Techinical Advisor-Institutional Partnership
About CRS:
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the official overseas relief and development organization of United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and has served people living in poverty and situations of vulnerability in over 100 countries since 1943. In Tanzania, CRS has served vulnerable communities for over 50 years and is a leader in building the country’s capacity to improve health and nutrition services for young children and their caregivers..
FASTER Project Background:
FASTER (Faith-Based Action for Scaling up Testing and Treatment for the Epidemic Response) is designed as a new component of the global
FOCUS (Faith-based Organization Capacity Strengthening for Universal HIV Services) project. Funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), FOCUS was developed with the intent of building FBO network capacity, assisting FBOs to contribute to HIV multi-sector planning for expanded service delivery, and documenting successful approaches. Led by CRS, FOCUS builds understanding of how to leverage the faith-based community’s contributions at subnational and national levels, reinforcing mutual responsibility and country-driven leadership.
FASTER takes FOCUS’ objectives to the next level by creating an enabling environment in four (4) countries where public health, civil society, the private sector, and FBOs can accelerate normative pediatric HIV case finding, testing, linkage to care and treatment, and adherence support by strengthening and streamlining joint coordination and provision of pediatric HIV service delivery.
Job Title: Techinical Advisor-Institutional Partnership, Linkage and Coordination,FASTER Project – Dar es Salaam based (1 position)
Job Responsibilities:
Specific Responsibilities:
CRS’ talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted
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Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the official overseas relief and development organization of United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and has served people living in poverty and situations of vulnerability in over 100 countries since 1943. In Tanzania, CRS has served vulnerable communities for over 50 years and is a leader in building the country’s capacity to improve health and nutrition services for young children and their caregivers..
FASTER Project Background:
FASTER (Faith-Based Action for Scaling up Testing and Treatment for the Epidemic Response) is designed as a new component of the global
FOCUS (Faith-based Organization Capacity Strengthening for Universal HIV Services) project. Funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), FOCUS was developed with the intent of building FBO network capacity, assisting FBOs to contribute to HIV multi-sector planning for expanded service delivery, and documenting successful approaches. Led by CRS, FOCUS builds understanding of how to leverage the faith-based community’s contributions at subnational and national levels, reinforcing mutual responsibility and country-driven leadership.
FASTER takes FOCUS’ objectives to the next level by creating an enabling environment in four (4) countries where public health, civil society, the private sector, and FBOs can accelerate normative pediatric HIV case finding, testing, linkage to care and treatment, and adherence support by strengthening and streamlining joint coordination and provision of pediatric HIV service delivery.
Job Title: Techinical Advisor-Institutional Partnership, Linkage and Coordination,FASTER Project – Dar es Salaam based (1 position)
Job Responsibilities:
Specific Responsibilities:
- Engage FBOs, faith leadership and other groups with PORALG, MOHCDGEC and TACAIDS in effective community-facility coordination
- Lead the review of national and district coordination for their functionality and make recommendations on how best to strengthen effective community coordination for the purpose of increasing the identification, linkage/retention thorough follow up of children/adolescents in care and treatment
- Lead the Identification, design and test SOPs/standards for effective community engagement of multiple stakeholders in improving identification, linkages and support for care and treatment for children/adolescents.
- Engage the faith based leadership and elicit active involvement of the FBO networks in addressing stigma and discrimination
- Liase with different partners to develop messages on stigma and discrimination prevention and share them with FBO communities to be used in their congregations
- Work with the MOHCDGEC and NACP for greater involvement of FBO networks in national and regional fora addressing pediatric care and treatmer
- Contribute to capacity strengthening initiatives for FBO including (a) capacity building and trainings on institutional and programmatic areas of competence: (b) institutional strengthening, including improvement processes, procedures, operating standards; and (c) mentoring and coaching to FBO staff working in the health departments
- Strengthening the capacity of FBO networks to engage addressing gaps in the identification, linkage and treatment of children and adolescents living with HIV.
- Contribute to knowledge management and learning on behalf of the FASTER project by monitoring and evaluating MOHCDGEC activities, assisting with measuring wider project impact, capturing and sharing lessons learned and best practices, and research and internal reports.
- Contribute to maintaining relationships with HIV peer support organizations and other institutions, participate in forums in the area of capacity strengthening to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work.
- Master’s degree in Public Administration, Public Health, Organizational Development or Social Work required.
- Minimum of 7 years relevant work experiences with progressive responsibilities, including a minimum of 5 years relevant experiences in projects related to the MOHCDGEC, or other relevant Government of Tanzania institutions.
- Knowledge of technical principles and concepts in institutional strengthening and HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment, preferably with children and adolescnets.
- Knowledge of effective principles for partnership management.
- Experience with program monitoring and evaluation and analysis.
- Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations and faith-based and civil society partners, preferably related to the HIV/AIDS sector in Tanzania.
- Excellent interpersonal, writing and oral presentation skills in English and Swahili.
