Centre Operations Manager
- Health and Care
- freetown
- 04/09/2026
- Wage Agreement
- Full Time
- Urgent
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Centre Operations Manager |
Reporting to |
Technical Services & Transformations Director |
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Location |
Assigned Centre |
Direct Reports |
Roving Deputy Clinical Lead/Centre Operations Officers |
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Marie Stopes Sierra Leone |
Marie Stopes Sierra Leone (MSSL) was established in 1986 as a leading provider of high-quality reproductive healthcare. We are a social enterprise that blends the values of non-profit public service with the innovation and efficiency of private sector delivery. Every year, we serve thousands of women, men, and young people across Sierra Leone with compassionate, client-centered care.
We are part of MSI Reproductive Choices, a global partnership operating in 37 countries, united by the belief that everyone should have the freedom to make their own sexual and reproductive choices.
Our work goes beyond healthcare. By supporting the physical, emotional, and reproductive wellbeing of our clients, we also open doors to broader opportunities. When men, women and girls are able to make informed choices about their bodies and futures, they are better able to stay in school, pursue their careers, contribute to their communities, and build healthier families. In this way, reproductive choice becomes a pathway to dignity, autonomy, and the reduction of poverty.
The Role/Function |
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The Centre Operations Manager is responsible for the end-to-end performance, quality, efficiency, and sustainability of all MSSL Centres, ensuring that clinical services are delivered to the highest quality standards while operational systems, staffing, finances, supply chains, and infrastructure function seamlessly.
The role integrates clinical quality assurance and operational discipline, ensuring that Centres are safe, compliant, client-centred, financially viable, and operationally efficient, while also supporting service expansion, revenue growth, and continuous improvement.
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Key Responsibilities |
1. Centre Operations and Service Delivery Management
· Conduct regular, structured supervision visits to all Centres to assess service delivery, compliance with SOPs, cleanliness, client flow, staff conduct, and operational efficiency.
· Ensure uninterrupted availability of approved clinical, laboratory, and diagnostic services across all Centres by proactively addressing operational risks.
· Oversee the operational rollout of new or expanded services, ensuring that staffing, equipment, consumables, pricing, marketing, and SOPs are aligned before service launch.
· Ensure that operational gaps identified through supervision or data review are documented, tracked, and resolved within agreed timelines.
2. Clinical Quality Oversight and Governance
· Ensure that all Centres operate in full compliance with MSSL Clinical Governance frameworks, MSI global clinical standards, and national regulatory requirements.
· Work closely with Centre Clinical Leads to ensure that clinical protocols, SOPs, infection prevention and control (IPC), safeguarding, and ethical standards are consistently implemented.
· Review clinical audit reports, incident logs, complication reports, and safeguarding cases, and ensure that corrective and preventive actions are implemented within agreed timelines.
· Monitor clinical quality indicators, including service outcomes, adverse events, audit scores, and client complaints related to care quality.
· Ensure that Centres remain inspection-ready at all times for regulatory, donor, and internal audits.
3. Workforce Planning, Rosters, and Performance Management
skill mix across all Centres.
arrangements are in place for unplanned absences.
practice, customer service, safeguarding, financial controls, and compliance.
addressed through documented performance improvement plans.
supervision.
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4. Financial Performance and Business Accountability
Centre.
optimise service mix, and improve client conversion.
at Centre level.
approved budgets.
with Finance.
5. Supply Chain, Inventory, and Logistics Oversight
medical supplies, consumables, laboratory reagents, and non-medical items.
are conducted regularly.
and ensure timely corrective action.
health regulations.
6. Stakeholder, Referral, and Insurance Partner Management
satisfaction.
access and revenue.
7. Client Experience, Feedback, and Service Improvement
and tracked.
8. Compliance, Risk, and Audit Management
Centre level.
9. Equipment, Facilities, and Infrastructure Management
with preventive maintenance schedules.
accurate and up to date.
infrastructure.
Qualifications & Experience |
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· A Bachelor’s degree in Health Administration, Public Health, Nursing, Medicine, Business Administration, Operations Management, or a related discipline is required. · A postgraduate qualification in Public Health, Health Systems Management, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration (MBA), or Operations Management is a strong advantage. · Formal training or certification in clinical governance, healthcare quality improvement, operations management, project management, or health systems strengthening is desirable. · Demonstrated exposure to healthcare service delivery environments, including clinical operations, quality assurance, and compliance frameworks, is essential. · Continuous professional development in areas such as clinical quality, leadership, people management, financial controls, safeguarding, and risk management is expected.
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Competencies & Skills |
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· Strong understanding of healthcare operations and clinical quality systems. · Proven experience in revenue tracking, cost control, and operational efficiency. · Strong people management, supervision, and performance management skills. · High analytical capability with strong reporting and data interpretation skills. · Excellent communication, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities. ·<span style="font: 7 |