mothers2mothers (m2m) is an Africa-based NGO that unlocks the potential of women to eliminate paediatric AIDS and create healthy families across eight sub-Saharan African countries. m2m trains, employs, and helps empower HIV-positive women to work as community healthcare workers in understaffed health centres and underserved communities. Through a peer-to-peer approach, these ‘Mentor Mothers’ deliver a range of health services, advice, and support to women and their families. Started in Cape Town, South Africa in 2001 with an initial focus on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, m2m has innovated and built on its strengths and now provides family-centred support for a range of related health and social issues spanning pregnancy, birth, childhood, and adolescence. It also partners with governments and other NGOs on the adoption of its programme to spread the Mentor Mother Model and its benefits. m2m has a track record of scaling its services and proven impact. To date, m2m has reached over 11M women and children under two, and created more than 10,000 jobs for African women living with HIV. For more, visit www.m2m.org.
Senior Programme Officer, Technical – SBCC
m2m is seeking a highly-skilled and organised Senior Programme Officer, Technical to work with the m2m’s Head Office programme division in developing and supporting our expanding programme portfolio in Sub-Saharan Africa. Your role will be to support our Senior Technical Advisors by assisting with innovative programme design, quality assurance and improvement, research, and business development outputs, to ensure high-quality implementation in all m2m country programmes, in alignment with organisational and county-specific priorities and programme strategies.
Key Performance Areas:
Programme Support
Support planning, rollout and implementation of current and new RMNCAH and other technical projects and/programme areas.
Contribute to the development/adaptation of programme framework, SOPs and tools.
Liaise with countries to facilitate successful implementation of DPTS-led programme innovations- the m2m’s virtual mentor mother platform (VMMP) and other SBCC projects
Participate in regular technical check-in meetings with countries, led by the STAs and assist in follow up on specific operational challenges
Assist the STA in results- oriented follow up of actions between Head Office and county team, through robust follow up
Coordinate and support optimal use of m2m’s VMMP help-desk across all countries
Coordinate process for identification, review and development/update of technical content for the VMMP and other SBCC projects
Assist countries/projects to set realistic donor targets based on m2m’s methodologies.
Design, implement, and manage special projects as assigned.
Programme Quality Assurance/Quality improvement (QA/QI) support
Participate in routine Head Office led monthly/quarterly QA/QI meetings with countries, including documentation, synthesis, and follow-up of action plans with responsible staff.
Document project successes, challenges, and lessons learned.
Assist managing follow up and key action items to improve program performance and coordination with relevant STAs
Collaborate with Senior Researcher to carry out operations research and related to SBCC to inform programme improvement
Business Development, Reporting and Communications
Write and/or contribute to the development of concept notes and proposals.
Develop reports, presentations, and other communication materials for projects and programmes, as needed
Coordinate complex reporting processes, as required.
Facilitate communication and respond to information requests from internal and external stakeholders, including donors.
Participate in professional meetings, as appropriate.
Knowledge Management and Sharing
With the Senior Technical Advisors, develop spaces/platforms to facilitate information sharing among countries.
Co-create and facilitate learning workshops/sessions in collaboration with the STAs
Provide assistance that new developed materials, documents, job aides and tools are regularly put on share-point on behalf of STA but also shared and disseminated with countries on email and or teams
Manage internal and external webinars and the documentation there of that involve sharing of global trends, global. Regional best practices but all innovations implemented
Research and write technical analyses, reports and policy briefs.
Liaise with m2m’s internal communication on design of projects as delegated by Line Manager
People Management
Qualifications and Experience
BA degree, Masters Degree preferred in public health, social sciences or related field.
3-5 years’ experience in non-profit/NGO/international development or philanthropic programme or project management, with a focus on public health, RMNCAH HIV/AIDS,
Demonstrated Experience with RMNCH, PMTCT, HIV programme implementation and quality assurance/improvement support.
Demonstrated Experience in project management – including developing standard operating procedures, reports, work plans and coordinating cross-organisational processes – is essential.
Demonstrated Experience of writing funding/business development concept notes and proposals and reports.
Demonstrated Experience working in sub-Saharan Africa and with multi-cultural teams.
Demonstrated Experience with working with diverse groups of stakeholders such as government, NGOs, philanthropists and private-sector partners.
Demonstrated Experience with U.S. Government-funded programmes, multilateral and bilateral donors, preferred.
Competencies
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including cultural sensitivity.
Excellent writing skills including analytical reports and proposals.
Strong research, analytical and interpretative skills.
Highly organized, reliable, with excellent attention to detail.
Proven ability to manage multiple tasks and work to strict deadlines.
Ability to work independently as well as in a team.
Ability to work under high pressure, meet deadlines, monitor and follow-up on pending matters under minimum supervision.
Strong IT skills essential, including MS Office Suite including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Salesforce, SharePoint
Willingness to travel in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Excellent verbal and written English language skills are essential.
mothers2mothers is an equal opportunity employer. We particularly encourage applications from people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA), people with disabilities, women and previously disadvantaged people.
Competitive salary packages will be negotiable in accordance with m2m’s remuneration policies.
To Apply:
Interested applicants should apply for this position via https://m2m.org/who-we-are/careers/ by 09 February 2022.