DEPUTY COUNTRY DIRECTOR – PROGRAMMES (DCD-P)

Job Title: Deputy Country Director-Programmes (DCD-P)
Company: Self Help Africa
Location: Malawi

Reports to: Country Director

Background

Self Help Africa (SHA – formerly United Purpose) Malawi, is an international non-governmental organisation working to create opportunities for lasting improvement in people’s lives. We work in partnership with others to support a range of livelihoods and food security, WASH and health, sustainable energy, and gender equality programmes reaching over 1,000,000 people a year across Malawi. Globally, we work in sixteen countries across Africa, Asia and South America, however, our Malawi programme is by far and away our largest and most established country programme. SHA currently operates in 17 districts in Malawi, supporting 24 on-going projects. This is an exciting time to join us as we seek to tackle global challenges in progressive and innovative ways.

Our three core values are:

• Impact: We are accountable, ambitious, and committed to systemic change.
• Innovation: We are agile, creative, and enterprising in an ever-changing world.
• Community: We are inclusive, honest, and have integrity in our relationships.

Job Purpose

Deputy Country Director—Programmes works with the Country Director and Programmes. The DCD-P oversees the programme implementation across various projects, including the monitoring and evaluation function in all programmes.

Key duties and responsibilities:

Programme Management & Operations

• Oversee the development, implementation, reporting of country office programs and projects and ensure that they are in line with Country strategy and Global SHA Strategy.
• Ensure that projects and programs receive adequate technical support to meet all program technical quality standards and requirements in line donor and sector Quality standards.
• To ensure quality control of donor reporting in accordance with funding partner requirements, for submission through the Country Director

Culture, People, and Resourcing

• Provide leadership and management support to SHA staff reporting to this position including coordinating workplans, building team spirit and working, conducting performance appraisals, supporting staff development, etc.
• To encourage staff involvement and commitment to the running of the programme through regular meetings and visits and a participatory team approach to decision making.
• To ensure we have the right senior management staff complement and recruit where appropriate according to in-country guidelines and SHA policy, including equal opportunities,.
• To play a key role on the safeguarding committee, to embed robust safeguarding systems and processes across the organisation and to nurture a safeguarding culture at SHA.
• Provide proper supervision and management for all direct reports and lead the functioning of a strong, effective and coordinated Program team.
• To support the CD and SD in ensuring effective and efficient management of human and financial resources of SHA Malawi.
• To ensure adequate budgeting of all new project initiatives, including contributions to core costs, in line with the cost recovery policy.
• To ensure effective project budgetary control and monitoring in line with SHA’s financial procedures and guidelines, fraud and risk management policies.
• To follow up with project managers on implementation of the recommendations of internal and external audits and to support the annual global audit process.

Synergies, Organisation Development, and Alignment

• To represent SHA, when delegated
• To oversee the development of and implementation of SHA’s locally led development policy and specifically growing SHA’s equitable and long term partnerships with local organisations.

Demonstrating Impact

• To ensure effective monitoring and evaluation of all programmes, demonstrating success, impact, and VFM
• Line Manage the National M&E Coordinator, support the Malawi M&E technical working group and ensure implementation of the National M&E framework.

Finance Models, Funding, and Compliance

• Lead in monitoring the programme portfolio and take the necessary measures to maintain a healthy portfolio at all times.
• To lead the proposal development processes to ensure development of high quality, competitive proposals for submission to potential donors through the CD and with the SHA Business Development group.
• To oversee the development, testing and implementation of new innovative, market-oriented programme approaches appropriate for the context of Malawi.
• In conjunction with the programme managers implement systems to ensure quality of programme design, implementation, monitoring, learning and evaluation, which incorporate learning from the sector

Education Knowledge, Experience and Other Requirements

• Master’s degree in relevant field, such as Development Studies, Public Health,and/or other related fields.
• At least 8 years of experience in managing and implementing programs
• preferably in the livelihood space, public health with a focus on nutrition
• interventions.
• Relevant work experience in International Non – non-governmental
• organizations operations or relief/Development field.
• Demonstrated experience with proposal development with a range of
• international donors
• Experience in establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with
• donors and government counterparts.
• Relevant work experience in International Non – non-governmental
• organizations operations or relief/Development field.