Interested and qualified applicants are requested to submit their applications to CRS Human Resources Manager at TZ_HR@crs.org by 17h00 EAT on 10 July 2019.Only submissions that meet the following criteria will be reviewed
- Subject line must read “Techinical Advisor -Institutional Partnership, Linkage and Coordination – FASTER Project”
- CV must be in Word or PDF format and not exceed 5 pages.
- Cover letter summarizing qualifications and motivation. Cover letter must be in Word or PDF format and not exceed 2 pages.
CRS’ talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted
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MEAL Manager
MEAL Manager, FASTER Project-Dar es Salaam based (1 position)Job Responsibilities:
Reports to: CRS Tanzania FASTER Project Director
CRS’ talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted
- Oversees and manages MEAL implementation at project-level.
- Provides technical lead for quality MEAL system design, including tools and methods, appropriate to scope, context, and technical requirements of FASTER project
- Provides technical oversight for analysis of MEAL data, qualitative and quantitative.
- Ensures quality of data and data management practices.
- Integrates data analysis, reflection and interpretation and use with ongoing project activities.
- Ensures compliance with donor and agency MEAL requirements.
- Shares MEAL learning and experiences in broader country program discussions.
- Builds capacity of partners in MEAL.
- Ensures quality management practices of MEAL activities.
- Oversees and completes appropriate MEAL tasks and systems for FASTER as required.
- Plans and budgets appropriately for quality MEAL activities and ensure quality management practices of MEAL activities Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field or in the field of monitoring and evaluation, research, and project management or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO. with minimum of two years of relevant field-based experiences in monitoring and evaluation, research and data management.
- 7 progressive years of experience working on M&E in HIV/AIDS programming preferably PEPFAR programs
- Strong experience within the Tanzanian Health Management System including experience working with the MOHCDGEC, NACP and using of DHIS2, CTC2 and CTC3 tools
- Knowledge of technical principles and concepts of M&E, research, and data management. General knowledge of other related disciplines to ensure proper cross-sectoral approach.
- Demonstrated ability to build staff capacity and capacity strengthening best practices.
- Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based and civil society partners. Understanding of partnership principles.
- Knowledge of technical principles and concepts of learning and accountability
- Experiences in designing and overseeing implementation of program studies and evaluation, and use of findings to support adaptive management
- Ability to meet deadlines and deliver required results in an timely and quality manner
- Strong skills in MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint. Publisher) as well as SPSS & STATA, Access and Visual Basics. Experience with information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks.
Reports to: CRS Tanzania FASTER Project Director
Interested and qualified applicants are requested to submit their applications to CRS Human Resources Manager at TZ_HR@crs.org by 17h00 EAT on 10 July 2019.Only submissions that meet the following criteria will be reviewed
- Subject line must read “MEAL Manager, FASTER Project “
- CV must be in Word or PDF format and not exceed 5 pages.
- Cover letter summarizing qualifications and motivation. Cover letter must be in Word or PDF format and not exceed 2 pages.
CRS’ talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted
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Technical Advisor
Technical Advisor Pediatric and adolescent HIV/AIDS .FASTER project – Dar es Salaam based (1 position)
Job Responsibilities:
CRS’ talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation. 2
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted
Job Responsibilities:
- Support the Project Director (PD) to coordinate project engagement with the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MOHCDGEC) with its departments ensuring a highly coordinated, effective, engaged, strong partnership and relationship.
- Provide technical support and guidance on addressing barriers to pediatric and adolescent HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment.
- Provide in-country oversight together with the global HQ team, in the implementation of research studies addressing different priority areas including Evaluation of Demand, Feasibility and Impact Linked to Index Testing Services in Tanzania
- Support the development and contribute to the implementation of project-level strategies, standards, tools in coordination and with the effective engagement of the NACP and MOHCDGEC .
- Lead review and validation of technical documents, training materials and policy briefs to meet national and U.S. government guidelines, as well as international standards.
- Lead program innovation, including adaptation of evidence- and/or science-based approaches, on HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment at head office and country level.
- Strengthening the capacity of FBO networks to engage addressing gaps in the identification, linkage and treatment of children and adolescents living with HIV.
- Medical degree (MD)and Master’s in Pediatric or public health.
- Minimum seven (7) years’ of progressively responsible, professional-level experience on HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment issues for pediatric with at least three to five years’ experience in resource challenged settings.
- Experience with HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment services and programmes.
- Experience with U.S. Government-funded programmes preferred.
- Willingness to travel, In-country experience in Tanzania, highly preferred.
Interested and qualified applicants are requested to submit their applications to CRS Human Resources Manager at TZ_HR@crs.org by 17h00 EAT on 10 July 2019.Only submissions that meet the following criteria will be reviewed
- Subject line must read “Techinical Advisor Pediatric and adolescent HIV/AIDS-FASTER project”
- CV must be in Word or PDF format and not exceed 5 pages.
- Cover letter summarizing qualifications and motivation. Cover letter must be in Word or PDF format and not exceed 2 pages.
CRS’ talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation. 2
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted
