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Location: Zanzibar (Unguja with frequency travel to Pemba), Tanzania
Contract - Full-Time
Closing date: Monday 5 March 2018
All jobs close at midnight UK time on the date specified
Child Safeguarding:
Level 3 - The responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have a regular contact with or access to Pregnant Women, Mothers and Children
ROLE PURPOSE:
The Project Officers will be responsible for coordinating the implementation of the UNICEF funded Reproductive Health, Nutrition and WASH with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar. The Project Officers will ensure high quality programming for Community Reproductive Health through working with Community health volunteers (CHV), Community Supervisors, Pregnant women, Care givers and Shehas of the Communities. Under the supervision of the Programme manager and project officers will play leading role in coordinating the implementation of strategies to ensure proper and timely dissemination of Reproductive Health, Nutrition and WASH knowledge interventions. The Project Officers will work with the communities for fostering the reduction of Maternal and Newborn mortality rates while documenting the best practices & lessons learned. As part of the related activities of other programs/projects being implemented by Save the Children (SC in Zanzibar). She/he is responsible to ensure that the delivery of the programs is in line with SCI’s Minimum Operating Standards, donor requirement and specific programmatic approaches designed by the Donor.
SCOPE OF ROLE: The position is under the line management of the Programme manager and is directly reporting to this post. The Project Officers will work with the District Health Management Teams, Health Facility Staff,Nutrition Program ,Health Promotion Units ,Community Health Volunteers with their Supervisors for the implementation of strategies to ensure proper and timely dissemination of Reproductive Health, Nutrition and WASH knowledge interventions. The Project Officers will work through organizational Visions, Missions, Values Goals, Objectives and Strategies to reduce of Maternal and Newborn mortality rates.
Reports to: Programme Manager
Staff directly reporting to this post: RMCH facility focal person,Community Supervisors, Community Volunteers.
KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead on the synergy and integration of sectors to enhance delivery of outstanding community empowerment for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Zanzibar
- Foster the implementation of Community participatory interventions for Health and result based system that will generate timely information and feedback to project counterparts at all levels, and to management and donors
- Lead the development of the Training and mentorship sessions under the UNICEF Health programme
- Coordinating research aspects of the project including taking an active role in framing research questions and development, adaptation and testing of monitoring & evaluation and TORs
- Develop and implement quarterly work plans for rolling out the community based interventions for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health at program and field office level
- Provide technical support to (Monitoring Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) MEAL Coordinators on the implementation of M&E plan, Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) & Logical Framework
- Support MEAL Coordinators to collect good quality monitoring data in a timely manner and collect / organize data received for reporting to the country office and area office
- Closely work with the Zanzibar based Child Protection programme staff on the roll-out of Maternal, New-born and Child Health services including WASH activities
- Provide technical support for the identification of appropriate learning sessions and their methods of tracking the impacts.
- Compile and produce quality organizational reports as per the donor and partners requirements; documentation/sharing of success stories, best practices and lessons learned on a regular basis
- Undertake field visit to monitor and supervise Community Health Volunteers and their supervisors in identifying bottlenecks, deliver mentorship and success stories
- Supporting project teams to implement baseline, mid-term and final evaluations, as well as country-level data analysis and participate in formative & operation researches, joint projects monitoring and reviews / lessons learning workshops/events
- Lead on accountability activities, including the development and use of information materials and the establishment of a pilot complaints response mechanism
- Promote learning throughout the area office, particularly on issues of programme quality. Regularly produce and report on best practices and case studies
- Work with /program manager or officers to document and share progress and achievements of the programs in the region
- Perform other duties as and when delegated by the line manager
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self-accountable for financial reports of the field activities
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing material resources of the Programme in the office and in the fields efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves to show unique delivery of interventions for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
- Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters of interventions for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Tanzania and Africa in general.
- Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor degree in Medicine, Nursing Midwifery experience or related Degree in Health with Nutrition Component or equivalent to those.
- At least 4 years experience of working in technical interventions for Community Health or Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. A solid experience in more than one of the Save the Children priority sectors: education, protection, rights governance, HIV/AIDS, Health and Nutrition, and emergencies will add an advantage.
- Experience in implementing the for Community Reproductive Health programmes, Nutrition and or Water Sanitation and Hygiene Maternal, Newborn and Child Health , preferably in NGO setting
- Knowledge and/or experience of working on accountability initiatives, such as child participation, information sharing and complaints response mechanisms.
- MS Office applications, Word, Excel, Power Point, Spread sheets and other Statistical software
- Ability and willingness to travel to field sites and work in remote locations, often for prolonged periods of time
- Experience in and proven ability to support, train and mentor staff and partners in monitoring and evaluation methodology
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
- Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind sets
- Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner
- Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods
- Fluency in Swahili & English (both verbal and written)
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children strategy, vision, mission, values and principles, good understanding and commitment to principles of child rights and child protection.
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