Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Title: Field Project Coordinator, Tanzania
Position Summary
In 2016, THET was awarded a grant from Comic Relief to support the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) to train and roll out the first formal cadre of paid Community Health Workers (CHWs) under the current Building National Training Capacity to Implement the Community Based Health Programme Strategic Plan (2015 – 2020).
We are now conducting a one-year project to strengthen the quality of service provision delivered by formal CHWs in two districts of the Lake Zone of Tanzania and contribute to the evidence base as to the value of CHWs in order to achieve universal health coverage. For the last three years, we have implemented a multi-level approach: supporting the capacity development of ten health training institutes and system strengthening at the district and regional level.
We have advocated for and supported policy development at the national level and its implementation at regional and district level. Through our presence in MoHCDGEC taskforces and technical working groups we have supported curriculum development, recruitment and retention, development of supervision tools and planning and budgeting of CHWs. This has resulted in the training of over 1300 formal community health workers, the capacity development of 174 district and health managers on community-based health programmes, and development of policy guidelines including the scheme of service and the review of the CHW curriculum to harmonise it to the needs of communities. .

Responsibilities
Specific Tasks
• Administrative Financial
• Facilitate payments of relevant activities i.e. venues for meetings, per diems for participants.
• Assist with booking flights and accommodations for consultants, GOT officials etc.
• Follow up with LGAs to make sure all payments are done on time.
• Produce monthly expenditure report.
Project Implementation
• Responsible for coordinating all project activities in the two districts.
• Support in organizing focus group discussions.
• Support in organizing refresher trainings for the newly employed CHWs by the project.
• Support review of existing evaluations and conduct visits to the implementation sites.
Stakeholder Engagement
• Attend community-based health programmes meetings at council and regional level and contribute towards improving overall implementation of the project.
• Meeting with partners and government to understand holistically the successes and challenges they face in implementing CHW programme.
• Responsible for building partnership with other partners implementing similar programmes in two regions.
Monitoring and Evaluation
• Work closely with LGAs of the two districts to support monitoring and evaluations of the project activities.
• Documenting best practices for the project and share with internal colleagues as well as externals such as Ministry of Health, Donors and other partners.
• Prepare and share project activity report with CD on quarterly basis.
• Responsible for providing key updates including challenges that impede the project to realize its full potential.
• Support in developing baseline survey.

Job Skills: Not Specified

Job Qualifications: Not Specified

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

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Job application procedure
  If you are interested in serving as a Field Project Coordinator at THET Tanzania, Please send your CV and a statement of interest to Godwin.Kabalika@thet.org and Linnet.Griffith-Jones@thet.org
We value the input of people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives and wish to continue to diversify our team in a way that reflects our programmes.
Closing Date: Sunday, 30th June 2019

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