Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The Chief of Party (COP) will oversee staff and operations of the Breakthrough ACTION Tanzania activity, providing management and oversight of all technical, administrative, operational, and financial aspects. They will provide strategic direction for the development, implementation, and monitoring of project activities and ensure timely activity implementation. They will represent Breakthrough ACTION Tanzania to USAID and the GoT and cultivate open and collaborative management relationships with the management team at the USAID/Tanzania Mission, USAID/Washington, the GoT, USAID-funded implementing partners and other relevant stakeholders. They will ensure compliance with USAID, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), and Breakthrough ACTION processes and regulations. The COP will be required to travel in Tanzania, and internationally, as needed.

Primary duties and responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
• Program Management
• Lead, oversee, or act as technical expert for large-scale projects and or country programs independently. May include:
• Envision, design, and initiate new program activities according to a larger program goal
• Produce and edit documents, work plans, reports, and presentations
• Lead budget development and resource allocation decisions
• Oversee staffing, roles, and level of effort to meet program goals
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration between program, finance, and administrative staff to ensure team functioning to meet program goals
• Facilitate and model frequent, open, ongoing communication with program team members in all locations (offsite, in headquarters, and internationally)
• Lead engagement with internal and external partners
• Ensure adherence to JHU, CCP, and donor rules, regulations, and policies
• Lead process of using data to inform strategies, work plans, and program direction
• Put in place tools, processes, and structures to ensure excellence in programs, products, and deliverables to meet program goals
• People Management
• Design and manage effective team structure to meet program goals
• Supervise, coach, and mentor staff independently
• Orient and train new staff members
• Conduct regular (at least quarterly) check ins and annual performance reviews with all supervisees
• Identify and recommend appropriate professional development opportunities for supervisees
• Ensure effective coaching, mentoring, and supervision of all staff on your team
• Provide coaching and mentoring to promote continued growth and improvement among supervisees and other staff
• Oversee and ensure the quality of work produced by staff or team. Develop processes, tools, and routines that ensure the quality of work
• Operate with compliance to all JHU supervisory policy
• Technical Work
• Oversee high level strategy design and implementation independently
• Lead and build staff capacity in technical work, including strategies, toolkits, communication materials, scripts, job aides, and needs assessments
• Generate and envision new activities, ideas, frameworks, and strategies that further high-level goals
• Use, develop, and model tools, processes, best-practices, and colleague review to ensure all products and documents are of the highest quality possible
• Provide information to others about the quality of work. This includes raising concerns about errors, omissions, and poor-quality products to the staff member responsible for that work and requesting revision of work that is not high quality.
• In collaboration with research and evaluation division, strategically plan for research, monitoring, and evaluation activities
• Lead in-country technical activities, including trainings, workshops, and program support, independently
• Demonstrate technical expertise in relevant technical areas (i.e. SBC, knowledge management, health areas) and build capacity in others
• Demonstrate high level technical communication, including writing reports, creating, and giving presentations, and facilitating trainings or group discussions
• Ensure excellence in programs, products, and deliverables to meet program goals
• Professional and Organizational Growth
• Initiate and lead center-wide initiatives, independently
• May include brown bags, communities of practice
• Lead proposal development (technical, budget, coordination) independently
• Lead strategic partnership development independently
• Lead donor cultivation independently
• Contribute to global technical knowledge
• Represent JHU, CCP, and Breakthrough ACTION at relevant external meetings and events
• May include delivering technical presentations, networking, relationship building, and initiating and following through with opportunities for collaboration
• Professionally engage and collaborate with other programs across CCP
• Recognize and address factors that might strategically impact a program or CCP and lead implementation of solutions
• Proactively seek opportunities to expand leadership and management skills
• Request or initiate quarterly check-in meetings with supervisor to assess performance, strengths, and areas for improvement in your current position and establish professional goals
• Identify opportunities for bringing new skills into CCP, including attending JHU courses and seminars, conferences, and external trainings

Qualifications:
• A minimum of ten (10) years’ professional experience in delivering Social Behavior Change programs with progressively increased responsibility working for health technical assistance programs or other health related services.
• A Master’s degree in Medicine, Social Sciences, Public Health, Communications or other relevant degree or a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with a minimum of fifteen (15) years of professional experience in delivering SBC and professional experience working in mid to senior management positions.
• Tanzania national preferred.
• Excellent past performance references.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Demonstrated leadership qualities, depth and breadth of management expertise and technical experience.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• High level of interpersonal, technical, and analytical skills including a demonstrated ability to interact effectively and collaboratively with a broad range of public and private sector counterparts and other key stakeholders.
• Excellent skills and experience in collaborative working relationships with senior level government leadership.
• Experience with SBC for at least two priority health areas (family planning/reproductive health, MNCH including nutrition, HIV, malaria, TB, RCCE), with preference for experience within the context of integrated health programs.
• Experience with integration of gender and youth into health projects and services.
• Required oral and written fluency in English; oral and written fluency in Kiswahili desired.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
All candidates are encouraged to submit e-mail applications to BATanzania.opps@gmail.com  with copies of current CV, cover letter and three professional referees. Please indicate which position you are applying for in the subject line of the email.

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