mothers2mothers (m2m) is an Africa-based NGO that unlocks the potential of women to eliminate paediatric AIDS and create healthy families across ten sub-Saharan African countries. m2m trains, employs, and helps empower women living with HIV 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 11,000 jobs for African women living with HIV. For more, visit www.m2m.org.
Senior Project Manager
The Senior Project Manager manages and provides oversight of all departmental (DPTS) projects. S/he will lead individual and multi-disciplined projects, including day-to-day project management, stakeholder management, donor reporting, monitoring of project spend, and activity implementation. The position will also support meetings with possible donors, engagement in technical design, proposal development, and intelligence gathering. S/he will work closely with the DPTS unit leads and country teams to manage project expectations, and share lessons learned, best practices, and project updates across the organisation. The position is based in the m2m Head Office in Cape Town CBD..
Key Performance Areas
DPTS Project Portfolio Management 70%
Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business and will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously
Develop and manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues
Build a strong project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones
Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project and program team
Deliver appropriate and effective executive level communication
Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project
Procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes
Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings
Act as an internal quality control check for the project and ongoing quality control and participate in quality issue resolution
Assist in dispute, negotiation, arbitration or litigation, as needed
Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables
Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, CIO and key stakeholders
Define success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project and program life cycle
DPTS Team Support 30%
Continue professional development in order to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods and best practices
Establish practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization
Facilitate the development and implementation of m2m’s annual program plan including goal-setting and work-planning for program improvement.
Provide program implementation guidance and support where needed to the HO and Country service delivery teams in order to achieve quality targeted results.
Work closely with the Strategic Information unit to initiate site service quality assessments and other program quality improvement processes to maintain the provision of high quality services.
Coordinate data use for program decision making.
Contribute to internal working groups and sharing of inter- and intra-country learnings.
Qualifications and Experience
Master’s degree or equivalent in project management, communication, business administration or related field, PRINCE 2 is required
Minimum of 7 years’ experience in the field of project management including at least 5 years in project management at senior level
Experience in RMNCH, PMTCT, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and/or nutrition project management
Experience working with MOH, UNICEF, CDC, USAID, and other stakeholders a key advantage
Experience working with government at all levels (national, provincial, district) a key advantage
Strong experience in managing activity and resource planning
Strong design and conceptualisation skills – able to think creatively and; systematically at all project levels.
Strong experience in monitoring costs and budgets
Strong experience in quality assurance and quality improvement
Strong experience in time management
Strong experience in analysing and managing risk
Strong communication skills and ability negotiate and resolve conflict
Competencies:
Ability to work well under pressure, manage multiple tasks and meet tight deadlines independently with sound decision making.
Ability to work with staff based in multiple locations, and supervise external consultants.
Strong experience building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders.
Self-starter, team player and results-oriented.
Strong strategic, analytical, negotiation and advocacy skills.
Excellent communication and writing skills.
Cultural sensitivity and ability to effectively engage participants of different cultures and backgrounds.
Protect confidential and sensitive information.
Enhance company and department reputation by accepting ownership, exploring new possibilities and adding value to the organization.
Maintain a strong understanding of business strategies, goals and missions.
Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs:
Highly developed Computer literacy (MS Office suite and Microsoft Project).
Fluent in English and local language.
Knowledge of Portuguese will be an added advantage.
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 19 February 2021.