Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is a public-private partnership dedicated to saving youngsters’s lives and defending folks’s well being by rising equitable use of vaccines in lower-income international locations. The Vaccine Alliance brings collectively implementing nation and donor governments, the World Well being Organisation, UNICEF, the World Financial institution, the vaccine trade, technical businesses, civil society, the Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis and different personal sector companions. Gavi makes use of progressive finance mechanisms, together with co-financing by recipient international locations, to safe sustainable funding and ample provide of high quality vaccines. Since 2000, Gavi has contributed to the immunisation of greater than 1 billion youngsters and the prevention of greater than 16.2 million future deaths.

THE ROLE

Please observe this can be a non permanent position, till thirty first December 2025.

The Fragile and Battle International locations Phase works to attain efficient implementation of Gavi grants geared toward rising immunisation protection and fairness, in addition to monetary sustainability in Gavi-eligible international locations. This work is performed in shut collaboration with Gavi Alliance companions, nation stakeholders, different growth companions and the remainder of the Gavi Secretariat.

The Fragile and Battle International locations Phase comprised twelve international locations labeled as being fragile based on the indexes within the Gavi Fragilities, Emergencies and Displaced Inhabitants (FED) coverage. The Programme Supervisor (PM) is answerable for supporting a Geneva-based Senior Nation Supervisor (SCM) who performs a stewardship position in making certain Gavi assets are optimally programmed to attain the very best immunisation outcomes in among the globe’s most excessive contexts.

Programme Managers within the Fragile and Battle Group will probably be anticipated to help at the very least two international locations, going through extraordinarily difficult and risky environments, typically within the midst of humanitarian crises and everlasting stress associated to the uncertainty wherein Gavi operates. Safety circumstances allowing, the PM is anticipated to journey to those areas repeatedly. Given the advanced political context in lots of of those international locations, with the necessity to generally function otherwise in numerous elements of the identical nation, an understanding of emergency responses and operations, as nicely very sturdy diplomatic abilities will probably be important.

Working in shut collaboration with the group’s SCM, the PM offers key help in conducting and making certain completion of the varied steps of the grant administration lifecycle, managing threat and key relationships, and intently monitoring Gavi-funded programmes.

Key features and deliverables:

• Well timed, high quality completion of the varied steps of the portfolio administration course of, with top quality of grant administration and different paperwork below PM’s accountability;

• Sturdy contribution to strategic discussions with SCM and, the place related, different Gavi nation group members and in-country stakeholders in relation to a rustic’s portfolio of help;

• Compliance with insurance policies, necessities, agreed timelines, codecs and high quality requirements;

• Proactive identification and addressing of points, dangers and enchancment alternatives associated to portfolio administration and different duties below PM’s accountability;

• Well timed and high quality supply of particular workstreams/tasks, as agreed with SCM and Group leads;

• Excessive diploma of satisfaction by all members of the group and different pertinent stakeholders concerning high quality, timeliness, proactiveness of help companies offered to them;

• Productive collaborations with related Gavi Secretariat colleagues and nation and associate company counterparts;

• Well timed, high-quality communication of Gavi info (funding selections, Board coverage, and so forth.) to international locations and different growth companions.

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

Total engagement

• Help SCM with authorities and Alliance engagement to optimise funding and programmatic outcomes;

• Draft varied sorts of briefings, correspondence and memos in preparation of inside and exterior conferences and discussions;

• Act as liaison to coordinate conferences with in-country donors, technical companions, NGOs, CSOs, and different vital stakeholders;

• Signify and actively contribute to inside and exterior conferences – whether or not in nation, on the regional stage or on the Secretariat primarily based on information of nation contexts – and convey expertise throughout Gavi insurance policies/processes;

• Act as ‘information managers’ for all info associated to the nation: guarantee correct administration of all paperwork, correspondence, minutes, contracts, budgets, and so forth. and guarantee up to date nation info to be used by inside Secretariat stakeholders;

• Preserve a tracker of key actions and make sure that correct follow-up is undertaken (e.g., GMRs, Audit and others);

• Take high quality assembly minutes related to at least one’s international locations as vital and comply with up on any agreed actions;

• Help preparation and execution of Alliance’s high-level engagement, together with joint missions, bilateral conferences with Gavi’s Government Workplace and Senior Management Group.

