Zonal Coordinator, Arusha, Tanzania

Tracking Code

5963

Job Description

PATH is an international organization that drives transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms—vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations—that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passion for health equity. By mobilizing partners around the world, we take innovation to scale, working alongside countries primarily in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs. Together, we deliver measurable results that disrupt the cycle of poor health.

The Better Immunization Data (BID) Initiative’s strategy is based on the premise that better data, plus better decisions, will lead to better health outcomes. Its vision is to empower countries to enhance immunization and overall health service delivery through improved data collection, quality, and use. The BID Initiative will shine a light on the challenges surrounding data collection, quality, and use, and identify practical, country-owned, country-led solutions in immunization that could spread to other health interventions. The Initiative will partner with countries and global health stakeholders to develop and deploy a holistic and scalable approach that focuses on information system products, data management policies, and the practices of people that use them in order to enable evidence-based decision making. These components will be packaged into a replicable solution that can be easily and cost-effectively adapted by additional countries interested in using it to improve their immunization management. If successful, a true tipping point will occur—one in which countries can access, analyze, and act upon accurate immunization data—anytime, anywhere, resulting in improved immunization outcomes.

PATH seeks to recruit a  Zonal Coordinator who will play a key role in the implementation of the work in the Northern Zone. Based in Arusha in the BID Initiative office, as well as spending a significant amount of time at the Regional Medical Officer (RMO) office, the Zonal Coordinator  will report to the BID Initiative Deputy Director and  will be the primary point of contact for the BID Initiative team in the Zone throughout the implementation of the initiative, and will ensure the smooth operations of the Arusha office. The hiring of this position is dependent upon confirmation of funding.

Job responsibilities will include:

• Coordinate implementation, facilitate key activities, and manage day-to-day aspects of the BID Initiative in the Zone.
• Manage the project timeline and integrated work plan for the zone, including tracking of various team activities, key resource allocations, critical-path management, and parallel track planning to ensure milestones and deliverables are constantly defined and monitored across the initiative within the zone.
• Liaise with Regional Medical Officer, regional and district teams in the implementation of BID Initiative interventions.
•  Provide leadership and overall coordination for the North Zone office based in Arusha, including managing the schedules of the cleaning, security, and ground maintenance workers, supervision of the drivers and vehicles, and coordinating the requests for quotations of supplies and order for the Arusha office.
• Provide timekeeping and expense documentation in correct format to staff based in Dar es Salaam for inclusion in monthly Field Office Financial Reports.
• Provide technical support to regions, districts and health facilities in the zone; encourage linkages and coordinate inputs to ensure that initiative goals are met in an efficient manner.
• Participation in implementation of BID Initiative interventions.
• Monitor and evaluate BID Initiative progress and recommend changes to implementation as needed to meet performance indicators and milestones.
• Prepare and submit a work plan and monthly activity report on activities to BID Initiative Country Director.
• Coordinate closely with technical leads based in Dar office, as well as the Senior Project Administrator.
• Coordinate team based in the zone, including ensuring team cohesion and communications.

Required Skills

• Knowledge of and experience working within the immunization program in Tanzania, ideally at the district and regional levels.
• Ability to work with various technologies (computers, mobile phones, etc.) and understand the basics of various information systems and their operations.
• Ability to collaborate with partners to provide technical assistance and coordinate implementation activities.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills including presentation and facilitation skills.
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to manage several major activities simultaneously and work in a complex environment with short deadlines and intense pressure to perform.

Required Experience

Masters degree in management, business, health administration, or other relevant field, experience in working with regional and district officials in planning and implementing activities at regional, district and service delivery points, experience in coordinating program activities with governmental, non-governmental and private sector partners.

You must currently have legal authorization to work in Tanzania.

PATH is dedicated to diversity and is an equal opportunity employer.

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