TITLE: Technical Lead-Community Engagement and Social Behavior Change (TL-CES), Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) Project
DEPARTMENT: International Partnerships & Programs
REPORTS TO: Tanzania Project Director, Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) project
ASSIGNMENT TYPE: Full-time
LOCATION: Mwanza, Tanzania
LENGTH: 24-months with possibility to extend based on performance and budget
ABOUT AMERICARES:
Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization that
saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or
disaster. Each year, Americares reaches more than 90 countries,
including the United States, with life-changing health programs,
medicine, and medical supplies. Americares is the world’s leading
nonprofit provider of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more
information, visit americares.org.
About Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) Project:
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the New
Partnerships Initiative (NPI) has awarded CPRC to the Americares
Foundation Inc.. NPI is shifting the focus of USAID’s traditional
partners to mentoring, capacity-building, and technical oversight, by
using umbrella mechanisms and sub-awards strategically to enable new and
underutilized local partners to lead development in their own
communities and advance the Journey to Self-Reliance. USAID seeks to
expand its network of partnerships with local organizations because they
can mobilize quickly and take advantage of long-standing grassroots
relationships to bring needed interventions directly to people at risk.
Read Also:
The
Americares Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) project is
a five-year, $25 million effort under NPI to reduce mortality and
morbidity among mothers and their children through improved
community-based health care. Americares will work with Christian
Connections for International Health (CCIH) and its local affiliates in
the United Republic of Tanzania (Christian Social Services
Commission-CSSC) and the Republic of Liberia to leverage the expertise
and reach of local and locally established organizations, by building
their institutional capacity. This new partnership will work closely
with Tanzanian and Liberian communities and faith-based networks to
improve access to, and demand for, high-quality, community-based health
care for mothers, newborns, and children; voluntary family planning;
nutrition; and respectful maternity care.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The TL-CES will provide overall technical assistance in supporting CPRC
project’s community health-based RMNCAH interventions design,
implementation of community engagement approaches, community-facilities
linkages, gender, and mainstreaming, and monitoring social behavior
change (SBC) strategies and activities. S/He will also be responsible
for supporting efforts to increase demand and enhance FP, nutrition and
addressing disrespect and abuses for maternal and child health services
in collaboration with sub-grantee, MOHCDGEC, Regional and Council Health
Management Teams (R&CHMTs), Health facilities and community levels.
S/He will have a cross-cutting and collaboration roles with all CPRC
project Technical Leads and MEL Specialist to ensure plans and
implementation are synchronized and focused in achieving project
objectives and results.
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Project Management
-Take lead in Community engagement, gender, and SBC activities in the workplan and in the budget
-Mentor and supervise Community Engagement Officers working in the community-facilities linkages and SBC
-Work with MEL Specialist to lead the analysis of data related to SBC,
identify issues and challenges, and take the lead in implementing action
plans to address the issues and maintain the successes of the CPRC SBC
objectives
-Contribute to documentation of lessons learned and best
practices, development of briefs and articles for publication and
success stories
-Support the training of CSSC teams and ensure it is
in line with the Government of Tanzania Strategic plans and USAID’s SBC
strategy
-Work closely with all Technical Leads and MEL Specialist to record achievements against targets
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SBC Technical Assistance
-Provide technical direction to implement SBC approaches, strategies, and activities
-Develop, where applicable, and implement SBC framework, tools, messages, and other materials
-Develop detailed respectful care implementation intervention, based on
findings and evidence from formative research and other SBC-oriented
assessment
-Ensure high quality and timely delivery of CPRC project deliverables against objectives and targets
Partnership Management
-Under the guidance of the CPRC Project Director, maintain relationship with partners, MOHCDGEC, and USAID mission
-Ensure all activities from partners are properly planned, completed, and delivered and report on progress monthly
-Provide support and ensure quality of work of partners regarding the implementation of SBC activities
