Save The Children International is establishing a pool of pre-selected candidates for the positions of Program Manager in one of the country offices within West and Central Africa.

Should we secure the project, this will turn into an official recruitment. Selected candidates will be added to the recruitment process.

GRADE: 1

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young peopleeitherfrequently (e.g. once a week or more)orintensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

INTRODUCTION:

Save the Children is a leading international non-governmental organization working to ensure the well-being and rights of children worldwide. In Liberia, Save the Children is committed to create lasting change for children and their families by providing education, healthcare, protection, and emergency assistance in Liberia. We collaborate with local partners to empower communities, focusing on education, health, child protection, emergencies, and livelihoods.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Program Manager has overall responsibility for planning and coordination of all project-related activities and personnel for an upcoming program valued around 40M USD for three years. S/he will provide strategic and operational leadership to develop and implement a holistic, integrated development program that will achieve the upcoming intervention’s objectives. SC is expected to have several international NGO partners and national NGO partners. The Program Manager will maintain close liaison with the Donor, Government of Liberia representatives, and partners as needed. The Program Manager will ensure the timely submission of all deliverables to the Donor, including annual work plans and performance monitoring plans.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Country Director

Staff reporting to this post: Technical Specialists

Budget Responsibilities: –

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Lead, coordinate, monitor, report writing and supervise all activities and project implementation at the national level, in coordination with the Project Management Unit of the Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection
• Lead and manage the association members, monitoring their performance and ensuring timely delivery of quality outputs
• Lead the preparation of country-level workplans and training plans for the deployment of county level staff and the implementation of project activities and components in collaboration with the PMU and the Project Implementation Manual (PIM)
• Lead and monitor project budgets and expenditures pipeline at national level and ensure
• sound decision making.
• Lead and address any challenges that arise about all LWEP activities at the national level
• Lead the implementation of the ESF and the GRM at the national level
• Monitor and measure results and ensure delivery of data for entering the MIS for activities carried out in the county.
• Prepare and submit on time all required reports for the national level
• Ensure strong cooperation with and capacity building of national level government counterparts on the different aspects of the project
• Provide any technical training to staff or partners as needed and appropriate.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance, and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, take responsibility for their own personal development and encourage their team to do the same.
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.
• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members, and external partners and supporters.
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength.
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social sciences, project management, international development, or a related field.

Experience and Skills

• At least 15 years of relevant project management experience in World Bank funded projects or projects funded by international development agencies, with a particular focus on international aid and development across Africa.
• Excellent experience in training and capacity building activities for counties
• Proven track record of managing teams and experience in development of project documents, guidelines, and detail reporting
• Exceptional understanding of project management issues, including fiduciary aspects
• Ensure staff performance management and reporting
• Experience working with government structures, donors and stakeholders
• Digital skills including MS Office and Internet
• Demonstrate excellent knowledge of managing multiple international development projects in rough terrain.

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive. The role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding: We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

This position is also open to international candidate.