Global Portfolio Manager, Maternal Newborn Health & Nutrition (MNHN)

Requirements

Education/Professional Designations/Experience:

• A master’s degree in public health, nutrition, international development, or a similar field or significant experience in lieu.
  
• A minimum of 7 years’ experience managing large, complex, development programs in an international NGO/UN agency (or similar) that spans multiple geographies in Asia and/or Africa and from multiple and diverse donors.
  
• Experience working in the public health/nutrition sector in Asia and Africa; understanding of health systems.
  
• Experience managing field research projects an asset.
  
• Demonstrated experience and/or personal commitment to promoting gender equality within development work.
  
• Previous experience working in maternal and newborn health and nutrition programming is highly valued for this position.
  
• Demonstrated skills and experience in proposal writing, external representation and effective donor stewardship.
  
• Superior written and spoken English; able to work with a team to put together complex documents that clearly articulate the organization’s work.
  
• Previous experience of grant management and/or PMP certification will be an asset
  
• Above average ability in Excel and able to make sense of complex spreadsheets that support the development of better data management and program monitoring.
  
• Experience and comfort working within a matrixed team structure
  

Other Specific Skill Requirements

• Strong ability to identify, rank and mitigate risks, and manage complex time sensitive problems.
  
• Able to work as part of multi-cultural global team in a dynamic and growing organisation.
  
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
  
• Excellent communications skills (oral and written) including good report writing and presentation skills.
  
• Excellent communications skills (verbal and written).
  
• Demonstrated understanding of results-based management, performance measurement frameworks and fundamentals of program monitoring and donor reporting.
  
• Demonstrated experience in project start up processes.
  
• Demonstrated understanding and/or experience operationalizing child safeguarding principles and policy.
  
• Fluency in English - both reading and writing – is essential.
  
• A working knowledge of French is an asset.
  

Key responsibilities

Portfolio Management

• Work with the Global Portfolio Director to put in place effective project management mechanisms to ensure quality implementation and implementation of a set of projects within a portfolio, in collaboration with colleagues in HQ, the regional offices in New Delhi and Nairobi, and in countries of operation and according to Nutrition International policies and ways of working.
  
• Ensure program data is up to date, quality assured by the Monitoring, Data and Learning (MDL) and portfolio teams and is available to leadership and to the communications team.
  

Grant Management

• Working with regional and country colleagues, ensure grants under their management have clear annual plans, activity plans and budgets and are implemented on time and to a high quality.
  
• For all the grants under their management, ensure that all donor, technical and financial reports are completed in a timely fashion to a quality that meets Nutrition International monitoring and reporting standards.
  
• Carry out monitoring to ensure projects are on track to meet corporate and grant performance targets (program and finance) and take corrective action in a timely way
  
• Manage the overall programmatic budget:
  

Cross Unit/Program Coordination and Representation

• Support and provide capacity building to project teams when and where required on project cycle management processes and tools.
  
• Work with Corporate Services and Program unit colleagues to improve modalities, including processes, tools and ways of working to make improvements that drive program quality and/or cost savings.
  
• Represent Nutrition International, as requested, at partner meetings and other forums
  

Resource Mobilization

• Support the development of project proposals.