Analyst, Family Planning, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Overview:

Founded in 2002 by President William J. Clinton, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems around the world and expanding access to care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and other illnesses. Based on the premise that business oriented strategy can facilitate solutions to global health challenges, CHAI acts as a catalyst to mobilize new resources and optimize the impact of these resources to save lives, via improved organization of commodity markets and more effective local management. By working in association with governments and other NGO partners, CHAI is focused on large scale impact and, to date, CHAI has secured lower pricing agreements for treatment options in more than 70 countries. In addition, CHAI's teams are working side-by-side with over 30 governments to tackle many of the largest barriers to effective treatment and care.

Over 200 million women around the world have an unmet need for family planning, indicating they would like to stop or limit childbearing, but do not have access to methods to do so. Increasing access to family planning has the potential to reduce maternal and infant mortality, reduce the number of deaths due to unsafe abortion, and improve the health outcomes of women and families overall. In Tanzania, 25% of women have an unmet need for family planning and it is estimated that only 24% of all women are currently using modern methods of family planning.

Long-acting and reversible contraception (LARC), including implants and IUCDs, are family planning methods with high rates of effectiveness (more than 99%) and can be used by all groups of women. In 2013, CHAI worked with partners and manufacturers to reduce the price of contraceptive implants by more than 50%. To ensure that this price reduction ultimately benefits women with unmet family planning needs, CHAI is collaborating closely with Ministries of Health to coordinate safe, rapid, and evidence-based scale up of LARC services to enable complete method choice. CHAI’s work focuses on helping Ministries conduct and utilize analyses of human resource needs and supply chain performance to identify and cost gaps, plan programming to address these gaps, coordinate targeted implementation and follow up, and monitor and troubleshoot LARC scale up.

In Tanzania, CHAI seeks to expand support for family planning through collaboration with the Reproductive and Child Health Section (RCHS) at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) and other implementing partners working on family planning. In addition, the addendum to the Strategic Plan to Accelerate Reduction of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Deaths in Tanzania (2008-2015) endorsed by RCHS has established a renewed focus on the Lake and Western Zones for strengthening family planning. CHAI will therefore provide additional support as needed under the leadership of the RCHS to the regions and districts of the Lake and Western Zones.
The Family Planning Analyst will report to the CHAI FP Program Manager and will be responsible for supporting CHAI-Tanzania’s family planning work in the above areas. This position will be based in Dar es Salaam or Mwanza, Tanzania with 40-50% travel to districts and regions within the Lake and Western Zones.

Responsibilities:

• Support finalization of national Family Planning Train Tracker database and facilitate district-level verification of human resource capacity to provide LARC, including implants (both Implanon and Jadelle) and IUCDs
• Collaborate with local governments and partners in Lake and Western Zones to ensure that all facilities with providers trained on implants have consistent commodity availability
• Support regional and district health management teams in Lake and Western Zones  to coordinate additional on-the-job implant training for health providers with implementing partners conducting high-volume outreach services
• Lead the development of integrated tool including data on trained providers, service delivery, and stock levels and support roll out of web-based tool, if needed
• Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders in government, international partners, donors, and NGOs, especially partners in key districts
• Perform any other duties as assigned by the FP Program Manager

Qualifications:

• Proven record of effective program coordination and strong organizational skills
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills, and strong interpersonal capabilities
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and set priorities
• Self-motivated and ability to work under pressure
• Ability to work cohesively with many stakeholders (e.g. MOHSW, donors, INGOs
• Proficiency in MS Word and Excel
• Willingness to travel domestically
• Fluency in Swahili

Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• 2 years work experience within a demanding and fast-paced environment
• Experience with applied quantitative data analysis and use of data for decision-making and program planning
• Experience utilizing data to inform program development and strategic recommendations
• Experience working effectively with diverse teams

Advantages:

• Experience designing and managing databases in Excel
• Experience with ArcGIS or other mapping information systems

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