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Pathfinder International's mission is to ensure that people everywhere have the right and opportunity to live a healthy reproductive life. In Tanzania, Pathfinder provides women, men, and adolescents with a range of quality health services-from contraception and maternal care to HIV prevention and AIDS care – through a series of integrated projects. Pathfinder strives to strengthen access to family planning and HIV/AIDS, advocate for sound reproductive health policies, and, through all of our work, improve the rights and lives of the people we serve.
Pathfinder is seeking highly motivated and self-driven staff to join a dynamic team to support the Mobilizing for Maternal Health Project. These include, but are not limited to: Integrated Family Health (e.g., FP/RH, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment, and Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health), Community Engagement, Health Systems Strengthening, Human Capacity Development and Quality Improvement base in Mwanza.
Post Title: Project Manager (MMH)
Project Title: Mobilizing for Maternal Health (MMH)
Location: Mwanza, Sengerema (1)
Key Tasks.
Organizational Representation
 Cultivate and strengthen positive, productive relationships with Touch Foundation and other implementing partners including Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and other local government agencies, ensuring that Pathfinder International is consistently viewed as an effective implementing partner in meeting and achieving project targets.
 Collaborate with government ministries and local government departments in overall management of Pathfinder funded activities.
 Work closely with the project's funders to ensure regular communication on the achievement of project goals and objectives.
Strategy
 Provide strategic direction of MMH activiities. Update the Project strategic plan, ensuring that programmatic directions are technically sound, evidence-based and consistent with National priorities.
 Support the development of an overall framework within Pathfinder International's community-based programs for the refinement of a successful, integrated, and sustainable service delivery model.
Administration
 Ensure that MMH Project performance objectives and mandated deliverables such as technical activities, annual work plans and programmatic/financial/technical reports are carried out in a timely fashion and meet the highest quality standards.
 Manage and coordinate activities of subcontractors and partners to create synergy and ensure that project responsibilities are carried out in accordance with donor regulations.
 Provide leadership and direction to Monitoring and Evaluation strategies, frameworks, plans and indicators to capture project performance and results. Lead a periodic implementation review process to monitor progress and to identify specific actions that may be needed to achieve expected results.
 Work with Pathfinder International Tanzania to develop policies and procedures that improve efficiency and quality.
 Employ appropriate management procedures to ensure that all resources are in place, adhered to, and in compliance with donor rules and regulations.
Human Resource Management
 Manage program, finance, and support staff in Sengerema and Shinyanga to ensure program deliverables are met.
 Work closely with the HR and Admin department at Pathfinder Tanzania to .ensure that project staff adhere to Pathfinder finance, administration, human resource, and operations rules and regulations.
Program Management
 Responsible for strengthening community Health System to mobilize and educate community members to address the four delays leading to maternal morbidity and mortality and ensure that community health workers address the different stages of women and newborn care.
 Train community health workers on mobilizing and educate the community about maternal mortality and morbidity
 Strengthen provider capacity for MNH services and BEmONC at Health Centers and Health Dispensaries. Strengthen provider capacity to address post-partum hemorrhage (PPH) through active management of the third stage of labor and use of the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment.
 In collaboration with other partners, strengthen and provide technical capacity strengthening support of MNH services and EmoNC at HCs and HDs
 In collaboration with other partners create and implement strategy of access to treatment for VVF.
 Support the establishment of a functional referral system for comprehensive management of MNH that links the hospital with the community in the key areas of transportation, information, communication and supplies.
 Disseminate knowledge gained and lessons learnt to the health management and the wide global health communities.
 Work closely with the local government and the other implementation partners to reduce duplication of efforts and ensure complementarity
 Support establishment of transportation and referral systems that will develop a comprehensive maternal health transport and referral system that will engage mobile technologies to support
efficient and effective referrals for women at risk of or experiencing obstetric emergencies, and those needing fistula repair surgery.
 Improve quality of care at health dispensaries and health clinics through community to facility links to improve MNH, and focus on the critical interaction between the community and health systems.
 Strengthen community health systems to mobilize and educate community members to address the four delays leading to maternal morbidity and mortality and the five stages of woman and newborn care.
