Implementation Manager, PINGS
Nutrition International
- Dakar
- CDD
- Temps-plein
- Lead the development and consolidation of annual workplans in collaboration with implementing partners, ensuring alignment with the project's objectives, desired results, and national policies on health, nutrition, and gender.
- Facilitate coordinated planning processes across the five implementation regions, consolidating regional workplans into a cohesive, comprehensive plan that reflects local contexts while ensuring overall project coherence and high-quality delivery of outputs.
- Oversee timely, budget-compliant, and high-quality implementation of activities across the five regions, including budget planning, monitoring, and variance analysis.
- Coordinate with stakeholders, including implementing partners, national, regional, and local authorities, as well as field teams to ensure harmonized execution and adapt plans based on evolving needs and challenges.
- Facilitate collaboration with partners and key stakeholders through regular coordination meetings and continuous communication to ensure that parties are informed, aligned and equipped to meet project goals.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with national, regional, and local governments to ensure policy alignment on health, nutrition and gender, and to support effective project implementation at field level.
- Represent the project in high-level meetings/forums and government-led initiatives, disseminating the experience and good practices of PINGS.
- Work with the PINGS Technical Advisor and senior officers of the Adolescent and Women's Health and Nutrition (AWHN), and Maternal and Newborn Health and Nutrition (MNHN) country program to ensure the project’s alignment with NI and Senegal’s strategies and priorities; and provide guidance on integrating these considerations into the implementation of interventions.
- Conduct regular field visits with senior program officers (AWHN, MNHN, MDL) to monitor project implementation, identify challenges and bottlenecks in the execution of activities and recommend corrective actions.
- Supervise Zonal Coordinators, the M&E Officer, and the Program Assistant, providing mentorship and conducting regular performance reviews to ensure the team is well-equipped to meet the project's objectives.
- Promote a cohesive team dynamic across regional teams by ensuring that field staff are well-supported and have access to the necessary resources and technical guidance for effective activity implementation.
- Coordinate with Zonal Coordinators to gather field data and narratives, and consolidate timely, accurate donor reports that highlight implementation progress, challenges, and key learnings.
- Support the documentation of success stories and case studies and facilitate learning events and stakeholder forums. Ensure that reporting goes beyond activity implementation to capture key learnings, challenges, and adaptive strategies - particularly in the integration of nutrition, reproductive health, and gender equity interventions.
- Collaborate with the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Officer to ensure that project data is analyzed and used to inform reporting and guide strategic adjustments in the field.
- Work closely with the M&E Officer to oversee data collection, monitoring, and evaluation processes to measure project impact, ensuring robust measurement, documentation and learning systems are in place to track project progress against targets and outcomes across all regions.
- Use MDL data to inform real-time decision-making, ensuring that lessons learned from the field are rapidly incorporated into ongoing activities.
- Work closely with M&E Officer to track key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Any other related duties as requested.
- Master's degree in public health, nutrition, international development, project management, or a related field. A bachelor's degree with extensive relevant experience may be considered.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in managing large-scale, multi-sectoral projects, ideally innutrition, reproductive health or gender programs, with a focus on planning, implementation, and partner coordination.
- Proven experience working with international
- Demonstrated experience in safeguarding, including safeguarding of children and youth, with a strong understanding of safeguarding principles and integration into program design and implementation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving and risk management skills, with the capacity to make decisions in dynamic and challenging environments.
- Experience with Monitoring, Data, and Learning (MDL) frameworks, using data to drive real-time decision-making and improve project performance.
- Familiarity with Senegal's health, nutrition, and gender policies, and the ability to adapt project activities to align with local and national priorities.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to lead diverse teams and build strong partnerships with government counterparts, implementing partners, and other stakeholders.
- Knowledge of GAC reporting requirements, with a proven ability to ensure compliance and high-quality reporting.
- Fluency in French and English is essential.
- Knowledge of other languages spoken in Senegal would be an asset.
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