- Where
- Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
- Level
- Mid
ABOUT 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.
SUMMARY
VillageReach is seeking an experienced Project Officer to provide programmatic and operational support for the implementation of the ROHA (Rapid Response Outreach & Humanitarian Action) program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The program covers the humanitarian provinces of the east — Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu, Maniema and Tanganyika — together with the Next Generation of Supply Chain (NGCA) provinces of Haut Lomami and Lualaba. The Project Officer will support the Senior Program Manager in strategic planning, coordination, and supervision of VillageReach’s rapid-response and humanitarian action team. The role requires a combination of programmatic and operational experience in supporting multi-provincial humanitarian programs in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time based on program needs and the evolving humanitarian context.
Support the Senior Program Manager in the strategic planning, execution, and oversight of the ROHA program across the selected provinces.
Support the Senior Program Manager in the management of grant milestones, ensuring timely and quality execution of all deliverables
Participate in the coordination of performance monitoring meetings.
Support the targeted province monthly in benchmarking administrative vaccination coverage data as well as in categorizing the ZS from the best to the worst performing, to create a spirit of emulation between ZS and to better highlight the ZS that are dragging the province down.
Produce quarterly reports highlighting success stories, lessons learned, and challenges.
Monitor key indicators: vaccine availability rate, drop-out rate, strategy implementation rate, quality supervision rate.
Oversee award budgets across the selected provinces, including expense approvals within delegated thresholds, reforecasting as required and final review of expenses, in accordance with the RACI per Award.
Manage consultant contracts and subawards, ensuring that partner due diligence, monitoring and supporting documentation meet VillageReach and donor requirements. Escalate any challenges to the Senior Program Manager.
Maintain all award records, deliverables and programme documentation on SharePoint in accordance with the DRC filing key, and document all donor discussions through agreed minutes or a written summary shared with the donor and the Senior Program Manager, notifying the Senior Management Team, the programme team and Grants & Contracts.
Other:
Perform any other task assigned by the line management in connection with VillageReach’s humanitarian mission.
Competencies:
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…