Capacity Building
-Build the capacity CSSC teams and frontline workers in SBC in collaboration with partners and MOHCDGEC-Health Promotion Section
-Provide continuous technical guidance and support to MOHCDGEC workers in SBC, including master trainers and mentors
-Provide oversight to SBC component of CPRC, including field visits,
technical review of reports to ensure project is on the right track to
achieving goals
Reporting
-Using
evidence of implementation efforts, work with Tanzania CPRC Team, CPRC
Project Director, and Americares HQs CPRC team (COP, Technical Director,
MEL Manager) to redefine and refine activities related to Community
Engagement, gender, and SBC
-Submit to Project Director weekly
updates, monthly, Quarterly, and Annual reports, including Technical
area brief pager related to project Community Engagement and SBC
interventions
-Track and update workplan on activities related to Community Engagement, gender, and SBC
-Ensure quality and timely submission of comprehensive reports are submitted accordingly
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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
-Master’s degree in community/development studies, social sciences with at least 3 years of work experience is added advantage
-BA/BSc degree holders in community/development studies, social
sciences with at least 7 years work experience in SBC experience in
designing, developing, implementing, monitoring strategies, activities
and materials will be preferred
-Experience in projects focusing on
community engagement, Gender and Adolescent health, SBCC, community
engagement approaches for RMNCAH services demand creations are added
advantage
-Proven track records of successful designing,
implementing, facilitating community social accountability mechanisms
(Participatory, Accountability, and Transparency) approaches in engaging
communities for RMNCAH, FP, and Nutrition interventions such as
Community Score Card (CSC), Gender Dialogues, Gulio la Afya, Cinema
shows, Local Radio talks presentation, Peer Support Groups formation and
supervision at communities (Mkoba wa siku 1000) are highly considered
for this position
-Experience in sub-grantees capacity building and
supporting their workplans and milestones development, overseeing their
implementation in the Fixed Amount Award (FAA) and Cost reimbursable
(CR) mechanism is required
-Excellent English-language writing skills and demonstrated experience meeting USAID and other donor reporting requirements
-Experiences in engaging and working harmoniously with Regional
Secretariats (RCs, RASs), Regional and Council Health Management Teams
(R/CHMTs,) Implementing Partners (IPs), and CSOs for a lasting
relationship in an asset
-Ability to present project progress at various levels of stakeholders’ meetings is preferred
-Ability to think critically and strategically with experience in pre-testing and testing materials, approaches and strategies
-Excellent interpersonal skills and strong communications skills; ability to develop partnerships across sectors and cultures
-Strong organizational skills, capacity to think strategically and attention to detail
-Proficiency in Office 365 including Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint, and SharePoint
-Willingness and ability to travel at least two weeks per month
-Unrestricted authorization to work in Tanzania
The deadline for submitting the application is 11 January, 2021
TITLE: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Specialist, Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) Project
DEPARTMENT: International Partnerships & Programs
REPORTS TO: Tanzania Project Director, Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) Project
ASSIGNMENT TYPE: Full-time
LOCATION: Mwanza, Tanzania
LENGTH: 24-months with the possibility to extend based on performance and budget
ABOUT AMERICARES:
Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization that
saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or
disaster. Each year, Americares reaches more than 90 countries,
including the United States, with life-changing health programs,
medicine, and medical supplies. Americares is the world’s leading
nonprofit provider of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more
information, visit americares.org.
Read Also:
About Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) Project:
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the New
Partnerships Initiative (NPI) has awarded CPRC to the Americares
Foundation Inc.. NPI is shifting the focus of USAID’s traditional
partners to mentoring, capacity-building, and technical oversight, by
using umbrella mechanisms and sub-awards strategically to enable new and
underutilized local partners to lead development in their own
communities and advance the Journey to Self-Reliance. USAID seeks to
expand its network of partnerships with local organizations because they
can mobilize quickly and take advantage of long-standing grassroots
relationships to bring needed interventions directly to people at risk.
