Programme Coordinator - Maternal Mental Wellbeing Programme (Limpopo) at Right to Care

Description

• Right To Care is looking for a suitable qualified Programme Coordinator to be based in Limpopo
• Responsible for  planning, tracking, managing and building the relationships required to implement the Mothers Mental Wellbeing Pilot, within the assigned communities. Ensure quality at all levels of programme implementation, monitoring, and reporting.

Requirements

Required Minimum Qualifications and Experience :

• 2 years’ experience in leading successful health programmes and health training.
• 2 years’ project management.
• 2 years’ training experience.
• 2 years’ monitoring and report writing.
• Track record of developing productive relationships with the Department of Health and other stakeholders
• Fluent In English and Sepedi

Desirable Qualifications and Experience :

• Post-graduate Diploma in Public Health, Mental Health, Project Manager or similar
• Computer certificate
• Experience is leading mental health programmes
• Experience in implementing monitoring systems
• Experience in operational management, including managing projects, people, and finance

Key Performance Area (KPAs

Project Management

• Effectively co-ordinate all activities of program staff in the assigned geographical locations.
• Provide and/or facilitate the provision of training and mentorship to teams and other department of health staff.
• Conduct regular meetings as needed with program management to determine their progress, any issues and any suggested improvements within the programs.
• Ensure all reports are submitted on time and are of sufficient quality.
• Ensure implementation of project tasks in alignment to project plan, timelines, scope and budget.
• Ensure that targets are met and mitigating actions are in place and communicated weekly, where a target is not met.
• Effectively monitor the quality of support rendered to expectant mothers/mothers  and where gaps are identified, support the implementation of remedial actions.
• Facilitate and integrate weekly work-plans of all partners and teams, review the weekly plan to ensure identified program objectives will be met by the proposed activities and submit all such plans to the Programme Management.
• Attend all stakeholder meetings as required and give feedback to the teams and management.

Clinical Management

• Provide ongoing Technical Assistance to project staff and health workers on all operational and implementation issues regarding Mental Health Care and Wellbeing of mothers.
• Remain up to date with relevant Mental Health Care  global and national policy and practice and suggest improvements to project.

HR and Staff Development

• Assist with introduction of new employees to appropriate stakeholders and complete the orientation processes.
• Ensure all newly employed staff are suitably inducted and capacitated to effectively discharge their duties.
• Work with DoH Facility and Sub-district teams and Head of Programmes (Right to Care) to develop joint training plans.
• Provision of training, mentorship and supervision to project staff.
• Oversee and manage weekly monitoring meetings.
• Monitor and track programmatic work of during site visits to communities.

Communication

• Build and maintain working relationships with Department of Health at all levels and other stakeholders (including CBOs, CLOs, local authorities and community leaders) for effective implementation of pilot.
• Facilitate communication between Programme Lead and delivery staff
• Ensure proper representation of Right to Care at all relevant activities

Data Management

• Ensure data reviews are conducted bi-monthly
• Ensure that the progress review sessions for each community take place weekly
• Oversee all programme activities in the region are in accordance with the approved project work plans
• Manage project deliverables in line with the project plan and make necessary adjustments consistent with plan objectives if need be.
• Record and manage project issues and escalate where necessary
• Liaise with the Head of Programmes for planning and reporting on project activities and progress
• Monitor project progress and performance in line with the project results chain
• Review and analyse M&E data and recommend adjustments to design in conjunction with data manager as needed.
• Entry of data into programme and Provincial DoH databases
• Ensure timelines on submission of progress reports are observed as required for the pilot
• Participation in the documentation of case studies, key lessons learnt, success stories and best practice (monthly)
• Consolidate project reports and analyse results

Stakeholder Engagement

• Liaise with local and regional stakeholders to ensure effective implementation of project activities

Administration and Financial Management

• Facilitate seamless collaboration and cooperation between the different teams and cadres of staff
• Ensure that the project is delivered on time, to budget and to the required quality standards
• Fleet management- work with Program Procurement Officer in the:
• Management of company car use and prevention of misuse/abuse thereof
• Traffic offences management
• Collision damage management
• Petrol cards and disc validity
• Roadworthiness and car services and repairs
• Vehicle requisition
• Asset management
• Inventory and loss control
• Asset procurement and utilization