Requisition Number | 14-0023 |
Post Date | 4/22/2014 |
Title | Training Officer |
City | Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania |
Position Type | Proposal (Contingent Upon Award) |
Description | For over 30 years, in more than 100 countries, IntraHealth International has empowered health workers to better serve communities in need. IntraHealth fosters local solutions to health care challenges by improving health worker performance, strengthening health systems, harnessing technology, and leveraging partnerships. In collaboration with governments, nongovernmental organizations, and private-sector organizations around the world, IntraHealth champions the needs and contributions of health workers—from doctors and nurses to community health workers to health facility managers—and works to ensure they have the tools, supplies, information, training, and support they need to provide communities they serve with the best possible opportunity for health and well-being. IntraHealth International is seeking a Training Officer to be based in Dar Es Salaam. This position is contingent upon available funding. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES The Training Officer will hire and oversee a cadre of national FP trainers and be responsible for ensuring the logistics, support, and quality assurance of all aspects of training implementation. This includes overall trainer supervision and trainer performance management, collecting ongoing feedback and ensuring its integration for refinement of training curricula and approaches, choosing and negotiating venue(s), transport and payment disbursement. The Training Officer will also be expected to actively contribute to the co-creation of and reporting on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) indicators by which the overall program will be assessed. Likewise, this role will be expected to liaise effectively with other project staff and stakeholder partners. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS • Work with program staff, stakeholders, and key contacts at the district level to determine and secure appropriate training venues; transport options for trainees and staff; coordinate scheduling of training delivery; • Oversee performance of training staff needed for training in short term and long acting methods of family planning to national and facility trainers and providers; and ensure payment of trainees and training staff; • Report progress as required; • Liaise with program stakeholders including Ministry of Health and Social Welfare; • Work collaboratively with other program staff to facilitate training as set out in the annual workplan; and • Ensure that training is being delivered on time and within budget. |
Requirements | Master’s Degree or higher in Social Work (MSW), Education or other related fields and at least 6 years of training experience, or a Bachelor’s in a Health Science or Education with at least 8 years of training experience. At least 6 years of experience with training adults, preferably in the field of Family Planning and Long-Acting and Permanent Methods, and in Gender Based Violence. Experience and skills in coaching, mentoring and managing performance. Additional requirements are noted below. • Demonstrated teaming qualities including effective listening skills, conflict resolution/transformation skills, effective participatory decision-making strategies, and interpersonal skills that lead to collective ownership by stakeholders and partners in the project’s end results; and • Excellent planning and scheduling skills with a demonstrated ability to multi-task detailed complex tasks concurrently bringing them in on time and within budget; • Skills in monitoring and evaluation; • Demonstrated flexibility to manage change and retool plans as needed, within a specific timeframe and budget; • Ability to analyze information and evaluate results to choose the best solution for a problem in an efficient and timely manner; • Ability to work independently and on a team while implementing multiple tasks: • Computer literacy with standard business software (including Word, Excel and Power Point); • Effective written and oral communication in both English and Kiswahili; and • Willingness to travel within the country 40% of his/her work time. |
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