Vacancy title:
8 Regional Coordinators

Jobs at:
Mapambano ya Kifua Kikuu na UKIMWI Tanzania (MKUTA)

Deadline of this Job:
12th August 2018

Duty Station:
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Summary
Date Posted: 10th August 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

Mapambano ya Kifua Kikuu na UKIMWI Tanzania (MKUTA) is a national umbrella organization for tuberculosis and HIV patients in Tanzania providing community-based TB/HIV health education, active case finding, contact tracing and promoting access to essential treatment among the general populations and priority to key and vulnerable populations.

JOB DETAILS:

Project information

MKUTA through the support from Management and Development for Health (MDH) seeks to recruit suitable candidate to fill the positions of eight (8) Regional TB Coordinator to oversee implementation of community TB services in eight regions of Tanzania namely: Dodoma, Kagera, Mara, Mbeya, Ruvuma, Simiyu, Shinyanga and Tanga.

Duties and Responsibilities
The Regional TB Coordinator will be responsible for the following key tasks:

• Work closely with RTLC/DTLCs by providing substantive and timely input in the implementation of the Regional Tuberculosis and TB/HIV programs, including reporting on progress vis-à-vis planned activities and expected outputs.
  
• Support identified CBOs that are basically implementing TB interventions for capacity building in implementing MDR-TB and TB/HIV collaborative activities.
  
• Help the CSO/CBOs in planning and implementing community interventions
  
• Conduct supervision and mentorship visits to CBOs as per need arise in order to improve their capacity in delivering community TB response.
  
• Support capacity building trainings in implementing MDR-TB and TB/HIV collaborative activities.
  
• Maintain close liaison with national authorities and MDH, ensuring optimum participation and promoting ownership of national authorities in the implementation of the regional programs.
  
• Review compiled reports before submission to MoH and MDH and incorporate lessons learnt into the decision making process.
  
• Coordinate the timely preparation of the quarterly and annual work plans and activity schedules; provide input for the periodic reports to the GFATM.
  
• Ensure timely collection and provision of requested information for the quarterly progress reports
• Liaise with MDH and prepare accelerated work plans where appropriate
  
• Required Qualifications: (Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience)
  
• Master’s degree in social science, Education, Nursing or other relevant field, i.e Public health degree or related advanced degree.
  

Experience

• Extensive experience in supervision, monitoring and evaluation of donor funded health related programs
  
• Experience in preparation and analysis of work plans, reports (programmatic and financial)
  
• Extensive knowledge of the local health systems from the national to the local levels.
  
• Demonstrated ability in managing teams to achieve health results
  
• Ability to develop productive working relationships with counterparts in other agencies and organizations nationally.
  
• Aware of and sensitive to working in multiple socio-economic settings and with multi-cultural/behavioral groups
  
• Proven leadership skills, as well as skills in facilitation, team building and coordination
  
• Ability to represent MKUTA programs in District or Regional level stakeholders meetings.
  
• Adequate capacity and experience in compiling reports/ report writing.
  

MKUTA is an equal opportunity employer and offers a competitive package for the selected candidate in line with salary history, academic qualifications and relevant experience.

After review of CVs; we will have an interview for the best candidates following our evaluation grid one week after the application deadline of 12th August, 2018.

MKUTA is seeking to hire qualified candidates for the position of Regional Coordinators - Eight positions.Eight positions.