State Program Manager at Heartland Alliance Limited / GTE (HALG)

Heartland Alliance Limited / GTE (HA) is an indigenous non-governmental organization established to address the human rights needs of vulnerable persons in the society.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: State Program Manager

Location: Bayelsa
Position type: (Full time)
Reports to: Deputy Chief of Party

Job Summary

• The State Program Manager is responsible for the design, implementation, and close-out of a portfolio of activities at the state level.
• The incumbent works with HALG Regional Office and community stakeholders to identify, prioritize and design activities that respond to community priorities to accelerate control of the HIV epidemic.
• The State Program Manager, working with state-level grants and program staff, is charged with oversight of project activities to ensure that all tasks are completed within timeframe and budget parameters.

Responsibilities
Capacity building:

• Serve as a focal point for the capacity building of local partners and organizational development.
• Provide support to the HALG and local partners’ program staff through trainings, program coordination and management and effective communication in a right based environment.
• Responsible for the full implementation of HALG programming at the field level.
• Implement the capacity development plan of local partner’s program staff through conducting on-site, formal, and informal trainings, including training-of-trainers sessions and advising step-down trainings to meet program objectives.

Management and Supervision:

• Serve as the project's key liaison to HALG Country Office.
• In collaboration with Regional Office HR, Finance, IT, M&E, Program Departments, ensures State Office (field) supervisors adhere to and implement policies and procedures; engages all levels of staff in the strategic planning process; and provides feedback for improvements.
• Monitor progress towards and barriers from reaching project or program goals and objectives, provides timely updates and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Submits monthly and quarterly narrative reports on program updates and financial activities to the Deputy Chief of Party in a timely manner.
• Ensures the timely collection, collation, and submission of high-quality progress report data to the M&E unit at the Regional Office through HALG standard tools and software packages.
• Ensures timely and effective training and mentoring is provided to Peer Educators, Outreach Coordinators, and other relevant stakeholders on HALG service delivery models, which may include- counseling and psychosocial support for target population, distribute HIV educational materials, condoms, and other harm reduction materials.

Service delivery support:

• Maintain overall responsibility for the delivery of high-quality HIV prevention, care, and treatment services to target population in line with national and international best practices.
• Ensures timely and effective training and mentoring of service providers in conjunction with relevant Regional Office Technical staff.
• Ensures gender-based violence services, mental health counseling and psychosocial support for target population.

Qualifications

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or competency required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

• First Degree in Medical Science, Management, Social Science, or a related field; Advanced Degree in Public Health or Social Science preferred.
• At least 7 years’ experience working with a NGO, must include project implementation, supervisory and capacity building experience in public health or social science program management.
• Previous experience working in the location and knowledge of local language is essential.
• Experience working with in collaboration with local partners, NGOs, and CBOs.
• Experience in capacity building, HIV/AIDS Advocacy, prevention, treatment, and care, STI management and or care.

Other Competencies:

• Time Management – Ability to prioritize tasks, manage time and complete projects in a fast-paced, changing environment with minimal supervision.
• Quality Management - Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.
• Written Communication - Writes clearly and informatively; edits work for spelling and grammar; varies writing style to meet needs; presents numerical data effectively.
• Adaptability - adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation; able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
• Cultural Sensitivity – Respects cultural environment in which person is working and does not act in a manner that is outwardly offensive to the local community.
• Non-discriminatory- Does not discriminate persons based on sexual orientation or gender identity, age, preferred jobs or behavioral habits.

Language Skills:

• Excellent oral and written English communication skills.
• Knowledge of Local Language preferred.
• Demonstrated competency in public speaking.

Computer Skills:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Outlook/Exchange, Windows operating systems, Power Point.
• Other software routinely used by Heartland Alliance. 

Work Environment:

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• The employee will be required to co-locate with local partners usually in the same office.
• The employee is required to travel regularly to often insecure and limited resource environments.

Application Closing Date
31st December, 2024.