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ABOUT VILLAGEREACH

VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone, so that each person has the health care needed to thrive. We develop solutions that improve equity and access to primary health care. This includes making sure products are available when and where they are needed and primary health care services are delivered to the most under-reached. Radical collaboration with governments, the private sector and other partners strengthen our ability to scale and sustain these solutions. Our work increases access to quality health care for more than 79 million people in Africa. VillageReach in incorporated in Washington State and has offices in Seattle (USA), Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, and Mozambique.

Summary

The government of Côte d'Ivoire (CDI) aims to increase the modern contraceptive prevalence rate from 22.5% in 2020 to 30% by 2030. However, many challenges remain, including the issue of availability of products at service delivery points. A pilot phase of free provision of FP services was launched in the Agneby-Tiassa region and demonstrated a significant increase in the use of FP services in a context of constant availability of contraceptive products, with a 52% growth in the number of new acceptants of FP methods from September 2021 to May 2023.

To replicate and extend the results of this pilot project to a larger number of health districts, particularly with regard to the availability of contraceptive products at service delivery points, VillageReach is recruiting a Senior Program Manager to support this work.

The Senior Program Manager will work closely with the Country Lead and VillageReach’s Global Technical Team (GTT), in coordinating and providing oversight of the project. They will mentor and coach the focal points on the implementation of the project. They will conduct supervision in the implementation of all interventions to ensure quality assurance. The Senior Program Manager will report to the Country Lead.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

Key roles and Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the project and ensure the efficient implementation of project supply chain activities and the timely reporting of those activities

• Provide technical assistance to MoH staff (DAP, PNSME, NPSP) on the supply chain optimization of family planning products

• Attend technical meetings with MoH, donors and other technical partners

• Collaborate with the Country Lead in resource mobilization efforts

• Contribute to a knowledge management system where the donor vision and government values permeate through our clients to reach beneficiary communities, and the learning from grassroots and countries is documented and shared to influence new programming at national levels.

• Manage and mentor the project team and consultants

• Fostering the growth of a data driven environment with a focus on impact and develop a measurable technical strategy related to supply chain and execute a project results framework, performance monitoring plan, and a result and learning dissemination plan.

Other Activities:

• Assist in writing publications of results; this could be in the form of reports, journal articles, abstracts, presentations, website blogs, etc.

• Any other responsibilities that may be assigned to you from time to time by the Country Lead and The Global Technical Team Director and/or the Supply chain Director. Please note that duties, responsibilities, and priorities may change at any time, so it is important to maintain flexibility and an open mind.

COMPETENCIES:

VillageReach has ten (10) Organizational Competencies that describe how we work together and get things done they are grouped into three strategic areas: Achieving Great Results, Setting Direction and, Bringing Others With you. For a full description, please download our Organizational Competency document.

Achieving Great Results:

1. Risk Taking and Innovation

• Key Behaviors: Comfort with ambiguity, curiosity, adaptability, unconstrained and undeterred creativity, resourcefulness.

2. Business Judgement

• Key Behaviors: Getting to root causes, understanding environment, navigating complexity and ambiguity, entrepreneurial energy.

2. Building Strong Teams

• Key Behaviors: Trust in Subject Matter Experts (SME’s); radical candor to resolve conflict, hold each other accountable as colleagues, focused on results, commitment to mission.

Setting Direction:

4. Compelling Communication

• Key Behaviors: Clear and evidence-based communication, audience adaptability, curious listener.

5. Resilient Self Leadership

• Key Behaviors: Self-aware, plan how one shows up, emotionally intelligent, use one’s own agency and takes accountability.

6. Stewardship and Personal Alignment

• Key Behaviors: Take ownership, display ethical conduct, effective at resource management, alignment of personal objectives with organizational goals and mission, focus on continuous improvement and sustainability.

Bringing Others with You:

7. Influencing Leadership

• Key Behaviors: Cultivate trust, influences to make change, navigate the matrix structure.

8. Radical Partnership

• Key Behaviors: Share information and credit, address conflict, increase impact through collaboration, political and contextual awareness.

9. Cultivates a Growth Mindset

• Key Behaviors: Seek out diverse input, demonstrate flexibility in thinking and curiosity, embrace challenges, demonstrate persistence, seek learning opportunities.

10. Cultural Intelligence and Inclusion

• Key Behaviors: Continuous learning and ally-ship across cultural lines, challenge prejudice and bias, modeled in one’s own behavior.