South Sudan: Technical Coordinator/Assistant Country Director– South Sudan

Title: Technical Coordinator/Assistant Country Director– South Sudan

Work Base: MENTOR base in Juba with frequent travel to MENTOR field bases

Reporting to: Country Director South Sudan – The MENTOR Initiative, and technically to the HQ Programme Manager.

Overall Job Purpose:

The MENTOR Initiative (MENTOR) is a specialised NGO with a focus on vector borne diseases. In South Sudan MENTOR is highly regarded and seen as the go-to agency for malaria mosquito control.

The Consultant’s services are required to assist MENTOR‘s overall implementation of the provision of emergency vector borne disease control services for vulnerable communities in South Sudan. The candidate will be leading and coordinating MENTOR technical teams across different sites within the country. Reporting to the Country Director (CD), and HQ team, this role will lead the technical aspects of programme activities. The critical task is to ensure the programme achieves its objectives in all the technically related activities in accordance with the programme grant/award(s). The consultant will be responsible, with the CD, in ensuring that MENTOR’s profile within South Sudan maintains the status of the leading vector borne disease specialist. In the absence of the CD, the Technical Coordinator will take on the responsibilities of the CD running the entire country mission.

Main Responsibilities

1.Technical Support and direction:

· The Technical Coordinator/Assistant Country Director will be responsible for the technical design and delivery of the South Sudan emergency response

· The Technical Coordinator/Assistant Country will drawi support and advice for specialist areas where needed from within the country team, HQ and other sources, to reinforce the quality of programme

· The Technical Coordinator/Assistant Country Director will be responsible for continued data collection, surveillance, monitoring, evaluating and analysis of the technical aspects of programme delivery.

· The Technical Coordinator/Assistant Country Director will be responsible for maintaining continuous coordination across the MENTOR technical team, in order to efficiently and effectively roll-out vector control campaigns using appropriate prevention techniques (Indoor Residual Spraying, larviciding, LLIN distribution, fly control/WASH) and supported by extensive and well adapted IEC/BCC.

2.Coordination and Team Management

· Direct line management of all programme technical coordinators.

· Coordinate and support the Prevention and Medical Coordinator/s by directing their activities towards areas with high malaria and other vector borne disease case- loads and the most vulnerable populations.

3.Ensure Effective Technical Representation and Co-ordination of Partners

· Represent MENTOR at technical meetings with NGO, UN and national partners to help inform and support a co-ordinated approach to vector borne disease control in South Sudan.

Act as the vector borne disease technical focal point for the cluster partners, whilst helping to reinforce a co-ordinated humanitarian response for vector borne disease control.

4.Grant Management, Programme Reporting and Proposal Development

· Assume overall responsibility for collating ongoing technical reports, ensuring all public facing reports are reviewed and approved by HQ prior to submission.

· Responsible for production of all donor quarterly and other reports as per donor agreements

· Work with the Country Director, HQ based Programme Manager to regularly assess with partners new opportunities for the developing needs for disease control.

· Work with the Country Director, HQ based Programme Manager and Grants Manager in seeking new opportunities for establishing new funding streams and providing the technical input into proposal development.

5.Communication

Internal:

· Ensure regular verbal and oral communication with all Technical and Project Field Coordinators.

· Produce and submit (to HQ) weekly internal activity reports (situation reports, weekly reports, bi-weekly reports)of all programme activities carried out. This report shall include identification of areas of weakness and strengths and recommendation for improvement in implementation and performance of technically related tasks.

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· As requested work with MENTOR HQ to share best practice across the organization.

· Take part in the Annual reporting on the overall results and impacts,, challenges and general analysis of the ongoing objectives in relation to the programme

· Ensure and maintain good communication with HQ Programme Manager and Country Director with all issues relating to technical aspects of programme activities.

External:

· Act as key technical representative at donor meetings and partner meetings.

· Support the CD in assessment missions when required.

· Assist the CD with field related information for external reports and/or donor proposals and in the creation of viable new proposals and budgets for future grants

· Represent MENTOR at State/National level meetings with the government and Health Partners to help inform and support a coordinated approach to disease control in South Sudan. Ensure coordination and constructive working relations and attendance at relevant inter-agency coordination meetings

· Maintain excellent communication lines with existing and potential future donor partners and technical counterparts in partner agencies.

· Ensure a transparent and efficient exchange of data, context reports etc. with relevant stakeholders.

· Any other related duties as may be assigned by the CD and agreed with the HQ Managers and/or the Director.

6.Reinforcing Epidemiological Monitoring, Reporting and Data Management

Work with all technical coordinators to:

· Ensure standardised and appropriate data collection across all programme areas that responds to agreed donor reporting indicators (as a minimum)

· Ensure effective monitoring and analysis data to identify areas with ongoing epidemics, with high risk of epidemics or with other vector borne disease crisis

· Provide technical support and leadership in the Health and WASH Clusters to reinforce vector borne disease epidemiological reporting in South Sudan.

· Develop and share vector borne disease epidemiological reports with partners.

7.Programme support

· 50-75% time of travel to all sites within the programme to assist and provide technical expertise, whilst working closely with field teams to ensure, enhance and provide strategic direction of the technical support given

8.Research and development

· In close collaboration with HQ initiate, design and develop concept papers for operational research studies that may enhance future VBD control in South Sudan.

· Coordinate in operational research activities in relation to vector-borne diseases.

9.Community based interventions

· Build organisational capacity to develop to scale community health worker systems in relation to vector borne disease control services.

· Identify high risk vulnerable communities where community based service delivery is needed to ensure adequate disease control services that are accessible.

· Work with UNICEF and other health partners to agree community based service delivery models and proposals and the types of service delivery that are appropriate and feasible (simplified ICCM and other community level services).

· Work with HQ to advise on community based case management network models for other emergency and development contexts in which the organisation works

CV and letter of motivation to recruitment@mentor-initiative.net