Senior Technical Officer (STO) at International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI)

Position description:

IBTCI field Office is currently seeking four a Senior Technical Officer (STO) for his projects, Evaluation Services and Program Support (ESPS) in each following location: Isiolo, Nakuru, Kisumu and Mombasa (Kenya).  The Senior Technical Officer is responsible for the day-to-day management of all technical and administrative staff at the regional office and the collection & submission of Site Improvement through Monitoring System (SIMS) data. S/he will be responsible for ensuring on time and quality deliverables to the Program Manager.

Locations: Isiolo, Nakuru,Kisumu and Mombasa. 

Essential Job Duties:

A) Human Resource Management and General Administration

• Manage human resources functions including performance planning and evaluation for regional staff;
• Ensures all employees know the SIMS’s objectives;
• Ensure compliance with IBTCI-USAID contractual obligations;
• Administers personnel policies fairly and consistently;
• Resolves employee grievances in a fair and timely way;
• Ensures employees understand policies, pay procedures, bonus plans and benefits, if any;
• Maintains effective communication, at all times, among the team, including holding regular management and staff meetings; and
• Provide performance reports, as required, to PM.

B) Technical Oversight and Implementation

• Provides overall technical leadership and expertise in SIMS implementation at the regional level;
• Is the primary contact person at the regional level with County MoH and Implementing Partners;
• Mentors, supports and supervises activity staff and oversees the development of all activity deliverables;
• Ensures that activity planning, development, resource availability and management of the activity functions smoothly and efficiently;
• Works closely with the PM to establish the quarterly work plan for the region and liaises closely with the MOH and IPs after the work plan has been approved to ensure their participation in the SIMS assessments.
• Leads the institutionalization of quality assurance and quality control in the SIMS Program at the regional level;
• Verifies the completeness and accuracy on all the SIMS data collected before submission to PM on a weekly basis;
• Participates in the regular IBTCI senior management meetings, as required;
• Provides regular and timely feedback to the staff on data collection to ensure any issues in data collection are quickly addressed;
• Collects SIMS data using SIMS tools;
• Ensures that underperforming sites (meeting the 25/50 rule) are reported daily to the PM (on the day the site was visited);
• Ensures the quarterly work plan is on track and targets are met on a weekly basis and informs the PM immediately if targets cannot be met providing the reason(s) why;
• Lead the SIMS debrief at the site level; and

C) Additional Job Duties:

• Performs other related duties as required.

Education:

Master’s degree or above in publich health, health science ,social science or medecine. Medical doctors are prefered. 

Experience: A Minimum of 10 years of experience working in Public health in Kenya and/or in developing countries (preferably East Africa).