The Americares Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC)
project is a five-year, $25 million effort under NPI to reduce mortality
and morbidity among mothers and their children through improved
community-based health care. Americares will work with Christian
Connections for International Health (CCIH) and its local affiliates in
the United Republic of Tanzania and the Republic of Liberia to leverage
local and locally established organizations’ expertise and reach by
building their institutional capacity. This new partnership will work
closely with Tanzanian and Liberian communities and faith-based networks
to improve access to, and demand for, high-quality, community-based
health care for mothers, newborns, and children; voluntary family
planning; nutrition; and respectful maternity care.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Tanzania MEL Specialist will oversee all aspects of the CPRC
monitoring, evaluation, and learning in Tanzania. Under the supervision
of the Tanzania Project Director, the MEL Specialist will coordinate
with HQ-based M&E and Project Teams, the Tanzania CPRC project three
Technical Leads for Community Engagement & SBCC, MNH, and FP. In
addition, the Specialist will work closely with and build capacities to
partner M&E teams and activities, particularly during data
collection and analysis. The Tanzania CPRC MEL Specialist will ensure
the application of best practices for data collection, analysis,
reporting, learning within the project team and with a larger audience,
including donors and MOH stakeholders. The position will require an
emphasis on working closely with the HQ M&E Director or his designee
and on creating externally relevant results and progress reports.
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Monitoring Activities:
-Lead the MEL unit in supporting the CPRC project in tracking and
measuring achievement and progress toward activity goals and results
-Ensuring that CSOs, and other partners collect quality data that meets
the USAID data requirements, including the different levels of
disaggregation (sex, age, and geographic disaggregation)
-Lead capacity building of technical, CSO staff and partners on MEL
-Lead monitoring of program quality using quality benchmarks and ensure
that findings from Key Program Indicators (KPIs) are shared with
relevant stakeholders and explicitly fed back into program decision
making
-Ensure data management information systems are in place and accessible to everyone at anytime
-Lead data entry and data analysis with partners
-Lead in data quality assessment for CPRC partners and CSOs by
regularly verifying and validating data reported monthly, quarterly, and
annually to ensure completeness, accuracy, and validity
-Contribute
toward continuous review of approaches used to implement activities and
advise CPRC Technical Leads for Community Engagement & SBCC, MNH,
and FP, and Project Director
-Providing technical assistance in the development, selection, and application of MEL processes and tools.
Evaluation Activities:
-Lead CPRC Tanzania during baseline and end line activities, with the support of the Project Director
-Lead in-country assessments and annual project evaluation to track
achievements and changes toward reaching the CPRC project overall goal
in Tanzania
-Under the guidance of the COP, Technical Director,
Tanzania Project Director, and HQ M&E Director perform additional or
complementary analysis of data collected, including baseline and
end-line data collected
-Lead the development of terms of reference
and methodology design for in-country program monitoring level reviews
and evaluations to ensure that processes will generate relevant learning
on respectful care
-Support internal and external Activity evaluations as necessary.
Learning:
-Maintained detailed knowledge and lessons learned, best practices, and issues
-Continuously support the program team and the sub-grantee in improving approaches, and processes
-Inform and work with the Country Director in reviewing and, where
appropriate developing and testing complementary tools to ensure
high-quality implementation, risk management, stakeholder analysis, root
cause analysis, project status report, quality management, minimum
program standard, and implementation checklist
-Contribute to
developing presentations, abstracts, articles and publications through
data analysis, tabulation, visualization, and supporting data
interpretation
Reports and Updates:
-Contribute to
the development and implementation of learning efforts and documentation
and sharing of findings and best practices
-Submit monthly reports and weekly updates to the Tanzania CPRC Project Director that monitor implementation and achievements
-Support the Project Director to prepare quarterly and annual reports for submission to USAID
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Coordination:
-Maintain contact with partners and stakeholders to ensure timely and regular flow of information and data
-Develop and roll-out capacity building and refresher training efforts
to ensure full participation of sub-grantee and MOH stakeholder in all
MEL efforts, with highly effective and application process
-Develop on an annual-basis MEL work plan adapted from the project global M&E plan
-Take full responsibility for the in-country MEL dashboard that present
an overview of accomplishment, MEL needs, budget, and planning review
