social science
  program management
• Knowledge of local language is essential
• Experience working with in collaboration with
  local partners, NGOs and CBOs
• Experience in capacity building, HIV/AIDS
  Advocacy, prevention, treatment and care.

 

Preferred
Skills:

• Time Management – Ability to prioritize tasks,
  manage time and complete projects in a fast-paced, changing environment
  with minimal supervision.
• Quality Management –
  Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Demonstrates accuracy and
  thoroughness
• Written Communication – Writes clearly and
  informatively; Edits work for spelling and grammar; Varies writing style
  to meet needs; Presents numerical data effectively
• Adaptability – Adapts to changes in the work
  environment; Manages competing demands; Changes approach or method to best
  fit the situation; Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or
  unexpected events
• Cultural Sensitivity – Respects cultural
  environment in which person is working and does not act in a manner that
  is outwardly offensive to the local community.
• Non-discriminatory- Do not discriminate persons
  based on sexual orientation or gender identity, age, preferred jobs or
  behavioral habits

Language Skills:

• Excellent oral and written
  English communication skills
• Knowledge of Local
  Language preferred.
• Demonstrated competency in public speaking

Computer Skills:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Internet
  Explorer, Outlook/Exchange, Windows operating systems, Power Point.
• Other software routinely
  used by Heartland Alliance

Work Environment:

• The noise level in the
  work environment is usually moderate.
• The employee will be required to co-locate with
  local partners usually in the same office.
• The employee is required to travel regularly to
  often insecure and limited-resource environments.