Senior Programme Manager

**Main purpose of the job**:

- Coordinate and manage all CHAMPS (Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance study) programme streams in a cohesive and strategic manner working closely with the CHAMPS Principal Investigator and the CHAMPS stream leads

**Location**:

- **Wits Vaccines & Infectious Diseases Analytics (VIDA) Research Unit, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Soweto - Johannesburg**

**Key performance areas**:

- _Research programme development and implementation including programme management and epidemiology oversight_
- In conjunction with respective Principal Investigator/s (PI) manages full scope of the study conduct including protocol development and implementation, reports and reporting, and publications according to all applicable organisational and sponsor-mandated standards
- Collate and formalise all cross-functional efforts to efficiently and effectively achieve study objectives and goals
- Effectively liaise with all relevant internal and external stakeholders in order to meet programme goals
- Ensure consolidated epidemiology coherence across different programme streams
- Manage the programme organisational plan as set out in the project plan and in conjunction with the respective PI and other necessary stakeholders
- Escalate and manage the resolution of all relevant issues to the required and respective line authorities including PI, sponsor and others as required
- Writing of manuscripts, protocols and grants proposals as required and in conjunction with respective manager and/or PI
- Compile accurate, factual, reliable and strategically aligned reports to the various stakeholders as per sponsor, PI, government department and organisation requirements including recommendations based on research findings
- Strategic leadership contribution and participation in management committee/s as required and determined in accordance with organisational design and strategy development
- _Stakeholder Relations and Community Engagement_
- Ensure effective stakeholder engagement and feedback channels
- Prepare and facilitate presentations, meetings and events for sponsors and other stakeholders as required
- Provide support to other research sites, district hospitals and district health facilities where necessary e.g., community outreach projects, staff training, and implementation of protocols as required
- Oversee community liaison strategy and implementation in support of all relevant studies and programmes
- _Administration, quality and compliance_
- Provide oversight '1of quality assurance processes to ensure accurate and timely data collection and management
- Ensure regulatory compliance of all applicable programmes and between the organisation and external sites/partners as may apply
- Oversee the administration component or relevant research projects and programme streams including finance, human and material resources
- Liaise with all shared services, departmental and executive management in order to ensure effective administration of studies and programmes in line with company procedures and policies
- _Staff management_
- Attend to all staffing requirements for programmes and studies including short, medium and long-term resource planning across multiple grants and cost centres
- Supervise and manage the duties of subordinates to ensure optimal staff utilisation and maintenance of sound labour relations; lead cross-functional teams to promote productivity within projects
- Manage staff performance and performance of reporting teams to ensure productivity, performance management and appropriate corrective action as required
- Oversight of staff development, and provision of mentorship and/or coaching
- Promote harmony, teamwork and sharing of information In line with company standards
- Supervision of post-graduate students as required
- Create an environment that promotes talent recognition, development as well as agency and individual leadership
- Ensure teams comply with policies, applicable standards and administrative and internal communications requirements, and promote the organisation’s values and strategies
- _Customer Service_
- Act in a professional and friendly manner in all dealings with internal stakeholders
- Show a high level of customer centricity at all times
- Manage internal and external stakeholder expectations and communicate appropriately with initiative and solutions
- _Effective self-management and performance ownership_
- Take ownership and accountability for responsibility areas, demonstrate effective self-management, develop team and individual leadership and collaboration to support combined and individual objectives
- Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of own work are consistently and accurately maintained
- Take ownership of driving your own career development
- Support and drive the business's core values, maintain a positive attitude and respond openly and constructively to feedback

**Required minimum