Fleming Fund Regional Coordinator, South Asia - Delhi, India - Mott MacDonald

Mott MacDonald

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Delhi, India

2 weeks ago

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Deepika Kaur

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Description

The Fleming Fund is a 10-year, large scale (+£235m) and complex fund management programme which operates in up to 25 LMIC countries and runs until 202- Reporting to the Programme's Asia Regional Director, the Regional Coordinator will be responsible for leadership and oversight of the Fleming Fund's activities in South Asia, supporting the end-to-end process of grant recommendation and delivery.

The Regional Coordinator has a wide range of responsibilities including setting standards, shaping and implementing agreed strategies for Fleming Fund investments, sharing responsibility for funding recommendations, engaging with stakeholders, and seeking to ensure that Fleming Fund grants achieve maximum value for money.

The role manages the Regional Hub, including a team of 7-8 technical and programme delivery experts.

A key part of the role includes high-level liaison with AMR Coordination Committee members and governments throughout the region, as well as with partners, including the UK Department of Health and Social Care, FCDO, FAO, OIE and WHO.

Key Responsibilities include:
Leading the endtoend grant management process for the Fleming Fund Grants Programme at the regional level, under guidance from the Regional Director, including:
Making recommendations for country selection for grant-making
Being the primary pointofcontact of, and coordinating with, Governments and grantees
Coordinating, supporting and participating in development of Country Investment strategies
Coordinating the drafting of Terms of reference for grants
Reviewing and approving quarterly financial and technical reports from grantees
Undertaking periodic onsite inspections of grantees and grantsupported sites.
Coordinating Country Reviews
Managing the Regional Hub team:
Ensuring appropriate mix of skills for country visits, including sourcing consultants
Ensuring appropriate requests for support from the Core Technical Team
Providing problem solving advice and addressing challenges to grant delivery
Ensuring grant execution to the highest technical standards
Management of the Regional Hub:
Ensuring compliance with systems and processes to ensure appropriate use of Mott MacDonald's Business Management Systems (BMS) to deliver the Regional Hub's activities
Ensuring planning processes, project work plans, budgets and action plans are completed and monitored for the region
Ensuring periodic financial, operational, and technical reporting (weekly, monthly, and quarterly) to the UK team is completed in a timely manner, in consultation with the Regional Director
Ensuring completion of deliverables on time to agreed standards
Overseeing all operational aspects of the Regional Hub, including new office setup and local entity licensing (if necessary), managing the interentity agreement drafting between the Mott MacDonald local entity and Mott MacDonald UK, and leading the operational relationship between the two entities, with support from the UK.
Corporate responsibilities:
Establish good and considerate working relationships with all staff in the International Health division, International Development Services Unit, ISMA Region and Mott MacDonald Group as a whole in a way which demonstrates respect for their particular roles and responsibilities.
When required, work closely with immediate colleagues and unit employees to provide a highquality service to internal and external customers.
Education:

Essential:
Higher education (post graduate degree) in public health, international development, adult education or similar.

Desirable:

Training:
Applicants should highlight any relevant training or professional development

Experience:

Essential:
Significant experience working in a similar role of technical oversight and project management/ coordination for projects in low
- and middle-income settings.
Working with multiple stakeholders including experience of effective client engagement.

Overseeing technical delivery of projects including:

Supporting Development of clear project terms of reference and ensuring activities are well defined for effective outcomes.
Quality assuring activities and outputs, providing constructive feedback to ensure strategic focus is maintained and agreed objectives delivered.
Ongoing oversight and support including troubleshooting and problemsolving.

Sourcing, selecting and managing technical assistance as required to support effective project delivery.
Experience in monitoring and evaluating programmes.
Coordinating and consolidating inputs from multiple stakeholders.
Regular client reporting on programme activities.
Experience of planning and delivering public health programmes/ projects.

Desirable:
Designing and/or delivering capacity building programmes in development
Managing, supporting and evaluating the delivery of education/ professional development activities that seek to strengthen skills in low
- to middle-income countries.

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