 Ensure that project data are gathered systematically and project quarterly reports are written in a timely manner and submitted to funders.
Financial Management
 Manage funds at local bank account and approve expenditures in accordance with Pathfinder International and MMH procedures, cost principles, and regulations.
 Develop, monitor and revise budget pipeline and conduct monthly reviews to ensure accountability of all program activities as well as the accurate and timely reporting of finance deliverables.
Fundraising Management
 Document program achievements for communications materials such as the annual reports, brochures, and website updates.
Qualifications and Experience:
 Advanced degree in public health, social sciences or related field.
 Minimum of 5 years of experience implementing health and or social sector programs in developing and transitioning countries, with at least 3 years of experience providing technical assistance at the community level.
 Demonstrated ability in program design and integrated approaches to community and local government engagement.
 Hands-on experience working effectively with local, regional and central-level government authorities as well as local partners, civil society and faith-based organizations, and community leaders to build local capacity and carry out social empowerment, income generation and integrated family health care initiatives.
 Demonstrated experience successfully fulfilling performance objectives, including the timely implementation and reporting of donor-funded program activities.
 In-depth knowledge of public and/or private health systems, decentralization of services, and the latest professional developments in community-based service delivery.
 Demonstrated management skills working with complex programs involving short deadlines, multiple tasks, intense pressure to perform, and coordination with multiple partners.
 Excellent diplomatic, interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) skills.
 Demonstrated capabilities in institutional capacity building, and high-level strategic visioning and leadership.
 Ability to create and maintain effective working relations with senior Government personnel, international organizations, NGO partners, host country governments, and U. S. Government Agencies.
 Familiarity with community-based approaches for service delivery and procedures in the implementation of donor assisted projects.
 Excellent knowledge of the political, social, economic, and cultural context of working in Tanzania and thorough understanding of applicable US Government regulations and administrative procedures.
Interested applicants are requested to submit their CV, including contact details for 3 references, and a covering letter explaining why you are best suited for the position before the close of business on February 14, 2014. Applications should be addressed to the Associate Director of Human Resources and Administration, Pathfinder International, PO Box 77991, Dar es Salaam or sent via e-mail to Tanzania-jobs@pathfind.org stating the position being applied for in the subject line. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Pathfinder is seeking highly motivated and self-driven staff to join a dynamic team to support the Mobilizing for Maternal Health Project. These include, but are not limited to: Integrated Family Health (e.g., FP/RH, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment, and Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health), Community Engagement, Health Systems Strengthening, Human Capacity Development and Quality Improvement base in Mwanza.
Post Title: Project Manager (MMH)
Project Title: Mobilizing for Maternal Health (MMH)
Location: Mwanza, Sengerema (1)
Key Tasks.
Organizational Representation
 Cultivate and strengthen positive, productive relationships with Touch Foundation and other implementing partners including Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and other local government agencies, ensuring that Pathfinder International is consistently viewed as an effective implementing partner in meeting and achieving project targets.
 Collaborate with government ministries and local government departments in overall management of Pathfinder funded activities.
 Work closely with the project's funders to ensure regular communication on the achievement of project goals and objectives.
Strategy
 Provide strategic direction of MMH activiities. Update the Project strategic plan, ensuring that programmatic directions are technically sound, evidence-based and consistent with National priorities.
 Support the development of an overall framework within Pathfinder International's community-based programs for the refinement of a successful, integrated, and sustainable service delivery model.
Administration
 Ensure that MMH Project performance objectives and mandated deliverables such as technical activities, annual work plans and programmatic/financial/technical reports are carried out in a timely fashion and meet the highest quality standards.
 Manage and coordinate activities of subcontractors and partners to create synergy and ensure that project responsibilities are carried out in accordance with donor regulations.
 Provide leadership and direction to Monitoring and Evaluation strategies, frameworks, plans and indicators to capture project performance and results. Lead a periodic implementation review process to monitor progress and to identify specific actions that may be needed to achieve expected results.
 Work with Pathfinder International Tanzania to develop policies and procedures that improve efficiency and quality.
