Job Description

The Chief of Party for Infectious Disease (CoP-ID) will lead World Vision’s contributions- in partnership with the government- to reach the Somali Global Fund TB country program targets.  He/she will oversee a technical unit to support government and partners with program design, planning, coordination, monitoring, evaluation accountability and learning (MEAL), as well as procurement, fund and risk management.   The CoP-ID will lead engagement with other Global Fund TB/HIV partners to enable joint actions and learning.  They will actively seek out partnerships with public and private health services providers, academic institutions and innovators to promote integrated health services, strengthen the reach of and reporting for infectious disease control, and drive efficiency and effectiveness.  In partnership with program stakeholders, advocate and position for new finance and develop proposals to increase and diversify resources for infectious disease control.  The position-holder will champion capacity building of partners to support the localization of infectious disease control.  He/she will oversee the development and implementation of a learning and advocacy strategies with partners, support program awareness, as well as lead the creation of operational research and dissemination of best-practices through the participation in national, regional and global infectious disease control learning forums.  

1.    Lead World Vision Somalia Principal Recipient Team to the attainment of set Country Program targets for Somalia Global Fund National program.

2.    To oversee the management and implementation (program and financial), including coordination of all implementing partner organization (sub recipients -currently 25 organizations) for the Global Fund TB program and TB/HIV in Somalia. 

Major Responsibilities

On-time, on-target and to-specification achievement of country program targets for the Somali Global Fund National program

Design 

•    Lead in the development and/or review of Somali National Program Strategy;

•    Lead coordination with program partners to develop new phases and/or top-ups to the Global Fund program;

•    Develop Program Implementation Plans (PIP) with WV counterparts to ensure adequate resources are in place to deliver efficient and effective infectious disease control program;

Planning

•    Lead the coordination of program stakeholders for the co-creation/review of program plans on a regular basis;

•    Ensure the development of program-wide Detailed Implementation Plan, ITT and cash flow for (i) WV-led technical unit, (ii) government and (iii) NGO partners is in-place and updated on a bi-annual basis;

•    Ensure procurement, tracking systems and dissemination plans are in place and operational for (i) technologies; (ii) constructions; and (iii) drug and consumable supplies;

•    Oversee sequencing of WV-led and program stakeholder interventions to enable coordinated actions within WV and between entities;

Coordination of Program Stakeholders

•    Monitor implementation of the detailed implementation plans;

•    Lead the coordination of program stakeholders and federal government in the delivery of detailed implementation plan;

•    Ensure coordination of federal member state and partners for (i) implementation of health services; (ii) receipt, storage and use of supplies; (iii) development of infectious disease control infrastructure; and (iv) mobilization for planning, training and program reporting processes;

•    Lead/facilitate in coordination forum with implementing partners (quarterly, semester program reviews and working group meetings);

•    Represent sub recipients to the grant to the Global Fund Steering Committee and other Health Sector Coordination meetings.

•    Promote good working relations with government, UN and partners at all-levels of program and lead conflict resolution processes;

•    Lead external engagement with program stakeholders and other potential collaborators to resolve challenges, identify opportunities and share resources. 

•    Review and approve/advise on disbursement of funds to government and implementing partner organizations;

Technical Unit Implementation

•    Support technical unit team members to engage with program stakeholders to implement WV-led components of program;

•    Lead and/or support technical team members and government stakeholders to develop terms of references, technical specifications, partnership arrangements, etc. to enable WV-led interventions;

•    Lead redesign processes for TU-led interventions to enable program to adapt to challenges and opportunities which arise during the implementation of the program;

Monitoring, Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL) and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) systems are in place, sensitive, responsive to context and inform adaptive management actions;

•    Ensure a gov/NGO process monitoring system is in place to identify bottlenecks and opportunities, recommend actions to inform solution-finding;

•    Ensure framework for third party monitoring is in place to enable oversight in less-accessible locations; 

•    Ensure systems, structures and timeframe-expectations are in place to enable timely and complete donor reporting;

•    Review program and evaluation reports, audits findings and recommendations, etc. prior to submission to donors and program stakeholders; 

•    Monitor and ensure implementation of management actions to strengthen systems;

•    Lead infectious disease sector engagement with WV Enterprise Risk Management process, ensuring top-level risk identified, mitigation measures applied, and residual risks communicated to program stakeholders; 

•    Lead process to assign government and implementing partner risk levels, support the development of risk registers and ensure a system to monitor risk mitigation is operationalized (spot-checks, audits etc.); 

•    Ensure Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) system is in place, channels to communicate feedback established with program stakeholders and response/redress mechanism is in place; 

•    Ensure channels for data-sharing are in place to inform strategic health systems strengthening processes;

World Vision generates learning to strengthen infectious disease control programming and diversity of finance for health sector, shares experience with local, regional and national stakeholders to influence infectious disease programming, and champions innovation in health systems and the potential for government-led integrated health service delivery in fragile contexts.

