South Sudan (Republic of): Operations Coordinator

Malaria Consortium is one of the world's leading non-profit organisations dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria Consortium works with communities, government and non-government agencies, academic institutions, and local and international organisations, to ensure good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing technical support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities for evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning. The organisation works to improve not only the health of the individual, but also the capacity of national health systems, which helps relieve poverty and support improved economic prosperity.

The post holder will ensure the operational excellence of Malaria Consortium’s programmes in Africa by ensuring strong management support services, excluding finance. The post holder will make substantial contributions to the development and periodic review of relevant organisation wide policies, procedures and management tools.

In addition to our malaria control work our five core programmes in South Sudan are; the provision of community level treatment for childhood diseases for diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria through integrated Community Case Management (iCCM); nutrition for under-fives including emergency nutrition and SMART surveys; Health Systems Strengthening including HMIS and IECHC training at County Health Department level; LLIN continuous distribution pilot study and the recently concluded operational research and support for mass drug administration on Neglected Tropical Diseases. We also work with the MoH on policy and guideline development.

We have an office in Juba and a large sub office in Aweil, Northern Bar el Ghazel. Additional project officer closed earlier this year in Upper Nile and Unity States. We have additional programs in Central Equitoria that are run out from the Juba office with frequent travel to Yei. Currently the South Sudan office runs nine grants with approximately 100 staff and has a projected income of £2m for the 2011/12 financial year.

The Operations Coordinator (Ops Co) will manage and coordinate the Logistics and Human Resources and Admin departments across South Sudan. The Ops Co will be responsible for security and general coordination of operations functions of Malaria Consortium South Sudan and ensure efficient and timely operational support is provided to the Program staff to implement quality programs. The Ops Co is also responsible to ensure correct records are maintained to allow Finance Department to process payments to time and all editable documentation is in line with donor requirements, specific to each grant.

The Ops Co is a member of the Country Management Team (CMT); he/she will work closely with the other members of the CMT to achieve the programme’s objectives. Ops Co reports to the Country Director and will cover for the CD and take on CD responsibilities in CD’s absence.

This position will be based in Juba with regular travel within South Sudan as required.

The successful candidate will have:

Essential:

• Leadership • Understanding of procurement procedures and can demonstrate examples of putting these procedures into practice. • Financial, budgetary and excel skills. • Proficient in Microsoft systems and packages (Windows, Office, Outlook). • Organisational and personal time management skills. • Can demonstrate ability to prioritize. • Ability to communicate, negotiate and influence people from different back grounds and professions and those at different levels; Government, military, International partners (UN, NGOs, CBOs, donors) from senior officials and community members. • Analytical skills: ability to understand, analyse, summarise and share information, re packaging information for different audiences. • Flexible and able to adapt to a quickly changing environment by applying knowledge and experience to solve unforeseen and unexpected problems.

For more information please visit our website www.malariaconsortium.org where you will have access to the full Job Description. Please send a covering letter outlining how your skills and experience meet the Person Specification along with your CV to Human Resources at HR.Recruitment@malariaconsortium.org. Please quote the position and country in the subject line of your application.

We appreciate your application however, only short listed candidates will be contacted. If you have not been contacted within three weeks of the closing date we regret that your application has been unsuccessful. Please continue, however, to periodically review our website for other suitable opportunities. Thank you for your interest in Malaria Consortium.