Purpose of role
The Deputy Director, Program Excellence works closely
with the Deputy Country Director/Director of Programs Delivery in the
development and implementation of programs and policies, as well as managing
daily operations. This position requires strong leadership skills and the
ability to work collaboratively with other department heads and program staff
to implement high quality, innovative programs in close coordination and
collaboration with sub national governments, LG global and LG country teams.
The role has a particular focus on driving program and strategy implementation,
leading the program team in implementing impactful, high quality CH program.
S/he will ensure timely, effective and impactful program delivery of CH across
all LG implementing and learning sites.
The Deputy Director, Program Excellence will provide
a focus on meeting of impact KPIs in Government led sites, as well as
operationalization of experiments & innovation for Learning support in
learning sites and coaching, mentoring, development and management of the
Programs Delivery team.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Program Implementation
- Provide strategic and technical leadership in the management
of the IS and LS LG sites to ensure coordinated implementation, enhanced
resource optimization, cross program learning and adaptive management.
- Review all programs implementation county plans and ensure
that the implementation strategies are compatible with overall Program
Delivery big wins, program goals and objectives
- Drive performance management. Monthly & Quarterly review
of the performance against key health and desc indicators and action taken
to ensure on-going measurable improvements
- Drive impact optimization. Responsively troubleshoot, make
decisions, and enhance the decision-making capacity of program staff to
ensure that all bottlenecks are consistently and adequately addressed.
- Lead the operationalization of experiments & innovation
for organizational Learning.
- Lead in establishing or promoting adherence to systems,
policies and approaches necessary to ensure and demonstrate the quality of
programs
- Ensure all key project and program documentation is done.
Extremely proactive, able to learn quickly and have a proven track record
of delivery in complex and rapidly changing contexts.
- Extremely proactive, able to learn quickly and have a proven
track record of delivery in complex and rapidly changing contexts.
Team Management
- Supervise and mentor staff under direct supervision.
- Support capacity-building projects for program staff by
encouraging professional development activities
- Maintain open and professional relationships with team
members, fostering a strong team spirit and providing supervision and
guidance to enable staff to successfully perform their duties.
- Work with the leadership team to ensure that the Program team
maintains a high level of professional commitment.
- Collaborate with P&C staff to identify and implement
recruitment and retention strategies of the country program team.
Health Systems Strengthening/ Partner Coordination/
Gov Relations
- Maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders
including key county implementing partners, visiting donors, and county
governments.
Academic & Work Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (Master’s degree
preferred)
- Five or more years of experience in a senior leadership role
- Expertise and knowledge in a range of sectors (health (public
or private mandatory)
Competencies/Attributes:
- Experience with strategic planning and execution
- Must be an innovative and creative problem solver with a
demonstrated ability to analyse complex issues, make sound decisions and
translate programmatic priorities into operational strategies quickly and
accurately.
- Motivated and positive individual who excels at taking
initiative and can motivate team members to produce results under
pressure.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the
ability to clearly and persuasively express ideas and concepts with key
stakeholders.
- Strong analytical abilities
- Proven ability to manage people, multi-task, time management,
diplomacy and work collaboratively in a team environment
- Strong commitment to the vision, mission and core values of LG
- Extremely proactive, able to learn quickly and have a proven
track record of delivery in complex and rapidly changing contexts
How To Apply