-Lead the Tanzania MEL component during the regular project review
CORE AMERICARES RESPONSIBILITIES:
-Foster Americares values of responsiveness, results orientation, collaboration, efficiency, and integrity
-Coach, support, and develop staff to increase individual and team effectiveness
-Develop and manage the implementation of plans to increase team
operating performance, including SOPs and other efficiency initiatives
MINIMUM Qualifications:
-Master’s degree in Health Monitoring and Evaluation, Public Health,
Social Science, Epidemiology, Statistics, or related disciplines is
required
-Experience of working in RMNCAH, Family Planning,
Nutrition, and community development projects is highly desirable,
especially the ones involving capacity building for Sub-granted Local
NGOs/CSOs in Tanzania context
-Minimum of 5 years of work experience
in monitoring and evaluating international health sector development
projects, with a strong preference for candidates’ previous experience
working with the public health sector in building and strengthening data
collection and reporting systems
-Demonstrated experience of working with USAID large-scale programs, including knowledge of USAID’s reporting requirements
-Familiar with Tanzania health management information systems,
including data quality assessments and manipulation of DHIS2, experience
in presenting RMNCAH, FP, and Nutrition, data to MOH, PO-RALG, and
other IPs is a credit
-Experience in setting up M&E systems, design, and implementation
-Strong technical and analytical skills, including ability to analyze
qualitative and quantitative data using one or more statistical software
packages, such as SPSS, Stata, SAS, Nvivo, Atlas.ti
-Good knowledge
in conducting qualitative and quantitative research studies and
excellent in analytical and report writings skills
-Proven experience and knowledge in the documentation of program outcomes and impact
-Experience working with and being accountable to multiple stakeholders and multilayers settings, a huge plus
-Excellent interpersonal skills and strong communications skills; ability to develop partnerships across sectors and cultures
-Ability to coach, mentor, and build MEL technical capacity to fellow staff
-Strong organizational skills, capacity to think strategically, and attention to detail
-Excellent English-language writing skills and demonstrated experience meeting USAID and other donors reporting requirements
-Proficiency in Office 365 including Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint, and SharePoint
-Willingness and ability to travel as needed
-Unrestricted authorization to work in Tanzania
The deadline for submitting the application is 11 January, 2021
TITLE: Technical Lead- Reproductive Maternal Neonatal and Child Health (TL-MNH), Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) Project
DEPARTMENT: International Partnerships & Programs
REPORTS TO: Tanzania Project Director, Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) project
ASSIGNMENT TYPE: Full-time
LOCATION: Mwanza, Tanzania
LENGTH: 24-months with possibility to extend based on performance and budget
ABOUT AMERICARES:
Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization that
saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or
disaster. Each year, Americares reaches more than 90 countries,
including the United States, with life-changing health programs,
medicine and medical supplies. Americares is the world’s leading
nonprofit provider of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more
information, visit americares.org.
Read Also:
About Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) Project:
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the New
Partnerships Initiative (NPI) has awarded CPRC to the Americares
Foundation Inc.. NPI is shifting the focus of USAID’s traditional
partners to mentoring, capacity-building, and technical oversight, by
using umbrella mechanisms and sub-awards strategically to enable new and
underutilized local partners to lead development in their own
communities and advance the Journey to Self-Reliance. USAID seeks to
expand its network of partnerships with local organizations because they
can mobilize quickly and take advantage of long-standing grassroots
relationships to bring needed interventions directly to people at risk.
The Americares Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) project is a five-year, $25 million effort under NPI to reduce mortality and morbidity among mothers and their children through improved community-based health care. Americares will work with Christian Connections for International Health (CCIH) and its local affiliates in the United Republic of Tanzania (Christian Social Services Commission-CSSC) and the Republic of Liberia to leverage the expertise and reach of local and locally established organizations, by building their institutional capacity. This new partnership will work closely with Tanzanian and Liberian communities and faith-based networks to improve access to, and demand for, high-quality, community-based health care for mothers, newborns, and children; voluntary family planning; nutrition; and respectful maternity care.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The TL-MNH will provide technical and programmatic oversight and
direction in the areas of reproductive health, maternal, newborn and
child health (RMNCH), and nutrition of the CPRC project.
