New Job Opportunity at Palladium International Tanzania – Project Manager
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in Tanzania 2021: New Job Vacancies at Palladium International – Health Policy Plus Tanzania 2021
Project Manager, Data.FI Tanzania
Tanzania, United Republic of | req11120
Project Manager, Data.FI Tanzania
Company Overview:
Palladium
develops and delivers innovative, locally relevant, evidence-based
solutions to improve the health and well-being of people around the
world. Since 1971, we have assisted governmental and non-governmental
agencies, foundations, and the private sector by designing,
implementing, and evaluating programs in HIV/AIDS, sexual and
reproductive health, population and family planning, maternal and child
health, infectious diseases, and gender. Palladium has deep expertise in
policy and advocacy, research and strategic information, health markets
and private sector engagement, modeling and economic analysis, patient
monitoring and management, HMIS, strategic consulting, and program
management.
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Palladium is a child-safe organisation, and screens applicants for
suitability to work with children. We also provide equal employment to
all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion,
gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.
Background:
Palladium is currently seeking a Project Manager,
Tanzania to support implementation of the Translating Data for
Implementation (Data.FI) award. Data.FI is a five-year global project
funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Data.FI
partners with PEPFAR programs to accelerate and sustain access to
high-quality data to expedite HIV and COVID-19 epidemic control and
maintenance. Data.FI supports host country governments to enhance
existing health information systems (HIS) and conduct in-depth analysis
of epidemiologic and program data to inform management responses to gaps
in programming and sustain impact by supporting local partner
transition.
In Tanzania, Data.FI will support the government
(PORALG) and USAID to strengthen and expand the application of the
Makole Model as a change management approach to improve productivity and
the quality of services at health facilities. The model combines data
from existing quality improvement and quality assurance (QI/QA)
platforms with data from other systems to improve institutional
performance and health outcomes. Data.FI will support data management
and use and will be guided by a technical advisory group composed of
experts from USAID, PORALG and UNICEF.
Purpose of Position:
Reporting
to the Sr. Systems Architect, the Project Manager will manage the
software development team in order to ensure that deliverables are on
time, on budget, meet or exceed client expectations, and uphold industry
technical standards.
This position is based in Dar Es Salaam or
Dodoma, TBD. The initial position term is 6 months, with an extension
for up to 3 years, depending on funding.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Manage
the software development life cycles, serving as the focal point for
all activities in order to ensure that deliverables are on time, on
budget, meet or exceed client expectations, and uphold industry
technical standards. - Provide estimates for development efforts
including plans for delegating development tasks, monitoring of
development to ensure visibility, efficiency and predictability - Ensure that the development implementation follows software development best practices.
- Establish
a routine tracking system and facilitate regular agile team reviews for
software design components including coding, code documentation, unit
testing, and debugging. - Establish routine stand-up meetings with technology team to track progress
- Break workplans down into sprints and work with developers to assign resources to sprints and be accountable for commitments
- Participate
in regular project management and budgeting activities, in addition to
any other activities as assigned by the Sr. Systems Architect. - Lead the development of systems administration guidance documentation
- In
support of the Senior Systems Architect, keep architecture, vision and
roadmap of analytics platform documented and up to date for every
version update
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Required Qualifications:
- At
least ten years of professional experience in informatics or related
field. This should include at least five years specialized experience in
product management, including business analysis and requirements
engineering. - Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or
equivalent (Advanced Degree preferred; relevant experience may be
substituted). - At least five years of experience managing a team
and software throughout the development lifecycle in an Agile
development environment - Ability to take direction to iteratively define and implement solution as requirements are being identified and finalized.
- Experience performing systems analysis for systems that cross multiple components and impact multiple systems.
- Experience managing software projects using tools to facilitate the DevOps process such as Trello, Jira or Microsoft DevOps.
- Possess technical writing skills and ability to review work products such as: Use Cases, Detailed Functional Requirements,
- Detailed Design Specifications, and Software Requirement Specifications.
- Demonstrated experience in working within a multi-disciplinary team in a fast paced, technically challenging environment.
- Excellent leadership, management, coordination, interpersonal and teamwork skills.
- Excellent communication skills (Email, Skype, Microsoft Teams, GoToMeeting).
- PMP certification preferred
- Experience working within health informatics on behalf of government health departments or donor-funded projects preferred
- Ability to travel 30% within Tanzania
- Fluency in English required, fluency in Swahili preferred
Palladium
is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to a selection process
due to disability or any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will endeavor to make any reasonable adjustments to our process.
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