**Senior Programs Manager-Maternal, Neonatal, Child Health, and Immunization for Africa, Global Health**
- Location: _
- Africa_
**Job Title**: Senior Programs Manager - Maternal, Neonatal, Child Health, and Immunization for Africa (SPM-MNCHI)
**Location**: Preferably in Africa (preference to be based in one of the following countries: Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Zambia, Namibia, Malawi, or Ethiopia), or in the United States (Remote work option)
**Organization**:Project HOPE - Public Health Focused Non-Governmental Organization
**Project HOPE** is an international NGO with employees and volunteers who work around the globe responding to the world's most pressing global health challenges. Throughout our 65-year legacy, Project HOPE has treated millions of patients, provided more than $3 billion worth of medicines to local health care organizations around the world, helped build hundreds of health programs from the ground up, and responded to humanitarian crises worldwide.
**Code of Conduct**
It is our shared responsibility and obligation to treat each other with respect, take affirmative steps to prevent matters involving Sexual Exploitation & Abuse and Trafficking in Persons, and to disclose all potential and actual violations of our Code of Conduct, which may include Conflicts of Interest, Fraud, Corruption, Discrimination or Harassment. Together we can reinforce a**_ culture of respect, integrity, accountability, and transparency._**
**Job Description Summary**
The Senior Program Manager (SPM-MNCHI) will be responsible for leading and overseeing the strategic development, management, and implementation of programs aimed at improving reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child health, nutrition, and immunization outcomes across multiple countries across Africa. The role will focus on improving maternal and child health, reducing preventable deaths, and enhancing immunization coverage through evidence-based, comprehensive interventions. The SPM-MNCHI will manage multi-country programs, working closely with local governments, partners, stakeholders, and donors to ensure effective, high-impact program delivery. The role requires deep clinical and programmatic expertise in reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health, as well as an understanding of nutrition and immunization systems, across Africa.
**Key Responsibilities**
**Program Management**
- **Leadership and Oversight**: Lead and oversee the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child health, nutrition, and immunization programs across Africa, ensuring they align with global health guidelines and local needs.
- **Coordination**: Collaborate closely with country-based teams, Global leaders and local stakeholders to align program activities with organizational objectives, national health policies, and donor requirements, ensuring comprehensive approaches to maternal, neonatal, child health, and nutrition.
- **Monitoring & Evaluation**:Work with country teams and the global monitoring, evaluation and learning team to implement robust M&E frameworks to track program progress and measure outcomes, ensuring interventions are effective, sustainable, and data-driven. Provide leadership on data analysis and reporting to refine program strategies.
- **Quality Assurance**: Ensure that all interventions are high-quality, culturally sensitive, and responsive to local needs, while meeting global health standards in maternal, child, and nutrition health services.
- **Risk Management**: Identify potential risks to program success (including operational, financial, and political risks) and design effective mitigation strategies to maintain program effectiveness and continuity.
**Representational Duties**
- **Stakeholder Engagement**:Serve as the Africa Team's primary point of contact for maternal, neonatal, child health, nutrition, and immunization programs, building relationships with national and local governments, UN agencies, donors, and key health sector partners.
- **Advocacy**:Represent the organization in high-level meetings, policy forums, and conferences, advocating for improved investments in maternal and child health, and immunization coverage.
- **Donor Relations**: Cultivate relationships with donors, ensuring timely updates on program progress, identifying opportunities for future funding, and working to align program goals with donor priorities.
- **Public Representation**: Represent Project HOPE at relevant health forums, conferences, and in the media to raise awareness of RMNCH-NI issues and advocate for effective global health solutions.
**Finance Management**
- **Budget Oversight**: In collaboration with global and country focal persons, lead the financial management of program budgets, ensuring alignment with donor funding and adherence to organizational financial policies.
- **Resource Allocation**: Ensure that financial resources are allocated effectively to achieve program goals,