Program Manager I - Community Based Health InsuranceNew!

• Support the development and contribute to the implementation of CRS agency-wide strategies, technical standards, tools, and best practices in Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) and community health financing ensuring alignment with donor requirements, government priorities, and global best practices. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, safeguarding and protection mainstreaming, and local leadership.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to project teams and partners on the design, implementation, monitoring, and adaptation of CBHI interventions. Work closely with partner staff to strengthen technical quality, facilitate joint problem-solving, and promote local ownership of project implementation and results.
• Provide technical solutions to CP and partner teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools and M&E, helping to ensure high-quality implementation. Accompany local partners to strengthen their technical leadership, decision-making, and implementation capacity while fostering equitable partnerships and mutual accountability.
• Cultivate strong working relationships with local partner organizations and support partner-led implementation through regular engagement, joint planning, technical accompaniment, and learning. Contribute to partner capacity strengthening strategies and help ensure that principles of localization, mutual accountability, and local leadership are embedded throughout project implementation.
• Contribute to the development of the technical design for proposals. Support the process of preparation, design, submission and approval of project concepts and full-fledged proposals. As needed, act as a technical writer on proposal development teams. Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into CRS’ approach.
• Support capacity strengthening initiatives in Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) for community, and partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and coaching. Promote partner-led learning, adaptation, and sustainability of project approaches beyond the life of the award.
• Collect and analyze program data, capture and share lessons learned and best practices for specific projects to facilitate improvements in decision-making and contribute to CRS’ learning agenda and technical excellence in community health financing.
• Contribute to maintaining relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions, participate in Health forums to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work.
• Represent CRS in technical working groups, professional networks, policy dialogues, conferences, and sector forums related to health financing, universal health coverage, and health systems strengthening.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Relevant university degree in a related field
• Demonstrated experience in a similar role with an international NGO
• Strong written and spoken English required

Skills & Competencies:

• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks.
• Knowledge of technical principles and concepts in insurance Health financing. General knowledge of other related disciplines to ensure a proper cross-sectoral approach.
• Experience in project design and proposal development. Experience in writing content for proposals.
• Knowledge of capacity-strengthening best practices.
• Experience with program monitoring and evaluation and analysis.
• Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based civil society partners. Understanding of partnership principles.
• Strong relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings
• Good strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment
• Good technical writing skills
• Presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills
• Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented
• Internal: CRS Country Representative, Head of Programs, Head of Operations, Uganda-based technical experts for MEAL, Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion (GYSI) and Partner Capacity Strengthening (PCS), technical health team, Regional and Headquarters technical staff.