Learning Manager, HPV

ABOUT VILLAGEREACH 

VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone. We are driven by a vision of a world where each person has the health care needed to thrive. VillageReach’s goal is to reduce inequities in access to quality primary health care for 350 million people by 2030. We work with governments, the private sector, partners and communities to build responsive primary health care systems that deliver health products, information and services to the most under-reached. As a locally driven and globally connected organization, VillageReach has offices in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and the United States.   

SUMMARY

VillageReach, in partnership with Bull City Learning, is launching the HPV Vaccine Peer-to-Peer Learning Initiative in Mozambique. This initiative is aimed at strengthening the capacity of staff at multiple levels of the immunization system to improve HPV vaccine uptake, particularly among out-of-school girls. The project will implement and evaluate two peer-learning approaches, both of which will require in-person engagement and facilitation while also leveraging digital tools and platforms to facilitate engagement between participants. Learning activities will take place in districts determined in coordination with the government. VillageReach will pay per-diem for travel and accommodation as required for carrying out learning activities. 

VillageReach is seeking a Learning Manager for a fixed-term role of approximately 18 months, with a target start date of April 1, 2025, and an anticipated end date of September 30, 2026. The role of the Learning Manager is to implement the two peer-learning approaches by coordinating activities, providing facilitation and coaching, documenting lessons learned, and fostering engagement across both in-person and digital platforms. The ideal candidate will have experience working in health systems (ideally immunization systems), adult learning facilitation, and community engagement.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.  

• Organize logistics and facilitate in-person and virtual meetings for peer-learning approaches. 

• Moderate and encourage ongoing virtual engagement with participants through WhatsApp groups or other virtual platforms. 

• Provide insights and ideas to drive development of learning approach materials and tools, troubleshoot challenges, and implement strategies to sustain participation. 

• Capture key lessons learned, success stories, and best practices from the Learning Exchange and Peer Groups. 

• Support participants in creating and sharing documentation (e.g., videos, photo stories, reports) to disseminate learnings. 

• With support from VillageReach staff in Mozambique, coordinate with sub-national, facility, and community-level stakeholders to recruit participants for learning activities. 

• Monitor participant engagement and work with the M&E lead to track key indicators. 

• Participate in stakeholder engagement meetings.  

• Collaborate with and participate in regular program meetings with VillageReach staff based in Mozambique and globally. 

COMPETENCIES:

VillageReach has ten (10) Organizational Competencies that describe how we work together and get things done that are grouped into three strategic areas of Achieving Great Results, Setting Direction and, Bringing Others With you. For a full description, please download our Organizational Competency document. 

Achieving Great Results: 

1. Risk Taking and Innovation 

• Key Behaviors: Comfort with ambiguity, curiosity, adaptability, unconstrained and undeterred creativity, resourcefulness. 

2. Business Judgement 

• Key Behaviors: Getting to root causes, understanding environment, navigating complexity and ambiguity, entrepreneurial energy.  

3. Building Strong Teams 

• Key Behaviors: Trust in Subject Matter Experts (SME’s); radical candor to resolve conflict, hold each other accountable as colleagues, focused on results, commitment to mission. 

Setting Direction: 

4. Compelling Communication 

• Key Behaviors: Clear and evidence-based communication, audience adaptability, curious listener.   

5. Resilient Self Leadership 

• Key Behaviors: Self-aware, plan how one shows up, emotionally intelligent, use one’s own agency and takes accountability. 

6. Stewardship and Personal Alignment 

• Key Behaviors: Take ownership, display ethical conduct, effective at resource management, alignment of personal objectives with organizational goals and mission, focus on continuous improvement and sustainability. 

Bringing Others with You: 

7. Influencing Leadership 

• Key Behaviors: Cultivate trust, influences to make change, navigate the matrix structure. 

8. Radical Partnership 

• Key Behaviors: Share information and credit, address conflict, increase impact through collaboration, political and contextual awareness. 