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Training and Other Capacity Building Activities
-Oversee the tailored implementation of RMNCH interventions as an
essential services package by working closely with the project’s team,
CSSC staff to provide technical assistance and guidance for RMNCH
clinical and community activities in project-supported facilities and
communities
-Providing technical support on the integration of RMNCH
services focusing on a variety of technical areas such as training;
full and free informed choice; infection prevention; health promotion;
operations research; and clinical quality improvement
-Work with
various national level technical working group to provide inputs into
strategic and technical RMNCH planning documents
-Support the
rollout of in-service coaching, mentoring and supportive supervision for
facility and community-based health care providers in all RMNCH
interventions
-Strengthen RMNCH guidance, tools, and procedures for
rigorous continuous implementation evaluation of training needs that
ensures the inclusion of respectful maternity care in materials and
training modules
-Coordinate RMNCH need-based refresher trainings for partners and facility-based staff where the CPRC project is implemented
Support capacity building activities for CSSC through training and mentorship program
-Champion RMNCH services across CSSC project covered health facilities
-Ensure capacity building activities, alongside with MOHCDGEC trainers
and mentors to increase knowledge, attitude and positive attitude toward
RMNCH, nutrition for children and pregnant and lactating women of
healthcare providers
-Routinely monitor and strengthen RMNCH quality-of-service provision by health staff, including CSSC staff
-Conduct regular supervisory visits and meetings, in collaboration with RMNCH partners
-Conduct data quality audits to validate results prior to including them in the monthly reports
-Ensure that RMNCH data is reported from the health facilities, relayed to the respective CHMTs
-Reinforce the management system of health facilities and the CHMTs as a
feedback mechanism to ensure high quality implementation of RMNCH
activities to meet project objectives
-Champion and promote
awareness raising activities and understanding of relevant issues of
RMNCH and nutrition in CPRC project covered regions and councils
Planning and coordination
-Coordinate integration of RMNCH in maternal health services at both community and facility-based interventions
-Support the rollout of RMNCH in-service coaching, mentoring and
supportive supervision for facility and community-based health care
providers
-Liaise with the team, develop, and promote partnerships
and networking with relevant RMNCH stakeholders including and not
limited to local authorities, MOHCDGEC, partners, and other stakeholders
as appropriate
-Oversee RMNCH activities to ensure quality and timely service delivery including integrated outreach campaigns and activities
-Coordinate with other Technical Leads and CSSC staff to meet CPRC project needs for field visits activities
-Work closely with other Technical Leads, MEL Specialist, CSSC team to
monitor referrals and continuum of care linkages between CHWs and
facility-based services
-Facilitate, with CPRC project partners, the
MOHCDGEC, and external partners as well, community mobilization and
awareness raising on RMNCH services
-In collaboration with other Technical Leads, coordinate monthly CHWs activities and data review meetings
-Ensure and provide cross-facility learning, collection of good and
best practices, documentation and experience sharing with outside and
inside CPRC partners, on RMNCH, FP, and nutrition
-Actively engage in national, regional, council level RMNCH networks settings and groups.