 Employ appropriate management procedures to ensure that all resources are in place, adhered to, and in compliance with donor rules and regulations.
Human Resource Management
 Manage program, finance, and support staff in Sengerema and Shinyanga to ensure program deliverables are met.
 Work closely with the HR and Admin department at Pathfinder Tanzania to .ensure that project staff adhere to Pathfinder finance, administration, human resource, and operations rules and regulations.
Program Management
 Responsible for strengthening community Health System to mobilize and educate community members to address the four delays leading to maternal morbidity and mortality and ensure that community health workers address the different stages of women and newborn care.
 Train community health workers on mobilizing and educate the community about maternal mortality and morbidity
 Strengthen provider capacity for MNH services and BEmONC at Health Centers and Health Dispensaries. Strengthen provider capacity to address post-partum hemorrhage (PPH) through active management of the third stage of labor and use of the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment.
 In collaboration with other partners, strengthen and provide technical capacity strengthening support of MNH services and EmoNC at HCs and HDs
 In collaboration with other partners create and implement strategy of access to treatment for VVF.
 Support the establishment of a functional referral system for comprehensive management of MNH that links the hospital with the community in the key areas of transportation, information, communication and supplies.
 Disseminate knowledge gained and lessons learnt to the health management and the wide global health communities.
 Work closely with the local government and the other implementation partners to reduce duplication of efforts and ensure complementarity
 Support establishment of transportation and referral systems that will develop a comprehensive maternal health transport and referral system that will engage mobile technologies to support
efficient and effective referrals for women at risk of or experiencing obstetric emergencies, and those needing fistula repair surgery.
 Improve quality of care at health dispensaries and health clinics through community to facility links to improve MNH, and focus on the critical interaction between the community and health systems.
 Strengthen community health systems to mobilize and educate community members to address the four delays leading to maternal morbidity and mortality and the five stages of woman and newborn care.
 Ensure that project data are gathered systematically and project quarterly reports are written in a timely manner and submitted to funders.
Financial Management
 Manage funds at local bank account and approve expenditures in accordance with Pathfinder International and MMH procedures, cost principles, and regulations.
 Develop, monitor and revise budget pipeline and conduct monthly reviews to ensure accountability of all program activities as well as the accurate and timely reporting of finance deliverables.
Fundraising Management
 Document program achievements for communications materials such as the annual reports, brochures, and website updates.
Qualifications and Experience:
 Advanced degree in public health, social sciences or related field.
 Minimum of 5 years of experience implementing health and or social sector programs in developing and transitioning countries, with at least 3 years of experience providing technical assistance at the community level.
 Demonstrated ability in program design and integrated approaches to community and local government engagement.
 Hands-on experience working effectively with local, regional and central-level government authorities as well as local partners, civil society and faith-based organizations, and community leaders to build local capacity and carry out social empowerment, income generation and integrated family health care initiatives.
 Demonstrated experience successfully fulfilling performance objectives, including the timely implementation and reporting of donor-funded program activities.
 In-depth knowledge of public and/or private health systems, decentralization of services, and the latest professional developments in community-based service delivery.
 Demonstrated management skills working with complex programs involving short deadlines, multiple tasks, intense pressure to perform, and coordination with multiple partners.
 Excellent diplomatic, interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) skills.
 Demonstrated capabilities in institutional capacity building, and high-level strategic visioning and leadership.
 Ability to create and maintain effective working relations with senior Government personnel, international organizations, NGO partners, host country governments, and U. S. Government Agencies.
 Familiarity with community-based approaches for service delivery and procedures in the implementation of donor assisted projects.
 Excellent knowledge of the political, social, economic, and cultural context of working in Tanzania and thorough understanding of applicable US Government regulations and administrative procedures.
Interested applicants are requested to submit their CV, including contact details for 3 references, and a covering letter explaining why you are best suited for the position before the close of business on February 14, 2014. Applications should be addressed to the Associate Director of Human Resources and Administration, Pathfinder International, PO Box 77991, Dar es Salaam or sent via e-mail to Tanzania-jobs@pathfind.org stating the position being applied for in the subject line. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.