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• Develop a calendar for
  monthly consortium partner review meetings; send out invitations; take
  meeting minutes; keep track of agreed action plans; maintain a tracker of
  progress made against planned actions and identify areas for escalating to
  the Project Director for action.
• Do the preparatory work
  for the annual work planning workshop by consolidating draft activity
  plans and budgets from consortium partners into one project plan; and
  analysing them for alignment with the technical proposal and project
  deliverables.
• Serve as the secretariat
  for the RISE Steering Committee (comprising a mix of Government of Uganda
  and donor representatives and SRH technical experts). The committee is the
  national governance platform that will ensure that RISE programme
  activities are on track.
• Assist in the setting up
  of meetings between the RISE project team and representatives of
  DFID-Uganda, the Ministry of Health and associated institutions,
  bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies, and district local governments as
  and when necessary.
• Represent the RISE project
  whenever delegated by the Project Director.

• Develop an Early Warning
  System for tracking project performance that will include (but not limited
  to); a monthly performance dashboard of the project’s technical and
  financial Key Performance Indicators and Log frame indicators.
• Work with consortium
  partners to establish monthly and quarterly reporting templates that are
  aligned with project deliverables; obtain monthly performance reports from
  consortium partners within the stipulated time-frame; analyse performance
  trends and identify areas that require remedial action ahead of the
  monthly review meetings.
• Work with the RME team to
  ensure that data verification and data quality assessments are conducted
  every quarter for each consortium partner.
• Assist the Project
  Director develop a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL)
  plan, in collaboration with the RME team, to ensure that learning is
  promptly integrated into ongoing implementation.

• With guidance from the MSI
  donor compliance team and MSI DFID team, the Programme Manager will
  develop a calendar and tracker for all DFID reporting requirements and key
  compliance areas and disseminate these among all consortium partners;
  ensuring that guidelines are disseminated to all consortium partners; that
  there is a risk mitigation plan for the project; and that all required
  reports are submitted on time.
• Manage the quarterly donor
  report writing process by collating high quality draft narratives that use
  donor compliant language, from consortium partners and Channel
  Leads/Implementation Leads; performing the initial formatting and editing
  of the draft report before review by the Project Director and all the
  relevant MSI internal reviewers – within the stipulated time frame.
• Monitor actual expenditure
  against budget to ensure alignment with work plans, delivery milestones
  and donor requirements.
• Ensure the programme
  adheres to guidelines in MSI’s Project Cycle Management manual.
• Schedule monitoring and
  supervision field visits for the Project Director and Programme Manager to
  all consortium partners to ensure technical and financial compliance.
  Where necessary internal audits will be initiated.
• Establish an orderly and
  up to date filing system for key project documents (including the donor
  agreement, budget, log frame, technical and financial donor reports and
  relevant donor correspondence).
• Perform any other duties
  as may be requested by the project Director in support of achieving
  project deliverables.

• At least five years of
  work experience especially in private sector or NGO (essential)
• Demonstrable experience
  managing donor grants or funds (essential)
• Experience in writing
  donor reports for large grants, including narrative and results matrices
  (essential)
• Experience leading or
  working in cross-functional teams or inter-departmental teams (desirable)
• Experience in Marie Stopes
  systems and processes (desirable)
• Fluent in English with
  excellent verbal and written communication skills (essential)
• Strong IT skills,
  including Microsoft Office package (essential)
• Strong quantitative and
  qualitative analytic skills (essential)
• Master’s degree in Public
  Health or related subject or equivalent proven employment experience
  (essential)

• Approachable with strong
  interpersonal & listening skills together with the ability to empower
  their team
• Track record of delivering
  targets
• Results focused
• Self-motivated and a
  self-starter
• The highest levels of
  integrity, strong ethical attitude
• IT literate

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