Leadership
-Provide technical leadership to ensure integration of RMNCH in CPRC project
-Provide RMNCH technical support during the design, development, planning and implementation phases
-Provide in country technical support to develop/adapt and implement
RMNCH innovative capacity building approaches to ensure high quality
performance of healthcare providers, CSSC, and CHWs
-Ensure that the
RMNCH project strategy adheres to MOHCDGEC and global strategies and
are technically sounds during design, planning and implementation phases
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Reporting:
-Identify and disseminate best practices and new technical strategies and approaches in the RMNCH area of expertise
-Ensure the CHWs and community-facilities linkages data on RMNCH
services are adequately established for timely reporting including the
use reporting tools
-Ensure quality and timely submission of comprehensive reports are submitted accordingly
CORE AMERICARES RESPONSIBILITIES:
-Foster Americares values of responsiveness, results orientation, collaboration, efficiency and integrity
-Coach, support and develop staff to increase individual and team effectiveness
-Develop and manage implementation of plans to increase team operating
performance, including SOPs and other efficiency initiatives
MINIMUM Qualifications:
-BSc/BA in Public health disciplines (Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery)
with more than 4 years’ work required, and a master’s degree (MPH or
equivalent) with a focus on RMNCH is highly preferred
-At least 5
years demonstrated experience working on USAID-funded project and
meeting USAID reporting requirements. Work experience in RMNCH in the
private sector/NGOs is added advantage
-Be an excellent classroom and clinical trainer with at least two years’ experience in clinical training
-Demonstrated experience designing and implementing capacity-building RMNCH programs for improving service delivery
-Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in service
delivery programs and technical staff in the areas of maternal, newborn
and child health, and performance and quality improvement
-Proven leadership and management skills with the ability to multi-task, and Experience managing quality assurance
-Excellent interpersonal skills and strong communications skills; ability to develop partnerships across sectors and cultures
-Strong organizational skills, capacity to think strategically and attention to detail
-Excellent English-language writing skills
-Proficiency in Office 365 including Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint and SharePoint
-Willingness and ability to travel
-Unrestricted authorization to work in Tanzania
The deadline for submitting the application is 11 January, 2021
TITLE: Technical Lead- Family Planning (TL-FP), Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) project
DEPARTMENT: International Partnerships & Programs
REPORTS TO: Tanzania Project Director, Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) project
ASSIGNMENT TYPE: Full-time
LOCATION: Mwanza, Tanzania
LENGTH: 24-months with possibility to extend based on performance and budget
ABOUT AMERICARES:
Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization that
saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or
disaster. Each year, Americares reaches more than 90 countries,
including the United States, with life-changing health programs,
medicine and medical supplies. Americares is the world’s leading
nonprofit provider of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more
information, visit americares.org.
About Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) Project:
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the New
Partnerships Initiative (NPI) has awarded CPRC to the Americares
Foundation Inc.. NPI is shifting the focus of USAID’s traditional
partners to mentoring, capacity-building, and technical oversight, by
using umbrella mechanisms and sub-awards strategically to enable new and
underutilized local partners to lead development in their own
communities and advance the Journey to Self-Reliance. USAID seeks to
expand its network of partnerships with local organizations because they
can mobilize quickly and take advantage of long-standing grassroots
relationships to bring needed interventions directly to people at risk.
Read Also:
The
Americares Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) project is
a five-year, $25 million effort under NPI to reduce mortality and
morbidity among mothers and their children through improved
community-based health care. Americares will work with Christian
Connections for International Health (CCIH) and its local affiliates in
the United Republic of Tanzania (Christian Social Services
Commission-CSSC) and the Republic of Liberia to leverage the expertise
and reach of local and locally established organizations, by building
their institutional capacity. This new partnership will work closely
with Tanzanian and Liberian communities and faith-based networks to
improve access to, and demand for, high-quality, community-based health
care for mothers, newborns, and children; voluntary family planning;
nutrition; and respectful maternity care.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The TL-FP will provide technical and programmatic oversight and
direction in the areas of reproductive health Family Planning. S/He will
work closely with other Technical Leads and MEL Specialist in the CPRC
project to identify strategic opportunities with project senior
management, FP/RH partners, and relevant government officials in the
development of strategic programs, innovations, implementation, and
monitoring to ensure efficient delivery of integrated FP/RH services
that is within the Tanzanian health care system.
