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Job Description
Global Health Partnerships (formerly THET) has a vision of a world where everyone has access to healthcare. We achieve this by training and educating health workers in Africa and Asia, working in partnership with organisations and volunteers from across the UK. Founded in 1988 by Professor Sir Eldryd Parry, we are the only UK charity with this focus. Over the past years we have partnered with over 130 NHS Trusts, Royal Colleges and academic institutions. We work closely with the British government, and we are also an organisation in Official Relations with the World Health Organization.
Key Responsibilities for the Zambia Programmes Officer position:Employment opportunities
Grants Management
Manage a portfolio of health partnership grants, overseeing contracting and financial disbursements.
Guided by the Programmes Coordinator, ensure grant holders understand what is required of them with regards project management (including M&E, finances, activity plan and reporting, partnership relations, procurement etc.) and support them where necessary to overcome identified challenges.
When relevant conduct visits to the grant holder institutions, and hold online quarterly progress meetings to ensure that challenges, changes and developments are identified and addressed.
Review grant holder narrative and finance reports, and provide feedback on the level of achievement, need for further information and recommendations for improvement.
Identify any changes to the personnel amongst grant holders
Contribute to review meetings, as well as quarterly donor reports and end of project impact reports.
If relevant, contribute to grant holder sharing and learning events
Grants database administration
Ensure optimum use of the grants management database (on the Salesforce platform), including input of data, grant analysis, production of reports, and analysis of monitoring and evaluation methods.
Support the internal team and grant holders to navigate the database.
Administration and events
Support preparations for, grant holder and GHP events as required by the programme.
Provide other administrative support where required.
Attend weekly meetings with the grants management team to identify priorities, review progress, share challenges and participate in associated planning
Programme support
Support projects across the full life cycle. This may involve:
Liaising with staff, volunteers and partners to ensure the timely completion of deliverables
Ensuring compliance with donor/country agreements, regulations and requirements
Identifying, tracking and managing risk
Supporting effective communication with partners, donors and other stakeholders
Contributing towards project budget management, including monitoring spend against budget & undertaking re-forecasting.
Programme quality and design
Contribute to the design of organisational and health partnership quality programme approaches, including standards, processes, tools and guidance.
Contribute to the delivery of capacity development interventions for grant holders and GHP country teams as appropriate.
Attendance at meetings:
Weekly Grants Management meetings with GHP
Bi- weekly meetings with line manager
Monthly grants quality group meetings with GHP
Monthly programme-wide meetings with GHP
Quarterly review meetings to share experiences and help one another with any challenges during the programme implementation
Ad hoc learning sessions with GHP to share feedback on processes/ways of working to inform programme implementation.
Support to Zambia Country office programmes
Provide ad hoc or surge support to the Zambia Country office projects as and when required.
Attend Zambia office staff meetings