Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The Program Officers will serve as project focal points for the CPRC Global Vax project in the Mwanza and Shinyanga regions. Their responsibilities include project management, coordinating district level engagement with government partners, supporting community engagement activities in the districts, overseeing data management, coordinating and managing civil society organizations(CSOs)/sub grantees implementing project activities within target communities.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Project Management:
• Oversee all project management activities in the region and councils where the project is implemented, ensuring implementation is done according to the work plans and allocated budgets, particularly overseeing the subgrantees/civil society organizations implementing the Global Vax project activities in the district councils. Ensure quality, timely attainment of their results against project targets
• Supervise and manage the performance of the MEL Officer and supervise the driver
• Oversee all the regional office administration and logistics matters
• Planning and Implementation:
• Support health facilities, communities, and partners to ensure the project interventions are locally relevant, culturally appropriate, and address the regional /councils prioritized COVID-19 needs.
• Work with R/CHMTs in developing/revising “macro/micro plans” to integrate community-based approaches and support timely quantification/forecasts of needed vaccine-related commodities
• Work with R/CHMTs to design and support surge strategies and innovative approaches implemented by CSOs to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake
• Identify linkage opportunities between communities and health facilities to improve delivery and enhance uptake of COVID-19 vaccines
• In collaboration with Council Health Management Teams (CHMTs), support capacity building of health facilities staff on service delivery for COVID-19 vaccinations.
• Coordinate and, when required, lead trainings, meetings, and workshops.
• District, Facility and Community Engagement:
• Contribute to community sensitization approaches of COVID-19 vaccine activities, in collaboration with R/CHMTs.
• Mobilize and facilitate active participation of health facility staff and their communities in planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of community health development initiatives for accelerating COVID-19 vaccination uptake.
• Facilitate networking relationships and participation with various stakeholders, such as the government, faith-based leaders and organizations and other key partners at local level such as NGOs and CBOs.
• Manages all activities within communities to generate demand for accelerating COVID-19 vaccine uptake.
• Monitoring and Evaluation:
• Monitor health facility and community performance on uptake of COVID-19 vaccines.
• Support the MEL Officer to ensure quality data is collected, consolidated, and reported on timely basis.
• Participate in the development of community and health facilities monitoring plan in various catchment communities per the project scope.
• Work with the existing structure to participate in meetings at the facility level to assess progress in implementation.
• Maintain close follow up with Regional Immunization and Vaccination Officer (RIVO) and District Immunization and Vaccination Officer (DIVO) to monitor project activities at – community and council levels to ensure they are implemented as planned.
• In collaboration with R/CHMTs and MEL Officer, conduct monthly/quarterly supportive supervision to health facilities and communities on COVID-19 vaccination activities, including monitoring of backlog data.
• Follow-up on the implementation status of action plans developed at community, facility, and council level.
• Reporting:
• Participate in weekly and monthly planning, implementation activities and monitoring/ reporting of progress of targets.
• Work with MEL Officer to support /monitor implementation of CSOs work plans and coordinate reporting activities during the reporting period.
• Perform any other duties and tasks as guided by the supervisor.
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Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in health systems management, public health, social work, social science, community development, development studies, nursing or equivalent from accredited college/university with at least 5 years of experience. Master’s degree will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working for international development organization in health, community-led activities, or social and behavior change.
• Experience in supervising staff preferred.
• Experience with capacity building projects, coordinating workshops and trainings and/or working with health facilities preferred.
• Experience networking and building relationships with stakeholders required.
• Ability to manage tight deadlines and deliver high volumes of work with minimal supervision.
• Highly reliable and dependable individual.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with all levels of staff and donors.
• 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 speaking and 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 at least two weeks per month;
• Take USAID mandated courses within 30 days of employment;
• Unrestricted authorization to work in Tanzania.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
To apply follow this link https://americares.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/1178?c=americares 

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