Country Representative

The Country Representative at Ipas South Africa will work at a national level to provide technical and managerial leadership for the South Africa program under the direction of the Regional Director for Southern Africa Program. This position is responsible for the development and implementation of strategies and work plans to ensure that program goals and objectives are met. This includes providing strategic inputs for annual work plans proposal development analysis of programmatic results identification and resolution of challenges and program performance application of lessons learned and best practices to improve program performance donor reporting financial monitoring and personnel management. In addition the Country Representative works with incountry counterparts to ensure successful implementation of work plans. The Country Representative will oversee the technical unit functions by providing technical support and programmatic guidance to each unit.

Key responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to:

• Organizational Leadership and Strategy:
  • Contributes significantly to the development of the country strategy; Leads in developing assigned components of the strategy
  • Leads implementation of the local strategic plan ensuring results in assigned areas
  • Fosters teamwork and collaboration across the organization
  • Provides supportive supervision at department level

• Financial and Risk Management:
  • Reviews and provides final approval for project workplans and budgets with a focus on cost efficiency and stewardship
  • Leads regular highlevel reviews of project progress and financial monitoring across the program identifying opportunities for increased cost efficiency
  • Ensures internal control systems are functioning
  • Contributes to risk mitigation planning for the country office
  • Ensures departmental level compliance with Ipas policies

• Program technical or functional content of the job:
  • Responsible for managing the of programmatic work ensuring highquality project implementation and achievement of objectives
  • Reviews and provides technical and programmatic inputs into the development for country work plans and budgets with a focus on cost efficiency and stewardship
  • Contributes to new program design and strategy integrating lessons learned and best practices and ensuring alignment with Ipas mission values and strategic plan
  • Leads regular highlevel reviews of project progress and financial monitoring across the program identifying opportunities for increased cost efficiency
  • Ensures internal control systems are functioning
  • Contributes to risk mitigation planning for the country office

• communications & representation:
  • Represents Ipas with a variety of external stakeholders including partners counterparts and donors
  • Contributes to positioning Ipas as a leader for SRHR in the country or region
  • Reviews and shares learning and results within the Ipas network as well as with counterparts partners donors other country programs and the global Ipas network
  • Leads and contributes to the development of key messages and communications strategies and plans primarily at program or departmental level
  • Builds and maintains strong partnerships in relevant areas (Finance Programs)

The Country Representative South Africa must meet the following criteria:

Minimum

• A deep commitment to sexual and reproductive health and rights especially abortion and contraception access
• Proven ability to lead and motivate teams and create a positive work environment including through supportive supervision strong communication nonhierarchical leadership approaches and modeling the Ipas core values.
• Demonstrated capacity and commitment to good stewardship of funds including strong skills in work planning budgeting financial monitoring and datadriven problem solving.
• Proven ability to build positive working relationships with diverse internal teams and external partners
• Eight 5 or more years of leading program operations and logistics experience
• Previous supervisory experience of a minimum of three full time technical staff members required
• Crosscultural work experience
• Ability to travel up to 30 domestically (with occasional regional or global trips if applicable)

Education

• Bachelors degree but masters degree or higher (or an International Equivalent) in Public Health or a Related Field is preferred.
• Certification in project management.
• Qualification in Humanitarian action and/or Project Cycle Management and/or Monitoring & Evaluation.

Preferred

• Demonstrated skills in leadership planning management and technical skills working with health systems and community programs.
• Strong consultative and negotiation skills.
• Strong critical thinking and problemsolving skills to strategize plan and manage resources for successful completion of projects.
• Ability to motivate influence and collaborate with others.
• Ability to build positive working relationships with district/state/national government officials UN and other multilateral bodies NGOs and donor representatives.
• Must be able to read write and speak fluent English and fluent in host country language(s).
• Experience operating in challenging environments.

View the full job description and application instructions on the Vacancies page at www.actionappointments.za and email your application by Friday 27th May 2022 to

Ipas is strongly committed to providing a work environment that is free from all forms of harassment discrimination and inequity. We recruit employ train promote and compensate our personnel without regard to race age sex religion national origin color creed ancestry citizenship caste ethnicity regional identity tribal identity marital status veteran status disability genetic information gender identity transgender status sexual orientation or any other personal characteristic protected by law or outlined by Ipas policy. Ipas acknowledges that these personal characteristics may differ in different contexts.