Portfolio Administration – Plan & Design

• Making an allowance for Gavi’s differentiated strategy to nation engagement:

o Help discussions round personal sector partnerships or progressive humanitarian and/or expanded partnerships in international locations;

o Help Full Portfolio Planning course of: undertake planning, draft FPP roadmap, handle communications, help preparation of session workshops and different conferences, coordinate with FD&R for IRC overview;

• Help SCM to interact with sub-national ranges, as applicable, to plan and design tailor-made methods;

• Help SCM to interact with different humanitarian actors, humanitarian coordination mechanisms, as applicable, to make sure Gavi help reaches all the nation.

Portfolio Administration – Overview, Approve, Disburse

• Primarily based on Gavi’s differentiated strategy to nation engagement, help coordination of high quality assurance, compliance and pre-screening throughout groups earlier than the overview of the Impartial Overview Committee (IRC); following overview, facilitate any required follow-up;

• Help finalisation of grant-making submit IRC overview: multi-year approval; finances and workplan;

• Grant Administration Necessities; draft grant agreements; and monitor and monitor disbursements; a

• Work with Programme Assistant to make sure all ERP systems-related duties are accomplished in an environment friendly method.

Portfolio Administration – Implement & Monitor

• Making an allowance for Gavi’s differentiated strategy to nation engagement:

o Help SCM to observe and pro-actively mitigate programmatic and fiduciary dangers; together with by means of the monitoring and follow-up of audit findings, grant administration necessities, evaluations findings, and so forth.;

o Help the coordination of standard efficiency evaluations of Technical Help, in alignment with different streams of help;

o Help the preparation of Joint Value determinations, monitoring missions, conferences and different joint engagements;

o Take part and lead in nation mission, with or with out the SCM, as vital and based on the portfolio wants/priorities.

• Help day-to-day drawback fixing to make sure that programme implementation is efficient, impactful, and in step with Principle of Change, throughout all streams of help, with pro-active coordination of reprogramming towards wants;

• Maintain monitor of required reporting and coordinate with the nation to make sure they submit top quality experiences on time (e.g vaccines inventory reporting, monetary and programmatic progress reporting, comply with up on vaccine introductions and campaigns, and so forth.);

• Act as liaison between Gavi Secretariat and the Nation to help the common programme audit.

Observe: The important features listed on this part should not exhaustive of the job obligations; different duties could also be assigned persistently with the division wants.

QUALIFICATIONS

ACADEMIC

• College diploma in public well being, well being economics, growth or social sciences, enterprise administration (with expertise in worldwide growth) or associated discipline, or different related qualification.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Minimal of 8 years {of professional} expertise working in public well being or worldwide growth,

together with a minimal of two years of expertise working within the humanitarian discipline, fragile and/or battle settings;

• Expertise in immunisation programmes or well being programs a powerful asset;

• Expertise working in/with creating international locations on technical points a powerful asset required;

• Some grant-, project- and/or programme-management expertise required, together with in conditions of appreciable complexity, difficult environments and political sensitivity;

• Expertise in bilateral and multilateral help environments and dealing in fragile environments and humanitarian contexts strongly fascinating.

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES

• Demonstrated capability to handle quite a lot of actions concurrently and to take initiative;

• Prioritisation, planning, and challenge coordination abilities;

• Evaluation, problem-solving, sound judgment;

• Motion and outcomes orientation; steady enchancment;

• Interpersonal and teamwork abilities; diplomacy and tact;

• Robust oral communication, writing and presentational abilities;

• Pc abilities, together with web navigation and varied workplace functions;

• Capability to work efficiently in a world, multicultural, multi-partner atmosphere, and set up harmonious working relationships, each inside and outdoors the organisation;

• Information/understanding of immunisation, well being or worldwide growth points and procedures is an asset;

• Well being or worldwide growth technical abilities can be an asset.

LANGUAGES

• Written and spoken fluency in English important;

• Written and spoken fluency in French extremely fascinating.

CONTACTS

• Gavi Secretariat;

• Growing nation governments;

• Gavi’s alliance companions;

• UN;

• Multilateral & bilateral donor businesses;

• Humanitarian actors;

• Civil society organizations.