The Programme Manager duties include;
- Supporting partners by providing technical advice and expertise on the core thematic areas of Sightsavers work and give guidance to ensure the successful implementation of projects.
- Supporting the development and implementation of country advocacy plans in line with projects and represent Sightsavers at the appropriate forums with partners and stakeholders.
- Leading on partnership assessment initiatives and develop a coherent plan of partner capacity building, and support project officers in the implementation of those plans.
- Overseeing the work of the Programme Officers to manage all aspects of the project cycle including planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation to ensure project documentation and reporting is of a high quality and meets donor/compliance requirements.
- Ensuring that all aspects of the programme are effectively monitored and evaluated on an ongoing basis and that learning is systematically used to continuously improve all projects and programmes, in country and share across the organisation.
- Working collaboratively with Senior Programme Manager and finance colleagues to monitor project budget and expenditure, advising on financial trends and to support the strengthening of partner financial capacity.
- Leading the programme team to develop a plan for the office which reflects country and organizational priorities and deadlines and use this to ensure effective ongoing programme delivery.
- Supporting the Senior Programme Manager to contributes individual and country learning/ experience into broader organisational learning and policy development.
- Supporting the country team in developing a system for monitoring and evaluating country programme portfolio performance.
- Providing direction and support to assist country research teams and help them to identify operational research opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of NTD elimination efforts, prevention of avoidable blindness and visual impairment as well as promoting social inclusion issues.
- Assisting project teams and country Ministries of Health in disseminating information on social inclusion and NTD activities, studies, research and lessons learned at national and international level.
- Acting as the first point of contact for any safeguarding incidents or concerns.
Skills and Experience
As the ideal candidate, you will possess working experience or equivalent post graduate qualification in a relevant field, have extensive experience working within an NGO environment in a leading position with a background in line and team management, and hold knowledge of project design and management, budget development and monitoring, resource management.
Further requirements include;
- Knowledge of advocacy, research, impact assessment, partnership development and resource mobilisation
- Excellent report writing skills.
- Strategic programme development experience
- Safeguarding experience
- Experience of working with partners and building relationships
- Advocacy experience
- Experience of working with Government organisations and MOH
Salary
Competitive
Monthly based
Location
, East Gonja Municipal District, Savannah Region, Ghana, Savannah Region, Ghana
Job Overview
Location
, East Gonja Municipal District, Savannah Region, Ghana, Savannah Region, Ghana
