Programme Specialist, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Background Information

The Programme Specialist provides support to the government and other partners in the programming processes to ensure that the Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) programme for Zanzibar is implemented in the context of the ICPD Programme of Action and UNFPA Strategic Plan, National Strategies for Growth and Poverty Reduction, the national development processes, and the UN DaO in Tanzania through its UNDAP framework. The programme Specialist also serves as technical resource for RMNCAH for all stakeholders of UNFPA Country programme. She/he is instrumental in facilitating programme/project implementation using and developing appropriate mechanism and systems and ensuring compliance with established procedures.

Organizational Setting

The Programme Specialist post is located in the Zanzibar Liaison Office in the United Republic of Tanzania and reports to the Deputy Representative, who provides overall direction and guidance. S/He provides overall support on programme and operational issues for the implementation of the three-year programme (2015–2018) on Accelerating Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) in Zanzibar in the United Republic of Tanzania, funded by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD), in collaboration with UNFPA/UNICEF and the Ministry of Health of Zanzibar. The Programme Specialist is part of UNFPA's programme as well as operations teams in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, which provides integrated programme and technical support within a systems strengthening approach fundamental to UNFPA's overall strategy. S/he uses UNFPA and national systems and tools to deliver development results and works as part of the UN Delivering as One (DaO) Teams to ensure that population issues are central to national initiatives to promote social economic development in the context of the National Strategies for Growth and Poverty Reduction (MKUKUTA and MKUZA).

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