Programme Manager - VMMC Technical Assistance Project

at  Genesis

ABOUT GENESIS

In a world undergoing convulsive technological and political change, Genesis partners with key actors to deliver urgent, lasting impact in critical areas.
Genesis, an impact firm founded, incorporated, and headquartered in Africa, has worked in 46 African countries and more than 100 countries globally. Uniquely, Genesis is focused on the Young World – the arc of countries with young populations stretching across Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and parts of Southeast Asia.
By 2030 four in five children will be born in the Young World, making this region central to the future. With growing markets and young, productive populations, Young World countries have the most positive potential trajectory in the world. It is here that investments of all kinds will have the highest social and economic returns.

Our job at Genesis is to help societies, governments, and businesses across the Young World succeed at three fundamental historic transitions:

• Reconfiguring economies: creating income for large, rapidly urbanising youth cohorts within a global economy undergoing profound changes
• A human transition: a fundamental rethink of how societies, governments, and markets can ensure the health and cognitive and social well-being of all those young people, including the most vulnerable
• A just climate transition: both to decarbonise and to manage the human and economic impacts of a global crisis they did not cause

To do this work, we are building a new type of impact firm
LOCATION: This role will be based in Johannesburg, South Africa(You must already have the right to work in this location).

PRACTICE AREA DESCRIPTION

The Health Practice works with our clients to develop solutions aimed at improving the health of populations throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Our region faces the challenges of the quadruple burden of disease, which includes both communicable and non-communicable diseases, as well as violence and injury.
Coupled with this are relatively weak health systems, heavy reliance on donor funding, and inequitable public and private sectors. Within this context, we provide experts with decades of experience in the design, implementation, costing, and evaluation of health programmes, and the strengthening of sustainable health systems.
We are currently organized across three service lines: Program Implementation and Support (PIMS); Research, Monitoring and Evaluation (RME), and Health Financing and Economics (HFE). We expect to grow these and add others soon.
The team of about 74 is currently based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Kenya, West Africa, East Africa, and Europe. We work across about 50 projects at any one time

You will be responsible for managing a technical assistance programme that aims to realise the VMMC programme’s HIV prevention impact through catalytic technical assistance models in selected geographies. The Programme Manager will provide smooth management and technical coordination support to ensure the programme is delivered on time, within budget, and in line with the client’s quality standards.

Your Role will include:

• Work Plan development and management
• Resource planning, mobilization, and management
• Client and internal reporting
• Technical leadership

The Programme Manager will provide technical support to the programme to ensure smooth management and administrative coordination and manage the overall programme timeline to ensure that all deliverables are met. Some of the specific tasks will include:

• Oversee all facets of the programme’s activities to ensure that all deliverables are on track and are delivered on time, lead in troubleshooting any issues that arise
• Responsible for all routine and ad-hoc donor reporting, with support from the Strategic Information team
• Support Programme Director in engaging with various project stakeholders, including donors, government officials
• Champion and collate quality deliverables and manage the Programme Director’s review and approval processes
• Work closely with the technical team to extract, document, and disseminate lessons from implementation and identify opportunities for improvement
• Lead a technical workstream, where required
• Work with the Finance Officer to manage the grant budget and ensure financial control; ensure expense invoices and consultants are paid in a timeous manner as well as monthly grant reporting requirements are completed to a high standard.

Genesis consultants carry a balanced combination of powerful intellect, strong technical skills, and a consulting character to match. Successful candidates for roles at Genesis:

• Are passionate, self-motivated, and energetic problem-solvers
• Value integrity and exhibit ethical behaviour
• Are analytical thinkers and fast learners with an excellent academic record