9. Cultivates a Growth Mindset 

• Key Behaviors: Seek out diverse input, demonstrate flexibility in thinking and curiosity, embrace challenges, demonstrate persistence, seek learning opportunities. 

10. Cultural Intelligence and Inclusion 

• Key Behaviors: Continuous learning and ally-ship across cultural lines, challenge prejudice and bias, modeled in one’s own behavior. 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Supervisory Responsibilities:  

This position has no supervisory responsibilities. 

Education & Experience:  

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Public Health or a related field. 

• 3-5 years of experience in health program implementation, training facilitation, or community engagement. 

• Experience working with health staff, public health programs, immunization programs, or capacity-building initiatives. 

• Strong facilitation skills, particularly in workshops with diverse participants, peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, and participatory approaches. 

• Preferred - Knowledge of Mozambique’s immunization system structure and strategies and awareness of HPV vaccination. 

• Preferred - Experience moderating online learning communities, WhatsApp groups, or other digital engagement platforms. 

Other Qualifications: 

• Established cultural competency in partnering with racial, cultural and linguistically diverse groups. 

• Demonstrated understanding of challenges with working in rural, underserved and low-income context; experience living in and/or working in a low-income country a plus. 

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel) and comfortable in a fast-paced technical environment. 

• Fluency in written and spoken English and Portuguese. 

• Strong communication, relationship management, and stakeholder engagement skills. 

• Strong organization skills and detail-oriented.  

• Experience working successfully independently and in team settings. 

• Ability to travel domestically for work (approximately 25-50% time for 5-6 months). 

Environment and Physical Demands: 

VillageReach employees typically work in a shared, open environment with task and conference rooms accessible to employees for privacy and meetings. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet. Due to the time zone differences across our USA, Kenya and Country Offices and location of other global staff, we have established core collaboration hours between 6am Pacific Time and 18:00 South Africa Time (GMT+1) Monday through Thursday. All staff, regardless of location are expected to be available between these hours. During Daylight Savings Time, this allows for 12 hours per week (3 hours/day) of collaboration time and during Standard Time, 8 hours (2 hours/day). We do not hold cross-office meetings on Friday. 

We anticipate 25-50% travel between May and September, 2025 and in January and April, 2026. Otherwise, most work will be conducted at the office with occasional external stakeholder meetings.  

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION: 

VillageReach is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to workforce diversity. We believe that diverse, equitably weighted perspectives foster an organizational capacity to create novel solutions that improve health in the most under-reached and hard-to-reach areas. To align our values, innovations and impact, VillageReach is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse global workforce. 

APPLICATION INFORMATION:  

This is an immediate hire and therefore resumes will be reviewed on a rolling basis until March 17th . To apply, please submit your resume and a cover letter to our online portal: http://www.villagereach.org/join-us/.  In your cover letter, please address (1) Why you are interested in this position, (2) What is one reason you think you’d be a good fit for this position and, (3) What is one strength you would bring to this position? 

Hiring Process: 

The hiring process will include the following steps: 

1. Review submitted applications 
2. Conduct 20-30-minute screening interviews for shortlisted candidates 
3. Conduct skills and value-based interviews for 3-5 candidates. 
4. Request that top candidates submit a practical assessment (designed to take no more than two hours to complete). Sometimes the assignment will occur before the interview. 
5. Conduct final interview if necessary  
6. Request references  
7. Make offer   
8. Conduct background check 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted, but candidates who proceed to step 2 will be notified if they are not chosen for step 3. 

Safeguarding: 

VillageReach is committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults, and beneficiaries with whom it engages. We expect everyone working with us to share this commitment through our code of conduct. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which may include criminal records. VillageReach participates in the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and, in line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By applying, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures. 

Compensation & Benefits: 

VillageReach has an established compensation structure that is based on the relevant market and internally transparent. The range for this position is $56,300 to $68,700 USD. We hire people into the established range based on one’s experience and education and considering internal equity. We do not inquire about salary history. Please refer to our compensation overview on our website for more information and for more information on employee benefits.