Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, January 09, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
About THET
THET is a specialist global health organisation that educates, trains and supports health workers through global health partnerships, strengthening health systems and enabling people in low- and middle-income countries to access essential healthcare. THET takes an integrated approach to Human Resources for Health and works at three levels:
Individual – working with health workers
Organisational – working with Civil society organisations, health training institutions and others
Institutional – working with Government and regulatory bodies
THET runs large health system and health workforce capacity development programmes in Zambia, Somaliland and Tanzania, and, under the Health Partnership Scheme, provides training, advice and grant support to more than 200 UK and overseas hospitals, universities and professional associations working in partnership across 29 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
THET has been working in Zambia since 2009, focusing on a number of its most urgent health needs via quality improvement, and strengthening the medical education available to health care professionals, including working in collaboration with the Ministry of Health to develop Masters of Medicine programmes in Anaesthesia, Pathology and Psychiatry, as well as developing the first pre-service training programme for medical equipment maintenance professionals, and the first BSc and MSc in Human Nutrition available in Zambia.
Position summary
Under the supervision of the Country Director, the Programme Manager – Volunteer Management will be responsible for the holistic support for volunteer placements in Zambia. This will include design of placements with facilities, liaison with national and sub-national stakeholders, project management and the development of individual and project monitoring and evaluation with volunteers
The programme manager will ensure the high-quality the Volunteer Placement Project on time and to budget. They will lead on the quality implementation of the programme and will take a lead in new programme development and resource mobilization for continuation of the programme. They will support all monitoring, evaluation and learning activities and to develop and maintain systems to collect, analyse information on inputs, outputs, outcomes and impact of the volunteers individually and the project as a whole. .

  Specific tasks of the Programme Manager
Programme Management
Day to day management of the Volunteer Placement project including:
• Manage the planning and timely implement programme activities to ensure high quality delivery.
• Managing budgets and providing timely and accurate financial reports to donors and the London office as well as monitor spend against budget for projects.
• Facilitate excellent coordination of programme activities, planning and dissemination between internal and external stakeholders
• Establish and maintain effective communication with relevant partners in Government, including the Ministry of Health, health facilities, training institutions, NGOs and donor organisations.
• Arrange, support and contribute to relevant meetings and workshops to further the goals of the programme.
• Attend and contribute to both external and internal meetings/workshops where appropriate.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of an overall advocacy strategy related to the programme’s goals and outcomes.
• Ensure quality of programme interventions and the seeking of relevant advice from partners and contact

  Skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and confidence in dealing with UK and overseas partners as well as senior staff from diverse organisations.E
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.
• Excellent computer skills, particularly with Microsoft Office software (word processing and spreadsheets)
• Excellent time management skills and ability to manage competing deadlines.
• Team player able to work independently when required and to manage a diverse and heavy workload

Qualifications • Bachelor’s Degree in a related field

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Experience
• Proven project management experience is mandatory, along with preparing and managing budgets and donor contracts, high-level stakeholder engagement and writing donor reports.
• Experience of programme development, including donor tracking, proposal/ project development.
• Good financial / numeracy skills, including experience of budget preparation/ tracking.
• Experience of monitoring and evaluation and/or research.
• Volunteers / logistical support experience
• Experience of preparing and delivering written and verbal communications to a range of audiences
• Experience of team working – able to work collaboratively with colleagues.
Knowledge
• Understanding of international development and global health issues.
• Knowledge of project management and the project cycle.
• Awareness of Monitoring and Evaluation principles

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Job application procedure
The job holder must be able to live and work in Zambia. Interested candidates can apply by submitting a cover letter (not more than 2 pages) and a CV (not more than 3 pages) to
jobs@thet.org
THET is an equal opportunity employer and any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification..

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