New Job Vacancy Dodoma at JHPIEGO Tanzania – Project Director
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Overview
Jhpiego is an international non-profit health
organization affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University. For more than
46 years now, Jhpiego has empowered front-line health workers by
designing and implementing effective, iow-cost, hands-on solutions to
strengthen the delivery of health care services for women and their
families.
By putting evidence-based health innovations into everyday
practice, Jhpiego works to break down barriers to high-quality health
care for the world’s most vulnerable populations.
Jhpiego,
implementing a number of projects in Tanzania, wishes to recruit the
following positions below, available for immediate filling…
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Location TZ-Dodoma
Posted Date (2/1/2021 10:25 PM)
Job ID 2021-4130
Category International Positions
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Overview
Jhpiego
seeks a Project Director (PD) for a CDC project entitled “Strengthening
the Government of Tanzania’s Capacity to Develop, Implement and Use
Digital Health to Achieve HIV/TB Epidemic Control through Interoperable
Information Systems, Governance, Quality Improvement and Workforce
Support under PEPFAR.” The project aims to build affordable, effective
client level and aggregate HIS, the digital infrastructure to exchange
data among diverse health related HIS, and a data and technology
competent workforce using a technical assistance model. These HIS and
data use activities will ensure that health services are digitally
linked to community, facility, laboratory, reporting, surveillance,
commodity/supply chain, mortality and other health related systems with a
goal to maximize efforts to achieve and sustain epidemic control. The
successful applicant will be expected to partner with the GoT to plan,
design or adapt, develop, implement, evaluate and use secure, standards
based interoperable HIS for client care and program improvement. The
project will operate over a five-year period.
The PD is
responsible for providing leadership and overall strategic direction,
and ensuring the operational and programmatic integrity of the HIS
project, working in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health
(MOH) at national and provincial levels, CDC, and other PEPFAR
implementing partners delivering sustainable HIS services. The PD will
provide leadership in managing relationships with MOH counterparts,
development of annual workplans and budgets, and ensuring project
activities align with project, MOH, PEPFAR, and CDC strategies. The PD
represents Jhpiego to donors and partners, leads the project team that
includes the HIS Advisor, Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning
(MER/L) Advisor, Training Lead, and Senior Finance Manager (Business
Official), and reports to the Jhpiego Country Director.
This position is contingent upon award from CDC. Tanzanian nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership to establish and pursue a result-oriented project strategy to achieve MOH and PEPFAR targets
- Oversee
HIS Technical Advisor, Training Lead, and high-capacity project staff
responsible for ensuring quality HIS technical assistance for building
capacity of the MOH and at national and local levels, supporting and
scaling existing HIS systems and infrastructure, and increasing
interoperability and the utilization of quality data for decision making
to further facilitate improved quality of care and health outcomes - Facilitate HIS skills transfer and capacity building of the MOH and local institutions/stakeholders
- Oversee
adaptive program management approaches and processes to respond to
changing context and environment in order to achieve results - Work
closely with the MER/L Advisor and Business Official to facilitate
project-wide reviews of progress toward achieving project deliverables,
cost performance, and risk management, and make changes as needed - Provides
strategic leadership to the annual work planning process in close
collaboration with MOH, CDC, project team, and other relevant
stakeholders - Develop and maintain relationships with MOH at
national, provincial, and district levels necessary to implement project
strategies and activities - Ensure project staff understand their
role on the project team and organize support from technical,
programmatic and administrative teams required to fulfill their role
successfully - Recruit, hire, mentor, support, supervise and
manage a team of highly qualified staff and align their efforts in
concert with project goals to ensure rapid and sustainable results - Participate in relevant advisory and/or working groups with counterparts and partner institutions
- Represent Jhpiego and project in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations
- Write and/or review technical and project management components of materials and publications
- Ensure
resources for program implementation are available on time to allow for
seamless program implementation and reimbursement for goods/services
performed - Work with finance and project staff to develop and track project budgets
- Work
closely with Jhpiego home office staff in Baltimore and Washington, DC
to ensure effective, timely and coordinated project implementation that
also aligns with Jhpiego guidance, quality standards, and technical and
program priorities - Ensure overall compliance with PEPFAR and CDC rules and regulations
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Required Qualifications
- Master’s
degree in public health, infectious disease, laboratory science, health
administration, or other relevant advanced degree; doctoral degree,
clinical degree, or other terminal degree is desirable - 10+ years
project management experience in the area of HIS or Digital Health for
large, multi-year international health sector development programs that
have implemented successful activities in HIS and HIV/AIDS/TB - Demonstrated
strong technical and programmatic knowledge and experience in the
following areas: Facilitating HIS skills transfer and capacity building
of the MOH and local institutions/stakeholders; experience developing
and maintaining HIS systems, including the scale-up of an electronic
health record (EHR) system to all provinces in its full deployment
package; continued maintenance of the MOH’s national data warehouse
(NDW), systems interoperability, and health information exchange (HIE);
and advancing the production and timely utilization of information in
response to national HIV/TB priorities - Familiarity with adult
learning and mentorship strategies, policy development, and group
facilitation practices; ability to describe best practices for HIS and
data to action capacity building and training and demonstrated
leadership building capacity of local organizations. - Documented
experience in supporting governments to adopt HIS policies and implement
national eHealth plans/strategies based upon evidence - Demonstrated
capacity-building capabilities at the national and institutional level,
and experience working effectively with governments, preferably the
Government of Tanzania. - Ability to describe HIS and HIV/TB
program data collection and reporting requirements, to critically
analyze program data and use program data to inform future directions - In-depth knowledge of and experience with PEPFAR programs, regulations, compliance and reporting
- Significant
networking and partnership building skills, including ability to
communicate and build mutually beneficial relationships with leaders in
health and development fields - In-depth understanding of integrative and multi-sectorial approaches to project management and implementation
- Experience
in coordinating and collaborating with a broad set of stakeholders,
including communities, multilateral and international donors, and local
and international NGOs - Experience working in Tanzania or the region, with solid understanding of the local health system and government agencies
- Enthusiasm
for supporting national systems and building capacity to achieve
sustainable transition of service delivery activities at the end of the
project period - Excellent administrative management, program, organizational, and financial management skills
- Expertise in research to practice—identifying best practices and adapting them to project realities
- Experience developing conference abstracts and publishing manuscripts based on program data is favorable
- As
the primary face of the project to the Donor and Other Partners, the
ability to present and communicate the project to all stakeholders for
easy understanding - Ability to work independently with minimum supervision
- Strong decision-making skills
- A strong team player with ability to work with a very diverse group of people in a multi-national environment.
- Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
- Proficiency in word processing and spreadsheet software programs (Microsoft Office)
- Fluent verbal, written interpersonal and presentation skills in English
- Excellent facilitation, oral and written communications skills
- Ability to travel nationally and internationally 20% of the time
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Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee
benefits package including: medical and dental plans; paid vacation,
holidays and sick leave; personal accident insurance; 403(b) retirement
plan; life and disability insurance; travel insurance; education
assistance plan and more.
Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.
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