Programme Coordinator at NACOSA

The Programme Coordinator Role

• The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, Aids-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) programme provides a comprehensive package of core interventions to address key factors that make adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) particularly vulnerable to HIV. These include structural factors, such as gender-based violence, exclusion from economic opportunities, and a lack of access to secondary school. DREAMS layers multiple interventions at once so that AGYW are surrounded with critical support to keep them safe from HIV and other risks.
• The Programme Coordinator position will support and deliver on NACOSA’s USAID funded Community-based Violence Prevention and Linkages to Response in SA Programme. This HIV and GBV Prevention Programme focuses on delivering both evidence-based group interventions to AGYW and adolescent boys (aged 15-24 years), as well as services to survivors of sexual violence (females aged 10-24 years).

NACOSA is looking for experienced Programme Coordinators to deliver on the following key performance areas:

• Performance management on a day-to-day basis, including guidance and support of implementation staff to meet weekly targets in terms of recruitment, enrolment and completion of GBV prevention group-based interventions
• Managing and tracking of daily staff attendance, leave monitoring and ensuring accurate submission of monthly time sheets by staff
• Conduct weekly, monthly, quarterly planning and microplanning with facilitators to ensure daily activities implemented are geared towards meeting of targets that includes planning for recruitment and enrolment activities, setting up group sessions with beneficiaries enrolled, securing safe spaces, arranging catering and planning vehicle utilization.
• Developing contingency plans and utilizing problem solving to overcome day to day challenges such as poor recruitment turnout, staff being off sick e.g. shifting staff around to ensure targets are still reached on a daily basis
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to support the smooth implementation of evidence- based group interventions
• Develop and implement a strategy to meet sub-district targets (recruitment, demand creation and uptake of services) of the two group-based interventions
• Support the appointment and supervision and debriefing of suitable staff to implement group-based interventions
• Provide continuous quality assessment and improvement strategies wrt the delivery of programs
• Develop tools to ensure bi-directional referral pathways for successful linkages for DREAMS AGYW to health, education and social support services.
• Engage fellow DREAMS partners on co-location and micro-planning of services to ensure successful referral of all eligible AGYW to relevant DREAMS partner services
• Work closely with the M&E team to refine and build on the suite of M&E tools in place so as to ensure the monitoring tools are fit for purpose
• Document challenges, best practices and success stories

Requirements

Required qualifications, skills and experience

NACOSA are looking for an experienced Programme Coordinator with a successful track record of programme management.

• Bachelor degree or equivalent in Social Science/Public Health or related discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years specific HIV prevention related work experience in the health and social development sectors, and preferably in the field of OVC, AGYW and/or survivors of sexual violence
• Experience in managing direct implementation teams and attainment of intervention targets
• Well established community/stakeholder relationship building track record/ability to network and navigate communities
• Experience in programme planning, implementation, management and M&E
• Problem solving skills and ability to think on your feet
• Knowledge about: HIV prevention, sexual and reproductive health; HIV Testing Services; GBV programming; evidence-informed and rights-based programming for survivors of GBV, particularly for adolescent girls and young women.
• Excellent communications skills in English, including the ability to guide implementers on the programme.
• Must be analytically minded and have excellent writing skills, including the ability to compile insightful and user-friendly reports.
• Excellent computer skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with experience of web-based data systems
• Must be highly organised, deadline driven and efficient with planning skills and a proactive and positive approach.
• Ability to work well in a team environment, and to coordinate multiple inputs to tight deadlines, with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Understanding of the NGO sector and knowledge of big donor processes/requirements will be a benefit.
• Driver’s license non-negotiable

CLOSING DATE:  21 May 2023