Regional Coordinator

Minimally Required Job-Specific Competencies

• Medical degree [BSc Nursing, or MBChB] or related field.
  
• Masters degree in Public Health.
  
• 8 years of experience working with the national health system and at district level. At least 5 years on a donor funded project.
  
• Demonstrable collaborative approach including working with Government officials with good negotiation skills, diplomacy and tact.
  
• Strong coordination, teamwork, collaboration, and conflict resolution skills.
  
• Familiarity with FCDO regulations and compliance requirements is a plus.
  
• Program Management: Experience in program management and administration, financial management, award compliance and sub award management, and tracking activity performance and costs.
  
• Leadership: Demonstrated leadership skills in working collaboratively with other donors, host country institutions, and international organizations.
  

Management and Coordination

• Coordinate regional office team and operations – ensuring smooth operations at the regional office and in all districts of operation.
  
• Apply leadership and line management of regional staff, ensuring staff onboarding and orientation, presence on duty, leave planning in collaboration with human resource guidelines.
  
• Ensuring availability of logistics and resources for use by the regional team.
  

Program Leadership

• Oversee regional level work planning, program implementation, monitoring and reporting. Including activities as listed in the master workplan, including but not limited to health systems strengthening, joint district planning, support supervision, capacity building/ mentorship, SBC and community engagement. This will be achieved through:
  
• Regular engagement of district and regional office-based program teams to agree plans of action.
  
• Regular follow up on status of implementation
  
• Innovatively instituting controls and checks to ensure implementation is happening.
  

Supply Chain coordination

• Working closely with the Supply Chain Advisor, and Service delivery and supply chain officers, coordinate between national level, district and health facilities to ensure close monitoring, reporting and replenishment of the whole range of supplies for non-interrupted service delivery.
  

Financial Management

• Oversee the regional level budgeting and expenditure, keeping track real time of all expenditure, and running biweekly budget versus actual reports to the Finance Manager.
  
• Work closely with the regional program and finance team to ensure timely, accurate processing of field payments. This will include making verification calls to all recipients to minimize financial loss.
  

Program Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting

• Coordinate with MEL for timely and accurate compilation of data from implementation sites; weekly, monthly and quarterly as guided by program leadership.
  
• Innovatively establish a system for reporting back on performance by the field teams on a weekly or biweekly basis.
  
• Liaise with and coordinate program and community teams to ensure the integration of cross-cutting equity themes such as adolescents and youth, refugees, disability, gender, etc., as well as accurate data capture and collection on these.