•    Lead in the co-creation of learn agenda and acquisition/advocacy strategy with government and other program stakeholders;

•    Lead with WV MEAL team in the identification and local, regional and international learning partners to support operational research agenda, including, developing concept note, ToRs and integrating them into our WV’s preferred supplier list;

•    Lead in the identification of and participation in local, regional and national learning forums to share experiences and influence stakeholders to support health system strengthening in Somalia;

•    Collaborate with the Somali Response Innovation Lab (SomRIL) and other innovators to identify innovations, pilot them, establish proof-of-concept and scale them and acquisition/advocacy strategies to finance their application;

•    Identify partnerships with other health and nutrition public and private actors to integrate infectious disease control and strengthen reach; 

Government and program stakeholders’ capacity to deliver integrated, quality, timely, risk-sensitive and accountable infectious disease controls programming strengthened.

•    Work with other technical agencies (WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, etc.) to develop joint capacity building strategy, including standard procedures for risk and financial management, service delivery protocols, and health reporting procedures;

•    Lead in the development of training and mentorship mechanism to build the capacity of government and program stakeholders to efficiently and effectively lead health systems strengthening; 

•    Lead in the identification of learning service providers and learning product designers to support learning agenda;

•    Identify local and regional capacity building forums and support government participation funding permitting;

•    Lead institutional capacity assessment and co-created capacity building strategy with government and fund-raising and advocacy action plan, including development of capacity building concept note;     Gov. of Somalia’s capacity to implement financial and risk management controls strengthened; 

World Vision actively seeks out new resources and relationships to strengthen integrated infectious disease control programming in Somalia.

•    In partnership with WV Program Development team, Lead engagement with donors in grant negotiations.

•    In partnership with WV Program Development team, identify GF finance-streams, co-financing donors, and potential collaborators to develop a fund-raising strategy for infectious disease control;

•    Develop/support WV Program Development team to develop integrated health and infectious disease control concepts notes;

•    Identify potential opportunities within WV and others collaborators in the health and nutrition sector and promote layering/sequencing and integration;

•    Lead in partnership with government and Global Fund advocacy efforts to sustain and diversify finance for Multi-Drug Resistance TB control finance;  

World Vision actively develops and promotes awareness of the TB control programming with donors and communities.

•    WV-led Technical Unit develops and maintains a social media prescience; 

•    WV identifies content creators to support awareness creation of infectious disease services program at national, regional and international levels;

•    Champions the development of outreach materials and methods  to create awareness and acceptance of infectious disease control at community-level;

•    Leads in the development of contents (e.g. tweets, Stories of Hope, etc.)    

High capacity and motivated staff with mentorship mentality support transformation in integrated infectious disease control programming in Somalia.

Supervise and mentor direct-report staff, including communicating clear expectations, setting performance objectives, providing regular and timely performance feedback, and leading documented semi-annual performance reviews.Ensure effective capacity building, professional development and performance improvement strategies are implemented to maximize staff potential using job descriptions, staffing models and performance management tools In collaboration with People and Culture department develop and implement strategies to ensure quality staff are attracted, retained, and developed for high performance Provide coaching and mentorship to program managers, ensuring a shared vision, teamwork, effective communication, and active engagement in decision making and management approaches, as well as ensuring staff care measures are in place and followedChampion performance management mechanisms, ensuring full participation and quality results to promote staff engagement and a culture of excellenceCultivate an atmosphere of staff empowerment and motivation leading to active participation in food and cash assistance programme initiatives, leading by example, and actively engaging with all staff  

Experiences and Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Professional Experience  Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience. The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:

•    Preferred Masters, but acceptable Bachelor’s degree in international development, health sector;

•    Experience with public health programming (a minimum of 5 years)

•    A minimum of 8 years’ experience in humanitarian and/or development practice, with at least 5 years in management positions;

•    Strong leadership skills with demonstrated experience either (i) leading/coordinating decentralized, multi-sector teams in fragile context; (ii) leading and/or supporting procurement process and/or (iii) development/improvement of performance management systems; (iv) government engagement

•    Experience in external engagement with NGOs, donors, private sector, etc. with the ability to represent the organization to a variety of stakeholders in a range of forums

•    Excellent oral/written and interpersonal skills;

•    Confident communication and documentation skills;

•    A team player with leadership qualities, excellent flexible project management skills, organization and dependability;

•    Capacity to prioritize and manage a diverse range of staff members, projects and activities;

•    Able to work on a cross-cultural environment with a multi-national and multi-agency staff member;

•    Ability to solve complex problems and to exercise independent judgment;

•    Capable of working independently and with demonstrated experience engaging a wide range of stakeholders; 

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification 

   •    Preferred Master but will consider Bachelors graduates (if other relevant experience is demonstrated) or significant humanitarian leadership experience in lieu of formal education requirements.

•    Program Management 

•    Monitoring and Evaluation

•    Health sector

•    Social science

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications Other Competencies/Attributes:

•    Work experience for a management level of social enterprise or NGO;

•    Understands, values and promotes diversity to achieve organizational goals;

•    Must adhere to set security standards;

•    Ensure a gender and social inclusion perspective in the scope of work; 

•    Performs other duties as required.

Travel and/or Work Environment

Requirement Working Environment 

Skills Required

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