Field Implementation Manager (1 Position)
Position Summary Expectations - Duties, Responsibilities
Scope of work
The FIM has an active role as a leader of the project team at the field level and provides project management and operational support in the implementation and monitoring of project activities. This will be done with the support and coordination from the Cervical Cancer Programme Manager.
Key working relationships
The Field Implementation Manager reports to the Programme Manager, and their collaboration will facilitate the project implementation. The FIM role involves as well internally the interaction with the Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, the Field Officers (FOs) under his/her supervision and external stakeholders at different operational areas such as Provincial Health Department, Operational District, Health Center and all local authorities on district, commune and village level.
Salary: The monthly gross salary for this position is 1,614 USD
Duration: 10 months
- Project Management (50%)
- Understand the planning of the project and ensure that activities will be performed on time in compliance with donor and MC policies and procedures
- Ensure that project activities are executed according to plan
- Liaise with Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist and to ensure high level of quality in activity implementation
- Regularly monitor and review milestones and identify situations that can put at risk the project implementation, contractual compliance and timely reporting
- Manage the Field Officers to ensure that activities are being implemented to a high standard
- Monitor activity implementation of project partners in the provinces against agreed plans
- Escalate key issues in project implementation to the Programme Manager
- Establish and maintain positive working relationships with sub-national government officials
- Ensure project is implemented in compliance with the requirements of the Royal Government of Cambodia
- Work with the Programme Manager to liaise with the project donor
- Human Resource Management (20%)
- Review staffing plan for project; assign duties among the team
- Participate in the recruitment of field officers with the support of the HR Manager and Programme Manager
- Ensure line management of staff is conducted in line with Malaria Consortium policies and procedures
- Be a positive and collaborative field implementation manager to Malaria Consortium staff
- Financial Management (10%)
- Participate in the preparation of procurement plans for the project
- Ensure that project expenditure is in line with agreed budget and phasing
- Participate in the monthly review meeting with finance department in Phnom Penh office
- Highlight issues with line management to anticipate measures to be taken to ensure proper implementation of activities under their responsibility
- Provides relevant information from the field to prepare project narrative and financial report including proposals for funding reallocations
- Provide key data and information to the person in charge of preparing reforecast budget for the project
- Partnership Building and External Communications (15%)
- Attend working groups and other meetings as a Field Implementation Manager of Cervical Cancer project of Malaria Consortium and feedback from these meetings to the Program Manager
- Collaborate to the delivery of the external communications plan and present project outcomes/update for stakeholders
- Additional Responsibilities (5%)
- Actively promote Malaria Consortium’s safety-, security- and safeguarding plans
- Represent and promote Malaria Consortium as a Field Implementation Manager at every opportunity
- Perform other duties as required by the Cervical Cancer Programme Manager
- Qualifications and experience:
- Essential
- Familiarity with geography, traditions, and culture of communities in Stung Treng, Ratanakiri, and Oddar Meanchey.
- Work experience with health programs, governmental health institutions, non-government organizations, international organizations and community health workers
- Ability to drive a motorcycle to the field
- Ability to write reports in Khmer and English
- Good computer skills
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong commitment to deliver project activities
- Fluently in Khmer and English (both verbal and written)
- Desirable
- A bachelor's degree in public health, social science, development or equivalent
- Work-based skills:
- Essential
- Experience of project/ programme coordination at field level in the public health sector
- Strong experience in community-based approaches, community engagement and engaging with community health workers and/or volunteers
- Understanding of the structure of the Ministry of Health and health sector in Cambodia
- Knowledge in implementing programmes and project activities at the field
- Positive communication skills
- Participate in the relationship with government or other NGO’s counterparts
- Excellent reporting skills (both financial and narrative)
- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team with national and international staff, and maintain strong working relationships with partners
- Strong leadership, negotiation and communication skills
- Excellent command of Khmer and English with good writing and communication skills
- Knowledge of financial management basics
- Strong focus on ethics and policy within all work
- Desirable
- Good experience in providing capacity building in the field
- Experience of collaborating to activities in field locations
