Programme performance manager, PPA Community health & HIV

This role will be responsible for strengthening the performance, quality and impact of the Community Health & HIV component of Christian Aid’s Programme Partnership Agreement (PPA) in Africa. Working with our country offices in Africa, you will provide technical support to enable them to deliver against our PPA commitments and ensure timely and robust reporting and learning. This post will have a critical role in ensuring that programme learning informs the on-going development of Christian Aid’s broader community health and HIV work and informs our future work and decisions.

The post will involve a significant amount of travel within Africa.

You will have substantial experience of community health and HIV interventions in Africa and their links to gender and rights based programming. You will have significant experience of working with donors; programme development; monitoring and evaluation and in capacity development. You will have experience of supporting others including partner organisations to develop programmes. You will be a strategic thinker and have a strong track record of brining innovative approaches to programme development. You will have excellent written and spoken English and hold a university degree or equivalent qualification.

Please show your suitability for this post by giving answers to the following questions: Using the guidance notes may help you formulate your answers.

Innovation and creativity

What is the most creative solution or option you have developed in response to a problem?

What was the problem?
What solution or option did you develop?
How did you apply it to the problem?
Was it successful?
How?

Effectiveness and accountability

Describe a time when you monitored and evaluated progress and use of resources across multiple projects or initiatives

What were you monitoring?
How did the evaluation progress?
How did you evaluate the use of resources?
What was the result?

Team work

Describe a time when you needed to make multiple efforts to persuade or influence a group of people to support a particular project or task.

What was the project/task?
Why did you need to gain people's support?
Describe the various efforts you made in order to gain their support
How successful were you in getting support?

Developing others

What have you done to ensure that continuous learning is supported in your work area and that development opportunities achieve the desired results?

Tell us about a specific example
How did you support learning?
What feedback did you receive?
What impact did your actions have?

We value the contribution each person makes to the success of our organisation. So you can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

As this post is UK based, non-EC nationals will require current and valid permission to work in the UK.

Download the role profile (73 KB pdf)

To apply for this post, please download an application pack and email your completed UK & Ireland application form to: recruitment@christian-aid.org (quoting the reference number). Alternatively, your completed application form can be printed out and posted to us at:

Christian Aid
35 Lower Marsh
Waterloo
London SE1 7RT

Please note that CVs will not be accepted.

Job reference: 219/LJ

Closing date: 12 noon, Friday 25 November 2011

Interview date: Tuesday 13 December 2011

Christian Aid values diversity and aspires to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.