Position: Project Coordinator, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Location: Dar es Salaam
Deadline :Dec 15 2013
Descriptions:
Evidence for Action (E4A) is a five year programme (2011-2016) funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to improve maternal and newborn survival through a combined focus on evidence, advocacy and accountability across six sub-Saharan African countries: Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania. E4A’s overall aim is to improve timely access to birth in facilities which save maternal and newborn lives, with a particular focus on ensuring that hospitals, as the final piece of the referral chain and the central base for supportive supervision across other facilities, are able to provide life-saving care for mothers and newborns. For information on E4A Tanzania work please visit our website: www.mamaye.or.tz/sw We are seeking a dynamic, focused Project Coordinator to join our E4A Tanzania Team. You will have the lead responsibility for the set-up, coordination and successful implementation of a pilot project which seeks to support health systems response to quality of care challenges across health facilities. You will have a proven track record in delivering projects, especially project set-up; stakeholder orientation and partnership management; planning, coordinating and reporting on implementation; and ongoing monitoring, learning and improvements to project delivery. A confident self-starter, you will have excellent communication skills, an eye for details, and be a team player. Additionally you will demonstrate your willingness to work extensively in peripheral regions, liaising effectively and working closely with the health system at different levels to ensure successful project delivery.
Qualifications:
Person specification
Essential
• At least three years of experience in a position that involved working with the Tanzanian health system, senior health service managers and clinical professionals (e.g
as a researcher, programme/project manager or health service manager)
• A good understanding of the Tanzanian health system and maternal and newborn health
• A good understanding of the Tanzania decentralised administrative system and how health systems fit within this setting
• Practical experience of working effectively with managers at different levels of the health system in Tanzania, from national to district and facility levels
• Practical experience of research or collecting monitoring information for a service or project, ideally on a donor project/research project with a health component
• Practical experience of managing/ implementing a project involving a variety of
stakeholders, and implementing activities according to schedule and to a good standard.
• Practical experience of training and/or facilitating workshops
• Good communication skills when making presentations, facilitating workshops and in discussions with stakeholders
• Good written English and experience of writing project or research reports in English (can provide anonymised examples)
• Proficient in MS word, excel and powerpoint and able to perform basic statistical analysis (e.g
frequencies and crosstabs) and present data graphically
• A demonstrated willingness to regularly travel and work extensively in peripheral regions in Tanzania
Desirable
• Post graduate qualification in a relevant subject (e.g
public health, demography, epidemiology, research, monitoring and evaluation)
• Proficient in data analysis in SPSS, Access or Epi info
• Able to create and manage databases
• Experience of conducting interviews in a research project/programme
• Experience of managing budgets
• Experience of assessing quality of care
Location:
The Project Coordinator will be based in the E4A Tanzania office in Dar es Salaam, but the role will involve regular travel to the Mara Region / Lake Zone where QuIC will be piloted
Additionally, there is the expectation of further fieldwork in respect to other duties to be assigned
Essential
• At least three years of experience in a position that involved working with the Tanzanian health system, senior health service managers and clinical professionals (e.g
as a researcher, programme/project manager or health service manager)
• A good understanding of the Tanzanian health system and maternal and newborn health
• A good understanding of the Tanzania decentralised administrative system and how health systems fit within this setting
• Practical experience of working effectively with managers at different levels of the health system in Tanzania, from national to district and facility levels
• Practical experience of research or collecting monitoring information for a service or project, ideally on a donor project/research project with a health component
• Practical experience of managing/ implementing a project involving a variety of
stakeholders, and implementing activities according to schedule and to a good standard.
• Practical experience of training and/or facilitating workshops
• Good communication skills when making presentations, facilitating workshops and in discussions with stakeholders
• Good written English and experience of writing project or research reports in English (can provide anonymised examples)
• Proficient in MS word, excel and powerpoint and able to perform basic statistical analysis (e.g
frequencies and crosstabs) and present data graphically
• A demonstrated willingness to regularly travel and work extensively in peripheral regions in Tanzania
Desirable
• Post graduate qualification in a relevant subject (e.g
public health, demography, epidemiology, research, monitoring and evaluation)
• Proficient in data analysis in SPSS, Access or Epi info
• Able to create and manage databases
• Experience of conducting interviews in a research project/programme
• Experience of managing budgets
• Experience of assessing quality of care
Location:
The Project Coordinator will be based in the E4A Tanzania office in Dar es Salaam, but the role will involve regular travel to the Mara Region / Lake Zone where QuIC will be piloted
Additionally, there is the expectation of further fieldwork in respect to other duties to be assigned
How to apply:
To apply for the role, candidates should send a completed application form with a covering letter to Hanna Peltonen at opportunities@options.co.uk by 23.59 Sunday 15 December.
To download Application form go: http://www.options.co.uk/working-with-us/recruitment/vacancies/415-project-coordinator-dar-es-salaam-tanzania
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Please note, only completed application forms will be accepted for the role. Please state application for Project Coordinator in the subject line.
To view job summary in details: http://www.options.co.uk/working-with-us/recruitment/vacancies/415-project-coordinator-dar-es-salaam-tanzania
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