Regional Coordinator - World Child Cancer

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To lead and manage World Child Cancer’s (WCC) work in West Africa and advise on World Child Cancer’s work in Sub-Saharan Africa, playing a key role in improving the capacity of World Child Cancer and partners to respond to the needs of children with cancer and their families. Working closely with colleagues across the Programmes Team to develop and implement high quality and accountable programmes that attract resources, enabling us and our partners to meet World Child Cancer’s strategy.

Role context

This is the first Regional Manager employed by World Child Cancer. The role will sit within the Programmes Team (majority based in and managed from UK) but will have links with staff across the organisation especially with fundraising and communications staff.

There will be travel within the region covered: Ghana, Cameroon, Malawi but also to visit possible new partners in West Africa. It could mean spending over 60 days away from base per year with trips up to 3 weeks away at any one time, although usually significantly less.

Working with a large number of different partners to deliver programmes.

Key outcomes

• Successful implementation of World Child Cancer programmes in the region, through the engagement of staff, partners and beneficiaries.
• Effective representation of World Child Cancer maintained at a high level
• Effective capacity building in place for staff and partners on global public health, best practices in programme implementation and safeguarding
• Positive World Child Cancer reputation and strong links in place with relevant organisations and other partners and organisations, and relevant governmental bodies
• Enhanced funding achieved through successful relationship building with partners and institutional donors: contributions made to fundraising initiatives including appeals and applications to donors (fundraising)

Role requirements

Person specification

Applied skills/knowledge and expertise

•  Able to demonstrate knowledge, understanding, experience and practice of global health programme development implementation and principles
• Able to demonstrate success in leadership roles
• Able to work autonomously motivate others to achieve results in complex situations

Essential

• Understanding the childhood cancer context

• Demonstrated understanding of the different components of non-communicable disease programmes: including the clinical aspect, education and mentoring, psycho-social issues and advocacy
• Ability to apply understanding of the political and cultural context of Sub-Saharan Africa and experience working with relevant government institutions.
• Ability to take into account the needs, skills, capacities and experience of World Child Cancer partners and beneficiaries

Experience

• Experience working within global health, including policy and advocacy issues
• Experience in development, including time spent living and working in a developing country.
• Experience in public health programmes management.
• Experience of using authority responsibly, in line with accountability principles and standards
• Knowledge of capacity building tools and techniques.
• Relevant experience, including strategic planning and management of a large and complex budget
• Relevant experience of project/programme management.
• Experience on public speaking and/or working with the media.
• Experience of distance management of staff and partners.
• Ability to foster collaborative, transparent and accountable relationships through partners, including over distance.
• Demonstrated understanding of WHO/Government coordination and how to fit into it.

 

Qualifications/Skills:

• Degree or equivalent in relevant technical discipline
• Proficiency in IT including the Microsoft Office Suite

Desirable:

• Relevant post-graduate degree in medicine, public health or related subject
• Insight into the particular challenges of childhood cancer
• Knowledge of the health, political, social and economic context of West Africa and the development issues and challenges it faces
• Experience of advocacy on public health issues, in particular, non-communicable diseases
• Fluency in any of the relevant languages in the region or other relevant languages

You are expected to be able to:

Competency profile

Build partnerships

• Manage and lead teams, involving others in discussing how to take work forward, helping people feel part of the team and treating everyone equally.
• Influence others to develop shared understanding and work cooperatively and collaboratively towards common goals where there are different personal or organisational agendas.
• Recognise and value differences in people; be ready to challenge assumptions, beliefs or attitudes in self or others.
• Manage expectations and adhere to what’s agreed, by doing what you say you’re going to do.
• Develop and maintain new relationships with individuals and organisations to further World Child Cancer’s aims.
• Ability to represent WCC at all levels, including internationally

 

Communicate effectively

• Reflect the needs of different audiences, adapting style, media, timing and pace to communicate effectively.
• Recognise and respond to cultural diversity in developing communication strategies
• Show understanding of how personal and external factors affect others’ communication style and needs and seek to manage these differences to ensure that all voices are heard.
• Clarify expectations and anticipate others’ interests and potential issues, to help them get involved in debate and dialogue.

Steward resources

• Accept accountability internally and externally for the effective use of World Child Cancer resources.
• Before using or commissioning new resources, look for ways to achieve more effective outcomes by using existing resources in a new or different way.
• Manage resources and workloads to ensure your own and others’ goals are achieved.
• Demonstrate understanding of the connection between the raising and the spending of funds

Deliver results

• Create plans with key milestones and measurable outcomes: track progress and adjust to meet the objectives, ensuring others are aware of changes and reasons for them.
• Ensure individuals and teams understand and agree to work to the overall goals, specific objectives and quality standards.
• Commit to your decisions and be accountable for them.
• Accept accountability for delivery on agreed outcomes and hold team members to account
• Make recommendations or decisions in the best interest of World Child Cancer, involving others as needed both within and beyond your work area.·               
• Be willing to take action or make recommendations or decisions in challenging situations.
• Show willingness to adapt if your initial decision did not produce the expected result and apply learning to future decisions

Realise potential

• Demonstrate continuous commitment to your own professional and personal development.
• Use coaching and mentoring skills to support others to develop.
• Encourage others to give their best by discussing goals and aspirations and recognising achievement.
• Provide an appropriate level of supervision according to need; know when to provide help and when to give others space to learn.
• Give constructive and timely feedback to others on difficult or contentious issues.
• Deal with poor performance directly and sensitively, seeking appropriate and timely advice and support if needed.

Strive for improvement

• Be open to radical suggestions.
• Evaluate the benefits and risks of new ideas and ways of working and identify ways to reduce risk.
• Find and implement ways to better support internal knowledge- and information-sharing.
• Coach others on dealing with resistance to change.
• Seek and evaluate a range of viewpoints, internal and external, about how World Child Cancer could do things better.

Further details of specific tasks and duties will be agreed with the line manager as part of the performance agreement. Any reasonable duty may be assigned that is consistent with the nature of the job and its level of responsibility.

This role profile is not prescriptive; it merely outlines the key behaviours the role-holder requires to be successful in the role; the key behaviours and responsibilities are subject to change. Any changes will be made in consultation with the role-holder.

You will be expected to abide by the Code of Conduct, policies and procedures within World Child Cancer which may be updated from time to time.

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