Posted on: Wed 22-02-2023

Medecins du Monde (MdM) is an international humanitarian organization whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including France. It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with populations in its care. MdM operating in Nigeria, Borno state since October 2016.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Deputy General Coordinator in Charge of Programs (F/M)

Location: Maiduguri, Borno

Contract Type: Fixed-term contract

Duration: 12 months

Job Type: Employee

Starting date: as soon as possible

Job Description

Under the supervision of the general coordinator, you guide and oversee MdM’s programmatic strategy in line with the organization’s strategic plan and country strategy. By supervising the technical unit (Nut, MHPSS, GBV), pharmacy coordinator, grants officer, MEAL advisor and advocacy advisor, you ensure the overall quality and technical guidance of its programming.

Your Main Responsibilities

Context Analysis and Assessment:

• Ensure a close monitoring of the humanitarian situation in the country
• Develop the programmatic strategy
• Be responsible for the overall supervision of the projects currently implemented and be proactive in suggesting new assessments
• In case of deterioration of the humanitarian & epidemiological situation, coordinate the organization of ad-hoc needs assessment as well as the deployment of the MdM team for emergency response
• Support in developing and rolling out the mission strategy and contribute to redacting and updating the country policy paper

Coordination of the MdM programs:

• Lead the development of the general strategy on MdM activities
• Make sure the different components of the program are consistent and integrated, and in link with population needs
• Ensure that the implementation of the program is in line with MdM commitments
• Support the pharma team
• Ensure accurate budget control and overall responsibility for financial management of the program
• Ensure regular communications with all stakeholders  
• Develop an advocacy strategy in line with MdM West Africa regional strategy

Grant Management:

• Ensure the identification of funding opportunities  
• Ensure the coherence between mission’s strategy and funding opportunities identified  
• Coordinate the writing of programmatic sections on donor proposals  
• Ensure the quality of program sections in donors’ reports and coordinate exchanges with HQ  
• Ensure regular and smooth communication with donor representatives  
• Support the regular update of donor mapping  

Team Management:

• Ensure the recruitment, integration and supervision of relevant team members and develop a positive management
• Support team members professionally, monitor and support stress management
• Pilot the nationalization process of key staffs and develop a culture of empowerment
• Support the development of a training plan for the program team and build the program team capacity

Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Ensure that SMART indicators are defined.
• Make sure that all needed data of the program are well collected and integrated in MdM monitoring tool.
• Ensure analysis of the data to inform our programs.
• Ensure that a clear and solid M&E framework is in place at mission level
• Elaborate and lead lesson learnt workshops and capitalization exercises

Meetings, Coordination, and Representation:

• Organize coordination meetings with the program team and ensure definition of clear action plans
• Make sure that MdM program team participates in relevant humanitarian coordination meetings  
• Proactively lead on external coordination with other health actors
• Make sure that communities understand MdM intervention
• Work in close collaboration with SMoH and other relevant local health authorities for smooth transition of MdM clinics to identified SMoH run public health facilities.

Your Profile

• Medical or Public Health (preferred), GBV, MHPSS and/or Nutrition background
• At least 5 years of experience in humanitarian settings.
• Experience with an international NGO working in emergency contexts, managing programmes within the health sector.
• Previous experience of programmatic strategy design, project cycle management, budget holding, proposal and report writing.
• Previous experience in conducting exploration in volatile areas is an asset
• Multi-grants and consortium portfolio management skills needed.
• Languages: English is mandatory and knowledge of country languages such as Hausa, Kanuri or French would be an asset.
• You embrace the core values and support the proactive philosophy of Médecins du Monde.

Your Terms of Employment

• Gross Monthly Salary: 3,362 Euros
• Fixed-term contract
• 12 months
• Employee
• Starting date: as soon as possible
• Premium equal to one month salary paid in two instalments – minimum of 6 months seniority required
• Expatriation bonus (10% gross salary per month)
• Transportation cost, vaccines and visas covered
• Guesthouse housing
• 22.5 recovery days per year
• 5 weeks of paid leaves per year
• Health insurance (60% covered by MdM and 40% by the employee)
• Insurance (repatriation…)
• Teleworking agreement for positions eligible to telework: 110 days/year (2.5 days teleworking on average per week) with a minimum of 1 day per week onsite
• Médecins du Monde promotes trainings and internal mobility
• As part of our measures to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism, any selected candidate may be subject to a background check on international sanctions lists (UN, the EU, France, the United States…). This information is handled confidentially and stored on a secure server. For more information on the processing of personal data throughout this process: http://bit.ly/3CSTDYO

Application Closing Date

Not Specified.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should:

Click here to apply online

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