Summary
Date Posted: Saturday, September 03, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Case Management & Malaria in Pregnancy (CM & MiP) Advisor

Reports To: Chief of Party (COP)

Duties and Responsibilities
• Provide overall technical guidance and leadership for designing, implementing, and monitoring activities related to malaria in pregnancy (MiP) and malaria case management (MCM) interventions.
• Ensure technical excellence related to the training and quality assurance across MiP and MCM interventions and service delivery in program-focused region and districts.
• Coordinate integration of MiP and MCM activities across other technical areas for both community and facility-based interventions.
• Provide technical support towards strengthening facilities for providing comprehensive quality malaria case management and ANC services including MiP.
• Provide support to regional project teams to ensure quality malaria services at the community and facility levels.
• Identify evidence-based practices related to malaria programming and facilitate application in TMSA and broadly to the national malaria programme.
• Keep up-to-date on developments and new evidence concerning MCM and MiP and facilitate sharing of updated knowledge with other technical staff.
• Ensure timely planning, development and implementation of MCM and MiP activities in accordance with national malaria strategies, guidelines and protocols.
• Represent the project’s interests in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences and presentations at the national and international levels.
• Contribute to the overall project’s strategies in malaria programming to ensure integration and comprehensive services.
• Contribute to the preparation of quarterly and annual technical reports and other technical publications.
• Identify and disseminate best practices and new technical strategies and approaches in MCM and MiP.
• Compile and analyze data for performance monitoring of the program and utilize the data to take corrective actions.
• Participate in Malaria training, mentorship, meetings and workshops.
• Strengthen support supervision at the Councils and Regional level.
• Provide leadership in writing abstracts for conferences and manuscripts for publication.
• Perform other duties as directed by the supervisor and other project leaders.

Qualifications and Experience
• Degree in Medicine with a Master degree in Public Health / Epidemiology or related fields.
• Strong clinical experience in Malaria case management and Antenatal care including malaria in pregnancy (MiP).
• At least 5 years of professional experience in public and/or development health programs.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience working on PMI or other donor-funded projects.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Tanzania’s national issues impacted by malaria, including demonstrated success collaborating with NMCP, and local government institutions.

Skills and Competencies
• Demonstrated leadership skills and experience in building and maintaining productive working relationships with colleagues and the host government.
• Proven record of building teams and fostering collaboration to achieve program goals, meet program milestones, and produce quality program results.
• Clinical training and mentorship skills.
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multicultural teams.
• Excellent analytical, communication and report writing skills.
• Fluent in Kiswahili (level four is preferred).
• Demonstrated skills in both English written and oral communication.
• High level of integrity, commitment and team working spirit.
• Computer literacy particularly in the use of MS word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Remuneration
• An attractive and competitive remuneration package will be offered to successful candidates as per IHI salary scales.

Equal Opportunity
• IHI is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit intentional biases or discrimination and harassment of any kind at the workplace and during recruitment. All employment decisions are based solely on job requirements and individual qualifications, and our recruitment process is governed by the labour laws of Tanzania.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

All candidates who meet the above job requirements should send their application letters together with their detailed curriculum vitae (CVs) showing contact addresses including email, telephone/cell phone numbers and copies of academic and professional certificates to the email address below.
The deadline for this application is 23:59hrs on Thursday, September 15th 2022. All e-mail application subject lines should include: CASE MANAGEMENT & MALARIA IN PREGNANCY ADVISOR – TMSA. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for an interview.
Human Resources Manager
IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE
#5 Ifakara Street Plot 463 Mikocheni
P.O. Box 78,373
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Email: recruitment@ihi.or.tz 


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