Assistant Country Director - Programmes

GOAL has been working in Sudan since 1985. GOAL South Sudan operates programmes in Abyei Administrative Area, Melut and Ulang Counties (Upper Nile State). South Sudan’s interventions include an integrated approach to improved living standards for host, IDP and returnee populations through provision of curative primary health care, health promotion, health system strengthening, therapeutic nutrition and food security and livelihoods (FSL) interventions. Currently, GOAL is looking for an enthusiastic ACDP with a strong background in emergency health, nutrition programming, and Health System strengthening projects. Knowledge and experience in FSL programming is an added asset.

General Description of the Role

The Assistant Country Director Programmes (ACDP) is a member of the GOAL South Sudan Senior Management Team (SMT) with overall responsibility for the strategic development of GOAL’s programmes

Currently operational in three underserved Counties in South Sudan. The role focuses on programme planning and development, reporting, M&E and capacity building, as well as coordination internally and with relevant line ministries, UN agencies, NGOs, partners and other relevant stakeholders.

Key Duties

• Develop a clear vision, objectives and strategic direction for GOAL’s programme in line with GOAL global strategic choices, international standards, the Government of South Sudan’s policies and guidelines and the strategies of key donors.
• Oversee donor and internal narrative reporting, ensuring that all reports meet standards.
• Oversee the development of donor proposals - log frames, narratives and budgets - based on the Country
• Lead the progressive decentralisation of programme management to field level, empowering the field
• programme managers to play a lead role in planning, budgeting and monitoring.
• Ensure GOAL is appropriately represented in external coordination mechanisms such as the NGO
• Health Forum, Clusters (Health, WASH, FSL, Nutrition) in addition to gender based violence and child protection sub-cluster, the sector-specific Technical Working Groups and the NGO Forum’s Policy Working Group and other ad-hoc coordination forums.
• Oversee the development of appropriate M&E and programme management tools and systems and ensure that analysis and recommendations are utilised for programme decision-making.
• Oversee the development of internal mechanisms for institutional learning and documentation.
• Work to increase the number of South Sudanese staff in senior positions within the programmes team, through the planning and management of a comprehensive capacity building strategy.
• Oversee emergency preparedness and emergency response interventions and liaise with the dedicated GOAL response teams which may be sent into South Sudan.
• Promote programme integration and synergies through greater collaboration and planning among the health, WASH, livelihoods and nutrition programmes.
• Develop, renew and monitor Memorandums of Understanding with line ministries at Juba, state and county levels and, as required, with other entities such as partners and NGOs.
• Identify and develop appropriate GOAL exit strategies (MoH health facility handovers, building partnerships with South Sudanese NGOs).
• Facilitate participation of the appropriate line ministry representatives in programme planning, implementation and M&E.
• Manage a team of three technical coordinators (WASH, health, and livelihoods), the Programme Support Officer, the Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Coordinator and the Partnership coordinator.
• Management FSL programme to move to market systems based approach and align the programme to meet emerging challenges with the traditional funding models. The system would need also to be thought through on how it is implemented in other programmes as well, and therefore, the successful candidate will need to develop a strong partnership unit within GOAL South Sudan.
• Travel frequently to all areas of operation to monitor programme implementation and address any issues which may be affecting programme quality.
• Ensure that beneficiaries, local authorities, and local staff are consulted and involved as much as possible in programme planning, implementation and M&E.
• Ensure logistics, HR and finance protocols are followed by all programmes team members.
• Work with Assistant Country Director Operations and the Logistics Coordinator to ensure appropriate logistics involvement at all stages of the programme cycle.
• Carry out other duties as requested by the Country Director.

Requirements (Person Specification)

• At least five years overseas experience gained in volatile context.
• At least two years at a senior management level with demonstrable ability to lead a team of technical and support staff overseeing a large and complex programme.
• Proven track record in developing the technical aspects of large scope health and nutrition proposal.
• Experience of community nutrition programming.
• Strong interpersonal and skills and ability to effectively work in a multi-cultural context.
• Experience in liaising with government officials, other NGOs, donors and UN agencies.
• Willingness to travel to rural areas of SS.
• Proven training and capacity building skills.
• Very enthusiastic and able to work extra hours to achieve the objectives of the programme.
• Fluency written and spoken English Appreciation of the aims and objectives of GOAL.

GOAL has a Staff Code of Conduct and a Child Protection Policy, which have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants and children from exploitation. GOAL also has a confidentiality policy ensuring the non-disclosure of any information whatsoever relating to the practices and business of GOAL, acquired in the course of duty, to any other person or organisation without authority, except in the normal execution of duty. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to these policies any job offer made is also subject to police clearance. GOAL is an equal opportunities employer.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of GOAL’s work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.

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