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VillageReach
VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone. We are driven by a vision of a world where each person has the health care needed to thrive. VillageReach’s goal is to reduce inequities in access to quality primary health care for 350 million people by 2030. We work with governments, the private sector, partners and communities to build responsive primary health care systems that deliver health products, information and services to the most under-reached. As a locally driven and globally connected organization, VillageReach has offices in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and the United States.
VillageReach is providing technical support to the Equity Accelerator Funding program (EAF) provincial coordination in Tshopo and Haut-Katanga for effective and efficient coordination of EAF and other interventions and investments. The EAF is a Gavi initiative designed to reduce the number of zero-dose and under-immunized children by addressing barriers to equitable vaccine access. Based on VillageReach learnings from this support , we aim to inform and influence Gavi’s 6.0 strategy, so it is characterized by innovation, equity, effectiveness in vaccine delivery, empowerment of local actors, resilience to outbreaks and climate change impacts.
This position will be supervised by the DRC Lead for Advocacy, Communication and Partnership and will work in close collaboration with the NGCA Program Manager, and Global Lead for Immunization.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.
1. Project Management and Coordination
o Provide day-to-day management of the project, including organizing and attending meetings and documenting meeting outcomes
o Collate inputs from provincial teams and integrate them into the EAF learning framework as well as other externally facing documentations, ensuring a strategic perspective is maintained.
o Collate inputs and prepare briefing materials for monthly update discussions with the the funder , as well as biweekly update meetings with technical partners and the funder and VillageReach.
o Track timeline and deliverables for all SOWs, including cost-effectiveness analysis, gender, provincial coordination etc.
o Communicate with internal stakeholders within VillageReach’s DRC office and globally, including supporting the identification and resolution of challenges
o Draft and finalize PowerPoint presentations and documents for discussions with the funders and technical partners in English, ensuring clarity and alignment with project priorities.
o Provide regular updates to Gavi’s SCM and incorporate their feedback into project planning and implementation.
2. EAF learnings:
o Coordinate with DRC staff in Tshopo and Haut Katanga to populate the learning framework and capture key learnings
o Document and capture how EAF is functioning in DRC.
o Lead internal discussions with DRC staff to reflect on functioning of various zero dose (ZD) interventions to (1) form VillageReach’s perspective on how ZD interventions are performing, and (2) develop a plan for where VillageReach can support
o Synthesize lessons learned from provinces to inform VillageReach’s strategic inputs into Gavi’s evolving policies and programming.
o Ongoing support to TA and documentation of learnings
3. Technical Assistance to Mashako Plan Steering Committee :
o Support and participate in key EPI meetings reviewing various investments/programs, including those focused on ZD by analyzing immunization data, All data analyzed will be gender disaggregated to the extent possible and include indicators that impact gender; consolidating and analyzing the monthly data of the performance indicators of the Mashako Plan; monitoring the implementation of the action points taken during the coordination meetings;
o Support Tshopo and Haut-Katanga provinces in the evaluation of the implementation of the key recommendations resulting from the Evaluation workshop of EAF and other ZD interventions . .
o Monitoring the outputs and outcomes of activities and provide a critical feedback loop for EAF programming.
o Support the planning and organization of the ICC meetings.
4. External Representation
o Track and keep updated with key strategy development (e.g. Gavi 6.0 ), leveraging regular calls and meeting with the funder and Immunization Lead at VillageReach
o Coordinate closely with technical partners to jointly plan and prepare materials for Gavi engagements, ensuring consistency in approach and messaging.
o Ensure that DRC’s experience is visible to the right audiences at the right time determined collaboratively with VillageReach and the funder, to influence strategic improvements in immunization interventions (e.g. HSS strategy) so ZD and under-immunized children are more effectively reached
o Strong coordination with VillageReach Immunization Lead and CSO Representative to the Gavi Board to engage with Gavi.
o Work with the communication team in DRC and globally to create case studies and other forms of collateral to inform donor strategies (e.g. Gavi’s 6.0 strategy).
o Work with the VillageReach Immunization Lead, communication team in DRC and globally to engage the media and share key activities and outcomes of ZD efforts
VillageReach has ten (10) Organizational Competencies that describe how we work together and get things done that are grouped into three strategic areas of 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.
3. 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.
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 ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This position directly supervises up to 3 employees.
VillageReach employees typically work in a shared, open environment with task and conference rooms accessible to employees for privacy and meetings. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet. Due to the time zone differences across our USA, Kenya and Country Offices and location of other global staff, we have established core collaboration hours between 6am Pacific Time and 18:00 South Africa Time (GMT+1) Monday through Thursday. All staff, regardless of location are expected to be available between these hours. During Daylight Savings Time, this allows for 12 hours per week (3 hours/day) of collaboration time and during Standard Time, 8 hours (2 hours/day). We do not hold cross-office meetings on Friday.
VillageReach is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to workforce diversity. We believe that diverse, equitably weighted perspectives foster an organizational capacity to create novel solutions that improve health in the most under-reached and hard-to-reach areas. To align our values, innovations and impact, VillageReach is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse global workforce.
This is an immediate hire and therefore resumes will be reviewed on a rolling basis. To apply, please submit your resume and a cover letter plus any other desired materials to our online portal: http://www.villagereach.org/join-us/. In your cover letter, please address (1)Why you are interested in this position, (2)What is one reason you think you’d be a good fit for this position and, (3)what is one strength you would bring to this position?
The hiring process will include the following steps:
1. Review submitted applications
2. Conduct 20-30 minute screening interviews for shortlisted candidates
3. Conduct skills and value-based interviews for 3-5 candidates.
4. Request that top candidates submit a practical assessment (designed to take no more than two hours to complete). Sometimes the assignment will occur before the interview.
5. Conduct final interview if necessary
6. Request references
7. Make offer
8. Conduct background check
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted, but candidates who proceed to step 2 will be notified if they are not chosen for step 3.
VillageReach is committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults, and beneficiaries with whom it engages. We expect everyone working with us to share this commitment through our code of conduct.All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which may include criminal records. VillageReach participates in the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and, in line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By applying, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.
VillageReach has an established compensation structure that is based on the relevant market and internally transparent. The annual gross remuneration of this position is $59,700 - $ 64,400 p.a. We hire people into the established range based on their experience and education, and considering internal equity. We do not inquire about salary history. Please refer to our compensation overview on our website for more information, as well as details on employee benefits.
