American Leprosy Missions (ALM) is a global organization serving Christ by curing and caring for people suffering from leprosy and other related diseases and helping them to be healed in body and spirit and restored to lives of dignity and hope.
ALM seeks to employ a Regional Program Officer (RPO) who will help ALM realize the vision of a world without leprosy by ensuring a portfolio of projects in the Africa Region are implemented and reported on with excellence. This includes understanding, communicating and implementing monitoring and evaluation best practices, donor requirements and organizational policies in the implementation of projects to ALM staff and partners. This position reports to the Regional Director for Africa.
Specific Responsibilities
- Ensure a portfolio of projects in the region are managed and reported on with excellence
- Coordinate rapid start-up of awarded grants with implementing partners to ensure timely implementation
- Ensure effective, transparent use of resources in compliance with ALM and donor policies and procedures
- Work with the program team to develop or support use of tools as necessary to build organizational and partner capacity in implementation (e.g. budgeting, work plans, cash flow projections, procurement plans, compliance checklists, etc.).
- Compliance with donor regulations and best practices in the field.
- Coordinate and manage project reporting and compliance timelines through the lifecycle of the project and facilitate documentation and dissemination of project learnings.
- Support submission of high quality reports within ALM and to ALM partners, including other NGOs, the UN, and government agencies
- Strengthen the operational research aspect of program implementation in Africa projects.
- Strengthen the M&E framework, systems and capacity for measuring progress and evidencing its impact at multiple levels in line with the strategies of the organization and project
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of both projects and systems to ensure greater transparency and accountability of ALM’s work
- Lead M&E capacity development initiatives (including needs assessment, module development, training facilitation, etc.) for staff and partners on participatory monitoring and evaluation, reporting and accountability
- Support the program team and implementing partners in designing effective projects with clear log frames, strategic project outcomes and appropriately linked and cost-effective activities
- Assist in the development of effective tools and systems enabling the efficient collection, analysis and dissemination of project data
- Ensure relevant program data is shared with other NTD actors and reporting bodies, and that relevant data from external bodies is shared with ALM staff
- Research and learn best practices in monitoring and evaluation and the administration of grants and assist in improving organizational capacity through information sharing and training
Qualifications required.
- Master’s degree in public health, international development, monitoring and evaluation, Project Management or a related field.
- A committed Christian.
- Technical expertise in leprosy and other NTD’s, community development, community engagement and inclusive development.
- 5 or more years relevant professional experience in international development (project implementation, management or new business development in a developing country)
- Significant experience in theories of change, logical frameworks and other project design concepts
- Advanced communication and report writing skills
- Ability to travel internationally, up to 40% of total working days per year
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office products, especially Excel and Outlook.
- Basic accounting and financial reporting experience and skills.
- Ability and willingness to share the Christian faith through word and deed.
- Proficiency in design and implementation of project information databases, DHIS2 or similar software
- Ability to speak and write French will be an added advantage.
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