Senior Programme Officer

King’s Global Health Partnerships (KGHP) aims to improve health outcomes in four African countries – Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Zambia and DR Congo.  We work closely with African partners and draw on the clinical skills of volunteers from the NHS and the academic skills of King’s College London.  We are focused on the WHO’s building blocks of a health system, in particular health workforce development and health service delivery.

The Senior Programme Officer plays a key role in supporting the delivery of activities for our partnership in DR Congo. We are working closely with government, health facilities and universities to develop emergency and surgical care systems in the province of Kongo Central, in the Southwest of the country.  Working at individual, institutional and national levels, our partnership seeks to bring about systemic and sustainable reform in the health sector.  For more information on programme activities, please see our web pages: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/kkcp

The postholder will support the smooth running of the programme, supporting team members and volunteer experts to deliver a growing portfolio of activities to strengthen the health system and improve the quality of care in DR Congo. Working as part of a wider team, the postholder will also have responsibility for grant management, new business development, managing programme finances and supporting logistics, as required.

This role is based in London but there will be opportunities to travel to DR Congo.

This is a maternity cover post until 26th November 2024 or on return of the substantive postholder.

This is a part-time post – 80% full time equivalent (4 days per week).

Lead on grant management, ensuring that activities are implemented to time and to budget, and ensuring high quality narrative and financial reporting for donors.

Work closely with the MEL Adviser to design MEL systems and to collect high quality data on programme impact.

Work closely with the Project Accountant to further develop systems for financial management.

Provide administrative and logistical support to the DRC partnership, organizing travel, procurement and ensuring that payments to partners and contractors are made in a timely fashion.

Work with the Partnership Lead, In-country Coordinator and Congolese partners to develop and write funding proposals, concept notes and budgets.

Lead on fundraising, tracking opportunities, and pipeline development, working with the Philanthropy Manager.

Support programme management meetings (including meetings with partners and volunteers), documenting and disseminating information, and responding to information requests from colleagues, partners and volunteers.

Lead implementation of the KGHP communication plan, working with the Senior Communications Officer to produce engaging and informative internal and external communications and support dissemination of impact.

Lead on the engagement, recruitment and onboarding of volunteers for the DRC partnership, ensuring that opportunities are advertised via agreed external and internal channels, ensuring that volunteers have timely and comprehensive information about their assignment, and ensuring that standards around safeguarding and occupational health are met prior to engagement.

Ensure that volunteer data is stored safely and securely and that details are kept up to date, in order to support knowledge management, future recruitment, and performance monitoring.  Support the development and roll out of an electronic platform for volunteer management.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Candidates are strongly encouraged to specifically address the essential criteria outlined in the Person Specification in their covering letter.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

King’s Global Health Partnerships works with health faculties, academic institutions and governments to strengthen health systems and improve the quality of care in four countries: Somaliland, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. We bring together health, academic and international development expertise from King’s College London, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) and our international partners to:

• Educate, train and support healthcare workers
• Strengthen healthcare and training institutionsEnhance national health policies and systems.

We connect UK and African health professionals, providing training, mentoring and hands-on support; and undertake collaborative research to inform policy and practice. We also support our partners by providing access to funding, networks and development opportunities. Through these long-term partnerships and our global volunteering scheme we promote skills and knowledge exchange, and mutual learning that contribute to building a stronger health workforce and improved quality of healthcare both internationally and in the UK. KGHP is based within the School of Life Course and Population Sciences.

More information: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/kghp

The School of Life Course & Population Sciences is one of five Schools that make up the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. The School unites over 400 experts in women and children’s health, nutritional sciences, population health and the molecular genetics of human disease. Our research links the causes of common health problems to life’s landmark stages, treating life, disease and healthcare as a continuum. We are interdisciplinary by nature and this innovative approach works: 91 per cent of our research submitted to the Subjects Allied to Medicine (Pharmacy, Nutritional Sciences and Women's Health cluster) for REF was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We use this expertise to teach the next generation of health professionals and research scientists. Based across King’s Denmark Hill, Guy’s, St Thomas’ and Waterloo campuses, our academic programme of teaching, research and clinical practice is embedded across five Departments.

More information: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/slcps