Integrated Development Worker (m/f), Tanzania

Development cooperation - your concern?

You understand the strong need for direct dialogue between people when it comes to initiating and furthering development processes. You are looking for a job which focuses on the concerns and hardships of people, organisations and communities. And you are ready for a challenging new position with a high level of personal responsibility. If this describes you, then we can offer you the following position:

Integrated Development Worker (m/f) to support the
diocesan and hospital administration departments in Lindi and Nyangao, Tanzania #3029

The Lindi region, located in the south of the country on the Indian Ocean, is among the poorest and most structurally weak regions in Tanzania. The large majority of local people live on subsistence farming in small, hard to reach villages. The hospital in Nyangao, which was founded by German Benedictine nuns, is the only hospital in the district of Lindi Rural. As the official district hospital, it is responsible for providing healthcare to around 200,000 people and has all the departments important for basic services in curative and preventive medicine. The hospital has 220 beds; every year, it delivers around 1,500 babies and examines and treats around 70,000 patients in the large outpatient clinic.

In addition to a serious shortage of doctors, nurses and midwives, the lack of qualified administrative personnel poses considerable challenges for the hospital. The huge deficits in the fields of financial management and general hospital management are to be addressed by deploying a qualified and experienced development worker with expert knowledge.

Your tasks... 
... take place in a complex, difficult institutional environment and contribute directly to improving the hospital administration in Nyangao and the administrative structures of the owner, the diocese Lindi. Skills, efficiency and effectiveness are to be improved overall, thereby ensuring the economic viability of the hospital.

Specifically, you will carry out the following tasks:

• Supporting and strengthening the hospital administration in Nyangao as well as the diocesan administration Lindi, in particular in the fields of general management, financial management (financial administration, accounting, controlling), human resource management and the management of facilities, buildings, equipment and furnishings.
• Supporting the improvement of service quality in the hospital.
• Promoting the financial viability of the diocese Lindi as well as its subordinate institutions, firstly through training on the preparation of and adherence to financial plans, and secondly through support and training on the successful drafting of and application for development projects.
• Setting up and executing a component for further training and development of management staff, partly in Nyangao hospital and the diocese Lindi, and partly in formal training centres.

Your profile:

• You have completed relevant studies (management sciences, economics, public health, etc.) and have substantial management experience in positions responsible for the budget and human resources, preferably from the healthcare sector.
• You are experienced in operational and strategic controlling, are able to use and explain current accounting programs and are skilled in working with current computer software overall.
• You have at least three - many more if possible - years of professional experience in the field of development cooperation, ideally in Africa, and are familiar with project applications, the acquisition of funding, implementation and reporting.
• You are prepared to live and work in a small east African town. You must be fit to work in a tropical climate, able to work under physical and mental stress and prepared to travel independently in the region.
• You can communicate in fluent English, verbally and in writing, and ideally have knowledge of Kiswahili.
• You are an EU or Swiss citizen. As a member of a Christian church you demonstratively share the goals and concerns of church-related development cooperation.

What we offer:
We offer you a meaningful role within a challenging intercultural environment. Your assignment is scheduled for three years. The location is not suitable for children of school age. We will prepare you thoroughly and individually for your work. As per the German Development Aid Workers Act (Entwicklungshelfergesetz), you will receive an employment contract, including social security and a remuneration commensurate to the position.

The Association for Development Cooperation (AGEH e.V.) is the personnel service of the German Catholics for Development Cooperation. For over 50 years, we have been selecting professionals and placing them in development organisations and projects in more than 60 countries.

We look forward to receiving your application by September 11, 2015 via our online application form at www.ageh.de.
If you are unable to use this form for technical reasons, please apply with your CV and letter of motivation to jobs@ageh.org.

Association for Development Cooperation (AGEH e.V.), PO Box 210128, 50527 Cologne, Germany