Initiative Zonal Coordinator, Better Immunization Data

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.

We seek to recruit a Initiative Zonal Coordinator who will play a key role in the implementation of the work in the Northern Zone, provide leadership and overall coordination for the North Zone office based in Arusha, including coordinating team based in the zone, ensuring team cohesion and communications, 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. S/he 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 Zonal Coordinator will be based in Arusha in the BID Initiative office, as well as spending a significant amount of time at the Regional Medical Officer (RMO) office and will report to BID Initiative Director.

Specific Duties And Responsibilities
Provide leadership and overall coordination for the North Zone office based in Arusha, including coordinating team based in the zone, ensuring team cohesion and communications.
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.
Coordinate implementation, facilitate key activities, and manage day-to-day aspects of the BID Initiative in the Zone.
Review and approval of expense documentation in correct format to be submitted to Dar es Salaam for inclusion in monthly Field Office Financial Reports.
Participation in the implementation of BID Initiative interventions.
Consolidation of weekly BID implementation updates from stream leads and submit report to BID Deputy Director.
Coordinate closely with technical leads based in Dar office, as well as the Senior Project Administrator.
Coordinate implementation, facilitate key activities, and manage day-to-day aspects of the BID Initiative in the Zone.
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.

Required Skills

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

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