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Training and Other Capacity Building Activities
-Oversee the tailored implementation of FP/RH interventions as an
essential services package by working closely with the project’s team,
CSSC staff to provide technical assistance and guidance for FP/RH
clinical and community activities in project-supported facilities and
communities
-Providing technical support on the integration of FP/RH services focusing on a variety of technical areas such as training; full and free informed choice; infection prevention; health promotion; operations research; and clinical quality improvement
-Work with various national level technical working group to provide inputs into strategic and technical FP/RH planning documents
-Support the rollout of in-service coaching, mentoring and supportive supervision for facility and community-based health care providers in all FP/RH interventions
-Strengthen FP guidance, tools, and procedures for rigorous continuous implementation evaluation of training needs that ensures the inclusion of respectful maternity care in materials and training modules
Read Also:
-Coordinate FP/RH need-based refresher trainings for partners and facility-based staff where the CPRC project is implemented
Support capacity building activities for CSSC through training and mentorship program
-Champion Family Planning and reproductive health services to adolescents
-Ensure capacity building activities, alongside with MOHCDGEC trainers and mentors to increase knowledge, attitude and positive attitude toward FP, nutrition for children and pregnant and lactating women of healthcare providers
-Routinely monitor and strengthen FP quality-of-service provision by health staff, including CSSC staff
-Conduct regular supervisory visits and meetings, in collaboration with FP/RH partners
-Conduct data quality audits to validate results prior to including them in the monthly reports
-Ensure that FP data is reported from the health facilities, relayed to the respective CHMTs
-Reinforce the management system of health facilities and the CHMTs as a feedback mechanism to ensure high quality implementation of FP activities to meet project objectives
-Champion and promote awareness raising activities and understanding of relevant issues of FP/RH and nutrition in CPRC project covered regions and councils
Planning and coordination
-Coordinate integration of FP in maternal health services at both community and facility-based interventions
-Support the rollout of in-service coaching, mentoring and supportive supervision for facility and community-based health care providers
-Liaise with the team, develop, and promote partnerships and networking with relevant FP stakeholders including and not limited to local authorities, MOHCDGEC, partners, and other stakeholders as appropriate
-Oversee FP/RH activities to ensure quality and timely service delivery including integrated outreach campaigns and activities
-Coordinate with other Technical Leads and CSSC staff to meet CPRC project needs for field visits activities
Read Also:
-Work closely with other Technical Leads, MEL Specialist, CSSC team to monitor referrals and continuum of care linkages between CHWs and facility-based services
-Facilitate, with CPRC project partners, the MOHCDGEC, and external partners as well, community mobilization and awareness raising on FP/RH prevention and counseling services
-In collaboration with other Technical Leads, coordinate monthly CHWs activities and data review meetings
-Ensure and provide cross-facility learning, collection of good and best practices, documentation and experience sharing with outside and inside CPRC partners, on FP/RH, MNH, and nutrition
-Actively engage in national, regional, Council level FP/RH networks settings and groups
Leadership
-Provide technical leadership to ensure integration of FP/RH in CPRC Project
-Provide FP/RH technical support during the design, development, planning and implementation phases
-Provide in country technical support to develop/adapt and implement FP/RH innovative capacity building approaches to ensure high quality performance of healthcare providers, CSSC, and CHWs
-Ensure that the FP/RH project strategy adheres to MOHCDGEC and global strategies and are technically sounds during design, planning and implementation phases
Reporting:
-Identify and disseminate best practices and new technical strategies and approaches in the FP/RH area of expertise
-Ensure the CHWs and community-facilities linkages data on FP/RH services are adequately established for timely reporting including the use reporting tools
-Ensure quality and timely submission of comprehensive reports are submitted accordingly
Read Also:
CORE AMERICARES RESPONSIBILITIES:
-Foster Americares values of responsiveness, results orientation, collaboration, efficiency and integrity
-Coach, support and develop staff to increase individual and team effectiveness
-Develop and manage implementation of plans to increase team operating performance, including SOPs and other efficiency initiatives
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
-Bachelor’s degree in clinical disciplines (Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery) with at least 3 years experiences with post-graduate level training in public health is added advantage
-Advanced Diploma holder (Nursing, Medicine, Midwifery) with at least 5 years work experiences in community- facility FP and RMNCAH interventions is highly preferred
-Experiences in the technical designing, developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating FP projects and implementation of FP/RH programs is added advantage
-Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in service delivery programs and technical staff in the areas of maternal, newborn and child health, and performance and quality improvement
-A good knowledge of current family planning/postpartum family planning approaches, preferably with understanding of the National and USAID’s approaches
-Strong organizational skills, capacity to think strategically and attention to detail
-Excellent English-language writing skills
-Proficiency in Office 365 including Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint and SharePoint
-Willingness and ability to travel
-Unrestricted authorization to work in Tanzania
The deadline for submitting the application is 11 January, 2021
