Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, August 15 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Position Summary:
The TL-FP will provide technical and programmatic oversight and direction in the area of reproductive health (RH) particularly family planning. S/He will work closely with other Technical Leads and MEL Specialist in the CPRC project to identify strategic opportunities with project senior management, FP/RH partners, and relevant government officials in the development of strategic programs, innovations, implementation, and monitoring to ensure efficient delivery of integrated FP/RH services that is within the Tanzanian health care system.

Duties and Responsibilities:
Training and Other Capacity Building Activities
• Oversee the tailored implementation of FP/RH interventions as an essential services package by working closely with the project’s team, CSSC staff to provide technical assistance and guidance for FP/RH clinical and community activities in project-supported facilities and communities.
• Providing technical support on the integration of FP/RH services focusing on a variety of technical areas such as training; full and free informed choice; infection prevention; health promotion; operations research; and clinical quality improvement
• Work with various national level technical working group to provide inputs into strategic and technical FP/RH planning documents.
• Support the rollout of in-service coaching, mentoring and supportive supervision for facility and community-based health care providers in all FP/RH interventions
• Strengthen FP guidance, tools, and procedures for rigorous continuous implementation evaluation of training needs that ensures the inclusion of respectful maternity care in materials and training modules,
• Coordinate FP/RH need-based refresher trainings for partners and facility-based staff where the CPRC project is implemented.

Support capacity building activities for CSSC through training and mentorship program.
• Champion Family Planning and reproductive health services to adolescents
• Ensure capacity building activities, alongside with Ministry of Health (MOH) trainers and mentors to increase knowledge, attitude and positive attitude toward FP, nutrition for children and pregnant and lactating women of healthcare providers
• Routinely monitor and strengthen FP quality-of-service provision by health staff, including CSSC staff
• Conduct regular supervisory visits and meetings, in collaboration with FP/RH partners
• Conduct data quality audits to validate results prior to including them in the monthly reports.
• Ensure that FP data is reported from the health facilities, relayed to the respective Council Health Management Teams (CHMTs).
• Reinforce the management system of health facilities and the CHMTs as a feedback mechanism to ensure high quality implementation of FP activities to meet project objectives.
• Champion and promote awareness raising activities and understanding of relevant issues of FP/RH and nutrition in CPRC project covered regions and councils.

Planning and coordination
• Coordinate integration of FP in maternal health services at both community and facility-based interventions.
• Support the rollout of in-service coaching, mentoring and supportive supervision for facility and community-based health care providers
• Liaise with the team, develop, and promote partnerships and networking with relevant FP stakeholders including and not limited to local authorities, MOH, partners, and other stakeholders as appropriate.
• Oversee FP/RH activities to ensure quality and timely service delivery including integrated outreach campaigns and activities
• Coordinate with other Technical Leads and CSSC staff to meet CPRC project needs for field visits activities
• Work closely with other Technical Leads, MEL Specialist, CSSC team to monitor referrals and continuum of care linkages between community health workers (CHWs) and facility-based services
• Facilitate, with CPRC project partners, the MOH and external partners as well, community mobilization and awareness raising on FP/RH prevention and counseling services.
• In collaboration with other Technical Leads, coordinate monthly CHWs activities and data review meetings.
• Ensure and provide cross-facility learning, collection of good and best practices, documentation and experience sharing with outside and inside CPRC partners, on FP/RH, MNH, and nutrition.
• Actively engage in national, regional. Council level FP/RH networks settings and groups.

Leadership
• Provide technical leadership to ensure integration of FP/RH in CPRC project
• Provide FP/RH technical support during the design, development, planning and implementation phases
• Provide in country technical support to develop/adapt and implement FP/RH innovative capacity building approaches to ensure high quality performance of healthcare providers, CSSC, and CHWs.
• Ensure that the FP/RH project strategy adheres to MOH and global strategies and are technically sounds during design, planning and implementation phases

Reporting:
• Identify and disseminate best practices and new technical strategies and approaches in the FP/RH area of expertise.
• Ensure the CHWs and community-facilities linkages data on FP/RH services are adequately established for timely reporting including the use reporting tools.
• Ensure quality and timely submission of comprehensive reports.

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in clinical disciplines (Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery) with at least 3 years’ experience or Advanced Diploma holder (Nursing, Medicine, Midwifery) with at least 5 years work experience in community- facility RMNCAH interventions. Post-graduate level training in public health will be an added advantage.
• Experience in the technical designing, developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating FP projects and implementation of FP/RH programs will be an added advantage.
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in service delivery programs and technical staff in the areas of maternal, newborn and child health.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain productive working relationships with a wide network of partners and stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and strong communications skills
• Good knowledge of current family planning/postpartum family planning approaches, preferably with understanding of the National and USAID’s approaches.
• Strong organizational skills, capacity to think strategically and attention to detail
• Excellent English-language speaking and writing skills
• Proficiency in Office 365 including Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint and SharePoint
• Willingness and ability to travel at least two weeks per month.
• Unrestricted authorization to work in Tanzania.

Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive set of benefits. These include:
• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Communication allowance
• Housing allowance
• Thirteenth month salary paid annually.

Additionally, our core competencies as an organization are:
• Ownership and results
• Communication
• Problem solving
• Equity and inclusion
• Teamwork and conflict resolution
• Leadership
• Prioritization
• Management
• Strategy and planning
• Decision making

We know not all applicants will demonstrate all the competencies we are looking for. We encourage you to apply even if you do not check all the boxes above, and we look forward to reviewing your application holistically.

What you can expect: Video and phone interviews with HR /People and Talent and with other organizational members.

As a global health organization, we are committed to ensuring a safe environment for our staff, partners, and visitors.  All Americares staff and visitors who are on-site at any of our locations or will be traveling for work are required to be fully vaccinated (which includes a booster, when eligible) against COVID-19 unless an exemption required by law is applicable.

Americares is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Core Americares Responsibilities:
• Foster Americares values of collaborative, accountable, responsive, and effective.
• Coach, support and develop staff to increase individual and team effectiveness; and
• Develop and manage implementation of plans to increase team operating performance.



Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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