Senior Reproductive Health Manager at The International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Job Overview/Summary: In partnership with Marie Stopes Tanzania (MST), IRC intends to implement a 60 month project with a role focusing on direct family planning service delivery in Mtendeli, Nduta, and Nyarugusu refugee camps and the local population in the Kigoma region. The Scaling-up Family Planning project, by 2023, will reach 240,000 additional users, provide 10 million couple years of protection and avert 6200 maternal deaths. These results will be achieved through the provision of family planning services, Comprehensive Post-Abortion Care (CPAC) and management of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Tanzania. There will be a specific focus on women and girls in Tanzania who will be the primary recipients of the services.

The Programme Manager will be responsible for ensuring the success of day-to-day operations, activities planning and ensuring effective delivering against the project’s work plan. He/she will also oversee the generation of data and be responsible for reporting. He/she will be based at Kigoma with periodic travel to Dar es Salaam to MSI offices and IRC’s country office for consortium related activities. He/she will report to IRC’s Senior Health Coordinator. 

Major Responsibilities:

Project Management and Monitoring

• Oversee the implementation of all IRC FP/CPAC  service delivery activities in Kigoma refugee camps
• Work closely with IRC’s GBV focal person on implementation of GBV related activities in refugee camps and host communities.
• Work with project staff to develop and actively track project work plans
• Closely monitor overall programme quality and performance in terms of data measurement, spend rate on budgets, staffing at country level, on-time delivery of reports and other products.
• Act as the singular focal point for regular updates to relevant IRC internal stakeholders, including regional leadership, IPD leadership, and PQU leadership
• Contribute to the development of robust data collection systems to ensure that the Scaling-up Family Planning programme is data-driven and that programmatic decisions are grounded in evidence.
• Review Budget vs. Actual expenditures on a monthly basis, providing relevant feedback to the finance department and adjusting activities as required.
• Enforce stewardship and accountability by ensuring that resources are efficiently and effectively utilized within the project for the intended purpose

Partner Coordination and Representation

• Serve as the focal point with MST to develop joint work plans and share IRC-specific progress and lessons learned  
• Represent the IRC at consortium-level meetings and in presenting project results to external actors
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders including government actors, UN agencies, international and local NGOs, and other relevant actors.
• Where necessary develop strategic partnerships with local organizations
• Represent IRC to local communities, government departments, international agencies, and local partners as required. 

Reporting

• Coordinate the production of all narrative reports from IRC country teams and provide feedback to improve product quality, accuracy, and style
• Ensure high quality, timely and coherent reporting, both financial and narrative to the consortium lead

Professional Standards

The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct.  These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability.  In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.