Programme Officer – Community Health

Position description

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in strengthening and shaping community-led health programmes in Madagascar. You will support the development, funding, reporting and evaluation of SEED’s Community Health portfolio, working closely with national teams delivering projects on the ground.

Our work focuses on maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), violence against women and girls (VAWG) and food security – using participatory approaches that place communities at the centre of identifying needs and driving sustainable solutions.

You will lead on developing high-quality funding proposals, managing donor reporting, supporting monitoring and evaluation and ensuring programmes are delivered effectively and to a high standard.

We are seeking an early career, public health professional with one to three years experience, strong grant writing experience, particularly in maternal, reproductive health, or gender-based violence programming. Excellent written English is essential; French proficiency is highly desirable. Candidates who do not meet these criteria will not be considered.

Title:Programme Officer

Location:Fort Dauphin, Anosy Region, Madagascar

Timeframe:24 months extendable

Contract Type:Local salary to support with accommodation and living costs, contribution of £1,200 towards flights and £650 towards insurance

Duties and responsibilities:

• Support Junior Programme Officers and interns in compiling funding proposals based on past evaluation, team discussion and international best practice in an engaging and professional manner
• Support Junior Programme Officers and interns in writing project reports that clearly demonstrate the successes and challenges of the projects, learning from the project and providing clear budgetary information
• Provide first-stage editing of all proposals and reports across the Department to a high standard and providing detailed, constructive feedback to interns and Officers
• Support in the management of donor compliance across several projects, working with the Head of Programmes and the implementation team to ensure that project milestones are being met
• Work alongside the Head of Programmes and Head of Department in problem-solving and providing additional support in line with emerging issues from project implementation
• Manage pieces of long-term project work that require a higher level of expertise and experience across the Department
• Support in the recruitment of new staff and provide support, management, review and professional development to your team of Project Development Interns, Officers and specialists
• Foster essential cross-cultural collaboration, providing support to both the national and international teams to bridge gaps in understanding and priorities for project development and implementation
• Provide pastoral care, guidance and act as a role model, both professionally and personally, for a team of early career professionals living in country
• Work alongside the Head of Department and Head of Finance in developing and managing the budgets relating to projects
• Develop and update resources to support project development processes, including proposal and budget templates and style guidelines
• Assist departmental MEL specialists in developing MEL tools and analysing data, including the writing of MEL reports when needed
• Support the development of project development procedures, guidelines, and trainings and provide project-specific information to inform policy development across the organisation
• Work with theJunior Programme Officers to ensure that statistics, research, funding trackers, photo database and handovers relating to the projects are accurate
• Coordinate the project-specific website and social media content, ensuring a constant flow of information to donors and supporters
• Work with the national team and external partners in increasing their skills and capacity, providing mentoring or training where appropriate
• Take an active role in project management meetings, leading discussions and standing in for the Head of Programmes where appropriate
• Ensure all of SEED’s policies and procedures are evident throughout the work of the department, including those for safeguarding, whistleblowing and anticorruption, and undertake continual training to ensure these are promoted at all times
• Form part of the team representing projects or SEED when required
• Liaise closely with the remote online team ensuring clear communication at all times
• Complete any other tasks required by the Head of Programmes or Director of Operations and Heads of Departments commensurate with this role.

Person specification

• Hold an undergraduate in or relating to Global Health, Public Health, International Development or have transferable skills or equivalent experience
• Demonstrate sound knowledge and keen interest in MCH, SRHR and/or VAWG and its interface with international development
• At least two years experience with similar programmes
• Experience of working in a similar environment would be an advantage
• Minimum of 1-3 years professional experience of securing funding, project management, donor compliance and donor reporting
• Familiarity with the use of project management tools including Logical Frameworks, Theory of Change models, Budgets, Activity Plans and Monitoring & Evaluation frameworks
• Fluency in written and spoken English with excellent written communication skills, to the level of editing English documents for publication to a very high standard
• Proficiency in French is strongly desired
• Excellent proposal and report writing and editing skills, with previous experience compiling project proposals and reports and the ability to tailor written information to various audiences
• Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to SEED’s ethos and approach and be a good ambassador for the organisation at all times
• Have passion, curiosity and motivation for the job and the ability to enthuse others
• Experience of living and working in a developing country with the ability and desire to work with teams from different economic and cultural backgrounds and across multiple language barriers
• Demonstrate proven ability to recognise and appropriately deal with challenging situations and problem solve
• Demonstrate an awareness of and comfort with increased social and professional responsibility, working at all times with cultural sensitivity and respect
• Demonstrate the ability, social skills and confidence to give clear guidance and support to other members of the team in respect of the philosophy and procedures of SEED in order to protect both their safety and the reputation of the NGO
• Be able to work to and advocate for all of SEED’s policies and procedures, safeguarding those that SEED works with and reporting any concerns appropriately
• Be punctual and be able to work to tight deadlines in an organised manner and to a high standard
• Be able to work both independently and as part of a team
• Excellent listening and verbal communication skills and a flexible and patient attitude
• Ability and desire to develop and support a team of volunteers and staff and to support the Project Development internship programme
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint

About the Organisation

SEED Madagascar is a British Charity working in partnership with communities in the southeast of Madagascar. We integrate high quality community health, sustainable livelihoods; education infrastructure and conservation programmes to support long term, sustainable change and add to international best practice through research and publication across all of our programmatic areas.

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